Italicized items are new to the class.
MONDAY JANUARY 23, 2012 |
TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY |
| VOCAB: 1 admonish: warn, call on the carpet 2.breach: gap, rupture, rift; violation or infraction; 3.brigand: bandit, rober, outlaw, highwayman; 4.circumspect: careful, cautious; 5.commandeer: tak over, seize, expropriate, requisition; 6.cumbersome: unwieldy, ponderous, clumsy; 7.deadlock: stanstill, stalemate, impasse; 8.debris: rubble, flotsam, jetsam, detritus, wreckage; 9.diffuse: wordy, verbose, longwinded, prolix; to disperse, to scatter; 10.dilemma: predicament, quandry, pickle, bind; 11.efface: blot out, expunge, obliterate; 12.muddle: to muddle through, disorder, confusion, jumble; 13.opinionated: pigheaded, inflexible, obstinate; 14.perennial: recurring, enduring; 15. predispose: make susceptible to, vulnerable to; 16.relinquish: abandon, surrender; 17.salvage: rescue, recover, retrieve, reclaim; 18.spasmodic: irregular, occasional, fitful, intermittent; 19.spurious: false, counterfeit, fraudulent, bogus, invalid; 20.unbridled: unrestrained, uncontrolled, unchecked. | GRAMMAR DIAGNOSTIC TEST We need to focus our studies on pronoun use, punctuation, and verb tenses. |
VOCAB review | VOCAB: complete fill in practice sheet to turn in on Friday before TEST. Take home your personal literature text book to use at home; you will return it at semester's end, for credit. |
VOCABULARY TEST |
MONDAY, JANUARY 30 Vocab 2 Practice Sheets (HWork) VOCAB: 1 adjourn: postpone, suspend, discontinue 2 alien: foreign, strange, exotic, unfamiliar 3 comely: good-looking, attractive, bonny 4 compensate: repay, reimburse, recompense 5 dissolute: dissipated, debauched, immoral, corrupt 6 erratic: irregular, inconsistent, unpredictable 7 expulsion: ejection, ouster, eviction 8 feint: trick, ruse, subterfuge, dodge, bluff, pretense 9 fodder: feed, provender 10 fortify: strengthen, reinforce, shore up 11 illegible: unreadable, indecipherable, scribbled 12 jeer: mock, taunt, deride 13 lucrative: gainful, moneymaking, profitable 14 mediocre: average, ordinary, undistinguished, run-of-the-mill 15 proliferate: reproduce, increase, multiply, mushroom, burgeon 16 subjugate: subdue, vanquish, master 17 sully: pollute, taint, smear, soil, stain, tarnish, defile, besmirch 18 tantalize: tease, tempt, lead on, make one's mouth water 19 terse: brief, concise, succinct, crisp 20 unflinching: firm, resolute, steadfast, unwavering |
TUESDAY Underline each prefix Underline each suffix Grammar: Note the part of speech of each word, noting the suffix of each: noun verb adjective adverb |
WEDNESDAY Vocab work/study sheets Writing: compare & contrast MLK's and Nelson Mandella's speeches. Review TRIC |
THURSDAY: EARLY RELEASE WHOO HOO! |
FRIDAY: VOCAB TEST, learn those suffixes and prefixes, too. REVISE writing (compare & contrast) |
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 06 Vocab 3 practice sheetVocab 3 practice sheet 1 abridge: shorten, condense, abbreviate 2 adherent: attached; (noun) = disciple 3 altercation: quarrel, dispute, squabble, argument 4 cherubic: angelic, seraphic, beatific 5 condone: pardon, overlook, ignore, wink at, turn a blind eye to 6 dissent: to disagree, differ, dispute; (noun) = disagreement 7 eminent: famous, outstanding, distinguished, projecting, illustrious, renowned 8 exorcise: expel, dispel 9 fabricate: put together, devise, contrive, concoct, invent, manufacture 10 irate: angry, incensed, infuriated, enraged, livid 11 marauder: plunderer, looter, pirate, freebooter, raider 12 obesity: corpulence, fatness 13 pauper: destitute person 14 pilfer: filch, rob, swipe, purloin 15 rift: split, break, breach, crack, fissure, gap, cleft 16 semblance: likeness, appearance, air, aura, veneer, facade 17 surmount: conquer, overcome, rise above, triumph over 18 terminate: conclude, finish, discontinue 19 trite: overused, stale, banal, hackneyed, corny 20 usurp: commandeer, supplant, seize illegally |
TUESDAY Underline each prefix Underline each suffix Grammar: Note the part of speech of each word, noting the suffix of each: noun verb adjective adverb Idioms: note that these are expressions which do not mean what they seem to; do not take them literally! |
WEDNESDAY Vocab work/study sheets |
THURSDAY | FRIDAY: VOCAB TEST, learn those suffixes and prefixes, too. WRITING: complete final revisions to writing (compare & contrast) |
Monday, February 06, 2012: Vocab: 1 abridge: shorten, condense, abbreviate 2 adherent: follower, supporter, disciple, attached 3 altercation: quarrel, dispute, squabble 4 cherubic: angelic, seaphic, beatific 5 condone: pardon, overlook, ignore, turna blind eye to, wink at 6 dissent: disagreement, differ, dispute 7 eminent: famous, outstanding, distinguished, projecting, illustrious, renowned 8 exorcise: expel, dispel 9 fabricate: devise, contrive, concoct, invent 10 irate: angry, incensed, infuriared, enraged, livid 11 marauder: raider, plunderer, looter, pirate, freebooter 12 obesity: corpulent, overweight 13 pauper: destitute 14 pilfer: filch, rob, swipe, purloin 15 rift: crack, fissure, gap, cleft, break, breach 16 semblance:appearance, air, aura, veneer, facade, apparition 17 surmount: overcome, conquer, triumph over 18 terminate: conclude, finish, discontinue 19 trite: banal, hackneyed, corny 20 usurp: commandeer, supplant |
Tuesday Idioms: note that these are expressions which do not mean what they seem to; do not take them literally! |
Wednesday | Thursday | Friday: Vocab test Grammar test |
Monday January 2, '12 |
Tueday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| O'Henry's: "Gift of the Magi"page 151+ : read and answer questions in text; list and define the "Words to Know"; use each in a contextually correct sentence, patterned after the use in the story. | Cisneros': read p 691 "About SCisneros," p694: Only Daughter"; "Cloud"; and "The House on Mango Street" through page 701. Answer questions in text; list and define the "Words to Know"; use each in a contextually correct sentence, patterned after the use in the story. | Angelou's: Read "from 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," "Caged Bird" (poem); page 494, "New Directions" (essay); and page 492, George Plimpton's interview with Angelou. Answer questions in text; list and define the "Words to Know"; use each in a contextually correct sentence, patterned after the use in the story. |
Read: p710 by Uglow, and page 711+ "On Writing ...Mango Street," answering the questions at the end. Extra points for the vocabulary. Literature: class discussion regarding irony, symbolism, culturalism of the prior days' readings (O'Henry, Cisneros,Angelou.) Grammar: page 79 review; underline the subjects and verbs; page 80, Exercise 1; follow the directions after writing each sentence; denote the subject and verb of each clause. . |
Read Angelou's "Encounter with MLK" as well as King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Answer questions in text; list and define the "Words to Know"; use each in a contextually correct sentence, patterned after the use in the story. Grammar: QUIZ is postponed til next week |
Monday January 6, '12 Unit 14 Vocab: annex, cleave, cordial, cornerstone, debacle, devitalize, embroil, exonerate, glib, haphazard, improvise, incite, influx, pallor, pedigree, precipitous, profuse, reconcile, shackle, threadbare Lit: read MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech and Nelson Mandela's speech, "Glory and Hope" which follows in the text, page 440-447. |
Tuesday Vocab: review synonyms for each word given in class Grammar: page 80, clauses and parts of speech identification
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Wednesday Vocab: review synonyms for each word given in class Grammar: practice identifying clauses and parts of speech identification |
Thursday Unit 15 Vocab: abase, actuate, avert, boorish, brunt, combatant, dormant, dubious, harangue, harry, impenitent, knave, legion, liberality, plaintiff, probe, protract, quarry, spurn, subterfuge Grammar: review of clauses, parts of speech |
Friday Review: vocab units 13, 14, 15 Grammar: clauses & parts of speech Lit: terms |
Monday January 13, 2012 No School in Honor of Martin Luther King |
Tuesday Review: vocab units 13, Unit 13 synonyms 14, Unit 14 synonyms 15, Unit 15 synonyms Grammar: clauses & parts of speech Lit: terms |
Wednesday Final Exams |
Thursday Final Exams |
Friday Teacher Planning |
Unit 13 Vocabulary
(Carryover vocabulary and synonyms): TEST December 09, Friday.
appreciable: perceptible, detectable, considerable
autocratic: domineering, dictatorial, tyrannical, bossy
blanch: bleach, drain
blasphemy: curse, profanity, sacrilege, imprecation
brawny: strong, muscalar, strapping, husky, burly
concerted: joint, cooperative, combined, consolidated
contend: battle, dispute, vie, maintain, assert
humane: sympathetic, compassionate, kindhearted
illustrious: eminent, renowned, prominent, celebrated
intolerable:insufferable, unendurable, outrageous
irreverent: profane, impious, flippant, sacrilegious
laborious: difficult, arduous, strenuous (strain), wearisome
lithe: flexible, supple, pliant, lissome
maltreat: misuse, mistreat, harm, aggrieve
ponder: contemplate, ruminate
subversive: traitorous, treasonous, revolutionary, (subvert)
synthetic: artificial, ersatz
temporate: moderate, mild, fair, (people:) composed, mellow
venomous: poisonous, virulent, malevolent, malicious, spiteful, mean
wily: sly, shrewd, cunning, clever, tricky, cagey, artful
December 05 Lit: Romeo & Juliet Grammar: clauses Vocab: ad infinitum, apportion, bonafide, buoyant, clique, concede, congenial, lofty, migration, perceive, perverse, prelude, rancid, rustic, sever, sordid, untenable, versatile, vindicate, wane; find synonyms for each. Synonyms for vocab: ad infinitum: enlessly, incessation, ceaslessly apportion: distribute, allocate, allot bona fide: authentic, legitimate, certified, indisputable bouyant: animated, jaunty, blithe, lighthearted clique: inner circle, coterie |
December 06 Lit: Romeo & Juliet Grammar: clauses, with subject, verb, direct object, adjective, adverb, prepostition and phrase synonyms continued:
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December 07 Lit: Romeo & Juliet Grammar: clauses, with subject, verb, direct object, adjective, adverb, prepostition and phrase synonyms continued: |
December 08 Lit: Romeo & Juliet Vocab TEST: study synonyms given and reviewed in class for test. |
December 09 Lit: Romeo & Juliet Vocab: annex, cleave, cordial, cornerstone, debacle, devitalize, embroil, exonerate, glib, haphazard, improvise, incite, influx, pallor, pedigree, precipitous, profuse, reconcile, shackle, threadbare. Grammar: clauses GRAMMAR QUIZ TODAY: be prepared to identify all words in a sentence as parts of speech, and as a phrase or clause. |
12 Lit: Romeo & Juliet Grammar: conjunctions, with subject, verb, direct object, adjective, adverb, prepostition and phrase |
13 Lit: Romeo & Juliet Grammar: conjunctions, with subject, verb, direct object, adjective, adverb, prepostition and phrase |
14 Lit: Romeo & Juliet Vocab TEST: study synonyms given and reviewed in class for test. |
15 Lit: Romeo & Juliet TEST |
16 LIT: The Gift of the Magi Winter Break...see you next year! Merry Christmas from your teacher :) |
AUGUST 22 First Day Code of Conduct: copy pages 8-10 |
TUESDAY 23 Return Emergency Cards Vocab: find a synonym for each. align, aperture, appraisal, circumstance, critically, determine, diagonally, disclose, dissolve, distinguish, grave, image, intent, intruder, intermittently, overtake, retrieve, suffice, sufficient. |
WEDNESDAY 24 Return signed Code of Conduct copies. Read Chapter 1 of "Around the World in 80 Days." Vocab/Grammar: add a double underline to each adverb; add "to +" to each verb; add a single underline to each noun/noun ending; circle each adjective/adjective ending.
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THURSDAY 25 Read Chapter 2 of "Around the World in 80 Days." Vocab/Writing: create a contextually correct sentence for each word. Latin root: circ |
FRIDAY 26 Read Chapters 3-5 of "Around the World in 80 Days." VOCAB TEST |
29 Vocab: abundant, corridor, cumbersome, enclosure, envision, herald, horde, magnificent, mass, multitude; find synonyms for each. |
30 Vocab: ominous, pervade, proclaim, resemblance, sheer, spectacle, teem, transitional, uncharted, venture. Find synonyms for each. |
31 Read Chapter 6 of "Around the World in 80 Days" Latin root: magn Maintain a personal vocabulary list while reading of words you must guess at. Write down the word, your guess, and page #. |
SEPTEMBER 1 Read Chapter 7 of "Around the World in 80 Days" Prefix: trans Maintain a personal vocabulary list while reading of words you must guess at. Write down the word, your guess, and page # |
SEPTEMBER 2 VOCAB TEST Read Chapters 8- 10 of "Around the World in 80 Days" Maintain a personal vocabulary list while reading of words you must guess at. Write down the word, your guess, and page # |
SEPTEMBER 5 Labor Day Holiday |
6 Vocab: clan, cleft, complex, conifer, contour, deplete, expanse, fierce, finery, flounder. Find a synonym for each.
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7 Vocab: luminous majestic, mar, mythical, outcrop, pristine, scuttle, steppe, spontaneous, stockpile. Find a synonym for each. GRAMMAR: identify the complete subject of any sentence. |
8 Latin root: lum Read Chapter 11 of "Around the World in 80 Days" Write a single sentence summary of the chapter. Maintain a personal vocabulary list while reading of words you must guess at. Write down the word, your guess, and page # |
9 VOCAB TEST Read Chapters 12,13 of "Around the World in 80 Days" Write a single sentence summary of the chapter. Maintain a personal vocabulary list while reading of words you must guess at. Write down the word, your guess, and page # |
12 Vocab. - find a synonym for each:assemble, brilliant, coincide, compulsion, development, enact, froth, interior, maelstrom, mature. |
13 Vocab. - find a synonym for each: migration, mysterious, navigate, phenomenon, romantic, spawn, suitable, tragedy, treacherous, unerringly. GRAMMAR: identify the complete predicate of any sentence. |
14 Read Chapter 14 of "Around the World in 80 Days" Write a single sentence summary of the chapter. Maintain a personal vocabulary list while reading of words you must guess at. Write down the word, your guess, and page # |
15 Read Chapter 15 of "Around the World in 80 Days" Write a single sentence summary of the chapter. Maintain a personal vocabulary list while reading of words you must guess at. Write down the word, your guess, and page # |
16 VOCAB TEST Read Chapter 16-18 of "Around the World in 80 Days" Write a single sentence summary of the chapter. Maintain a personal vocabulary list while reading of words you must guess at. Write down the word, your guess, and page # |
19 Vocab. - find a synonym for each: advertise, coarse, comic, derision, glamorize, heartily, lawless, inevitable, persuade, picturesque.
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20 Vocab. - find a synonym for each: recline, reputation, seldom, taciturn, thrust, typical, undoubtedly, urge, vanity, version. Read Chapter 19 of "Around the World in 80 Days" Write a single sentence summary of each page of the chapter. Maintain a personal vocabulary list while reading of words you must guess at. Write down the word, your guess, and page # |
21 Read Chapter 20 of "Around the World in 80 Days" Write a single sentence summary of each page of the chapter. Maintain a personal vocabulary list while reading of words you must guess at. Write down the word, your guess, and page # GRAMMAR: identify the direct objects of any sentence. |
22 Read Chapter 21 of "Around the World in 80 Days" Write a single sentence summary of each page of the chapter. Maintain a personal vocabulary list while reading of words you must guess at. Write down the word, your guess, and page # |
23 VOCAB TEST Read Chapters 22-24 of "Around the World in 80 Days" Write a single sentence summary of each page of the chapter. Maintain a personal vocabulary list while reading of words you must guess at. Write down the word, your guess, and page # |
26 Vocab. - find a synonym for each: adapt, constitution, convalescence, exhaust, expose, hazard, immoderate, inured, involve, mechanism.
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27 Vocab. - find a synonym for each: moderate, noxious, organism, potent, psychological, repetition, response, restorative, stress, volume.
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Read Chapter 25 of "Around the World in 80 Days" Write a single sentence summary of each page of the chapter. Maintain a personal vocabulary list while reading of words you must guess at. Write down the word, your guess, and page #. GRAMMAR: identify the objects of the preposition of any sentence. |
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Read through Chapter 26 of "Around the World in 80 Days" if you have not already done so. Write a single sentence summary of each page of the chapter, if you have not already done so. Maintain a personal vocabulary list while reading of words you must guess at. Write down the word, your guess, and page #. |
30 VOCAB TEST Read Chapter 27-29 of "Around the World in 80 Days" for Mon. Write a single sentence summary of each page of the chapter. Maintain a personal vocabulary list while reading of words you must guess at. Write down the word, your guess, and page #. |
October 3
Vocab. - find a synonym for each: adapt, constitution, convalescence, exhaust, expose, hazard, immoderate, inured, involve, mechanism.
October 4
Vocab. - find a synonym for each:
moderate, noxious, organism, potent, psychological, repetition, response, restorative, stress, volume.
October 5
Vocab: study sentences for first 10 words.
GRAMMAR: identify prepositional phrases in any sentence.
October 6
Vocab: study sentences for last 10 words.
GRAMMAR: identify the objects of the preposition of any sentence.
October 7
VOCAB TEST- Vocab: study sentences for all 20 words.
GRAMMAR QUIZ: identify the objects of the preposition of any sentence.
October 10
Vocab. - find a synonym for each:
careen, catapult, comprehension, curdle, disfigure, exultant, flank, grace, hurtle, level.
GRAMMAR: continue to identify prepositional phrases in any sentence.
October 11
Vocab. - find a synonym for each:
mottled, pent-up, plume, pyrotechnic, pulverize, reel, stratosphere, strewn, summit, vista.
GRAMMAR: continue to identify the objects of the preposition of any sentence.
October 12
Vocab: study sentences for first 10 words.
GRAMMAR: identify prepositional phrases used as adverbs in any sentence.
October 13
Vocab: study sentences for last 10 words.
GRAMMAR: continue to identify prepositional phrases as adverbs in any sentence.
October 14
GRAMMAR QUIZ: identify prepositional phrases used as adjectives in any sentence.
VOCAB TEST- Vocab: study sentences for all 20 words.
October 17
Vocab. - find a synonym for each:
assurance, asylum, console, dilate, dross, dwindle, flippant, immunity, institute, liability, preposterous, pugnacious, rabid, realm, rejuvenate, (focus for mid term)
GRAMMAR: continue to identify subject, verb, adverbs, and prepositional phrases in any sentence.
October 18
Vocab. - find a synonym for each:
remunerate, sparse, sterling, venture, warp, apex, adieu, grievous, vagrant, expedient, envoy, shoddy, malign, tirade, impel (focus for mid term)
GRAMMAR: continue to identify the direct objects and objects of the preposition of any sentence.
October 19
Vocab: study sentences for first 15 words.
GRAMMAR: identify subject, verb, prepositional phrases used as adverbs in any sentence.
October 20
Vocab: study sentences for last 15 words.
GRAMMAR: continue to identify subject, verb, direct objects, adverbs and prepositional phrases used as adverbs in any sentence.
October 21
GRAMMAR QUIZ
VOCAB TEST will be on the midterm examination and not tested separately this Friday!
