Hello, my friends!
Are you all feeling relaxed and well-rested during this week of half-days? Catching up on your napping and socializing and homework and what-have-you? All I can say is: LUCKY YOU! I'm feeling tense and nervous and CRAZY!!!! However, I have been LOVING your parents! You are some lucky kids to have such devoted and kind parents and guardians.

Hopefully you have been using at least SOME of your time to work on upcoming projects/papers/assignments. This week we completed our second three-week projects. I distributed assignment sheets for recording what you did that was EXTREMELY difficult. Those are due on Wednesday (today) or Thursday. Some of them have already trickled in - people have done ALL their math homework, avoided the computer for days on end, scored goals, made amends with angry friends (HEY! Amends rhymes with friends! I'm a poet!), cleaned rooms, handled spiders, etc. You are amazing and brave!

Other items that are due include:

B period: Polished writing, vocabulary sentences, dialogue journal entries - all due Thursday, 10/25
C period: Vocabulary 3 sentences, quiz on Thursday
D period: Drafting, polished writing, vocabulary sentences - due Thursday, 10/25
Dialogue journals due next Friday, 11/2
F period: Polished writing, dialogue journal entries, 3-5 pages of drafting - all due Friday, 10/26
H period: Polished writing, 4-6 pages of drafting, polished writing - due Friday, 10/26
Dialogue journals due next Thursday, 11/1

Remember: Drafting is due EVERY week!
Reading is homework at least THREE nights a week!

Oh, yes - vocabulary for this week. LOVE the vocabulary!

Vocabulary lesson 6 (If you are in C period, look at last week's posting for your words!)

1. heretic - n - someone who goes against a church
2. laudable - adj. - praiseworthy
3. propensity - n - tendency, habit, inclination
4. indefatigable - adj. - tireless
5. fulsome - adj. - abundant, generous in amount and spirit, wholehearted
6. espouse - v - to adopt, support, endorse
7. peruse - v - to study, to read carefully
8. concomitant - adj. - accompanying, happening together
9. mitigate - v - to make less intense, to relieve
10. contravention - n - opposition, something contrary to something else

Honors:
11. dawdle - v - linger, lollygag (What a GREAT word!)
12. doddering - adj. - shaky
13. glutinous - adj. - sticky
14. malediction - n - curse
15. pundit - n - a learned person

Extra credit:
bandog
georgic
shoat
concatenation
redoubtable

All right - enough blog reading! Get out there and do your drafts!