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2. Revise your poems so there are substantial changes. Remember to save all your work for your portfolio.

3. Write your thesis and topic sentences. (Remember, your topic sentences are the three BIG reasons that prove your thesis.)

4. Good Word Quiz on Monday. New Good Words are also due on 5/16, too.

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2. Good Word Quiz on Monday (5/16). Words are listed below. New Good Words due on Monday (5/16).

3. Peer Conference Worksheet due tomorrow
Make sure you have annotated the poem thoroughly – include (1) at least one question, (2) proofread and look for awk. sp., frags, etc. (3) Consistent POV and Tense (4) Look over the line breaks (5) Add a positive comment!
Also, finish the peer conferencing worksheet.

Good Words

Core A
1.    Archetype: A recurrent symbol or theme in literature, art, or mythology
2.    Caveat: A warning or legal notice given not to do something or a specific limitation on something
3.    Islamabad – A city in Pakistan
4.    Lanky – Thin & tall
5.    Malice – Desire to cause pain
6.    Summon – Called upon to be present
7.    Doe-eyed – Nevouse or apprehensive
8.    Eloquence – Fluent or persuasive speaking or writing
9.    Flourish – Growing healthy
10.  Elevate – Raise or lift (something) up to a higher position

Core B
1.    Primitive – Early in the history of mankind
2.    Elevate – Raise or lift (something) up to a higher position
3.    Imperative – An essential or urgent thing
4.    Upholstered – Provide (furniture) with a soft padded covering
5.    Eloquence – Fluent or persuasive speaking or writing
6.    Cryptic – Having a meaning that is mysterious
7.    Writhe – To twist or struggle as in pain
8.    Ostentatiously – Proud, boasting
9.    Entailed – involve as necessary
10. Flourish – Growing healthy

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2. Good Word Quiz on Monday.  New Good Words due.

3. Current Events Thursday = Isabel W’s group.

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2. Ayden’s Current Event Group presents tomorrow

3. Good Word Quiz Monday. Words listed below.

Core A
1. Omit – To leave out
2. Deprived – Suffering a severe & damaging lack of basic material & cultural benefits
3. Syndicate – A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
4. Thermodynamics – Science of changing heat into other energy
5. Reams – A large quantity of something. Typically paper or writing on paper
6. Unfurled – To spread out from a rolled or folded state
7. Intoxicated – Mentally or emotionally exhilarated
8. Explicit – Stated clearly & in detail
9. Vicinity – The area near or surrounding a particular place
10. Colossal – Extremely large

Core B
1. Vicinity – The area near or surrounding a particular place
2. Colossal – Extremely large
3. Explicit – Stated clearly & in detail
4. Sovereign – Possessing supreme or ultimate power
5. Sentry – A soldier keeping guard or controlling access
6. Labyrinth – A complicated or torturous arrangement as of streets or buildings
7. Vacillation – To waver
8. Dilapidated – When an object is ruined or has decay
9. Winced – A slight grimace or shrinking movement of the body
10. Forsake – To abandon or leave

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2. Good Word Cards due tomorrow. Good Word Quiz on Friday.

3. Ayden & Charlotte’s group present their Current Events this week.

4. Core B, please type and email me your freewrite from this morning.

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2. New Good Words due tomorrow

3. Current Events ongoing

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2. If you haven’t presented your booktalk yet, you will go tomorrow (Tuesday).

3. Current Events prep ongoing.

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2. Booktalks – if you haven’t gone yet, be prepared to go on Monday, 4/24

3. Current Events preparations ongoing

4. Good Word Test postponed to Thursday (sorry the words got posted late)
Core A
1. Abolish – To get rid of
2. Haughtily – To appear arrogant, superior or disdainful
3. Recalcitrant – Having an uncooperative attitude towards discipline or authority
4. Epitome – A person or thing that is a perfect example of a particularly quality
5. Epicenter – The point of the earth surface vertically above the focus of an earthquake
6. Dystopian – A society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, overcrowding
7. Autocratic – A person that acts as if possesses unlimited power
8. Untethered – Not connected. Not tied.
9. Vitriolic – Harsh or corrosive in tone
10. Speech Impediments – To stutter or stammer

Core B
1. Lush – Growing, beautifully
2. Irate – Feeling or acting in great anger
3. Salvation – To be rescued from danger
4. Verandah – A roofed platform along the outside of a house, level with the ground floor
5. Speech Impediments – To stutter or stammer
6. Repealed – To revoke a law
7. Incremental – an increase or addition, especially one of a series on a fixed scale
8. Abolish – To get rid of
9. Dystopian – A society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, overcrowding
10. Vitriolic – Harsh or corrosive in tone

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2. Booktalks and Current Events ongoing.  All students who were scheduled to present on Friday will present on Monday instead.

3. Frank’s advisory bring in $10 so we can go out on Thursday…weather permitting.

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2. Booktalks and Current Events ongoing

3. Islam and Crusade Test tomorrow!