Tuesday - September 20, 2011

No school on Monday, so our vocab, spelling and journals were all given out today. 

Vocabulary Week 4

Abide – Verb

·         To wait for

·         To endure without yielding or giving up or giving in.

·         To conform to someone else’s decision

Amiable – Adjective

·         Friendly, social, pleasing

·         Easy to like.  Outgoing.

Ambulatory – Adjective

·         Relating to or adapted to walking

·         Moving from place to place

·         Not bedridden

Benign – Adjective

·         Showing kindness and gentleness

·         Harmless

·         A mild person

·         Non cancerous

Assonance – Noun

·         Resemblance of sound in words or syllables. 

·         A repetition of vowels without repeating consonants.  (Stony and holy)

·         A “High-Falutin’” kind of rhyme. 

Spelling – week 4:

Alliterative – Same Starting Sounds

Cataclysmic – End of the world

Propitious – Advantageous, good for you

Crustacean – Lobster, crab and shrimp

Deciduous – Winter trees

Annihilate – Completely Destroy

Poignant – Emotional

Scintillating – Exciting

Acephalous – no head

Ecclesiastical - Religious

Journal:  What is your best quality?  What is your worst quality?

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8th Per - Vocab 4, Spelling 4, Journal 4.

4th Per - Library to work on Native American presentations:

• Pick a Native American tribe that lived on the Eastern Seabord (east coast) at the time the Europeans started arriving in North America.
• Look at their lives before the Europeans came and changed things. 
• What were their buildings like, and what kind of housing did they live in?
• What kind of leadership system did they have?  Who was in charge, and how did they get that job?
• What was the religion like?
• What kind of culture existed?  What were the roles of men vs. women?  Old vs. Young?  Slave or free?  Leader or follower?
• Describe their food and clothing.
• Discuss WHERE they lived and what time period you looked at.  Have they disappeared or is the tribe still around somewhere?
• Put this all together into a powerpoint that you will share with your classmates next week. 
• It should be between 8-15 slides and should include a works cited slide for any information/pictures you took from the internet.
• Remember the examples of good and bad powerpoints I showed you last year and try and avoid doing some of the mistakes you learned about
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