Week 13,14, and 15 Vocabulary

Week 13
1. COLLOQUIAL
2. COMMISERATE
3. COMPATIBLE
4. COMPATIBLE
5. INCIPIENT
6. INCONTROVERTIBLE
7. INCORRIGIBLE
8. PROLIFIC
9. PUGNACIOUS
10. QUERULOUS
11. TEDIOUS
12. TENTATIVE
13. THWART
14. VILIFY
15. VIRTUOSO

WEEK 14
1. CONCILIATORY
2. CRITERION
3. CRYPTIC
4. INGRATIATE
5. INSIPID
6. LACKLUSTER
7. QUELL
8. QUIBBLE
9. QUIP
10. TIRADE
11. TREPIDATION
12. TURBULENT
13. URBANE
14. VOLATILE
15. VOLITION

Week 15
1. CURSORY
2. DEARTH
3. DEBILITATE
4. LANGUID
5. RAZE
6. UNASSAILABLE
7. WANTON
8. LASSITUDE
9. REBUFF
10. UNGAINLY
11. WRATH
12. LAVISH
13. RECLUSE
14. VORACIOUS
15. VOLUMINOUS

Monday/Tuesday, November 8/9, 2004

Vocabulary Review
Weeks 12-15
HW:None

Friday, November 5, 2004

TODAY'S AGENDA

1. Printout of missing tasks and current grade given.
2. Clarify assignment and expectations for Monday and Tuesday.
3. Computer Lab
a. work on blog
b. computer preferences
HW: Study for Voc. Quiz 1-13

Announcement Regarding Monday and Tueday 11-8/9

Ms. Chiang will be away during Monday and Tuesday for a professional conference.
All work will be given during class and then taken up on the same day. There will be no homework for these two days. The assignment will be vocabulary review from Weeks 12, 13 and 14. There will be new vocabulary to define for week 15. Students are expected to be on their best behavior for the substitute teacher. If the student receives poor marks for behavior from the substitute, Ms. Chiang will refer the student to the administrator on Wednesday.

Thursday, November 4, 2004

TODAY'S AGENDA
1. Journal: Nader, Bush or Kerry?
2. Computer Lab
a. check teacher comments
b. revise journals
c. change comment preferences

HW: Study for Week 13 Voc. Quiz
A LIST OF MISSING ASSIGNMENTS AND CLASS AVERAGE WILL BE SENT TOMORROW (FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2004).

Wednesday, November 3, 2004

TODAY'S AGENDA
Journal: What would you do if you were president?

1. Journal
2. Publish a journal from the past 7 days.
3.Publish this onto your blog in the computer lab.

HW:Finish what you don't at home or before/after school.

Tuesday, November 2, 2004

TODAY'S AGENDA
1. Create your own blog using a pseuonym on www.blogger.com.
2. Publish your first journal on the blog.

NO HW
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Monday, November 1, 2004

TODAY'S AGENDA
Journal: Free Write
1. Journal (12min.)
2. Finish Diagramming Lessons 19-22.
3.Week 13 Voc. create sentences and story.

No HW

Friday, October 29, 2004

TODAY'S JOURNAL
Journal: If you could change one law, which would it be? Why? How?

1. Grade printout with current average in class given.
2. Journal (12min.)
3.Voc. Week 12 Quiz
4. Finish Diagramming Lessons 19-22.
5. Define Week 13 Voc. and create sentences.

HW: Bring signed grade printout back to Ms. Chiang

Thursday, October 28, 2004

TODAY'S AGENDA

Journal: 1st and 2nd- Dante' Inferno
3rd- FreeWrite

1. Journal (11min.)
2. Diagram Lesson 19/20/21
3. New writing worshop on Week 12 story- Edit
4. Compare two versions of pictionary

HW:
1.Study for tomorrow's Voc. Week 12 Quiz
2.Finish Diagram Lesson 22

Wednesday, October 27, 2004

TODAY'S AGENDA

Journal: Free Write for 1st and 2nd
Dante's Inferno- 3rd
1. Journal (11 min.)
2. Edit (workshop) one piece of student work from packet.
3. Sentence Diagramming Lessons 17/18

HW:
1.Finish Lesson 17 and 18 ( should have been completed by the end of class)
2.Diagram: Before Parent's Night, we practiced our experiments.
Mrs. Sanchez wrote precise instructions on the chalkboard.
3.Visit Ms. Chiang's blog and post a comment ( by Friday, October 29). Be sure to include your full name and a factual comment regarding the blog.

Tuesday, October 26, 2004

TODAY'S AGENDA

JOURNAL: Imagine that you're a blade of grass. Describe what it would feel like after a fresh cut.

1. Journal (11 min.)
2. Polish journal from one in the last week.
3. Make-Up work

HW: Finish make-up work

GRADE PRINTOUTS

Parents,

Grade printouts were given out Friday 10/22, Monday 10/25 and Tuesday 10/26. All students were given the same opportunity to complete any missed work. All work is due this Friday, 10/29. Student grades have changed since the midterm exams. Please email me with any questions.

Monday, October 25, 2004

TODAY'S AGENDA

JOURNAL: Do you believe in excuses?
1.Journal (11 Min.)
2.Finish Vocabulary Week 12 Exercises
3.Finish Story writing using all voc. words.

HW: Diagram the following sentences:

1.Jezebel ran to me and rolled on the grass.
2.Shasa ate and drank from her bowl.

Vocabulary Week 12

1.CELESTIAL-of or related to the sky or universe; heavenly
2.CHRONIC-lasting for a long time or recurring often
3.CLAIRVOYANCE-the power to see things not present to the senses
4.IMPARTIAL-favoring no side or party more than another
5.IMPLAUSIBLE-not believable or acceptable
6.INADVERTENT-accidental, unintentional; not on purpose
7.PONDEROUS-very heavy; massive; unwieldy because of weight
8.PRETENTIOUS-making an exaggerated show of dignity or self importance; arrogant
9.PRODIGIOUS-wonderful; amazing
10.PROFUSION-great in quantity
11.SYCOPHANT-someone who attempts to win favor through flattery of a superior
12.TAWDRY-cheap and gaudy; showy; sleazy
13.VANGUARD-the front or leading position in an army or movement
14.VICARIOUS-imagined participatio in another's experience
15.VICISSITUDE-a sudden or unexpected change in one's life

Friday, October 22, 2004

TODAY'S AGENDA

Journal: What is your vision of a perfect world? (11min.)

1. Vocabulary Quiz Week 11
2. Journal
3. Define Week 12 and create sentences.

HW: Create a composition, real or imagined, using all of the new vocabulary words.

Thursday, October 21, 2004

TODAY'S AGENDA

1. Journal: When _____ say(s) ______, I ______. (11 min.)
2. Continue with editing lessons in packet of student work.
3. Diagramming appositives and appositive phrases
4. Diagramming prepositional phrases
HW: 1. Digram the following sentences:
a. Charley Parkhuerst was really Charlotte Parkhurst, an orphan.
b. Fifteen-year-old Charlotte, a tall, strong, girl, left an unfriendly orphanage.

2.Study for Week 11 Vocabulary quiz

3.Finish Sentence Diagramming packet.

Wednesday, October 20, 2004

TODAY'S AGENDA

1. Journal: Free Write (11 min.)
2. Editing on the Overhead
3. List of Proofreading Symbols
4. Apply Symbols
5. Peer Editing

HW; Diagram the following sentences:

1. Rangers led hikes and gave hikers advice.
2. Campers collected and buried leftovers.

Tuesday, October 19, 2004

TODAY'S AGENDA

1. Journal: Who is your favorite and least favorite teacher? Explain. (11 min.)
2. Finish Voc. 11 activities.
3. Learning to Edit
a. Writing Conventions
b. Grammar and Usage
c. Mechanics

HW: Complete the revision from class, if incomplete.

Week 11 Vocabulary Words

1.CAPITULATE-to surrender
2.CATALYST-a substance that alters the rate of a physical orchemical reaction takes place, usually by makingit go faster
3. CAUSTIC-able to burn, eat away, or destroy by chemical action; sarcastic or cutting in speech; corrosive
4. HIERARCHY-a group of persons arranged in order of rank
5. HOMOGENOUS-having or consisting of the same parts; similar
6. HYPOCRITICAL-insincere, fals; pretense of being better than one is
7. ICONOCLAST-a person who attacks and seeks to overthrow poular ideas
8. PIETY-a pious act or thought; devotion to religious duties and practices
9. PLACID-calm; peaceful
10. POMPOUS-acting with an air of great dignity; full of high sounding words or phrases; pretentious; self-important
11. SUMPTUOUS-of a size or splendor suggesting great expense
12. SURMISE-to reach a conclusion on slight evidence; to guess, presume
13. SURREPTITIOUS-acting in a secret way; stealthy
14. SUSCEPTIBLE-easily influenced or affected by; disposed to
15. VALIDATE-to confirm or support; to verify; to make official