Ninth graders received a new vocabulary sheet today, with homework assignments for Thursday and Friday. We also started reading the graphic novel Maus. For your ease of reference, here is the vocabulary sheet (with vocabulary assignments).
Vocabulary for Maus
Word | Definition | POS |
Diminutive (jacket) | ||
Feat (jacket) | ||
Harrowing (jacket) | ||
Pacify (jacket) | ||
Auschwitz (jacket) | ||
Sheik (9) | ||
Textile (12) | ||
Dowry (15) | ||
Communist (27) | ||
Sanitarium (31) | ||
Czechoslovakia (32) | ||
Pogrom (33) | ||
Synagogue (33) | ||
Anti-Semitism (36) | ||
Hemorrhaging (39) | ||
Glaucoma (39) | ||
Cataract (39) | ||
Herring (46) | ||
Nuremberg (51) | ||
Pashastruma (57) | ||
Wehrmacht (58) | ||
Systematically (59) | ||
Bar mitzvah (59) | ||
Aryan (76) | ||
Hasty (80) | ||
Zionist (83) | ||
Neurotic (97) | ||
Obscure (99) | ||
Clatter (101) | Verb | |
Void (102) | Noun | |
Condolences (103) | ||
Umbilical (103) | ||
Objective (104) | ||
Shrine (104) | ||
Ghetto (105) | ||
Bunker (110) | ||
Liquidate (112) | ||
Stoop (118) | Noun | |
Pragmatic (131) | ||
Pauper (132) |
Homework for Thursday, January 5, 2012: Option one: write compound, context-rich sentences with the following words: diminutive, feat, harrowing, pacify, textile, dowry, sanitarium, pogrom, systematically, and hasty. Option two: write a paragraph or two using all of these words in context with one compound sentence with a semicolon and one compound sentence with a comma and one of the fanboys.
Homework for Friday, January 6, 2012: same options as above with the following words: neurotic, obscure, clatter, void, condolences, objective, shrine, liquidate, stoop (noun), pragmatic, pauper.
Test on Monday, January 9: know the first group of words well enough to write sentences with them; know the second group of words well enough to complete a puzzle or a story (with a word bank).
Juniors heard read yet another commencement speech to prime their creative pumps for what is to come. You also took notes on the Athenian theatre scene circa 5 B.C., as well as the legend of Oedipus. If you missed class today, you will need to get those notes from a classmate. We also started reading Oedipus, so that we would have a happy love story with which to start the year.
First due date: First six chapters of Malcolm X, read and annotated, Thursday, January 12, 2012.
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