FRIDAY!

Ninth graders handed in homework.  First, sixth, and ninth periods completed their "Lost Boys" project.  Eighth period completed SARs and wrote a warm-up.

A copy of the ninth grade list is copied below:

Fractious	Disruptive
Posse	A group of people united by a common interest
Exodus	A mass exit
Throngs	To swarm in a group
Marauding	Roaming and raiding
Preyed	hunted
Subsisting	Managing to survive
Tendrils	A long slender stalk
Cringe	To shrink in fear
Sheepishly	bashfully
Boon	A blessing
Devoured	Eaten fast and greedily
Plight	A difficult situation

 

 

Juniors submitted written discussion questions, participated in a Socratic seminar, and submitted book annotations.  Juniors have a vocabulary story due Tuesday and will read and annotate through page 52 of In Cold Blood for Thursday, March 6th.  Late "Highwayman" projects are due Tuesday.  Here are the words for your vocabulary story:

First Vocabulary List – In Cold Blood 

Impinge – (v) – to collide, strike, encroach, trespass  

Keening – (v) a loud, wailing, lamentation for the dead 

Beneficence – (n) the quality of charity or kindness 

Pious – (adj.)[1] – reverent or devout in a religious sense 

Lamentably (adv.) – LOTS of words ending in “ly” are adverbs – mournfully, deplorably 

Myriad (adj.) a vast number; a great multitude 

Abstemious – (adj.) – eating or drinking in moderation 

Equanimity – (n.)[2] – the quality of being calm and even-tempered 

Tawny – (adj.) – light brown to brownish-orange 

Pungent – (adj.) – penetrating, biting, caustic, often to the sense of smell 

Obscure – (adj.) – not clearly understood or known 

Sentry – (n.) – a guard, a watch person 

Valor – (n) – courage or honorable boldness 

Chamois - (n) an antelope/goat type animal or a piece of soft pliable leather often used to polish surfaces  

Enthralled – (adj.; v.) – held spellbound, captivated 

Changeling – (n.) – A child who is separated at birth from its birth family and surreptitiously transferred to another; a person who acts out of character for his or her family 

Ominous – (adj.) – relating to an evil omen; foreboding, threatening

Mesmeric – (adj.) – hypnotic 

Pragmatic – (adj.) – practical 

Reverie – (n.) – daydream

Jauntiness (n.)[3] – a lively sense of style; a buoyant sense of self-confidence 

Enigma – (n.) – a mystery

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[1] ALL words (except “couscous”) ending in “ous” are adjectives

[2] Many words ending in “ty” are nouns

[3] Many words ending in “ness” are nouns

 

Seniors submitted written discussion questions, participated in a Socratic seminar, and submitted book annotations.  Seniors will have read and annotated through page 31 of Half of a Yellow Sun for Monday.