Today was MAPS testing, so some of you didn't get to go over this in class. Make sure you know and understand these vocab words for the week!
Journal: Seeing as how mother's day was yesterday, describe your mother. Here are some cute anecdotes from kids, followed by what I wrote about my own mother.
Kids answer questions about moms
Why did God make mothers?
1. She’s the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.
2. Mostly to clean the house.
3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.
How did God make mothers?
1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.
2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.
3. God made my mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts.
What ingredients are mothers made of?
1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in the world and one dab of mean.
2. They had to get their start from men’s bones. Then they mostly use string I think.
Why did God give you your mother and not some other mom?
1. We’re related.
2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people’s moms like me.
What kind of little girl was your mom?
1. My mom has always been my mom and none of that other stuff.
2. I don’t know because I wasn’t there, but my guess would be pretty bossy.
3. They say she used to be nice.
What did mom need to know about dad before she married him?
1. His last name.
2. She had to know his background. Like is he a crook? Does he make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO to drugs and YES to chores.
Why did your mom marry your dad?
1. My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world. And my mom eats a lot.
2. She got too old to do anything else with him.
3. My grandma says that mom didn’t have her thinking cap on.
Who’s the boss at your house?
1. Mom doesn’t want to be boss, but she has to because dad’s such a goofball.
2. Mom. You can tell by room inspection. She sees the stuff under the bed.
3. I guess Mom is, but only because she has a lot more to do than dad.
What’s the difference between moms and dads?
1. Moms work at work and work at home, and dads just go to work at work.
2. Moms know how to talk to teachers without scaring them.
3. Dads are taller and stronger, but moms have all the real power ’cause that’s who you got to ask if you want to sleep over at your friend’s.
What does your mom do in her spare time?
1. Mothers don’t do spare time.
2. To hear her tell it, she pays bills all day long.
What would it take to make your mom perfect?
1. On the inside she’s already perfect. Outside, I think some kind of plastic surgery.
2. Diet. You know, her hair. I’d diet, maybe blue.
If you could change one thing about your mom, what would it be?
1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I’d get rid of that.
2. I’d make my mom smarter. Then she would know it was my sister who did it and not me.
Thoughts on my own Mom: I call her "good for nothing" because she is incredibly good and asks nothing in return.
• Selfless:
o Gave me two cars after only driving them for a few months. Made payments faithfully for years. Paid for my housing my freshman year
o Nursed dad for 40 years. Many women would have left.
o Humbly took care of Grandma, relationship very strained.
o Cakes for everything and everyone.
o Refreshments for friends
• Strict:
o No doubt about where her loyalties stood.
o Trouble at school – trouble at home
o Dad’s sickness, she ran a tight ship
o Many many spankings, mouth washings, etc.
o Tough as nails.
• Persistent:
o Decided she was going to build bathroom, remodel basement – she did.
o Stayed up every single night till I got home till the day I got back from Venezuela.
• Talented:
o Fabulous artist, singer, sewer, cake maker, dress maker.
o Fixed all kinds of things when we were kids. If it was broken, mom would figure out a way to mend it.
• No hypocrite
o She never ever set a double standard. If we couldn’t watch a movie, she never did either. PG 13 movies and friends.
o Never bowed to peer pressure, or kid pressure.
o Never once swore that I’ve ever heard.
• Worker:
o I think now I MAY be able to work as long a day, since she is old and slow, and tired, but I couldn’t keep up with her in her younger days.
o 16 and 18 hour days for years and years and years.
Vocab week 16:
cognizant - (adjective) /kog nĭ zənt/
1. knowledgeable of something especially through personal experience
2. aware; mindful
The president has advisors to keep him cognizant of and up to date on world events.
To say that one is “cognizant and aware” of something is a redundancy as they mean the same thing.
effigy - (n.) /ef’ ij ē /
1. a crude figure representing a hated person
2. image, statue, model, dummy, figurine, carving, imitation
History is replete with despised persons being burned in effigy, often by protestors or mobs.
A flagstaff at the navy annex just west of the War Department on Pennsylvania Avenue is topped by an elaborate effigy, in copper and aluminum, of the famous baldheaded eagle, "Old Abe," which was carried through the Civil War by the Eighth Wisconsin Volunteers.
flout - (v.)
1. to disregard rules or laws and treat them with disregard and scorn
2. disobey, break, ignore, defy
One who flouts the law should not expect impunity.
3. contravene, be in breach of
One who flouts the stipulations in a contract, acting brashly and in a perverse manner, has no recourse to repudiate the termination of said contract and its subsequent obsolescence.
terminate- (tr.v.) /ter min āt /
1. to end, finish, stop, finish, cease; capable of ending
2. come to an end; conclude
Arnold Schwarzenegger is famous for his role as a cyborg antagonist who was to terminate the characters Sarah and John Connor, however, in the sequels, The Terminator becomes the protagonist.
He was advised to terminate his contact with the felon, a former childhood friend, or it would preclude his chance to join the FBI.
This school year will terminate soon, thus, we’ll have the end of term.
turbulent - (adjective) /ter byoo lənt/
1. causing unrest, violence, or disturbance
2. unstable, disordered, chaotic, tumultuous, rowdy
3. in turmoil; riotous, unruly
To the consternation of the passengers, the airplane shifted and bucked when it hit turbulent air.
Before the turbulent throng could be quelled, they burned an effigy of their unpopular leader, flouting the recent all-hours curfew imposed by their dictatorial government.
Literary Terms :
Perfect rhymes can be classified according to the number of syllables included in the rhyme, which is dictated by the location of the final stressed syllable. This week you are responsible for the following three examples of perfect rhyme:
masculine: a rhyme in which the stress is on the final syllable of the words (rhyme, sublime)
feminine: a rhyme in which the stress is on the penultimate (second from last) syllable of the words (picky, tricky)
dactylic: a rhyme in which the stress is on the antepenultimate (third from last) syllable (cacophonies, Aristophanes)
Spelling 16B with Hawley's Definitions:
1. Livable - apartment
2. Marijuana - Mary Jane
3. Medieval - 1300's
4. Memento - keepsake
5. Mileage - distance
6. Miniature - small
7. Moccasin - leather shoe
8. Mollify - soothe
9. Occurrnece - happening
10. Neither - not A or B
1st Per - Journal. Describe your mothers.
2nd Per, 4th per, 6th Per - Maps testing. Get Journal, Vocab, and Spelling done for Wednesday.
3rd Per, 5th per - regular day of journal, vocab and spelling. Due Wednesday.
