Tuesday, November 9, 2010

LANGUAGE ARTS QUICK HITS

· Mr. Madel out sick yesterday - Monday (read below for more information)

· Began class with DLPs

· Reviewed this week’s vocabulary words (listed below)

· Passed back last weeks vocabulary quiz and reviewed. (very pleased with results)

· HOMEWORK: Go Bones! Worksheet that continues to review reading for details. (due tomorrow 11/10/2010)

· HOMEWORK: Reading Responses click here to download one (Students do not have to do Monday – if they have already done Monday they are allowed to skip one day this week)

· Vocabulary Quiz this Friday (11/19/2010) – students who will be out of class for Young Americans will have to make up the quiz on Monday (11/22/2010)

· Young American Assembly this Thursday



Dear Parents and Guardians,

Please forgive the absence of a Homework Alert yesterday – I was out sick. However, it was business as usual in class. The substitute collected Reading Responses, but did forget to hand out this week’s Reading Response – as a result I gave students reprieve from Monday’s journal entry. However, the rest of the week is to be completed as usual.

Also, this week’s vocabulary words were passed out in class and placed on the overhead as usual. Students were given class time to complete the definitions in class. However, because I was absent and was unable to send a Homework Alert or update my blog I did not give a grade for completed definitions. That said, we will still be having our vocabulary quiz on Friday – those students who will be out of class for the Young American opportunity will have to make up the quiz on Monday.

This week’s vocabulary words and definitions are listed below:

Hoot Vocabulary

Week 6


1. veracity – truthfulness, habitual observance of truth in speech or statement
2. duress - compulsion by threat or force
3. voracious – having a large appetite for something
4. incredulous – not believing, doubting; skeptical
5. feisty - full of animation, energy, or courage; spirited
6. gracious - pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
7. visceral – crude, characterized by or dealing with coarse or base emotions
8. tenacious – persistent, stubborn; holding fast
9. sensation - a state of feeling excited; feeling or interest caused among a number of persons or throughout a community, as by some rumor or occurrence.
10. gumption - initiative; aggressiveness; resourcefulness
11. maneuver - an adroit move, skillful proceeding
12. tactile - of, pertaining to, endowed with, or affecting the sense of touch.
13. residual - pertaining to the remainder; what remains; leftover.
14. scheme - a plan, design, or program of action to be followed; to plot.
15. scandal – a disgraceful action or circumstance; an offense caused by a fault or misdeed.
16. masquerade – a disguise or false outwards showing
17. listless - having or showing little or no interest in anything; spiritless, indifferent
18. loquacious – characterized by excessive talking; talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering;
19. vortex – a whirling mass of water; something regarded as drawing into its powerful current everything that surrounds it
20. morbid - unwholesomely gloomy; gruesome or grisly