Flashcards for Monday's Quiz

Vocabulary Flash Cards for the Blizzard!

So, you have no school today...how about review your vocabulary for Monday's quiz?

Epic Rap Battles and Vocabulary

We briefly touched upon the start of our next unit, which are Epic Rap Battles of History and Literature.  To do this, you need some poetry skills to become good rappers.  You will need to watch the below video to learn three of these terms.

The rest of class today we spent practicing lesson one of the iPad vocabulary unit.  The app is called Brain Snacks SAT, if you want to practice at home.

Homework:  Vocabulary quiz by Friday.  Watch the above video for one more checkin assignment.

Finishing the Book and Studying

You need to finish the book by the end of class today.

I'll also be passing out the study guide and showing you how to make your own Flashcard set on Quizlet.com

Finally, I'll show you our discussion forums on Edmodo.  It is where you can get help/discuss the book and the study guide questions.

Homework:

Edmodo: reply to Mr. Stowell's post on Edmodo with question you have about the book.  It can be with regards to anything: motif, symbolism, theme, or even plot...feel free to respond to any of your classmates as well.  Due TONIGHT (before midnight).

Study flashcards.  Vocab quiz (through Quizlet) will be taken in class on Wednesday.  Book test is on Friday.

Huge Flashcard Set of The Pearl vocabulary

Day 32: Vocab Picture

Here is an example of what I'm asking you you to created today, either in class, or at home.  It may be digital, like the picture above, or it can be hand-drawn.

I used the app, Skitch (free), to create the example above, but there are other apps out there that do the same thing.

Your picture needs to have the following:

• word
• definition with part of speech (noun, verb, adjective)
• the example sentence from the book
• a full-color example picture
• the page number you found it on.

You can hand it in physically, or if it's digital, pass it in through Edmodo.

Homework:  vocab picture due Monday.

Correcting Apostrophe Homework and Studying for Vocab

Hi Kids,

Today we corrected the apostrophe worksheet - many problems were highlighted as ones that you will see again in the future (wink, wink).  Vocab quiz is tomorrow.  We all created flashcards for the "bonus" words that will show up on super-challenge and extreme quizzes.

To find out what level of quiz you are taking tomorrow, you must look on Powerschool and see what level of quiz you took last time and how you did on it.  If you aced that level last time, you must take the next level up... no slacking... you're here to push your intellectual limits, kiddos!

Homework:  Study vocab.  Make us proud.  Continue to work on visual presentation.  Bring in a can.

The Whole Vocabulary List

Here are the bonus words that super-challenge and extreme must know.

absolution    A forgiveness of someone for something
begrudgingly    Doing something even if you don't want to do it
gratify    To try and please someone
redress    To try to make things right for a person who was wronged
retribution    Revenge for something done wrong to you

Here are the ten words for this unit, which all levels (challenge, super-challenge, and extreme) must know.  You don't need to know the parts of speech this time, but there isn't a word bank.

stricken    To be suffering from something
torrent    A large amount of fast and furiously flowing water
rapt    To be amazed and have your attention captured
preoccupied    To be thinking about something so much that you don't notice other things
possess    To own something and control it
expanse    A wide, open area
retaliate    To get revenge for something that someone has done to you
ameliorate    To make a situation better or easier for someone
capitulate    To give up and surrender
furtive    Secretive and sneaky in order to hide what one is doing

Plus, everyone is responsible for remembering words from the last unit.  There will be a few "blasts from the past" on EVERYONE'S quiz.

Ascend    (v.) To move upward
Deteriorate    (v.) To have the condition of something get worse and worse
Deplete    (v.) To be completely used up
Innocuous    (adj.) Harmless
Banal    (adj.) Something or someone that is so common that it is boring
Demure    (adj.) Quiet and shy
Formidable    (adj.) Threatening because of size or strength
Immaculate    (adj.) Spotlessly clean
Arduous    (adj.) When something takes a lot of effort
Err    (v.) To make a mistake

Vocabulary Review and Checking Your Planning Boxes

Hi Folks,

So, I hope you enjoyed your lovely, long weekend.  Along with grading, I saw the holiday rock band, Trans-Siberian Orchestra!

Today in class, I checked that you had a final draft copy of at least 6 planning boxes, two for each of the three camera angles we talked about.  Many of you did a great job!  I wanted to collect them, but I figured you needed them for your final draft.

TWO DUE DATES YOU NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO:

Vocabulary Quiz is this Friday (11/18).

Visual presentations are due the Monday you get back from Thanksgiving break (11/28).  

Now, before you go "ah, that's plenty of time...I don't have to worry about that for a while," recognize that that assumption is FALSE!  Filming this short thing usually takes students over 1 hour, and then another 2 hours to edit the video!  If you only do 30 minutes a night of English homework on school nights, that means that this project alone, would require 6 nights! .... AND you ONLY have 7 school nights to do this before it is due, and don't forget all the holiday hooplah that takes up so much of our time during this year!  SO GET CRACKING!

The rest of class was spent using a Charades/Pictionary-type game.  Many of you had difficulty with "ameliorate".

Homework:  Study vocab, work on visual presentation.

And now, a little something TSO to take the edge off - if you haven't seen this yet, it's awesome:

Rev It Up Unit 1 Pictures

Vocabulary Pictures Unit 2 All Levels

How to get Stowell's flashcards on your iPod

Hi Folks,

There are a number of free and paid apps out there that allow you to download flashcards from the website, Quizlet.com.  You can see which apps can do this by clicking here!  They all work about the same, but the more expensive ones seem to be the cooler ones.

I can't give you directions tailored for each app on how to download them, but once you pick your app, then within the app, look for something that says "search for flashcards on Quizlet.com" or something to that effect.

Secondly, search for cards created by "misterstowell" (that's me).  That usually brings up all the flashcard sets that I have created.  If that doesn't work, you can search for sets called "Rev It Up" and my cards will come up, along with ones created by other people.  See me if you are not having any luck!

Rough Draft of Instructional Essays

Today we'll start with a little vocabulary instruction, going over the new word list.  Quiz will be on Friday the 18th.

Secondly, we will peer-edit each other's rough drafts of the instructional essays.

Homework:  Final drafts of the instructional essays are due, TYPED and in MLA format by the beginning of class on Wednesday.

Five Bonus Words for Super and Extreme Challenge

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