H10 A - Week 9
February 10 - 14
Monday, February 10
- Vocab warm-up: new list - Latin Roots II
- TORT (TORS): twist
1. torture – 1. n. – anguish of mind or body; 2. v. – to cause anguish of mind or body; to twist or wrench
2. torturous, adj. – causing torture, painfully slow or difficult
3. torque – 1. n. – the force used to cause something to rotate(Also a noun meaning a twisted band of precious metal worn by ancient Gauls and Britons); 2. v. – to rotate or twist
4. tortuous, adj. – twisty, windy, and difficult; not straightforward.
- Burns poem: "To a Mouse"
- Robert Burns
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mVBQXoZqIo
- grammar notes
- subject/predicate
- FANBOYS!
- Finish Lit Crit assignment
Tuesday, February 11
- vocab warm-up:
- 5. contortionist, n. – person who can twist his or her body into odd postures.
- 6. retort – 1. v. - reply quickly or sharply in kind(to “twist back “); 2. n. – a witty, cutting reply.
VICT (VINC): conquer, show conclusively
- 7. convict - 1. v. – prove to be guilty; 2. n. – person serving a prison sentence.
- 8. evict, v. – to expel by a legal process; to oust
- Grammar exercise:
- FANBOY worksheet B
- Rhetoric notes
- Look at ads
- short article
- Whaddaya think?
Wednesday, February 12
- vocab warm-up:
- 9. evince, v. – show clearly; disclose
- 10. invincible, adj. – incapable of being conquered
- 11. vanquish, v. – to over come in battle; to conquer
FRACT (FRAG): break
- 12. fraction, n. – part of a whole
- Ad analysis assignment
- Look at 6 ads!
Thursday, February 13
- vocab warm-up:
- 13. fractious, adj. – apt to break out into a passion; irritable
- 14. fragile, adj. – easily broken; frail; delicate.
- 15. infraction, n. – violation; breach
- 16. refract, v. – bend (literally “break back”) a ray of light from a straight course (also a wave of heat or sound, etc.)
- Get essays back!
- Look at a presidential campaign - any one!
- find the persuasive appeals
- turn in pink sheet of questions
- due tomorrow, but turn in today if you're done
- persuasive article on Bike Safety
- you can't be too careful!
- staple the questions to the article
- turn in!
- due tomorrow
Friday, February 14
- vocab warm-up:
- OMNI; all, every, everywhere
- 17. omnibus – 1. adj. – covering many things at once (ex.: an omnibus bill in the legislature; 2. n. – a bus; a book containing many works by the same author.
- 18. omnipotent, adj. – unlimited in power; almighty.
- 19. omnipresent, adj. – present everywhere at the same time.
- 20. omniscient, adj. – knowing everything.
- Valentine punctuation!
- turn in!
- Crazy products?
- Ad assignment
- due beginning of class Tuesday, February 18
- How's forecasting going?