1. Choose one of the following activities to complete:
Warm-Up: Take a ¼ sheet. Place homework on your desk.
When you are finished, practice studying the words.
Choose one of the following activities to complete:
Choose five words that you are not familiar with. Write each word and its definition five times each.
Choose four words. Pair those words up. Tell what each pair has in common.
Choose three words. Write a short paragraph (three or four sentences) using the three words, a piano, and a lobster.
Conjure: Create
Apprehensive: fearful about something
Fruitlessly: without effect
Perspiration: sweat
Inflict: apply
Dexterity: skill
Churned: to move in a violent, quick manner
Invoke: to cause or call upon

2. Phenomenon: strange or rare occurrence Inquisitiveness: curiosity
All of the vocabulary words
Conjure: Create
Envisioning: Imagine
Detached: separated
Inflict: apply
Dexterity: skill
Phenomenon: strange or rare occurrence
Inquisitiveness: curiosity
Churned: to move in a violent, quick manner
Perspiration: sweat
Invoke: to cause or call upon
Apprehensive: fearful about something
Fruitlessly: without effect
Accelerator: a thing that speeds things up

3. Agenda:
Word Study
Multiple Choice (RL.2.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.)
Complete Acrostic Project
Achieve Day
Closing: Two words

4. A. He wanted to show how fearful he was for Billy.
Billy Weadle Part 6
RL.2.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
Which of the following best explains why the author referred to Billy’s father’s face as “wicked red?”
A. He wanted to show how fearful he was for Billy.
B. He wanted to show how apprehensive Billy’s father was.
C. He wanted to build sympathy in the reader for Billy’s father.
D. He wanted to create an image in the reader’s mind to show how angry Billy’s father was.

5. Philanthropy:
Newman Will be Missed
A Promise to Give
Great Women Honored
Where Did This Money Come From?
Oprah’s Girls Grow Up
The Greatest
Perseverance:
A Star Gets a Stamp
A Mission to Remember
Welcome to China
The Story of Jeremy Lin
Losing a Leader
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
A Life Helping Others
A Heart for People
The Call of the Wall
A Visit from Vonn!
Playing Guitar Makana’s Way
One Amazing Kid

6. Closing
Two Words