I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain Mark Twain US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit ( )

We learn by doing IF we reflect on what we have done. John Dewey

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. -Voltaire

"Try again, fail again. Fail better." -Samuel Beckett Irish playwright and poet

altruistic Using a dictionary, look up and write the definition for “altruistic.” Write a sentence using the word “altruistic” to describe a character from our summer reading. Draw a picture illustrating the definition.

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see." -Winston Churchill British Prime Minister, historian, writer, and artist

ambivalent Using your dictionary, write and define the word “ambivalent.” Write a sentence using the word. Draw a picture which illustrates the definition.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -Albert Einstein Theoretical physicist, philosopher and author

angular Using your dictionary, write the definition for “angular.” Write a sentence using the word. Illustrate the definition.

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities. Ayn Rand, writer

arrogant Using your dictionary, write and define the word “arrogant.”Using your dictionary, write and define the word “arrogant.” Write a sentenceWrite a sentence using the word Illustrate the definition.

aversion Using your dictionary, write and define the word “aversion.” Write a sentence using the word. Draw a picture which illustrates the definition.

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." William Faulkner, Nobel prize novelist and short story author

discern Use your dictionary to find and write the definition for “discern.” Write a sentence using the word. Draw a picture illustrating the definition.

"Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?" Rose Kennedy

disdain Use your dictionary to find and write the definition for “disdain.” Write a sentence using the word. Use your thesaurus to find an SAT style synonym and antonym.

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." George Orwell English author and journalist

disparity Use your dictionary to find and write the definition for “disparity.” Write a sentence using the word. Draw a picture illustrating the definition.

"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough, and liked it, never really care for anything else." Ernest Hemingway, American author and journalist

disparage Use your dictionary to find and write the definition for “disparage.” Write a sentence using the word. Draw a picture illustrating the definition.

embellish Use your dictionary to find and write the definition for “embellish.” Write a sentence using the word. Draw a picture illustrating the definition.

"The healthy man does not torture others. Generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.“ Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology.Swisspsychiatristanalytical psychology

engender Use your dictionary to find the definition. Write a sentence using the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." Abraham Lincoln

innocuous Use a dictionary to find and write the definition of “innocuous.” Write a sentence containing the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves." Confucius, Chinese Thinker and Philosopher

insipid Use your dictionary to find the definition. Write a sentence using the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together." Eugene Ionesco, RomanianRomanian and French playwright and dramatistFrench

lament Use a dictionary to find and write the definition of “lament.” Write a sentence containing the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

"When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him." Euripides, last of the three great tragedians oftragedians classical Athensclassical Athens (the other two being AeschylusAeschylus and SophoclesSophocles

laud Use your dictionary to find the definition. Write a sentence using the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

"Don't forget that I cannot see myself -- that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror." Jacques Rigaut, French surrealist poet Frenchsurrealist

Obscure Use a dictionary to find and write the definition of “obscure.” Write a sentence containing the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

"Unfortunately, a super- abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares." Sir Peter Ustinov, EnglishEnglish actor, writer and dramatistdramatist

Use your dictionary to find the definition. Write a sentence using the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition. ostentatious

"It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence." Mahatma Ghandi, the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during theIndia Indian independence movementIndian independence movement.

prodigal Use your dictionary to find the definition. Write a sentence using the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.“ Anthony Brandt

repudiate Use a dictionary to find and write the definition of “repudiate.” Write a sentence containing the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

"What is food to one is to others bitter poison." Lucretious was a Roman poet and philosopherRomanpoetphilosopher

Reticence Use a dictionary to find and write the definition of “reticence.” Write a sentence containing the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal.“ Albert Pine, English Author

revere Use a dictionary to find and write the definition of “revere.” Write a sentence containing the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

"It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us." Norman Maclean, American author and scholar

Serene Use a dictionary to find and write the definition of “serene.” Write a sentence containing the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

"Evil is always unspectacular and always human. And shares our bed...and eats at our table." W.H. Auden American poet, regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century20th century.

subtle Use a dictionary to find and write the definition of “subtle.” Write a sentence containing the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition. A subtle look Not a subtle look

"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves." François de la Rochefoucauld, French author

superfluous Using your dictionary, write and define the word “superfluous.” Write a sentence containing the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

Taciturn Using your dictionary, write and define the word “taciturn.” Write a sentence containing the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

"There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts." Voltaire FrenchFrench Enlightenment writer and philosopherEnlightenmentphilosopher

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe." Friedrich Nietzsche 19th-century GermanGerman philosopher and classical philologistphilologist

There is no CEC today. Get out your folder. Take out a couple of sheets of notebook paper. Take out any notes you would like to use. Place backpacks, purses, etc. in front or back of room. Stop talking!

Read the passage form chapter 7 of Animal Farm which begins “’Comrades!’ cried Squealer,” and ends “…Snowball’s secret agents lurking among us at this moment!’”. Then, in a well-organized essay, analyze how Orwell’s use of literary elements characterizes Squealer as a master manipulator.

In your journal, write about a time you acted against your better judgment. Remember to use first person, past tense verbs, and colorful, descriptive language Personal Narrative Reflection

There is no warm-up today. Place backpacks, purses, etc. in front or back of room. Please get out a #2 pencil and get into test taking mode. Stop talking!

In your journal, write about a time you acted against your better judgment. Remember to use first person, past tense verbs, and colorful, descriptive language Finish Personal Narrative Reflection

"Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were." Marcel Proust was a French novelistnovelist, critic and essayist best known forcriticessayist his monumental À la recherche du temps perduÀ la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past)

Do this as a CEC on a separate sheet of notebook paper, you will turn this in. “The Scarlet Ibis” What is one conflict the narrator faces?

Acrimonious Using your dictionary, write and define the word “acrimonious.” Write a sentence containing the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

"The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind." Francois de la Rochefoucauld, French author

Ameliorate Using your dictionary, write and define the word “ameliorate.” Write a sentence containing the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

"It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone." Rose Kennedy, wife of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and the mother of President John F. KennedyJoseph P. Kennedy, Sr.John F. Kennedy

Amenable Using your dictionary, write and define the word “amenable.” Write a sentence containing the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars." Khalil Gibran Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer. Lebanese Americanartistpoetwriter

Amorphous Using your dictionary, write and define the word “amorphous.” Write a sentence containing the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

CEC Reflection: Using either tone, symbolism, or inference analyze how McBride characterizes Tateh, Mameh, Rachel or James in Chapter 1, Dead, in the novel The Color of Water.

Buoyant Using your dictionary, write and define the word “buoyant.” Write a sentence containing the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children." Dietrich Bonhoeffer German Lutheran pastor, theologian, and martyrLutheranpastor theologianmartyr

Cajole Using your dictionary, write and define the word “cajole.” Write a sentence containing the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." Oscar Wilde, Irish writer, poet, and prominent aestheteIrish writerpoetaesthete

Calamity Using your dictionary, write and define the word “calamity.” Write a sentence containing the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

"The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone." Milan Kundera writer of Czech origin who has lived in exile in France since 1975Czech

Debase Using your dictionary, write and define the word “debase.” Write a sentence containing the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it." Helen Keller American author, political activist, and lecturer political activistlecturer

Efface Using your dictionary, write and define the word “efface.” Write a sentence containing the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

" We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." Plato, Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world ClassicalGreek philosophermathematician AcademyAthensWestern world

Elucidate Using your dictionary, write and define the word “elucidate.” Write a sentence containing the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

On a separate sheet of paper, please complete the OR Warm Up. Using specific details from your novel, please write a claim statement followed by textual evidence and commentary that infers what you think will happen to the main character in your novel.

Ephemeral Using your dictionary, write and define the word “ephemeral.” Write a sentence containing the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

Ferocity Using your dictionary, write and define the word “ferocity.” Write a sentence containing the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

Flourish Using your dictionary, write and define the word “flourish.” Write a sentence containing the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

Haughty Using your dictionary, write and define the word “haughty.” Write a sentence containing the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

Impervious Using your dictionary, write and define the word “impervious.” Write a sentence containing the word. Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.