Period 2 Word of the Week: intrepid

This week, brave and bold period 2 forged ahead in selecting intrepid as our word of the week.  Intrepid means fearless, daring, or bold.  Many superheroes are characterized this way, but students in our class thought Batman would be the best candidate for a sentence (which, coincidentally, turned out to be quite alliterative):

Batman must be intrepid when battling Bane because Bane broke Batman's back before.

Period 7 Word of the Week: fallacious

This week, period 7 selected fallacious as our word of the week.  Fallacious means "based on a mistaken belief." After learning the definition, our class had a heated discussion about whether or not blood is blue when it is not oxygenated.  As a result, we devised the following sentence:

Is the argument that blood is blue fallacious?

Period 3 Word of the Week: Dogmatic

Period 3 selected dogmatic as our current word of the week.  Dogmatic means "inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true."  We reviewed some synonyms to help us understand the word dogmatic, and these included rigid and inflexible.

We then devised a sentence to help us understand the meaning of the word:

Kim Jong Un is a dogmatic leader; his word is law, and breaking the law is punishable by death.

Period 4 Word of the Week: Trepidation

Students in period 4 elected to use trepidation as our word of the week.  Trepidation is a feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen.  No one had any trepidation about making up a sentence to help us understand the word:

Kia had trepidation about telling Jordan her true feelings because he might reject her.