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1. 2/3-2/7

2. 2/3 • Bellringer • Informational text test moved to Tuesday • Vocabulary test from last week on Wednesday • Students receive this week’s vocabulary words • Go over study guide for last week’s vocabulary words • Time to work on poetry dictionaries • Push back the date for Hunger Games Ipod assignment-Feb. 14th • Second Hunger Games Quiz-Thursday after Benchmark • Bellringers due Friday

3. bellringer • What makes a poem a poem?

4. 1st, 2nd, and 4th vocab from poetry for next week • Digress-v. lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking • Deferential-adj. Full of or exhibiting respect • Meticulous-adj. marked by extreme care in treatment of details • Obtuse-adj. lacking in insight or discernment • Tedious-adj. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness • Insidious-adj. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way • Malinger-v. avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill

5. 1st, 2nd, and 4th vocab from poetry for next week • Defer-v. hold back to a later time • Abreast-adv. alongside each other, facing in the same direction • Mutter-v. talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice

6. 3rd period vocab • Expedite-v. process fast and efficiently • Idyllic-adj. excellent and delightful in all respects • Ambulate-v. walk about; not be bedridden or incapable of walking • Bauble-n. cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing • Carouse-v. engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking • Bequeath-v. leave or give by will after one's death • Boorish-adj. ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance • bric-a-brac-n. miscellaneous curios • Cajole-v. influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering • Cauterize-v. burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent

7. 3rd period vocab • Chattel-n. personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) • Decrepit-adj. worn and broken down by hard use • Lithesome-adj. moving and bending with ease • Meticulous-adj. marked by precise accordance with details • Opalescence-n. the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface

8. 2/4 • Bellringer • Informational text test • Work on poetry dictionaries after test

9. Bellringer • Write a list of ten of your favorite words. Include words you like because of their meaning and words you like because of their sound. Then use all of these words in a poem.

10. 2/5 • bellringer • Vocabulary test • Work on poetry dictionaries • Work on cross curricular poetry assignment if finish early-whatever you do not finish is homework to be turned in next Monday

11. Bellringer • What makes a poem good?

12. 2/6 • Bellringer • Benchmark • Work on answering questions on The Mending Wall all periods except third • Third period next 75 pages of Hunger Games due next week

13. bellringer • Explain one poetry term you learned about this week.

14. 2/7 • Bellringer • Turn in bellringers • Review vocabulary • Take vocabulary quiz • 2nd and 4th work on satire project • 1st and 3rd work on elements of poetry sheets for Start poetry-read The City is so big (624), Harlem Night Song (625), The Country (640), The Choice (642)-complete elements of poetry sheet in drive for each poem • 3rd period-propaganda campaign project due

15. bellringer • Use one of your vocabulary words in a sentence.