Period 4 Word of the Week: Pervasive

This week, Period 4 chose pervasive as our word of the week.  To define the word, students used their phones to conduct a Google search, and here is what they found:

Pervasive means "spreading widely throughout an area or group of people."

Next, we wrote a sentence to make the meaning of pervasive clear:

The swine flu was pervasive in 2010, so most people went and got their flu shots. 

Period 3 Word of the Week: Affirm

This week, Period 3 selected affirm as our word of the week.  When we looked up the definition of affirm, we discovered that it means "to state as a fact, strongly and publicly."

We then discussed the word and wrote a sentence to confirm its meaning:

Bob went to a bar, and when a lady hit on him he affirmed that he is married.

Periods 1&6 Word of the Week: Precursor

This week, Periods 1 and 6 selected precursor as their word of the week.  Students searched online for the definition of the word, and they found that precursor means "a person or thing that precedes another of like kind."  We further clarified that to precede means to come before.

Our classes then wrote sentences to help us understand the word precursor:

1. Light rain is a precursor to a thunderstorm.
2. The iPhone 4s is the precursor to the iPhone 5.