Friday, February 26 Common Core part 3, day 2 writing

Vocabulary quiz today; take a moment and review

New vocabulary handout. There will be a quiz on these words on Friday, March 4  class handout / copy below.

When you have finished the quiz, take out your writing from yesterday. This is due at the close of class today. We are modeling the Common Core exam for part 3. That means this is independent and silent. I am taking these as a writing grade. 

Ben and his peers loved astronomy class because of there frequent field trips to the campus observatory.

Please choose from one of the following options.

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  (Choice A)A

  NO CHANGE
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  (Choice B)B

  they’re
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  (Choice C)C

  their
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  (Choice D)D

  it's

Ethan Frome Vocabulary Words

1.  sardonic     (adj)           Scornfully or cynically mocking; sarcastic.

2.  colloquial    (adj)           Informal; relating to conversation; conversational.

3.  innocuous   (adj)           Having no adverse effect; harmless, insipid

4.  reticent  (adj)                Inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings to oneself; restrained,                                                reluctant

5. poignant (adj)               Keenly distressing to the mind or feelings

6. wraith   (noun)              An apparition of a living person that appears as a portent just                                                  before that person's death.

7. wistful  (adj)                  Full of wishful yearning. 2. Pensively sad; melancholy.

8. undulation  (noun)          A regular rising and falling or movement like waves

9. tenuous (adj)                 Long and thin; slender: tenuous strands. 2. Having a thin                                                          consistency or substance; flimsy: a tenuous argument.

10. throng (throng)             A large group of people; a multitude.

               

11. vex   (verb)                  To annoy, as with petty importunities; bother.

12. laden (adj)                   Weighed down with a load; heavy   (laden with grief)            

13. preclude (verb)            To exclude or prevent (someone) from a given condition or                                                          activity

14. succumb (verb)           To submit to an overpowering force or yield to an overwhelming                                                desire

15. foist (verb)                   To pass off as genuine, valuable, or worthy

16. schadenfreude            To feel pleasure or satisfaction from someone’s misfortune