Back to blogging as usual this week! Language Arts MCAS tests are OVER!!! Phew!!! What a relief!!! Now we can get back to our English FUN - vocabulary, drafting, dialogue journaling, reading, grammar - YAY!!!

Did you do well on your tests? I'll bet you did. You were prepared, you've had the best English instruction known to humankind, and you're pretty smart. How could you go wrong?

So, upcoming English events:

B period: drafting and sentences and quiz due on Thursday (and 3 week project if you didn't turn it in on Tuesday); dialogue journals are due next Friday, 4/11.
D period: drafting and sentences and quiz due on Thursday (and 3 week project if you didn't turn it in on Tuesday); dialogue journals are due next Friday, 4/11; polished writing pieces are due Tuesday, 4/15.
F period: sentences due Wednesday (and 3 week project if you didn't turn it in on Monday); drafting and quiz due on Friday; dialogue journals due next Thursday, 4/10.
H period: sentences due Wednesday (and 3 week project if you didn't turn it in on Monday); drafting and quiz due on Friday; dialogue journals due next Thursday, 4/10; polished writing due Monday, 4/14.

Vocabulary lesson 23 (we did NOT have a lesson 22):

1. implacable - adj. - not able to be satisfied; unyielding or relentless
2. ameliorate - v - to make better, to improve
3. bombastic - adj. - use of impressive-sounding language with little meaning
4. catharsis - n - emotional purification or relief
5. atrophy - v - to waste away
6. clemency - n - mercy, mildness
7. pejorative - adj. - negative, unfavorable
8. prowess - n - bravery; skill
9. devoid - adj. - lacking, entirely without
10. truculent - adj. - fierce and cruel, brutal

Honors:

11. quagmire - n - bog, marsh
12. badinage - n - teasing conversation
13. desultory - adj. - aimless, jumping around
14. iniquitous - adj. - unjust, wicked
15. smattering - n - small amount

Extra credit:

singultous - n
vulpine - adj.
kakistocracy - n
abaction - n
hypermnesia - n


That's all, folks!