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QUARTER FOUR HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS
VOCABULARY IS LISTED UNDER THIS TABLE
TRACK IN JUNE 8TH
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Week of June 8/9
All students are
responsible for
vocab words listed
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Welcome back! KEEP UP WITH YOUR QUARTER 4 40-BOOK CHALLENGE LOGS.
THESE ARE DUE IN TWO WEEKS. KEEP READING!
Core 1 Homework: Analysis of Art - Large sheet was given to students today.
Complete analysis with detail - DUE TOMORROW (Friday)
Link to see picture in color: PICTURE IN COLOR
Core 3 Homework: Ted Talk Evaluation Activity
Word Doc: Ted Talk Rating Sheet.docx
PDF: Ted Talk Rating Sheet.pdf
Students should go to this link: TED TALK LINK
Students should evaluate the video(s) that go with their advocacy group. DUE tomorrow - FRIDAY
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VOCABULARY:
DETERMINE (verb), FIGURATIVE MEANING (noun phrase), CONNOTATION, DENOTATION, IMPACT and TONE
We are working with these words in our journal activities this week (Thursday and Friday)
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Week of June 12
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*Every night this week students will be given a story or poem to annotate and answer questions in order to practice for EOG.
Monday: Story 1 (Annotate and answer questions.) DUE TUESDAY
Tuesday: Story 2 Gustave Eiffel (Annotate and answer questions.) DUE WED
Wed: Recycle Article with Quotes. Follow Directions on Cover. Same directions Due THURS
Thurs: Story or poem. Same directions. Due FRI
Core 3: Continue to work with your group on Advocates of the Roundtable. Each of you will need a printed out copy of all of your documents in your 3-ring binder. THURSDAY AFTERNOON IS OPEN FOR GROUPS THAT WANT TO STAY TO WORK. PICKUP IS AT 3:30 OR 4PM.
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New Words for Week of May 1:
1) abstain (v)- to hold back from doing something, restrain oneself
2) upbraid (v) to scold in a very harsh manner
3) BIAS (n) a tendency to favor one group over another - having a prejudice
4) philosophy (n) the study of the basic concepts of human existence - in this study one may ask "what is life?" "what is good?" "what is evil?" "what is real?"
5) ethics (n) Ethics are codes of conduct for behavior. We usually refer to ethics as patterns of moral behavior. When one is ethical they follow positive moral behaviors like being honest and having integrity. When one is unethical they are not following a positive code of conduct.
Older lists of words:
EMPATHY: (noun) Empathy is the ability to understand and share feelings of others. Empathy is something you have - or may not have all the time. Empathy is a little different from SYMPATHY because you don't have to feel sorry for the person. You understand what they are going through - you EMPATHIZE with them.
Words Week of Feb 6th:
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Validate
To validate is to show that something is accurate or true. When you validate you demonstrate the truth.
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Reflect
When someone reflects, they think back on past or even present experiences in their life. An author can have a reflective tone in their writing if they are pondering something.
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Interpretation
An interpretation is someone’s personal understanding of something.
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Determine
When we determine something we are finding the answer in a way. You find out exactly what is going on.
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Relevant
If something is relevant, then it has a connection. If I am talking about food then telling my favorite TV show would NOT be relevant to the conversation.
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Theme
The theme is the overall universal message of central idea of something. We determine the themes of poems, stories and even movies or documentaries.
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New Words week of January 30th
1) Compromise: (N or V) To compromise is to come to an agreement between two people. You may compromise with someone on what to have for dinner one night.
2) Penalty: (N) A penalty is a consequence for an action - usually in law terms we are talking about a fine.
3) retaliation: (N) This is the act of "Pay back" or revenge.
4) deceit: (N) This is the act of being dishonest and covering something up. A person who does this is DECEIVING another person.
5) insult: (N) This is a verbal or a written disrespectful remark. An insult can also be a disrespectful act of some kind.
6) resist: (V) If you resist something you go against it or you try to avoid it. People resist things in many ways.
7) malice: (N) Malice is the intent or the desire to do evil.
8) summon: (v) To summon someone is to call them - in law terms you can summon someone to come to court before the judge. A SUMMONS is a piece of paper that asks that.
9) shirk: (V) to put something off - avoid it or neglect it. Sometimes people "shirk" their responsibilities and don't do what they really need to.
10)) hindrance: (N) A hindrance is an obstacle or barrier. If something HINDERS you it is causing a problem for you and gets in the way of what you WANT to do.
11) Magistrate: (N) A magistrate is a person who conducts a court and can settle matters - they call this person a civil officer who administers the law
Last Week's Words: Words to study for Vocabulary Test Friday January 27th
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Derive (verb) – To get (as in getting your good looks from your mom!)
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Routine (noun) – A schedule or regular way of doing something.
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Rivalry (noun) – a competition or dispute (The rivals are the competitors or people in dispute)
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Interact (Verb) – To interact is to come in contact or communicate in some way with another
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Virtuous (adj) The trait of having integrity or having good values and morals.
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Assimilate (verb) – to gather together
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Superior (adj) – Describing something that is excellent and is SOOOOO much better than the others. The BEST!!!
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Encounter (verb) – To come into contact with a person or a thing.
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Convey (verb) – to communicate a message in some way. You can convey something verbally or NOT verbally.
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Anomaly (noun) – something that is very extraordinary or unique or very rarely seen.
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Vulnerable (adj) – out in the open exposed to danger. A person’s feelings may also be vulnerable if the person is very sensitive.
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Impact (noun) An impact is a blow, literally, like someone’s fist making impact on the wall. Also impact means an impression or affect (a story you read may affect you and make you think about friendship in a different way.
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Arduous (adj) – hard to do, requiring great labor
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Pillars (noun) – foundations that hold something up literally (like columns of a building) Figuratively a person can be a “pillar of strength.”
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Relentless (adj) – to relent means to STOP, so relentless mean NEVER STOPPING!
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Enthusiasm (noun) – great excitement or having great engagement in something.
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Sentinel (noun) – a guard or soldier
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Formidable (adj) strong, sturdy, sometimes overwhelming
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Random (adj) - no specific order
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Accurate (adj) correct
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Oppose/opposing
Oppose (verb) to go against something or disagree
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Absurd (adj) ridiculous or silly
Something absurd is totally unreasonable.
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Subjective (adj) based on opinion and not supported by evidence or factual information
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Intonation (noun) – the rise and fall of someone’s voice or the different tones
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Agitation (noun) The state of being very irritated by something.
To agitate means to annoy someone.
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Dispute (noun) – a disagreement that may be calm or can become into a heated argument.
This word is close to rivalry.
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Vocabulary Words for Test on Friday January 6th
1) constraint (noun)
Definition: A constraint is a thing that can get in our way or be an obstacle. There are physical constraints like chains or being locked in a room and sometimes there are emotional constraints that keep us from doing things.
Synonyms: limitations or restrictions
2) consummation (noun)
Definition: The point at which something is completed or finalized.
3) electoral: (adj)
Definition: When something is described as being electoral, it is related somehow to voting or elections.
4) electorate: (noun)
Definition: This is a person who has been voted by their state to be in the electoral college- meaning that they will cast their votes after the popular votes have been cast by the people. Usually the electorate votes the same way as the popular vote of their state.
5) COGITATE (verb): to cogitate means to think deeply about something or to reflect.
Synonyms: reflect/contemplate/ponder/activate the brain!
6) INFRASTRUCTURE (noun): This is a social studies word. Infrastructure refers to the basic physical parts and organizational parts or supplies or things that are needed for the operations of a society. The parts that work together to make the society run is referred to as the INFRASTRUCTURE.
7) PROPEL (verb): to move along. Sometimes we refer to the events of a story as "propelling the plot" of the story.
8) ASSIMILATE (verb): to take in or bring together - sometimes people are assimilated into a building or assimilated together to build something. Sometimes supplies are assimilated that are needed for the construction of something.
9) VALID (adj): When something is valid it is believable or credible. It is something that is true and can serve as essential evidence.
10) Connive (verb):
Definition: When a person connives, they plan or "conspire" to do something that may be harmful or illegal. They may allow something harmful to happen. We say they are very "conniving". You cannot trust one who connives.
11) Objective point of view- (noun phrase)
**Objective is an adjective
Definition: An objective point of view is a point of view that only expresses the facts of a situation and what is right there. When one is objective they do not include any of their personal opinions or biases.
12) Subjective point of view- (noun phrase)
**Subjective is an adjective
Definition: A subjective point of view is a point of view that includes personal opinions and biases.
13) FLAW (noun)
Definition: A flaw is a weakness or an imperfection - usually we think of flaws as things that are wrong. A sweater can have a flaw-meaning that there may be a hole in the sweater. A person can have a flaw in their character. For example, if one is always jealous, this can be considered a character flaw.
14) IDOM (noun)
Definition: An idiom is a group of words (phrases) that have special meanings. The meanings are not exactly literal (denotative) but more figurative (connotative). One example is the expression “hot potato” meaning a topic that is a “hot topic” or being argued about lately. Another example is “you can’t judge a book by its cover,” meaning you cannot really tell what a person is like just by their looks or the clothes they wear.
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