Agenda 10/28 The Best of 1st Quarter Vocabulary Who’s To Blame? Begin reading Chp. 8 Homework: Finish reading chapter 8 and respond to reading questions.

Easily approachable; warmly friendly Affable – Easily approachable; warmly friendly The Zombie’s found Janet affable, because she gave them jelly donuts.

Diligence – steadiness of effort; persistent hard work Benjamin Franklin stressed that without diligence, any task will fall apart.

propriety; orderliness and good taste in manners Decorum – propriety; orderliness and good taste in manners There was great decorum in how he ate his food; his elbows were always off of the table.

Ambiguous – unclear or doubtful in meaning It was ambiguous whether the cars were slow or the children.

Self-satisfaction; smugness complacency Self-satisfaction; smugness The Gazelle’s complacency that she was faster than the lioness resulted in a very unhappy ending.

Arbitrary – capricious; randomly chosen; tyrannical Depending on where you live, the temperature of 50 degrees is arbitrary. It can be considered cold or warm.

comprehensive Thorough; inclusive After reviewing the class syllabus, Ned Stark was terrified to learn that there would be a comprehensive exam at the end of his Calculus semester, which would include all of the math he had ever learned.

Discerning – mentally quick and observant; having insight While grocery shopping, Tony discerned that the new produce packing was not necessary.

Delineate – portray; depict; sketch The coworker delineated a proposal for his boss by making a PowerPoint show.

Aloof – apart; reserved Aloof Cat taught Aloof Cat Jr. how to ignore people who tried to pet them.

autonomous Self-governing The autonomous drivers decided that they didn’t need roads, because they had the ability to drive where ever they wanted.

Concede Admit; yield Jeff refused to concede that his golf ball would not be recovered.

Discordant – not harmonious; conflicting

bolster Support; reinforce Try as he might, the boss just couldn’t bolster morale. The creepy clown did nothing to make the employees excited about working. 2. Meg bought a billow to bolster her back while she sat on the couch.

Adversary – opponent After viewing the new Star Trek movie, Grumpy Cat found the villainous Khan an unworthy adversary.

Depravity – extreme corruption; wickedness Even after his injury, Revolutionary Cat was determined to fight the government’s depravity.

Apprehension – fear The penguins felt apprehension when seeing the walrus’ devious grin and giant bowling ball.

Concur agree

Disdain– view with scorn or contempt The Grinch felt intense disdain towards the happy Whos of Whosville.

Concise and exact use of word in writing or speech brevity Mr. Chicken believed that his saying used excellent brevity. However, Mrs. Chicken then proved him wrong. 2. The Geico add used brevity to prove that it’s 15% savings was a great selling point.

Ms. Geiss’ AP English III Class Apathy – lack of caring; indifference Ms. Geiss’ AP English III Class

Confound Confuse; puzzle Trying to catch the toy was a completely confounding task for the puppy.

Dissent– disagree The employees knew that they could not dissent from their boss’s ideas.

Deride – Ridicule; make fun on Satirical devices are used to deride other works of literature or people.

Antiquated – old-fashioned; obsolete The flip phone, the cassette tape, and the beeper have all become antiquated forms of technology.

Unpredictable; fickle; fanciful Capricious Unpredictable; fickle; fanciful Fancy Kitty should have been at work, but due to his capricious nature, he went to a spa instead.

Artisan – manually skilled worker; craftsman, as opposed to artist The artisan group of farmers grew their own food to sell at the farmers market.

something that discourages; hindrance Deterrent – something that discourages; hindrance The dog deterrent did not stop Mr. Freckles the Dalmatian from chewing everything.

Belief on slight evidence; gullibility; naiveté Credulity Belief on slight evidence; gullibility; naiveté Some of Gerry’s suggestions seem possible; however, others are completely credulous.

Who’s To Blame http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCGns_FYGQA

Who’s To Blame Who is to blame for Myrtle’s death? There is the obvious answer, but is anyone else also to blame? Each group will be assigned 1 character: Gatsby, Daisy, Nick, Tom, Jordan, George, or Myrtle. Each group will have to devise an argument as to why that character is ultimately to blame for Myrtle’s death. To this, please… Create 3 primary points of argument as to why your character is to blame. Each one should be unique to the others. Have a supporting quote for each point of argument. Make sure to know the page number of the quote. Write a quick sentence explaining the argument for each point. Each sentence should use 1 vocabulary from our Best of First Quarter List. 3) We will have a tag-team Socratic circle, where students will argue who is most to blame. Then there will be a class vote.

Exit Card Write a SPES answering the following question: Who is to blame for Myrtle’s death? NOTE: must use a quote in the proof section & include the page number.