Thursday, September 20, 2012

Vocab Unit 1

Bell Ringers:

9/17
Circle the context clues in the sentence.  Select the correct answer
1. He had financial issues, so he decided to make his own money.  He was sent off to Leavenworth for seven years for COUNTERFEITING.
A. Having great power B. With danger mental disorder C. Making illegal imitations D.Trembling; quivering  E. Maze like passages
9/18
2.Out of the WARRENS in the wall, tiny little robot mice darted.
A. Having great power B. With danger mental disorder C. Making illegal imitations D.Trembling; quivering  E. Maze like passages

9/19
3. Still farther over, their images burned on the wood in one TITANIC instant.
A. Having great power B. With danger mental disorder C. Making illegal imitations D.Trembling; quivering  E. Maze like passages

9/20
4. The the leave of tremulous palm trees swayed in the cold wind.
A. Having great power B. With danger mental disorder C. Making illegal imitations D.Trembling; quivering  E. Maze like passages

9/21
5. In the kitchen, the stove could be seen making breakfasts at a PSYCHOPATHIC rate, ten dozen eggs, six loaves of toast, twenty dozen bacon strips, which, eaten by the fire, started the stove working again, hysterically hissing!

A. Having great power B. With danger mental disorder C. Making illegal imitations D.Trembling; quivering  E. Maze like passages



Friday-
1. Vocab Test
2. GRADED CHECK: Students will turn in their 3-ring binders containing their plot structure worksheets and vocab.
3. Students will review and begin Unit 2 - Vocab  (This is due next Wednesday)



*There will be a vocab test every Friday.  It will include the bell ringer terms as well as the terms in the lesson.

Students should be able to apply context clues and comprehend the full meaning of the terms.  As a result, they will be expected to write original sentences that include context clues in a section of the test.

Closure:
use EACH DAILY bell ringer TERM IN A COMPLETE SENTENCE.  CIRCLE YOUR CONTEXT CLUES

Standards:
R11.B.1: Understand components within and between texts.
Understand fiction appropriate to grade level.
R11.A.2: Understand nonfiction appropriate to grade level.
-Analyze inferences and draw conclusions based on text
-Analyze the effectiveness of figurative language

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