THE ILLUSTRIOUS MR. PASTOR
HOMEWORK, Wednesday,
April 2, 2025:
AP ENGLISH #GET-LIT-ERATURE! MORE Philosophical Poetic Awakenings due Thursday night at 11:59 pm
AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE ELITE! Thoreau online annotation activity due TONIGHT.
ENGLISH II CP: JC Final draft due TONIGHT.
ENGLISH II GEN: JC Final draft due TONIGHT
Weekly Spelling, Vocabulary, and Word Parts
Weekly Spelling Words for Context Evaluation:
- Virtuous (noble, reliable)
- Gregarious (highly sociable)
- Construe (interpret)
- Stupefy (stun)
- Imperious (Domineering)
- Hierarchy (power structure)
- Despondent (severely saddened)
- Imperceptible (hard to tell the difference)
- Immutable (unchangeable)
- Haughty (arrogant)
- Contemplate (think deeply)
- Contemptible (worthy of hatred)
- Soliloquy (monologue)
- Deference (respect)
Weekly Vocabulary Words:
- Delectable (adj.) - scrumptiously delicious
- Bugbear (n.) - excessively grumpily grouchy person
- Characterization (n.) - how an individual character is portrayed over the course of the text, either by an author or an actor
- Picaresque (adj.) - untrustworthy individual; saucy rapscallion!
- Intrepid (adj.) - brazenly courageous; fearless
- Merit (n.) - strength of one's accomplishments or character
- Reflective (adj.) - representing a person, place, thing, or idea
- Socioeconomic (adj.) - classification based on social and economic standing
- Willy-nilly (adj.) - haphazard, random
- Gumshoe (n.) - amateur, unofficial detective (Private Investigator)
- Summit (n.) - the peak of a mountain or organization
- Approbation (n.) - formal praise
Weekly Word Parts:
PREFIXES
PRO (forward) - progress: move forward
PROTO (first) - prototype: first model
ROOTS
CARN (meet) - carnivorous: meat-eating
PURG (clean) - purgation: cleansing via fire
PUT (think) - dispute: argument in thoughts
RAD (root) - eradicate: pull out by the roots
PEPT (digestion) - peptic: related to the digestive system
GAM (marriage) - monogamy: one spouse
SOMN (sleep ) - somniloquy: talking in one's sleep
SUFFIXES
TUDE (state of) - gratitude: state of being grateful
ULAR ( relating to) - peninsular: related to peninsulas
SHIP (condition of) - discipleship: condition of following in a disciplined manner
TOME (cut out) - appendectome: removal of one's appendix
FILES AND LINKS AND RESOURCES (OH MY!)
Daily Schedule:
Period 1 - 7:45-8:40 AP English Literature and Composition
Period 2 - 8:44-9:35 AP English Language and Composition
Period 3 - Planning / Student Assistance (Tutoring)
Period 4 - English II College Prep
Period 5 - English II General
Period 6 - English II General
Period 7 - English II College Prep