Please silently read for 10 minutes. If you checked out or brought a physical book you may relocate within the room.
*Cell phones in the drawer, please.
1/16/2020
-Silent Reading
-Voc.
-Theme Exercise
Approaching Adulthood
Vocabulary
Please go to Classroom and open your “Approaching Adulthood” assignment. Please open your Vocab doc. There is also a slideshow with all the vocabulary and slideshow on meaningful sentences. We’ll be introducing a few vocabulary words per day and you’ll be assessed on them later in the unit.
Poignant
(adjective)
Something that is profoundly moving or touching.
Meaningful Sentence - poignant
Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter, appears in several moving photographs as a teacher and loving father to his tiny daughter. These depictions have become especially poignant since his death.
Ostensible
(adjective)
Stated or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so.
Meaningful Sentence - ostensible
After discovering all of the hidden sadness underneath his ostensible happiness, they knew his visible smile was simply a mask.
Retribution
(noun)
Something given in repayment, usually as a punishment.
Meaningful Sentence - retribution
After the murders of many family members, the soldiers demanded repayment and sought deadly retribution from their enemies.
Go to the slideshow on the blog and finish your Theme assignment. Watch “Partly Cloudy” and then fill out the chart on p.1 and the box on p. 2 of your assigned doc.
*When you are finished you may read silently, freewrite, work on unfinished assignments from ELA or work on your portfolio.
Theme
FILM #3: “Partly Cloudy”
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