Friday, May 10, 2013

Reading Check 2

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Greek Gods Baseball Cards


Greek Mythology
Gods and Goddesses Baseball Cards
To understand The Odyssey, you will be researching the 12 Olympians to create baseball cards. 
 ONLY CHOOSE EIGHT REQUIRED! THE OTHERS ARE EXTRA CREDIT!
The Olympians are a group of 12 gods who ruled after the overthrow of the Titans. All the Olympians are related in some way. They are named after their dwelling place Mount Olympus.
1.     Zeus
  1. Poseidon
  2. Hades
  3. Demeter
  4. Hera
  5. Ares
  6. Athena
  7. Apollo
  8. Aphrodite
  9. Hermes
  10. Dionysus
  11. Hephaestus
  12. Research an additional god or goddess not included in the Olympians.
For each god, you will include the following information on the front of the card:
1.    Drawn and colored picture of the god or goddess
2.    Realm
3.    Picture of their symbol
On the back of the card include a paragraph on the following information:
1.    Summary of the deity’s character
2.    Explanation of accomplishments
3.    Relationship to other gods
Assignment due date: FRIDAY, 4/19

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

VOCAB!

Here are ALL the words! Let me know if your have questions!
3rd Quarter Vocab
Roots:
ang: bend
belli: war
clar: clear
counter: against
gram: writing
luc: light
lum: light
tele: far
vor: eat
rupt: break
vac: empty
sol: alone

Prefix:
Anti: against
semi: half
sub: under

Vocab:
amiable: friendly/good/natured
comply: to follow
condone: to allow a behavior that's wrong to occur
fervor: intense emotion
heed: to listen to
hypercritical: excessively critical
inadvertent: accidental
indifferent: not caring one way or another
obscure: unclear/hard to understand
repress: to hold back
tangible: touchable
verbose: talkative


SECOND QUARTER
Roots:
anthrop: man
phil: love
photo: light
migr: move
Therm: heat
Aero: air
Sect:cut
Term:end
Fic: make
Sci: know
Tact: touch

 
-ist: one who
-less: without
-ism: belief
-y: full of
-ful: full of
-er/-or: one who

supercilious: prideful
philanthropist: one who loves mankind
fickle: not reliable
lucrative: moneymaking/profitable
sage: a very wise person
mar: to damage or ruin
hoopla: excitement around an event
incredulous: skeptical/hard time believing something
zealous: having great energy and enthusiasm
dearth: a lack of something
ostracize: to exclude
diligent: hard working


FIRST QUARTER
aud-hear
bi-two/halves
biblio/bibl -book
bio-life
cap-head
chron-time
corp -body
cred-believe
credulous
dem-people
div-divide/part
egregious
eradicate
falter
gen-birth
graph-write
im-not
implore
lavish
mort-death
obliterate
pacify
pervade
pop-people
post-after
pre-before
re-again
scrupulous
snarky
spec-see
squander
struct-build
un-not
vid-see



VOCAB MEANINGS:
Credulous: gullible, easily believe something
egregious: shocking or very bad
eradicate: to get rid of
falter: to mess up or lose momentum
fickle: not reliable
hoopla: excitement around an event
implore: to beg urgently
incredulous: skeptical, have a hard time believing something
lavish: rich or luxurious
lucrative: profitable/moneymaking
mar: to damage or ruin
obliterate: to completely destroy
pacify: to calm
pervade: to spread throughout
philanthropist: a person that helps others
sage: a very wise person
scrupulous: very careful while doing something.
Snarky: rude or sarcastic
Squander: to waste something (money or time)
Supercilious: thinking you’re better than others

Monday, March 4, 2013

Reading check 3

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

RANKING RELATIONSHIPS

Relationship Ranking
Each of the following scenarios describes a relationship. Read each scenario and rank them from the scenario that describes the best love relationship (1) to the scenario that describes the worst love relationship (3). Make sure you can support your opinions. Write two sentences for
each explaining why you gave it the
ranking you did.


 
_____A
  Joseph always felt uneasy at parties, especially parties that included people from Forest View. Forest View was Elk Grove’s chief rival in every sport, and Joseph and his friends had been competing against kids from Forest View for as long as he could remember. And sometimes those competitions got pretty heated. So who could blame Joseph for saying his good-byes early? As he headed out the door, however, Joseph caught a glimpse of Sara. Even all decked out in Forest View’s colors, she was, Joseph thought, the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. Bolstering up his courage, Joseph went over to say hello. And it wasn’t long before he was involved in a friendly conversation with Sara and several of her friends. An hour flew by, and Joseph really did have to go home. But he felt changed. Monday at school he confided to his best friend that he was in love, and with someone from Forest View on top of it. The kidding he got was intense; he and his best friend almost got into a fight over it. But Joseph was sure. He couldn’t wait to see her again. He spent all week searching to find a party that she might attend.

___ B 
  Mary and Martin have been next-door neighbors since the fifth grade, and for seven years they’ve walked to school together. Since high school started, though, once they got to school, they went their separate ways—Mary was an athlete and Martin a musician. But on that mile walk they shared a lot of talk about everyday events, hopes, and heartbreaks. The senior prom was approaching and neither Mary nor Martin had a date. They decided to go together. It was funny: they broached the subject on the same day, and in fact, they couldn’t figure out who asked whom. The prom was great; they laughed and danced and kidded with their friends. They didn’t go on an after-prom trip, though. They had decided that it would make them seem too much like a couple, and they didn’t want any awkwardness to interfere with their friendship. That night both of them thought that the prom was one of the best dates they had ever had. It was too bad that their “real” dates never went so well.
 
___ C 
  What a whirlwind of a romance, thought Amy. Ever since she had met Tom, things had been, well, fantastic. Nightly phone calls. Dinners at expensive restaurants. Gifts. She didn’t mind that Tom insisted she spend all of her time with him. After all, her friends should understand, and if her grades slipped a bit, who cares? She’d always be able to get into some college. She had a bit of a twinge when he asked her not to go out for the musical, but the dozen long-stem roses made that twinge fade. What a romance!

Friday, February 15, 2013

Reading Check 2

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