11/28

Post date: Nov 28, 2011 8:26:35 PM

Vocabulary: Students have ten new vocabulary words and will have a test on them on Tuesday. The words are homonym, homograph, homophone, hostile, impish, imply, infer, incompetent, irritation, jargon. Definitions were given in class, see dictionary.com for further definitions.

Students must create ten sentences. Each sentence uses a different word. Each word must be used in the sentence in such a way that no other word could go into that sentence. Derivations may be used, such as -s, -ing, -ly, -tion.

These ten sentences become a fill-in-the-blank test that another student will take. The student who created the test will lose a point for each sentence that is a "bad" sentence. A "bad" sentence is any sentence wherein any word, not just the specific vocabulary word, could fit into the blank and still make sense.

Bad sentences:

It was ____.

It was very ____.

The sand was ____. (All these words could fit in the sentence: hot, cold, wet, muddy, sold, heavy, bagged, lost, irritating, expensive, necessary, gone)

Acceptable sentence:

The sand in my sock was ____. (heavy, irritating, necessary)

Good sentence:

The sand in my sock was ____. It kept scratching my skin, and began to hurt. No matter how I tried to kick my shoe, tap on the toe, or hit the heal on something, the sand stayed in the same spot and kept scratching. (These words do not fit into the sentence: hot, cold, wet, muddy, sold, heavy, bagged, lost, expensive, necessary, gone)

A good sentence is one where none of the other nine vocabulary words could fit in the sentence, like this:

The sand in my sock was ____. (homonym, homograph, homophone, hostile, impish, imply, infer, incompetent, irritation, jargon)

Write the ten words at the top of a piece of paper.

Write a sentence(s) for each word.

Leave blank the place in the sentence where the vocabulary word goes.