"TWO KINDS" and "Novel Musician" cluster test Monday

Just a reminder.....! Review the vocabulary for the cluster test on MOnday.

Friday Assignments for "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, excerpts from Joy LUck Club

Intensive Reading Friday, 9/15

EQ: How do we really know someone?

Bellwork:

Question 15 on page 51. Re-read the paragraph, and see if you are happy with the answer you gave in your notebook.

If you find a quote that helps, write it into your notebook.

Independent reading: read for 15 minutes in your book, and take 5 more minutes to write down this week’s independent reading (both here and home) into your notebook.

PART THREE: “Two Kinds”

And Poem response to “Violin”

Read p. 52-56 with audio

Answer margin questions 16-19

Write “read and re-read” (Letter to mother before she died), p. 56

Try writing your own “Mom said” poem

Flocabulary if time (independently, too…)

hip-Hop Vocabulary

I'm not doing this just to be funny! I'm interested in building your vocabulary so you'll be successful in college level testing. These are the 500 most frequently used SAT words, set to music. If you don't like them, feel free to write and perform your own tunes using these words.

I'm paying for performances out of my own pocket, because that's how much I believe it will help. You don't necessarily have to memorize the whole thing, but you need to be SO familiar with it that it's almost second nature as you sing along with the audio. My goal is to have each of you have a disc to memorize them, and to take down the words into your notebooks as you go along.

Be ready for the tests!

Word list for number one:

myopic, ratiocinate, render, recapilulate, loquacious, verbose, gregarious, elocution, circumlocution, cogent, seminal, meritorious, redact, placate, tedious, tome, peruse, entomology, ostracize, pariah, persevere, latent, burgeon, diligent, paragon, commodious, clairvoyant, cosmopolitan, vast, voluminous, recalcitrant, exorbitant, extravangt, colossus, synopsis, cadence, cavort, boisterous, daft, deft.

Also, you should know: Omniscient - all knowing (God)

raillery - mockery, teasing

So, anyway...listen, practice, listen, practice....then perform. About 2 weeks.

Intensive Reading Class Blog: Quia vocabulary site

Intensive Reading Class Blog: Quia vocabulary site

Intensive Reading Class Blog: Who We Really Are
http://www.quia.com/profiles/elynch95
vocabulary practice activities on quia(later on, there is also another quia site for other work...)

Quia vocabulary site

Intensive Reading Class Blog: Who We Really Are
http://www.quia.com/profiles/elynch95
vocabulary practice activities on quia(later on, there is also another quia site for other work...)

Who We Really Are

We have finished "The Moustache" and a news feature this week, "Who We Really Are",

workbook pages 11-14.

We have checked independent reading....100 points per week.

We also did workbook page 17 on prefixes, in case you didn't know "semi, un, pre, dis, il" etc.

Next week, we'll work on more of those, and Flocabulary.com, and have a test on the first two readings and vocabulary.

Keep those independent reading books going!