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.
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11.06.2015
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.
11.04.2015
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