Monday - February 07, 2011

1st Per - Creative Writing:

• We are working on Persuasive essays this week.  Notes will be given on Tuesday.
• Journal Entry -  Recall a positive memory with your father, or a father-type figure in your life. 

2nd Per - Honors: 

• Greek week 3 words.
• Vocab week 6 words - see below.
• Spelling week 6 words from list 11B - see below.
• Journal - Recall a positive memory with your father, or a father-type figure in your life. 

3rd Per - 8th Grade:
4th Per - 7th Grade:

• Vocab week 6.  See words below.
• Spelling week 6 words from list 11B - see below.
• Journal - Recall a positive memory with your father, or a father-type figure in your life. 

5th Per - 12th Grade:
6th Per - 10th Grade:

• Greek week 3 words.
• Vocab week 6 words - see below.
• Spelling week 6 words from list 11B - see below.
• Journal - Recall a positive memory with your father, or a father-type figure in your life.

Vocab week 6:

jostle- v. /jŏ’ sl/


1. to make one's way by bumping or pushing against;

2. to knock into or against someone inadvertently.

examples: jostle for control, jostle for power, jostle for position



loathe- v. /lōth/ also /lōð/

1. to dislike greatly, often with disgust or intolerance

2. to feel intense aversion for; abhor



paradox- n. /pār’ ә doks/ (pl. = paradoxes)

1. something contradictory: a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense yet nevertheless could be true; a mismatch between or among ideas.

example: "I must be cruel to be kind." Shakespeare in Hamlet

2. a statement, proposition, or situation that seems to be absurd or contradictory, but which may be true

throng- n. /thrông/

1. a large group of people gathered or crowded closely together; a multitude.

2. a large group of things; a host



tremulous- adj. /trem yoo lәs/

1. in a shaky, trembling manner; to shake because of shyness or fear

2. marked by trembling, quivering, or shaking.

3. timid or fearful; timorous

example: Her voice was so tremulous the recording could not pick it up.


Spelling 11B words with Hawley's definitions:
Misspelled - Wrong
Monotonous - boring
Persistent - keep trying
Quandary - problem with a tough choice
Rescission - To take back/away
Sacrilegious - to defile
Supersede - To overrule
Vacuum - empty/nothing
Whether - choice
Adherent - Follower, sticky