7th & 8th Grade vocab week 9:
Spelling Week 9
– 7th & 8th Grade
Flirtatious – Playful
Commodity – Valuable goods
Demonstrable – Can be shown, proven
Sentient – Self Aware
Efficient – Organized
Intuitive – Perceptive
Indelible – Permanent
Relentlessly – Persistently
Accomplishment – Achievement
Empirical – Observable, provable
Raucous –
Adjective (Rah-Kus)
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Disagreeably harsh or strident.
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Boisterously disorderly
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Wild and loud
Regression –
noun (Re-Gress-shun)
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A shift toward a less perfect state
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Gradual loss of memories or skills
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Reversion to an earlier mental or behavioral
level
Rueful –
Adjective (Ru-full)
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exciting or causing pity or sympathy - Pitiable
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Mournful
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Regretful
Stoically –
Adjective (Stoe-ihk-ly)
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Free from passion
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Unmoved by joy or grief
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Showing no feelings
Iambic Pentameter
– Noun (Eye-Am-Bic)
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Used in poetry
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five pairs of syllables
with the accent on the second syllable in each pair.
We had a lengthy discussion about Iambic Pentameter with the 7th graders. The 8th graders learned this last year. Iambic Pentamenter is a very set way to write poetry. It includes:
a. 10 syllables in a line, divided into sets of two.
b. An unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed syllable all across the line.
c. Usually found in a sonnet, which has a very specific structure.
Here is an example of a line from one of Shakespeare's sonnets in Iambic Pentameter: 10 syllables, with the stresses syllable in bold type.
Thou | art | more | lov | ely | than | a | sum | mers | day
Don't worry. I won't actually have you WRITING sonnets till you are sophomores! :-)
Journal – Week 9
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Try and prove your
point. Write a persuasive essay about
something you believe strongly in. Use
your best logic and arguments to support your decisions.
10th Grade:
vocab Week 9
– 10th Grade
Spelling words:
Contemptible – Disgust/disgrace/despicable
Coolly – Without panic or haste
Corroborate – to agree on the facts
Counterfeit – fake
Curriculum - school lessons
Debtor – Owes you money
Deferred – Put off till later
Deficit – shortfall/insufficient
Desirous – hoping for
Deteriorate – Break down
Lit Terms: These have nothing to do with each other, so
put them on separate lines.
1.
Hubris – Excessive pride. In
Greek literature (usually a tragedy, or sad play) hubris is often viewed as the
flaw that leads to the downfall of the tragic hero.
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Example: Achilles Heel. Achilles was impossible to wound in battle,
having been dipped in the river Styx as a baby.
But his heel was vulnerable because that’s where they held him when he
was dipped in the river. Because of
this vulnerability, he (and his armies) eventually were defeated.
2.
Impressionism – The recording of events or situations as they have been
impressed upon the mind.
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Example: Sharing your childhood memories of
winter. The soft snow, the biting wind, the frosty air,
etc.
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“Where
the Red Fern Grows” is another very good example of this. You feel the boy’s aches, pains, joys, and
triumphs right along with him as he works to buy and then hunts with his dogs.
3.
Local Color – the use of language and details that are common to a
certain region of the country. We’ve
already learned a strong synonym for this word.
Can you remember it?
4.
Malapropism – A type of pun or play on words where two words become
jumbled in the speaker’s mind.
Example: “Go take a shower” becomes “Go shake a
tower.” This is the kind of thing that
happens in poor Mr. Hawley’s head all the time when he tries to speak too fast,
and is the reason I often have to sart a stentecne over, I mean start a
sentence over.
5.
Melodrama – Extreme or exaggerated
form of acting. Think soap operas. “JOHN!
Your baby is my Uncle’s cousin’s nephew’s dog’s best friend, and I WON’T
stand for it anymore!!!”
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Playmill
Theater in West Yellowstone puts on Melodramas (exaggerated plays) every summer
that are extremely hilarious. I strongly
encourage you all to go to one some summer with your family!!!!!
Journal – Write an impressionistic
piece about memories of your mother from when you were five.
