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.
3.14.2014
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?
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.
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.
Kia had trepidation about telling Jordan her true feelings because he might reject her.
3.07.2014
Periods 4 and 7 Word of the Week: banal
Oh, blah! Periods 4 and 7 selected banal as their word of the week. How unoriginal!
Banal means something so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.
Here's what we wrote:
1. #YOLO is so banal; only freshmen still say it.
2. Sharkeisha remix videos are so banal; everyone in my eighth-period class has made one.
Banal means something so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.
Here's what we wrote:
1. #YOLO is so banal; only freshmen still say it.
2. Sharkeisha remix videos are so banal; everyone in my eighth-period class has made one.
Period 2 Word of the Week: enigma
This week, period two solved a the mystery of an undefined word by selecting enigma as our word of the week. An enigma is a person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand.
After much debate, we wrote the following sentence:
The Illuminati are an enigma because we don't know who the members are or if they even exist.
After much debate, we wrote the following sentence:
The Illuminati are an enigma because we don't know who the members are or if they even exist.
Period 3 Word of the Week: gregarious
This week, Ms. B's third period class selected gregarious as our word of the week. Gregarious means fond of company or sociable. We wrote a sentence about Greg, our fictionally sociable friend:
My friend Greg is gregarious; he is always partying on Friday nights.
My friend Greg is gregarious; he is always partying on Friday nights.
2.21.2014
Period 7 Word of the Week: tittup
Predictable period 7 selected tittup as the word we will study next week. Tittup has two definitions:
1. an exaggerated prancing, bouncing movement or manner of moving;
2. to move, especially to walk, in an exaggerated prancing or bouncing way, as a spirited horse.
Ms. B not only demonstrated what a tittup might look like, but she also gave an example of when the word tittup was used in last year's spring musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The class also crafted a sentence to demonstrate our understanding of the word:
Kate tittuped out of school on Friday afternoon because she was ready for her weekend.
1. an exaggerated prancing, bouncing movement or manner of moving;
2. to move, especially to walk, in an exaggerated prancing or bouncing way, as a spirited horse.
Ms. B not only demonstrated what a tittup might look like, but she also gave an example of when the word tittup was used in last year's spring musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The class also crafted a sentence to demonstrate our understanding of the word:
Kate tittuped out of school on Friday afternoon because she was ready for her weekend.
Period 3 Word of the Week: venerate
This week, period 3 voted for venerate to be our word of the week. Venerate means, "to regard or treat with reverence, to revere." We discussed that in layman's terms, that means to respect or look up to someone.
The class insisted that Ms. B should be the subject of our sentence:
"We all venerate Ms. B because of her intelligence and enthusiastic personality."
The class insisted that Ms. B should be the subject of our sentence:
"We all venerate Ms. B because of her intelligence and enthusiastic personality."
Period 2 Word of the Week: scrupulous
This week, period 2 selected scrupulous as our word of the week. Scrupulous has two meanings:
1. having scruples 0 having or showing strict regard for what one considers right or principled;
2. punctiliously or minutely careful, precise, or exact.
To demonstrate our understanding of the word scrupulous, we invented a sentence:
Scrupulous Bob plays by the rules; he never skips class because he has OCD and would freak out.
1. having scruples 0 having or showing strict regard for what one considers right or principled;
2. punctiliously or minutely careful, precise, or exact.
To demonstrate our understanding of the word scrupulous, we invented a sentence:
Scrupulous Bob plays by the rules; he never skips class because he has OCD and would freak out.
Period 4 Word of the Week: iconoclastic
Period 4 selected an excellent word as this week's champion: iconoclastic. The word has two definitions:
1. attacking or ignoring cherished beliefs and long-held traditions as being based on error, superstition, or lack of creativity;
2. breaking or destroying images, especially those set up for religious veneration.
The sentence we wrote to demonstrate our understanding is:
"John blew up* Hallmark to send an iconoclastic message against Valentine's Day."
* Period 4 in no way advocates violence in the name of iconoclasm.
1. attacking or ignoring cherished beliefs and long-held traditions as being based on error, superstition, or lack of creativity;
2. breaking or destroying images, especially those set up for religious veneration.
The sentence we wrote to demonstrate our understanding is:
"John blew up* Hallmark to send an iconoclastic message against Valentine's Day."
* Period 4 in no way advocates violence in the name of iconoclasm.
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