We closed out Vocab for the year with Vocab 13 this week.  See me if you missed.

Poetry Slam today.

Monday: Vocab 13 reading part one.  Check G-Classroom

Today: Vocab 13 reading part two.  On Classroom as well.

Wed/Thurs: Vocab 13.  Last one of the year.  Readings from Mon/Tues will be sources for the essay.

Makeup work: Get on it.

If you are reading Fast Food Nation as your final read, I hope the irony of having a dancing cow and its sidekicks slap a fast food restaurant sticker on you at 7:15 in the morning in front of your public high school was not lost on you.

We will be working with this piece and others over the next few days in conjunction with your reading choice books, so give it a read if you want a head start.

See me about missing work.  Here are some still floating around:  Wordwright, TMC Test 3 Revisions, Various Vocabs

Final vocabulary of the year!
We are done with the Ethics Bowl Case Studies as vocabulary sources.  You will get the final source of the year for Vocab 13 next week.

Lesson 13
1.  connoisseur
2.  conspiracy
3.  contrite
4.  distraught
5.  germane
6.  lucid
7.  plight
8.  superficial
9.  symmetrical
10.  verbose

Wordwright #4 will be Tuesday, April 17.  Here is the reading source for it.

Resources for your reading choice books:

Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five Ch. 1-7 Guiding Questions

Kurt Vonnegut interview

Vonnegut interview specific to SH5 events


Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies Ch. 1-2 ?'s

LOF Ch. 3-4 ?'s

LOF Ch. 5-6 ?'s

LOF Ch. 8-10 ?'s

LOF Final ?'s 11-12


Glass Castle

Glass Castle resource 1

GC resource 2

Jeannette Walls interview


Fast Food Nation:

Eric Schlosser interview

Schlosser interview #2: What kind of person/author does he appear to be?

Food Inc. resources (This is the documentary that Schlosser is featured in)

Feature on Michael Pollan, another author of multiple books about food in America.

What did we do this week?

Monday-Tuesday: Kansas Reading Assessment

Wed/Thurs: Vocab/In-Class Essay 12 and KS Reading Assessment make-ups.  If you did not finish the assessment it is now out of my hands.  You will likely be pulled from seminar or a non-core class.

Friday: Martian Chronicles Test #3 revision.  Reading choice time.

Dress Light in 270 today, or maybe get in a session of hot yoga while you're here
(It's warm and going to get a lot warmer)

Kansas Reading Assessment today and tomorrow.  If you do not finish, or miss a day, the first round of make-ups will be after vocab on Wed/Thurs.  If you are not finished with the assessment (two sections) by Friday, counseling/admin will pull you to finish.

Vocab 12 is this week as usual.  English 10 is on Case Study #5 (School Choice)
English 10 Honors will be using Case Study #8 (The Cull)

Wordwright 4 will be either Monday or Tuesday next week, here are the words for it:
From the story: meditation, diminish, resume, furtive, unaccountably, frock coat, course (verb), promenade, conduct (noun), augment, emanate, conceive, assent
From the questions: introspective, grandiloquent, quaint, pathos, satire, active participle, cynical, mirror image, symbolism, auditory, hypochondria, subjective, spare (adjective), grim, metaphoric, subordinated, dismissive, hyperbole, indignation, apocalyptic, florid, emotive, vigor, sentimentality, allure, syntax, noncommittal, understatement, impending

To do:

-Make up missing assignments

-Choose and record book for final read

-Monday/Tuesday: Kansas State Reading Assessment

VOCABULARY  (Test will be Wed/Thurs 4/11 and 4/12)

Lesson 12

1. austere

2. esoteric

3. facsimile

4. grotesque

5. mesmerize

6. metamorphosis

7. notorious

8. perfunctory

9. provocative

10. travesty

Update on calendar items:

State assessment reading test will be Mon/Tues next week
Makeup for vocab, Martian Chronicles, etc. can be done tomorrow in class
Choose and record your book, don't waste time
Working on getting everything I have caught up

Sorry for the delay in getting posts up each day, but with the last week's wonky schedule and waiting on some info on upcoming testing, there hasn't been much to post.  Here's a brief overview and I'll get more details up tomorrow:

-book choice for final read
-state testing coming up
-Vocab 12 test likely next week after all
-odds and ends