1. 10/24 Materials: Writing Portfolio Pen/Pencil and Vocab sheet from basket

2. Agenda Vocabulary list 4 Organize writing portfolios
Keeping your lists…
Organize writing portfolios
Tracking work completed
Check list
Vocabulary Summative Remediation Review

3. Chronicle
Ben consulted the chronicles of the period to find the facts about what happened for his project.

4. Chronicle
Definition: A history of events in time order Part of Speech: Noun

5. Oblige
Jacob asked his friend Jason to help rake his 2 acre yard, and Jason obliged. 1

6. Oblige
Definition: do as someone asks to please or help them; to do something as a favor Part of Speech: verb 1

7. Dense
The fog this morning was dense and made driving very difficult as I could hardly see a thing. 1

8. Dense
Definition: thick Part of Speech: adjective 1

9. I detest when my teacher gives me homework on the weekends.

10. Definition: to hate Part of Speech: verb
Detest
Definition: to hate
Part of Speech: verb

11. My teacher knew every line and could recite the poem verbatim.

12. Definition: word for word Part of Speech: adverb and adjective
Verbatim
Definition: word for word
Part of Speech: adverb and adjective

13. Benevolent
How benevolent of you to help families in need at Thanksgiving!

14. Benevolent
Part of Speech: Adjective
Definition: good, kind

15. Admonish
My drama teacher would admonish students for repeatedly forgetting the lines.

16. Admonish
Part of Speech: Verb
Definition: to scold

17. Stern
Looking into that stern face, she felt like a child caught with her hand in the candy jar.

18. Stern
Part of Speech: Adjective
Definition: strict or serious

19. Crass
I wish he would realize that his racism and bigotry are based on crass stereotypes of people that are just as human as you and I.

20. Crass Part of Speech:Adjective
Definition: rude, crude, and socially unacceptable

21. Vigilant
With all the new ways of cheating that students are constantly coming up with, teachers have to be more vigilant than ever.

22. Vigilant
Part of Speech: Adjective
Definition: watchful

23. Writing Portfolio’s
All of the work we have completed should be organized the following way:
Table of Contents in the front (we will continuously update this)
All work, in order, 3 hole punched and placed in the tabs.

24. Table of Contents (QT. 1)
10/17 “Coming to Our Senses” Central Idea and Idea Development
10/18 “When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer” Text Analysis
Anything else DOES NOT belong in your Writing Portfolio. Vocab stays with you!
8/25 Dolphin Article Thesis Practice
9/12 Informative Writing – Research Paper (or remediation)
9/14 Informative Writing Practice VLT – with peer review sheet and rubric.
9/23 Informative Essay VLT
9/28 My Life as a Bat (t-chart fact check)
If you are new-ish, please put this information, but in the completed comment section – put the date you registered.