Tuesday, 12/11/12
"Warm Up 12/11/12." Copy 1-8 into notebook.
Use your spelling/vocabulary
list to help choose the best word for each blank. (12p)
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* read : illiterate :: think : ______(2)
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* to read : illiterate :: to be read :
______
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* friendly : mean :: dependable : ______
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* damaged : destroyed :: broken : ______
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* (2) delinquent : irresponsible :: infinity
: _____ :: Humpty Dumpty : ____
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** tease : tantalize :: dam : ______
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** benefit : boon :: feature : ______
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** peaceful : tumultuous :: responsible
: ______
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** (2) Which two vocabulary words this
week have a prefix that means not?
Spelling
Pretest #9.
Checking 600 words. Date Range: 12/4 - 12/11.
While I check 600... Time to write and some ideas.
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Here's the problem with math (English, history, pe, etc)...
And here's how to fix it.
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What if people routinely live to be 150-200 years old? Speculate on the
good and bad effects. Argue whether it would be a good or bad thing.
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Choose a "fad" here at school that you have observed (or participated in).
Describe the fad (a suddenly popular way of dressing or acting or speaking,
or a suddenly popular activity like yo-yos) from the point of view of someone
who's never seen such things before. Show people in action. Try to figure
out what caused a large group of people to starting doing the same thing(s).
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How to... impress your teacher, make a _____, do a trick, write an essay,
???????????
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It’s so unfair… Convince us of the unfairness of something and explain
how you would fix it.
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What this school really needs is... Here’s why…
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The best place in town (thing to do) for kids is… Here's why…
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What if you couldn’t forget anything? Show why it would be a good
or a bad thing.
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"Be a thing" -Garbage can in a classroom, your pencil, a fly on a
wall, a chair, a quarter, ??? Show an incident/scene from that point
of view.
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Imagine you are the editor of a major national news magazine. Write
the cover story you would choose for the issue that would be on the newstands
January 1, 2032.
MWA if time.