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Wednesday, 1/29: Scramble, Vocab, Dah Givah – Mr. Coward's Seventh Grade English
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Wednesday, 1/29: Scramble, Vocab, Dah Givah

Monday was the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

“Paragraph Scramble, 1/29.”

  1. The earlier ones were lost to him.
  2. But he observed them each year, and he remembered Lily’s earliest Decembers.
  3. He could remember the Decembers back to when he had become a Four.
  4. Jonas nodded.
  5. He remembered when his family had received Lily and the day she was named.

Representative Rich McCormick, Republican of Georgia, who told CNN today that those indolent kids need to go get jobs—even, apparently, schoolchildren who aren’t old enough to work—instead of “spong[ing] off the government”  (to pay for their school lunches)

“Vocab, 1/29.”
     
tentative, infringe, reprieve, benign, profound, indolent, relinquish, exasperate, (in)conspicuous, (un)scrupulous, haphazard

  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____
  5. Solar power is more ______ to the environment than coal or oil.
  6. We ____(ly) planned the picnic for Saturday, but since there’s been so much rain, we also made other plans just in case.
  7. The _____ lawyer took advantage of the old man and stole his money.
  8. “Wealth is ______, but poverty hides.”
  9. After he lost the battle, the king had to ____ the throne to the winner.
  10. The word ______ comes from a word that means ethics or morals.
  11. The root of this word meant “to handle, to try.” _____
  12. The roots of this word meant “before the bottom or deep.” _____
  13. The roots of this word meant “not feeling pain.” _____

 

“Giver ch1 Quiz.”

  1. What two words did Asher confuse?
  2. What word does Jonas finally settle on to describe his feelings?
  3. Why does everyone know that Lily’s comment about keeping Gabriel has to be a joke?
  4. In ch. 1 we find out this community is lacking something we take for granted. What? (Not planes or cars.)
  5. What event happens in December in this Community?
  6. We are in the ____ of the story.  (exposition, rising action, inciting incident, falling action, climax, resolution)
  7. The Giver is told in ____   person?  (1st, 2nd, 3rd omniscient, 3rd objective, 3rd limited)

 

Where is this?

When is this?

Why is this?

 

Read aloud ch2—>  Tonight read to the end of chapter 3.

LINK to GIVER BOOK.