Vocabulary for The Monsters are Due on Maple Street.  Due Tuesday: Look up definitions at learnersdictionary.com.
Due Wednesday: Finish the Show Me You Know Sentences. 1 = I have never heard of it.  2 = I kind of know what it means.  3 = I know it.   4 = I could teach it to the class.

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Definition  (Due Tuesday.)                                                               
insomnia


metamorphosis



transfixed



scapegoat



inexplicable



idiosyncrasy



instill



optimistic



pessimistic



colloquial



phenomenon



Show Me You Know Sentences. (Due Wednesday.)
  1. I had insomnia...

  2. It went through a metamorphosis...

  3. We were transfixed...

  4. She used her brother as a scapegoat...

  5. It was an inexplicable occurrence...

  6. I have an idiosyncrasy...

  7. The coach tried to instill in us...

  8. She is optimistic...(No glass half full sentences.)

  9. He is pessimistic...(No glass half empty sentences.)

  10. He likes to use the colloquial expression...

  11. It was a strange phenomenon...