{"id":265,"date":"2012-12-15T01:17:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T07:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mr.danoff.org\/eng099\/?p=265"},"modified":"2012-12-15T01:17:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T07:17:06","slug":"eng-099-conversational-american-english-dec-2012-atom-4-christmas-short-story-1-of-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mr.danoff.org\/eng099\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"ENG 099 Conversational American English (Dec. 2012) Atom 4: Christmas Short Story 1 of 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">ENG 099 Conversational American English (Dec. 2012)\u00a0Atom 4: <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">Christmas Short Story 1 of 10<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mr.danoff.org\/eng099\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Gift_Magi_1108.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-270\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Gift_Magi_1108\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mr.danoff.org\/eng099\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Gift_Magi_1108.jpg\" alt=\"Librivox Recording of The Gift of the Magi Art Cover design by Janette  Brown. This design is in the public domain. \" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mr.danoff.org\/eng099\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Gift_Magi_1108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mr.danoff.org\/eng099\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Gift_Magi_1108-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Students and teacher read this short story &#8220;The Gift of the Magi&#8221; by O. Henry. It is a Christmas story and given this is a December course it&#8217;s especially appropriate. O. Henry is a famous American author from the early 20th century.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mr.danoff.org\/eng099\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/William_Sydney_Porter_Wiafs_and_Strays_frontispiece.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-269\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"William_Sydney_Porter,_Wiafs_and_Strays_frontispiece\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mr.danoff.org\/eng099\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/William_Sydney_Porter_Wiafs_and_Strays_frontispiece.jpg\" alt=\"O. Henry Portrait \" width=\"251\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mr.danoff.org\/eng099\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/William_Sydney_Porter_Wiafs_and_Strays_frontispiece.jpg 251w, https:\/\/www.mr.danoff.org\/eng099\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/William_Sydney_Porter_Wiafs_and_Strays_frontispiece-185x300.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Vocabulary<\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Please study these vocabulary words before doing the reading and video watching below.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>magi<\/strong> <em>n. pl.<\/em>\u00a0IPA: \/me\u026a\u02c8d\u0361\u0292a\u026a\/ plural form of mage, or magician; &#8220;wise men or philosophers of the East&#8221; (Webster&#8217;s 1828).<\/li>\n<li><strong>imputation<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em>\u00a0IPA: \/\u02cc\u026am.pj\u028a\u02c8te\u026a.\u0283\u0259n\/ a charge, saying someone did something bad; an accustion, the act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription; also, anything imputed or charged.<\/li>\n<li><strong>parsimony<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em> IPA: \/\u02c8p\u0251r\u2009s\u0259\u02ccmo\u028a\u2009ni\/<em>\u00a0<\/em>not spending a lot of money; cheap; thrifty; closeness or sparingness in the expenditure of money.<\/li>\n<li><strong>shabby<\/strong> <em>adj<\/em><em>.<\/em> IPA:\u00a0\/\u02c8\u0283\u00e6b.i\/\u00a0old and dirty place or thing;\u00a0poor; ragged.<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:en-us-shabby.ogg?embedplayer=yes\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"220\" height=\"23\"><\/iframe><\/li>\n<li><strong>flat<\/strong> <em>n.\u00a0<\/em>IPA:\u00a0\/fl\u00e6t\/\u00a0apartment,\u00a0floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a\u00a0house, which forms a complete residence in itself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">&#8220;The Gift of the Magi&#8221; 1 of 10 Text<\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Please read the text below twice and take notes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one&#8217;s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While the mistress of the home is gradually subsiding from the first stage to the second, take a look at the home. A furnished flat at $8 per week. It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">&#8220;The Gift of the Magi&#8221; 1 of 10 Audio<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now listen and take notes on this recording from the beginning to 1:22 to hear this lecture&#8217;s text of the short story. We will read all of it over the course of the 10 lessons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:The_Gift_of_the_Magi.ogg?embedplayer=yes\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"23\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you can&#8217;t see the audio player above, please click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:The_Gift_of_the_Magi.ogg\">here<\/a>\u00a0to listen to it in the Wikimedia Commons (<a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/\">commons.wikimedia.org<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>You can also download the <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/four_million_librivox\/fourmillion_02_ohenry.mp3\">128Kbps MP3<\/a>\u00a0(15.3 MB),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/four_million_librivox\/fourmillion_01_ohenry.ogg\">Ogg Vorbis<\/a>\u00a0(17.6 MB), and\/or <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/four_million_librivox\/fourmillion_01_ohenry_64kb.mp3\">64 Kbps MP3<\/a>\u00a0(7.7 MB) files from the Internet archive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Video<\/span><\/h1>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Please watch and take notes on the video below from\u00a029:05 to 37:30\u00a0[4 minutes 50 seconds]\u00a0to see &#8220;Language Talk 1&#8221; explained by\u00a0Mr. Danoff.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">If you can&#8217;t see the video below, click here to\u00a0watch it on <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/e9iBcR9Mnzg?t=29m5s\">YouTube.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/e9iBcR9Mnzg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Exercise<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">In the comments below answer the following 3 questions:\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Did you like the text, yes or no?<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Why?<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Why do you think Della is not happy?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Please leave your answer in the comments, or via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/teachinglab\/app_128953167177144\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/p2pu.org\/en\/groups\/eng-099-conversational-american-english-dec-2012\/\">P2PU<\/a>\u00a0and\/or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiversity.org\/wiki\/ENG_099_Conversational_American_English_%28Dec._2012%29\">Wikiversity<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Copyright Notes<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Please respect the copyright plus terms and conditions of all links and media not by Charlie Danoff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Text<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Atom Text Copyright \u00a9 2012 by Charlie Danoff. Rights given a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/\" target=\"_blank\">CC Zero 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Christmas Short Story 1 of 10 adapted from\u00a0\u201cThe Gift of the Magi,\u201d part of O. Henry\u2019s 1906 collection of\u00a0 Short Stories \u201cThe Four Million.\u201d Public Domain in the US, because it\u00a0 was published in the US before 1923 and therefore is in the public\u00a0 domain due to copyright expiration.\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Read online from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.auburn.edu\/%7Evestmon\/Gift_of_the_Magi.html\">The University of Auburn<\/a> and\/or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/The_Gift_of_the_Magi\">Wikisource<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Video<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/e9iBcR9Mnzg?t=29m5s\">Lecture 1 from 29:05 to 37:30<\/a>\u00a0via YouTube.\u00a0Copyright \u00a9 2012\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:contact@mr.danoff.org\">Charlie Danoff<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/dalab.cc\">Mr. Danoff&#8217;s Teaching Laboratory<\/a>.\u00a0Rights Available under the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Audio<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=File:En-us-flat.ogg&amp;oldid=26482712\">En-us-flat.ogg<\/a>&#8221; Copyright \u00a9\u00a02006 by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/w\/index.php?title=User:Dvortygirl&amp;oldid=16464951\">Wiktionary User:Dvortygirl<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>. Rights available under the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GNU_Free_Documentation_License\">GFDL<\/a>\u00a0\/ CCASA <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/deed.en\">3.0<\/a>,\u00a02.5, 2.0 &amp; 1.0 licenses. Download (right click with your mouse, then select &#8220;Save as&#8221;): from <a href=\"sftp:\/\/danoff@nationals.dreamhost.com\/home\/danoff\/danoff.org\/En-us-flat.ogg\">danoff.org<\/a> or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/30\/En-us-flat.ogg\">Wikmedia Commons<\/a>\u00a0[Ogg Vorbis sound file 16.5 KB]<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/librivox.org\/the-four-million-by-o-henry\/\">The Gift of the Magi<\/a>\u201d recording by Marian Brown for Librivox. All Librivox recordings are available under the under the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/publicdomain\/\">Creative Commons Public Domain Certification<\/a>.\u00a0Originally published via Librivox.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Images<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/librivox.org\/the-gift-of-the-magi-by-o-henry\/\">Librivox Recording of The Gift of the Magi Album Art Cover<\/a> design by Janette \u00a0Brown. This design is in the public domain per the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/LibrivoxCdCoverArt10\/Gift_Magi_1108.pdf\">PDF<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Portrait of Porter from frontispiece in his collection of short stories, Waifs and Strays. O. Henry.\u00a0&#8220;William Sydney Porter, Wiafs and Strays frontispiece&#8221;\u00a0via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=File:William_Sydney_Porter,_Wiafs_and_Strays_frontispiece.jpg&amp;oldid=58509472\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.\u00a0By unattributed (Austin History Center, Austin Public Library).\u00a0The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:\u00a0because its first publication occurred prior to January 1, 1923.\u00a0This media file is in the public domain in the United States.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">See &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/copyright.cornell.edu\/resources\/publicdomain.cfm\">Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States<\/a>&#8221; (1 January 2012) by\u00a0Peter B. Hirtle for more about Public Domain in the USA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Sources<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/29765\">Webster&#8217;s Unabridged Dictionary by Various<\/a>\u00a0[Public Domain Text File]<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Wiktionary:Main_Page\">Wiktionary<\/a>\u00a0[CCASA]<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/upodn.com\/\">upodn |\u00a0English Phonetic Transcripton<\/a>\u00a0[Gives phonics for words]<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/triggs.djvu.org\/century-dictionary.com\/\">The Century Dictionary Online<\/a>\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/triggs.djvu.org\/century-dictionary.com\/conditions.html\">Terms<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/machaut.uchicago.edu\/?resource=Webster%27s\">Webster&#8217;s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913 + 1828)<\/a>\u00a0[ARTFL]<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/\">dictionary.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"revision-history\">\t<h3>Revision History:<\/h3><ul class='revision-list'><li>December 15, 2012 at 07:17 by Mr. Danoff (<em>displayed above<\/em>)<\/li><li><a href=\"?revision=273&rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\">December 15, 2012 at 07:16<\/a> by Mr. Danoff<\/li><li><a href=\"?revision=272&rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\">December 15, 2012 at 07:14<\/a> by Mr. Danoff<\/li><li><a href=\"?revision=271&rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\">December 15, 2012 at 07:13<\/a> by Mr. Danoff<\/li><li><a href=\"?revision=268&rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\">December 15, 2012 at 06:51<\/a> by Mr. Danoff<\/li><li><a href=\"?revision=267&rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\">December 15, 2012 at 05:47<\/a> by Mr. Danoff<\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENG 099 Conversational American English (Dec. 2012)\u00a0Atom 4: Christmas Short Story 1 of 10 Students and teacher read this short story &#8220;The Gift of the Magi&#8221; by O. 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It is a Christmas story and given this is a December &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mr.danoff.org\/eng099\/?p=265\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,6,7],"tags":[15,9,11,28,17,38,8,10,37,35,23,24,12,13,14,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mr.danoff.org\/eng099\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mr.danoff.org\/eng099\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mr.danoff.org\/eng099\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr.danoff.org\/eng099\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr.danoff.org\/eng099\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr.danoff.org\/eng099\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr.danoff.org\/eng099\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mr.danoff.org\/eng099\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr.danoff.org\/eng099\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr.danoff.org\/eng099\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}