Agenda for December 7, 2009

1. Agenda for December 7, 2009 • Class Level Spelling Bee • Action Roots: Set 2 • HW: Use It…for Monday; • HW Due Wednesday: Complete the example words, illustration, and context clue sentence for Vocabulary.

2. ACTION ROOTSSet 2 You Can DO It! Melodye Li

3. Flect or Flex • Means “bend” • From Latin • Example Words: • deflect, reflect, genuflect • flexible, reflex, inflexible

4. Ject • Means “throw • From Latin • Example Words: • reject, inject, subject, dejected, project

5. Rupt • Means “burst” or “break” • From Latin • Example Words: • rupture, disrupt, erupt, abrupt, interrupt

6. Mit or Miss • Means “send” • From Latin • Example Words: • transmit, submit, emit, permit • mission, dismiss, missile • transmission, submission, emission, permission

7. Let’s Review!

8. Dic or Dict? “say, speak, or assert”

9. Scrib or script? “write”

10. Tort or Tors? “twist”

11. Vert? “turn”

12. Flect or Flex? “bend”

13. Rupt? “burst” or “break”

14. Ject? “throw”

15. Mit or Miss? “send”