Friday, December 13, 2013

Friday the 13th !!!!!!

Today ninth graders finished their vocabulary collages, received another vocabulary sheet, and finished their Christmas trees.

Juniors discussed or presented ideas on Nickel and Dimed.

Seniors received a final exam review sheet, which looks like this:


AP 4 Review Sheet for Final Review

WORD
DEFINITION
POS
Restive
 
 
 
Pessimistic, pessimism
 
 
 
Passive
 
 
 
Contemptuous, contempt
 
 
 
Impersonal
 
 
 
Instrumental
 
 
 
Nostalgic, nostalgia
 
 
 
Candid, candor
 
 
 
Fervor
 
 
 
Mendacious, mendacity
 
 
 
Fabricate, fabrication
 
 
 
Humiliate, humiliation
 
 
 
Cynical, cynicism
 
 
 
Inadvertently, inadvertent
 
 
 
Mediate, mediation
 
 
 
Relent
 
 
 
Invigorate
 
 
 
Unintelligible
 
 
 
Expedient
 
 
 
Ephemeral
 
 
 
Formidable
 
 
 
Truncated
 
 
 
Uncanny
 
 
 
Futile
 
 
 
Elucidating
 
 
 
Rueful
 
 
 
Pious
 
 
 
Superfluous
 
 
 
Quintessentially
 
 
 
Ominously
 
 
 
Petulant
 
 
 
Mesmerizing
 
 
 
Admonition, admonish
 
 
 
Abyss
 
 
 
Implacable
 
 
 
Gilt
 
 
 
Grueling
 
 
 
Impracticable
 
 
 
Ravenous
 
 
 
Meticulous
 
 
 
Repress
 
 
 
Captivated
 
 
 
Omission
 
 
 
Lout, loutish
 
 
 
Obstinate
 
 
 
Premonition
 
 
 

Unrelenting
 
 
 
Imminent
 
 
 
Pallid
 
 
 
Taut
 
 
 
Ardor
 
 
 
Allusion
 
 
 
Defiance, defy, defiant
 
 
 
Prostrate
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

On your exam, you will complete two vocabulary stories using word banks of vocabulary words I will provide to you.

You will also write an essay on the outsider character in the following books:  The Catcher in the Rye, Metamorphosis, and The Tortilla Curtain.  Therefore, you must bring your books to the final exam.  I will grade your annotations for The Tortilla Curtain on the day of the exam, which is Thursday, December 19, 2013.
Have a great weekend - start studying your vocabulary!