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Ninth graders took a quiz today, worked a puzzle, and began to write a story. Homework for Monday and the subject matter of your test on Monday is explained on the review sheet below. Also below is your homework handout.
Review sheet for test on Monday, October 28, 2011
1. The scantron portion of your test will be a story with blanks. The words you will need to know for this portion of the test are as follows: adversary, appall, avenge, bliss, blunder, din, disdain, fend, heft, lag, ponderous, profusion, rogue, sage, stately, stoked, tactic, tidbits, titanic. These are the words from your Odyssey #2 list.
2. You will be required to write 10-15 sentences with some of the following words: adversary, appall, avenge, blunder, din, heft, lag, rogue, sage, tactic, adversity, desolate, exile, forlorn, guile, immortal, indifferent, pine(v), solitude, versatile. These words are from your Odyssey vocabulary lists #1 and #2.
3. Your homework for Monday is the following: (i) complete the Odyssey Warm-up #2, and (ii) write a short story using with each of the following words: adversity, desolate, exile, forlorn, guile, immortal, indifferent, pine(v), solitude, versatile. Underline or highlight each vocabulary word.
Have a good weekend!
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The Odyssey Vocabulary 2 Warm-Up
Complete each of the following sentences.
1. If Bellaire High School’s football team is going to conquer their adversaries in the playoffs, then the team will need to .
2. The teacher was appalled when the students began to .
3. In order to avenge the deaths of innocent Americans killed by terrorists, the United States
4. Nothing brings a high school student more bliss than .
5. As a result of the players’ blunder on the field, the coach decided to .
6. It is hard to study with the din of in the background.
7. Students are likely to disdain any teacher who .
8. The students entreated their teacher to let them .
9. In order to fend off the attacking enemy, the general ordered his troops to .
10. In order to heft the truck out of the ravine, rescue workers must .
11. You are likely to lag behind in the race if you .
12. In order to wedge open the ponderous iron door of the castle, the guards had to .
13. Following the death of Michael Jackson, fans responded to his death with a profusion of .
14. Police were searching for a rogue villain who had committed the following crimes: .
15. When I told my sage grandmother that I had gotten in trouble at school, she told me to .
16. We knew that the banquet was a stately affair as soon as we saw the room filled with .
17. The king stoked the peasants’ anger when he declared that .
18. The best tactic to use when apologizing to a friend is to .
19. I try not to eat between meals, but occasionally I like to munch on tidbits of .
20. Superman used his titanic strength in order to .
Juniors began writing a short essay on Dowd's version of Steve Jobs and graded Jobs on character according to the criteria described in the New York Times magazine article by Paul Tough. We also began to discuss the article "The Ways We Lie."
You will have an AP-style, M/C test based on passages from Gulliver's Travels on Monday. Best way to study is to confirm that you know all of the words from your first three vocabulary tests and get some sleep.
Tuesday your vocabulary sheet from K Boy is due. Friday part one of K Boy should be read and annotated.
If you are interested in participating in the Scholastic Writing competition, please peruse the following website
Have a great weekend!
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