Hello, my favorite friends!
Did you miss vocabulary last week? I know I did! Not to worry - business as usual this week! I'll post the words for list 7 tomorrow (Halloween). . .

In the meantime, keep in mind: 3-week project for ALL classes is due 11/6 or 11/7. I've given up READING, so even if you're normally a slacker, you'd better pull out all the stops for this one!

F period dialogue journals are due Thursday, 11/2.

Revise your writing pieces . . . Okay, I know that you don't all have them back yet - I'm working on it!

I'd like to get another writing piece in by the end of next week or so . . . A period started an A - Z brainstorming today - Finish up through G by Wednesday! B and C periods are just starting smiley-face tricks - shhhhhhhhhhh!!!! Don't tell them what they are yet!

Anybody found the 823-word sentence in Les Miserables yet? Extra credit offered to the first finder . . . A finder's fee!

Vocabulary 7 sentences are due on Wednesday and Thursday this week.

Anybody still missing assignments? Dialogue journals? Old 3-week projects? Quizzes? Better take care of those . . . the quarter is rapidly ending!

Wow! There's a lot of learning going on around here!

Hey - all of you in periods A, B, C, and F are supposed to have written first drafts of a piece of writing! The pieces can be poems (not single haikus), stories, songs, essays, research papers, memoirs, letters, etc. Follow your muse. By next class, you should be ready to revise. That requires reading ALOUD to yourself or to someone else. Are you ready???????

Vocabulary Lesson 6

1. heretic - n - someone who goes against a church
2. laudable - adj. - praiseworthy
3. propensity - n - tendency, inclination
4. indefatigable - adj. - tireless
5. impartial - adj - unbiased, fair
6. pragmatic - adj - practical
7. peruse - v - to study, to look over carefully
8. overt - adj. - obvious
9. mitigate - v - to make less intense, to relieve
10. irrelevant - adj - not related, not important

Honors only:

11. dawdle - v - to linger, to go slowly
12. doddering - adj - shaky
13. glutinous - adj. - sticky
14. malediction - n - a curse
15. pundit - n - a learned person

Extra Credit:
joypop - v
poshlust - n
upsilamba - n

Vocabulary Lesson 5

1. chimerical - adj. - absurd, wildly fanciful, imaginative
2. cogent - adj. - strong and convincing
3. cursory - adj. - quickly and without attention to detail
4. derogatory - adj. - negative and degrading
5. discerning - adj. - perceptive, shrewd, observant
6. dormant - adj. - asleep, at rest
7. embroil - v - to involve or engage (in a quarrel)
8. deft - adj. - skillful, adept, nimble
9. fallacy - n - false idea, mistaken belief
10. galvanize - v - to stimulate, stir up, or get started

Honors only:

11. extirpate - v - to destroy completely; to tear up by the roots
12. craven - adj. - cowardly
13. impecunious - adj. - without money
14. restive - adj. - unmanageable
15. turbid - adj. - muddy

Extra credit:
solidus - n
crepuscular - adj.
cysticercoid - n
counterpane - n
popple - n, v

3 WEEK PROJECT........... I WENT SKYDIVING!!!!!!!!!!!


We had super nifty parachutes and jumped from 14,000 feet!










We had a gorgeous day up in Maine. We took the 6:00am boat, arrived in time for our 11:00 safety class and made the jump at 2:00pm. There were no seatbelts in the plane but we still felt pretty safe.












Here is a picture of Ms. S and me in our fabulous jumpsuits and harnesses! Aren't we AMAZING?

Are you visiting the BLOG? Well, I guess you are! Hooray for you! And hooray for me for making it available to you! We're great! Is this fun or what? Pretty soon, I'll have smiley-face tricks up here, too!

Vocabulary Lesson 4

1. aversion - n - strong dislike

2. unequivocal - adj. - very clear, obvious

3. alleviate - v - to relieve, to make easier

4. voluminous - adj. - large; enough to fill volumes

5. callous - adj. - unfeeling, insensitive

6. tenets - n - principles, beliefs, or truths held by a group

7. abstinence - n - the giving up of certain pleasures like food, drink, sex, etc.

8. antithesis - n - direct opposite

9. validate - v - to verify or substantiate

10. surreptitiously - adv. - sneakily, slyly

Five more for Honors:

11. fracas - n - brawl, melee

12. munificent - adj. - very generous

13. complacent - adj. - self-satisfied

14. veracious - adj. - truthful

15. mendicant - n - beggar

Extra Credit:

hemidemisemiquaver - n
plug-ugly - n
fustigate - v
terpsichorean - adj.
bowyer - n