vocabulary

Please Click in your answers for Test #14.

Debrief Test #14.

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“Vocab, 12/6.” succumb, subsist, presumptuous, avant-garde, reproach, cathartic, frugal, cobble, futile, dissemble, ambivalent
    

1. _____
2. _____
3. _____
4. _____
5. It would be ___ of a dishwasher to tell the master chef how to do things.
6. Much of the agriculture in the rest of the world is made up of _____(ence) farms, that barely grow enough food for the family working on it.
7. MacGyver could ____ together almost anything from a bazooka to a hang-glider from bits of trash he found lying around.
8. After the long siege, the city knew it was ____ to resist any longer…
9. …and they finally _____(ed) to the stronger army.
10. She blamed him for the accident and always looked at him with _______ afterwards.
11. This word’s roots mean feeling both ways. _____
12. This word’s meaning evolved like this: fruit -> economical -> ______.
13. The words roots meant to take before. _____

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120 Seconds Begins TOMORROW. Volunteers?

Writing your intro. You need about 200 words.

1. Start with a little hook:
   • Imagine yourself…
   • Throughout history mankind has…
   • It was a dark and stormy night…
   • What do you call a… (joke)
   • Once upon a time…
   • Have you ever wondered…
   • What if…
   • Jimmy was a boy who…
   • Scary, gripping, and difficult to put down…
   • Etc.
2. Give us the required info:
   • Title
   • Author
   • Genre (Not just fiction/non; we want something like romance, sci fi, horror, mystery, fantasy, comedy, historical fiction, etc.)
3. Time for the 5 W’s for the BOOK:
   • This is the story of…
   • This book is about…
   • Set in the future…
   • Not too much detail; you have less than a minute.
4. Now to set up the PASSAGE:
   • This is the part of the book where…
   • This is the scene when…
   • _____ is about to _____

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Vladek.

1. What is one reason Artie says he became an artist?
2. What possession of Anja’s is Artie so interested in finding?
3. Why is Vladek unfriendly with Artie on p98?
4. What is Artie a prisoner of in “Prisoner on the Hell Planet”?

Read to p120+

Welcome Guest Teacher! I will do the Slides on Tuesday!

Copy homework into planner:

KBARR
Vocabulary as usual.

 

Go to NEWSELA and do Holocaust Part 2.

• Read the article.
• Do the Quiz.
• Do the Writing. (50 word minimum.)

 

Done? Start Vocab Definitions.

Done? Writing your intro. You need about 200 words. If you don’t have a book yet….WHY?!?

1. Start with a little hook:
   • Imagine yourself…
   • Throughout history mankind has…
   • It was a dark and stormy night…
   • What do you call a… (joke)
   • Once upon a time…
   • Have you ever wondered…
   • What if…
   • Jimmy was a boy who…
   • Scary, gripping, and difficult to put down…
   • Etc.
2. Give us the required info:
   • Title
   • Author
   • Genre (Not just fiction/non; we want something like romance, sci fi, horror, mystery, fantasy, comedy, historical fiction, etc.)
3. Time for the 5 W’s for the BOOK:
   • This is the story of…
   • This book is about…
   • Set in the future…
   • Not too much detail; you have less than a minute.
4. Now to set up the PASSAGE:
   • This is the part of the book where…
   • This is the scene when…
   • _____ is about to _____

 

Prep Sheet for Test #14:

SMYK: __/10  Vocab Practices: ___/13  ___/13   ___/10 

Other Extra Credit: Period   gets +2 for Vocab relay. All others get +1. +1 for Lent, +1 for Fat Tuesday

 

Mental Floss.

1. How far can you walk into the woods?
2. What do you get when you add 1 and 11 four times?
3. Which three numbers give the same result when they are multiplied as when they are added? (Alert: math)
4. The more you take away the bigger it gets; the more you add, the smaller it becomes. What is it?
5. Wacky Wordies:
   

   ZERO PhD BSc. B.A. (a)

   N  E  V  E  S (b)

   ONHOLEE  (c)

Test #14. No Clicking. We will correct when I get back.

Doodle Theme: Design a groovy, new piece of clothing.

Tomorrow’s Test: POV, CX/CD, Vocab, Vladek, NEWSELA. Preview.

“CD/CX, 12/1”

1. I like llamas. —  Add a dependent clause to make a COMPLEX (CX) sentence.
2. The llama studied.  —  Add an independent clause to make a COMPOUND (CD) sentence.

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“POV, 12/1.”

1. When the narrator knows everyone’s thoughts.
2. A persuasive essay.
3. “I could hear the crowd cheering. I was going to win!”
4. “The couple sat on the park bench, barely moving. They weren’t holding hands. The crickets chirped around them as they sat in the gathering darkness.”
5. The whole softball team was already on the bus when Max arrived. She was embarrassed and being late, she couldn’t find a seat. “Oh great,” she thought to herself. “Now everyone is going to know what a loser I am.”
6. ** Rewrite #3 in 3rd Person Limited. **

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“Vocab, 12/1.” Each word once.

1. The root of this word was Latin for agreeable. _____
2. The root of this word meant needle._____
3. This word comes from the name of the Greek god Zelos.
4. The root of this word was Latin for not in sequence. _____
5. The root of this word was Old French for hair. _____
6. The root of this word was Latin for form or pattern. _____
7. The roots of this word were Latin for completely away from public life. _____
8. The root of this word was Latin for having greater power _____
9. The root of this word was Latin for influence. _____
10. The root of this word was Latin for trickery or illusion. _______

Vocab Relay.

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Vladek to p101.

NEWSELA: Finish Holocaust Part 1 Assignment.

 

NO KBARR RESPONDING THIS WEEK!

Here’s a video of a good  120 Seconds example. 

But what did he forget to do?

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“POV, 11/30.” ANSWER not letter. Hrrrmmm. NOT Collaborative.
a) 1st person b) 2nd person c) 3rd person limited d) 3rd person objective e) 3rd person omniscient

1. MAUS
2. The Midwife’s Apprentice
3. As soon as your grandpa says, “I give up,” jump out and shout, “Here I am!”
4. “He wore a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey cloak, and a silver scarf. He had a long white beard and bushy eyebrows that stuck out beyond the brim of his hat. Small hobbit-children ran after the car all through Hobbiton and right up the hill.”
5. “Everyone else said of her: ‘She is such a good mother. She adores her children.’ Only she herself, and her children themselves, knew it was not so. They read it in each other eyes.”
6. Psychologists say that if you talk to yourself in _____, giving yourself orders or criticizing/encouraging yourself, it actually helps!

 

“Vocab, 11/30.”
 

1. Give the antonym for this guy’s look. ______
2. (2) Figure #2 shows the effects of sleep _____(ation) which is very ____ in today’s society.
3. _____ (Not non sequitur.)
4. _____
5. _____
6. _____
7. During the Nazi occupation of Poland there was a(n) ______ shortage of food and other necessities in the Jewish community. (Not prevalent.)
8. In The Outsiders, the Socs had both wealth and social _______.
9. Fifth period seems to like to interrupt the class with various ______(s) and random questions.
10. The con man _____(ly) convinced the old lady that he was in love with her in order to steal her money.
11. The transfer of the 1936 Olympics to another country would have damaged Germany’s _____…
12. …so they enforced their racist laws less _____(ously) during that time to avoid bad publicity.

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MAUS.

• Since Vladek and Anja’s family is not getting enough food coupons to eat, how are they getting enough food?
• Why is Vladek’s brother-in-law, Wolfe, not too worried about the way things are for them now?
• How does Vladek make money after he loses his factory after coming home from the POW camp?
• How does Vladek’s father-in-law (Anja’s dad) help him after his first close call on the street?
•  Who “survived me my life,” according Vladek, when he hid Vladek in his apartment during a roundup.
• What does Vladek suggest that Anja refuses?

Read to Page 95.

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NEWSELA.

Do the Holocaust Part One Assignment on NEWSELA.

You will have more time tomorrow if you don’t finish.

Print Version: lib-history-holocaust-part-I-26801-article_and_quiz

Write Questions: 1. What are the root meaning of the word holocaust? 2. What were the 2 main goals of Hitler’s ideology?