4/7-4/11

1. 4/7-4/11

2. Housekeeping • Do not turn in bellringers until I tell you to • Some of you keep putting bellringers in the box everyday • I am not your secretary • I will not keep those for you • Those of you who did this last week should know I threw them in the trash • Follow directions

3. 4/7 • Bellringer • Vocabulary words • Go over sheets on passive voice and participles • 3rd period-half of the class will continue reading King Lear to themselves and working in curriculet and finish Elizabethan project if not done/the other half will work on grammar assignments • Continue reading Anne Frank and work in curriculet • HW: create word maps • Make sure you are turning in your reading logs

4. bellringer • Explain the following quote: “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve”–Napoleon Hill

5. 3rd period vocabulary • Reprove-v. take to task • Miscarry-v. be unsuccessful • Exalt-v. praise, glorify, or honor • Canker-n. a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of • Adversary-n. someone who offers opposition • Cozen-v. be false to; be dishonest with • arraign-v. accuse of a wrong or an inadequacy • Puissant-adj. powerful • Trifle-n. a detail that is considered insignificant • pell-mell-adv. in a wild or reckless manner

6. 3rd Period • Apt-adj. (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward • Descry-v. catch sight of • Barbarous-adj. primitive in customs and culture • Wither-v. lose freshness, vigor, or vitality • Usurp-v. seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession

7. 1st, 2nd, and 4th vocabulary • Apt-adj. (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward • Somber-adj. grave or even gloomy in character • Dismal-adj. causing dejection • Accord-n. a written agreement between two states or sovereigns • Critical-adj. marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws • Laborious-adj. characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort • Fictitious-adj. formed or conceived by the imagination • Ramification-n. a development that complicates a situation • Magnitude-n. the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small) • Flustered-v. cause to be nervous or upset

8. 4/8 • Bellringer • 3rd period-half of the class will continue reading King Lear to themselves and working in curriculet and finish Elizabethan project if not done/the other half will work on grammar assignments • Continue reading Anne Frank and work in curriculet (if student is done with curriculet they will work in study island • Hw: sheet on gerunds

9. bellringer • Explain the following quote: “The past is a ghost, the future a dream. All we ever have is now” –Bill Cosby

10. 4/9 • bellringer • 3rd period-go over drama terms and discuss them in reference to the text • 3rd period one side will work on grammar in the language books and the other will work in curriculet and on reading King Lear • Complete the act two questions-Anne Frank

11. bellringer • Explain the following quote: “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore” –Christopher Columbus

12. 4/10 • Bellringer • Review vocabulary words • Go over play study guide for test on plays next week (1st, 2nd, and 4th) • Complete plot diagram for Anne Frank • Start work on Anne Frank body biographies • 3rd period one side will work on grammar in the language books and the other will work in curriculet

13. bellringer • Explain the following quote: “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else –”Booker T. Washington

14. 4/11 • Bellringer • Vocabulary quiz • Continue work on body biographies • When finished with body biographies work in study island • 3rd period will work on gerunds 425-428 • 3rd period HW: complete plot diagram for King Lear

15. bellringer • Write two sentences using two of your vocabulary words.