Month: February 2020

Tomorrow’s Test: Vocab, S/CD/CX, Vladek.
Interviews are due!

Correct Yesterday’s Vocab.

“Vocab, 2/13.”
      
augment, wretched, meager, suppress, exuberant, impede, fleeting, wry, lethargic, escalate

1. Pic of a giant, fallen tree blocking the road.
2. Pic of a bear seriously napping.
3. Cartoon of Uncle Sam’s hand over someone’s mouth and the word QUIET!
4. Pic of a joyful grandma leaping into a lake!
5. Pic of a celebrity smirking.
6. Pic of clock dissolving into confetti.
7. Pic of two women resting on a mattress in a garbage dump.
8. Pokemon Go is an example of a game that uses _____(ed) reality, adding extra features to the real world through technology.
9. After the second offense the punishment _____(ed) from scolding to use of the discipline wand.
10. (2) Vladek tried to ____ the ____ amount of food they were allowed by working on the black market.

Game Show Prep for Tomorrow’s Test.

Vladek to p265.

Last chance to work on Interviews/600 words for Tuesday.

Welcome Guest Teacher! Students should work their way down this page on their Chromebooks.

“Vocab, 2/13.” 
augment, wretched, meager, suppress, exuberant, impede, fleeting, wry, lethargic, escalate

1. _____ Pic of a basketball player getting in another player’s way as he drives to the basket.
2. _____ Drawing of a face with hands covering the eyes and mouth.
3. _____ Pic of a little boy very excited and joyful about a pine tree.
4. _____ Pic of a plate with one pea on it and a knife and fork poised over it.
5. The mayfly’s life is very _____. A mayfly only lives to reproduce and is alive for only 24 hours.
6. After the police mishandled the fight, it ____(ed) into a riot.
7. He tried to ___ his income by selling magazines door to door.
8. Although you might think they do, recent studies have concluded that cough _____(ants) don’t really stop your cough.
9. Some teachers keep their classrooms very cold because they think it keeps the students from being too ____.
10. The amount of food coupons given to the Jews only allowed them very ____ portions, not enough to get by legally.
11. The prisoners in Auschwitz were kept in ____ conditions.
12. The Lemony Snicket books are known for their ____ humor about seemingly terrible events.
13. On the last day of school, the kids ran _____(ly) through the halls.
14. His pants were so tight they _____(ed) his movement.

B. Go to NEWSELA and take another Reading Skills Check.

C. Vladek Reading Check

1. What does Francoise mean when she says, “I’ll bet you that Anja’s notebooks were written on both sides of the page…” ?
2. Why do Vladek and the others not go through with their plan to escape Auschwitz?
3. Where does Vladek say his “troubles began”?
4. Why did the French man share his food with Vladek?

D. Work on your Interview and/or you 600 words for next week.

Copy homework into planner.

Add to vocab list.  Euphemism (n – U FEM ISM): 
A “nice” way of saying something  unpleasant. 

The prefix eu- means “good.”

Examples: passed on = died, sanitation engineer = garbage man, etc…

1. solid waste =
2. landfill =
3. economically disadvantaged =
4. undocumented transborder migrant =
5. vertically challenged =
6. intentionally inaccurate statement  =

Debrief Test #21. Hrrrmmm.

I check 600 words.
You work on interview essay or vocab.

Vladek

Tomorrow’s Test: Spelling, Vocab, S/CD/CX/F, Vladek.

“Spelling, 2/6.” This time write the CAPITAL LETTER of the correctly-spelled choice.

1. a) beleivable  b) believeable  c) believible  d) believable  e) NOTA
2. a) seperately  b) separatly  c) separately  d) seprately  e) NOTA
3. a) movable  b) moveable  c) movible  d) moveible  e) NOTA
4. a) ignerance  b) ignorance  c) ignorence  d) ignorince  e) NOTA
5. a) recquirement  b) requirment  c) recquirment  d) requiremint  e) NOTA
6. a) maturity  b) narative  c) creative  d) all correct
7. The reason we don’t drop the last e from a word like positive before we add an ending like -ly, is that…  a) Positive ends with a consonant sound.  b) The ending-lyends with an y.  c) The ending -ly  begins with a consonant  d) The ending -ly  makes it an adjective.  e) NOTA

“Vocab, 2/6.”
 
tentative, infringe, reprieve, benign, profound, indolent, relinquish, exasperate, (in)conspicuous, (un)scrupulous, haphazard

1. _____ Pic of the classic statue, The Thinker.
2. _____Cartoon of two guys looking out from the top of a skyscraper saying, “Yes, the view is nice—but I mostly want people to look up here and think how rich I am.”
3. _____Pic of a pack of dogs with a fox blending in.
4. _____ Pic of a cute little lamb taking its first steps. (NOT: benign, scrupulous, haphazard, or indolent, or any other “it could be’s.” Sigh.)
5. “Ninety-nine percent of lawyers give the rest of us a bad name.” ______
6. Much to her relief, the doctor said the tumor was ________ and not cancerous.
7. He prepared so ______(ly) that his presentation was painful to watch. (Not: tentative.)
8. After asking for (previous vocab word), the student received a _____ and was released from detention.
9. The neighbor’s fence _____(ed) on our property, so they had to move it.
10. Sometimes second period can be ______(ing), but when certain people are absent, it can be a fun class.
11. The word ______ comes from a word that means ethics or morals.

VOCABULARY RELAY!

Quiz Show! Test Prep!

Begin Work on Interviews.

• Introduction: Setting. Description of scene/setting. How it was set up. Why you chose this person. Relationship to this person.
• Description of person. Show, don’t tell.
  • Looks. (Details.)
  • Voice and choice of words. Delivery.
  • Personality. (Bitter? Enthusiastic? Happy? Lost in memories? Crabby?  What?)
• The intro/description should be 350-400+ words.
• Interview.
  • Questions you asked, followed by answers and follow up.
  • You may summarize their answers, but please include at least three good quotes(word for word, as close as you can get) that use the person’s actual words.
• Conclusion: Discuss what you learned, most surprising info, most interesting, change in attitude toward older people, etc. About 75-100+ words.