Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Monday, August 29, 2011

Welcome back to school!  Hopefully, you had a great summer vacation!

Sorry I forgot to get this posted yesterday.  All that bragging and then I didn't perform.  Must be getting old.  :-)

All English classes will do Vocabulary and Spelling on Mondays.  The worksheets to be filled out for this are in my room on the back table by the window.  The Vocab list is as follows:


Vocabulary - Due  Friday Week 1                                                                                                                                                        

Quid pro quo – Noun

·         Something for something.

·         Something given or received for something else.



Comeuppance – Noun

·         Punishment

·         Getting what you deserve

·         A deserved rebuke or penalty



Sarcophagus – Noun

·         A stone coffin.

·         The ancient Greek word for the limestone, "sarkophagos," was formed by combining "sark-," meaning "flesh," with a derivative of "phagein," a verb meaning "to eat."   (Related to the word “Esophagus”)

o   In olden times, stone caskets were made from limestone, which has the ability to help bodies decompose very rapidly – thus eliminating the health hazards and overpopulation of the local graveyards.



Colloquial – Adjective

·         of or relating to conversation : conversational

·         used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation; also : unacceptably informal

·         using conversational style



Expedite – Verb

·         to execute (carry out or do it) promptly

·         to accelerate the process or progress of : speed up

·         issue, dispatch

o   To expedite the processing of your request, please include your account number on all documents.

Spelling:  Week 1 - Due Friday

Vocab Word - Hawley's definition:
Accurate - correct
Precaution - careful
Hoeing - weeding
Census - count
Graphite - carbon lubricant
Bough - tree branch
Decipher - figure out
Fraught - full of
Abbreviation - shorten
Torrential - heavy

Journal Entry:  Due Wednesday
When my son Ben was run over by a truck this past summer, some kind of intuition told me he was in trouble and I needed to find out where he was and what was wrong.  Describe a moment of intuition you have seen, heard of, or experienced personally in your life. 


2nd Period:  10th Grade English
3rd Period:   8th Grade English
5th Period:   10th Grade English -
  • Journal,
  • Vocabulary week 1,
  • Spelling week 1,
  • Daily Oral Language 2.

8th Period:  7th Grade English -
  • Vocabulary week 1,
  • Spelling week 1. 
  • Daily Grammar Lessons #4, 5.
  • No journal assignment this week.
4th Period:  8th Grade History
  • Begin working on maps of the US states and capitol cities.  Keep working on learning the names of the 50 states.
6th Period Lit Skills 
  • Read the story about the kids who were traded by their guardian for a pet bird and $150.  Practice interacting with the text by asking questions, circling, underlining, etc. 



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