12.20.2015
11.13.2015
Period 6 Word of the Week: orator
This week, period 6 selected orator as our word of the week. An orator is "a public speaker, especially one who is eloquent or skilled."
Students created a sentence to show our understanding of the word, but there was a sub in the room so the sentence was not officially recorded. If you wrote down our class' sentence, please feel free to post it in the comments below.
Students created a sentence to show our understanding of the word, but there was a sub in the room so the sentence was not officially recorded. If you wrote down our class' sentence, please feel free to post it in the comments below.
Period 3 Word of the Week: anachronistic
This week, period 3 selected anachronistic as our word of the week. Anachronistic "usually refers to something old-fashioned or antique, but it can also mean anything that blatantly clashes with the time in which it is seen."
Students wrote a sentence to show their understanding of the word, but the sub did not record the sentences. If you copied down our class' sentence, please feel free to post it in the comments below.
Students wrote a sentence to show their understanding of the word, but the sub did not record the sentences. If you copied down our class' sentence, please feel free to post it in the comments below.
Periods 2 & 8 Word of the Week: zugzwang
This week, periods 3 and 8 selected zugzwang as our word of the week. A zugzwang is a chess term meaning, "a situation in which the obligation to make a move in one's turn is a serious, often decisive, disadvantage." This means that a person has a forced choice to do something disadvantageous - a situation in which there is little chance of a positive outcome.
Students created sentences using the word, but there was a sub in the classroom, so the sentences were not recorded. If you wrote down your class' sentence, please feel free to post it in the comments below.
Students created sentences using the word, but there was a sub in the classroom, so the sentences were not recorded. If you wrote down your class' sentence, please feel free to post it in the comments below.
11.11.2015
11.06.2015
Period 3 Word of the Week: erudite
This week, period 3 selected erudite as our word of the week. Erudite means "showing great knowledge. The sentence we composed to demonstrate our understanding of the word was:
Kimberly is very erudite; at seventeen she owns her own business, has a 4.0 GPA, got a 1600 on her SAT, and won the Jeopardy teen tournament.
Kimberly is very erudite; at seventeen she owns her own business, has a 4.0 GPA, got a 1600 on her SAT, and won the Jeopardy teen tournament.
Periods 2, 6, and 8 Word of the Week: flibbertigibbet
This week, periods 2, 6, and 8 all selected flibbertigibbet as our word of the week. What a great word! A flibbertigibbet is "a frivolously flighty or excessively talkative person." Some examples of famous flibbertigibbets we generated are: Robin Williams, Kevin Hart, and Amy Schumer.
Here are our sentences:
1. Rosanna is a flibbertigibbet because she talks for hours about unnecessary topics.
2. Robin Williams played a flibbertigibbet in Flubber; he was always bouncing off the walls.
3. Kimberly is such a flibbertigibbet; she gets sent to the office for disrupting class every day.
Here are our sentences:
1. Rosanna is a flibbertigibbet because she talks for hours about unnecessary topics.
2. Robin Williams played a flibbertigibbet in Flubber; he was always bouncing off the walls.
3. Kimberly is such a flibbertigibbet; she gets sent to the office for disrupting class every day.
11.03.2015
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