Today’s agenda
· Test#2
· Vocab exercise Ex1
· Teach compound sentences-semicolons
· Daily pronunciation
· Listening fun questions
· HW Read
“I Confess” for Tuesday. Makes notes for the Thought
Questions
Friday
· No school
Professional
Day
School for
me
No school
for you
Monday
· BC Family Day
No school
for us
Tuesday
· Back to the grind.
· “I Confess”
· “Literary Terms”
Test#2 Paragraph on “What Happened During the Ice Storm”
Use lined ruled paper.
Write in pen.
Doublespace.
Write
between the margins.
At
least 150 words.
Submit
by 1:05.
Choose
one topic:
Why did the boys not harvest the pheasants?
OR
What would you have done about the pheasants?
Horror movie-
plot twist- pivot point in a movie
“Academic Vocabulary Exercise 1”
kiosk – small stalls in the mall
I felt like cattle in the airport security.
slim, slender- He has very slim wrists. He is small-boned.
gigantic(adj)
nude
The nude beach in Vancouver is Wreck Beach.
Math 12 is entirely too hard for me.
She is entirely finished her work.
She is going to upgrade her English/phone/computer/skills/knowledge.
I am going to the Seawall and roam around while my daughter
is taking a test. Butter and I will kill some time.
IDIOM kill time- waste time, doing nothing
She is spending QT with her son.
QT – quality time
I don’t know what I want to do with my life yet. I am a
little lost. I don’t have a direction yet.
She has an appetite for travel. She has wanderlust. She has
itchy feet.
Many residients in Richmond were outraged at the city
council decision to open a drug rehab clinic.
He’s such a goofy guy around the kids.
naïve- innocent, pure
He hatched a plan for his business.
She made a humble brag about herself.
He bragged about his new car.
My eyes swelled up last night when I ate some nuts.
Her thoat swelled up. She had to use her epi-pen.
Insulin is for diabetes.
She ate three portions of chocolate cake.
portion- serving
urban- city
suburban- outside the city, mostly residential
rural-country, farmland
Her job at the cardboard box factory is drudgery.
Math is drudgery to me. For you it might be engaging.
The little boy is fully engaged with his Lego.
skeet shooting
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