Vocabulary List - Final Exam

adversity

amenity

anguish

aperture

ardor

billow

connoisseur

crypt

disdain

droll

exile

foe

gleam

glisten

grotesque

guile

impunity

invalid

jest

justification

leer

mandate

motley

murmur

recess

solitude

valor

victuals

vigor

virtuoso

anguish

careen

circumscribe

elude

lavish

leer

meddle

murmur

mystify

redress

abominable

affable

aloof

ardent

contemptible

disarming

droll

ebullient

exotic

formidable

grotesque

prodigious

steadfast

stealthy

tangible

vintage

trappings

downcast

tidbits

bliss

perceive

grimace

wrath

sensible

palpable

din

reiterate

thunderstruck

mysify

dire

persist

brazen

frantic

fend

condone

underscore

legitimate

vulnerable

bar

ignoramus

entreat

beguile

atone

Read Animal Farm Online!

Here's a copy of animal farm that you can read, chapter by chapter, online!

"The Odyssey" Vocabulary and Books 1, 5 & 9

You must turn in vocabulary word webs for the following vocabulary words: Exile, Guile, Mandate, Pine, Solitude, Desolate, Douse, Indifferent, Ornate, Victuals, Formidable, Plunder, Prodigious, Pummel, Valor

Word Webs consist of: definitions, synonyms, antonyms, and at least 2 sentences using different forms of each vocabulary word.

5 Bonus Vocabulary Words: Answer questions pertaining to the following five words to receive up to 5 bonus points on your quiz: Adversity, Contend, Forlorn, Immortal, Versatile

Lotus Eaters, Odysseus, Muse, Epithet, Epic Hero, Simile, Zeus, Archetype, Calypso, Athena, Cyclops, Poseidon and information from books 1, 5 & 9 of "The Odyssey."

"The Scarlet Ibis" Work! Assignments on your 10/25 Progress Report

I am including links to each assignment that is on the progress report. If you turn it in, I WILL GRADE IT! (If you turn in your work when it's due, then we wouldn't have to do this, FYI).

Please click here to download the vocabulary homework for "The Scarlet Ibis."
Click here to download the "Context Clues" Assignment from October 14, 2011.
Click here to download the "Scarlet Ibis OER" Questions from October 11, 2011.
Click here to download the "Scarlet Ibis" Study Questions from October 18, 2011.

"The Cask of Amontillado" - Video

Watch this excellent rendition of "The Cask of Amontillado!"

THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO by Edgar Allan Poe from Mario Cavalli on Vimeo.

Edgar Allan Poe & "The Cask of Amontillado" with Vocabulary

This week's vocabulary will focus on words from Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale of revenge, "The Cask of Amonitllado":

• aperture                      insufferable
• circumscribe              motley
• connoisseur                perceive
• crypt                           preclude
• distill                          recess
• gesticulate                  redress
• ignoramus                  repose
• implore                      termination
• impunity                    virtuoso
• vintage                       vault

5 Vocabulary Graphic Organizers are due at the beginning of class 9/28/2011 (aperture - distill)!

Get ready for Vocabulary Taboo!

This Friday, we will be playing a game of Vocabulary Taboo! These words will also be on your quiz this upcoming Monday, September 26! If you want your team to win and receive a prize, then make sure you study the vocabulary words in preparation for Taboo and your quiz! The words are as follows:
Word Webs are required for the words in blue! Words in green are from the previous quiz or are new words.

Repast               Tangible           Vigor

Palpable            Quarry              Leer

Opaque              Disarming        Discern

Grotesque          Cultivate          Ardent

Bizarre               Imprudent        Naive

Dank                  Debacle            Surmount

Opiate                Elude                Pungent

Sallow               Stamina             Precarious

Venerable          Imperative         Placid

Lacerated          Uncanny            Frantic

Opiate               Mystify

Cosmopolitan   Anguish