Sorry to be posting so late - I KNOW! How could you POSSIBLY do your homework without the blog!?!?!?! I've been having some computer issues, okay? And my birthday is this week, so give me a break!!! And a present wouldn't kill you. . .

Okay. What's due? Hey - that sounds like "what's new" but replace the "new" with "due"! Cool!

B period: Make-up work was due Tuesday, 5/6; drafting and sentences and quiz and dialogue journals are due on 5/8 (MY BIRTHDAY); I think that's it.

C period: Writing pieces were due last week. Vocabulary definitions were done in class on Tuesday, 5/6.

D period: Make-up work was due Tuesday, 5/6; polished writing was due 5/6 also; drafting and sentence and quiz are due on 5/8 (Did I mention that's MY BIRTHDAY?).

F period: Drafting, quizzes, and dialogue journals are due on Friday, 5/9.

H period: Drafting and quizzes are due on Friday, 5/9. Polished writing was due on Monday, 5/5.

For C period students, your vocabulary is:
1. circumspect - adj. - cautious, careful
2. histrionic - adj. - overly dramatic
3. debilitate - v - to weaken
4. gesticulate - v - to make gestures when speaking
5. dismantle - v - to take apart
6. bucolic - adj. - rural, from the country
7. enervate - v - to weaken
8. evanescent - adj. - short-lived
9. didactic - adj. - instructive, meant to teach
10. garner - v - to collect

Everyone else, your vocabulary is:
1. coalesce- v - to combine or merge
2. corroborate - v- to confirm or verify
3. delineate - v - to describe in words or outline
4. diatribe - n - a bitter verbal attack
5. disposition - n - personality; tendency
6. egregious - adj. - extraordinarily bad
7. ephemeral - adj. - short-lived
8. expedite - v - to speed up
9. forlorn - adj. - neglected and sad
10. gullible - adj. - easily deceived

Honors:
11. raspy - adj. - harsh, grating
12. rancor - n - bitterness, hatred
13. ignominious - adj. - disgraceful
14. goad - v - to urge on
15. gamely - adv. - bravely, with spirit

Extra Credit:
brumal - adj.
quincunx - n
macaronic - adj.
opprobrium - n
prosody - n