Monday, January 31, 2011

Monday - January 31, 2011

TOTAL BUMMER!!!!! Our ski trip was canceled, so we had to come back and actually spend a day in school instead of being productively engaged in breaking our legs, bruising our muscles and bones, getting frostbite, etc.  Oh well.  There will be other days to attempt self mutilation. 

7th & 8th Grades:  Vocab week 5
1. Caustic- marked by incisive sarcasm


a. Caustic letter, caustic comment, remarks from the caustic Simon Cowell.

2. Inadvertent- not focusing the mind on a matter; not purposeful or on purpose

b.Inadvertent mistake, inadvertent slip of the tongue

3. Incipient- beginning to come into being or to become apparent

a. Ex. Incipient madness, an incipient coup d’état, incipient [historic breakthrough such as] Civil Rights movement

4. Steeped- to soak in a liquid at a temperature under the boiling point; to be surrounded by a particular philosophy or methodology

5. Technology- the specialized aspects of a particular field of endeavor

Spelling words from list 11A (With Hawley's Definitions):
Advisor - (One who counsels)
Barbiturate - (Drugs/downers)
Boundary - (Borderline)
Compatible - (Work together)
Copyright - (Legal ownership)
Decathlon - (10 event competition)
Exorcist - (Casts out)
Fluorescent - (Glowing)
Fulfill - (Complete)
Imporster - (Poser)
 
10B words:
Indictment, Meanness, Pamphlet, Rhythm, Sledgehammer, Sufficient, Therefore, Thirtieth, Unnecessary, Useful

Journal entry:  A winter memory.
 
Creative Writing, Honors English, 10th grade English, 12th grade English:
Scrabble word practice.

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