THE ILLUSTRIOUS MR. PASTOR

HOMEWORK: Tuesday,

AUGUST 25, 2026:

AP ENGLISH #GET-LIT-ERATURE! Marriage Proposal exercise due Tuesday night at 11:59 p.m.; Birthday Party exercise due Wednesday night at 11:59 p.m.; Trumbo due Sunday night at 11:59 p.m.

AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE ELITE! Hogue Exercise due TONIGHT at 11:59 p.m.

ENGLISH II CP: Read, annotate, complete post-reading questions for Yeats and Rumi by TONIGHT at 11:59 p.m.

ENGLISH II GEN: Read, annotate, complete post-reading questions for Yeats and Rumi by TONIGHT at 11:59 p.m.

Weekly Spelling, Vocabulary, and Word Parts

Weekly SPELLING Words for Context Evaluation:

Accommodation (alteration for a purpose)
Accrete (to develop fully)
Acquisition (to acquire)
adversary (enemy)
affected (adj.) (faking an emotion / attitude)
Affirm (to defend)
Allege (to accuse)
Alleviate (to lessen)
Aloof (stuck up)
Ambivalent (not feeling one way or the other)
Amnesty (forgiveness)
Amorphous (without a definitive shape)
Anarchy (lack of government)
Wiseacre (smart alleck)

Weekly Vocabulary Words:

Zeal (n.) - emphatic enthusiasm for a cause or team or passion
Wondrous (adj.) - marked by splendid glory and inspiring wonder
Willy-nilly (adv.) - done completely randomly with no rhyme, reason, or pattern
Whereas (conj.) - statement of contrast ("I love Queen, whereas Billy enjoys Rush")
Wage (v.) - to conduct or carry out, as in to wage war
Vogue (n.) - the fashion or trend of the day
Vigor (n.) - energy / enthusiasm, intensity
Vicissitudes (n.) - twists and turns and fortunes and misfortunes of life
Vex (v.) - to cause frustration or confusion
Variant (adj.) - different version of something, such as a techno variant of Last Christmas
Validity (n.) - the credibility of reliability of a finding or information
Usurp (v.) - to steal by force or trickeration

Weekly Word Parts:

PREFIXES

A (short A sound) - on (ashore - on the shore, afire - on fire, like Ricky Bobby!)

A/AN (long A sound) - without (amoral - without morals, asymmetrical - without symmetry)

ROOTS

AGOG - leader (pedagogue: leader of instruction for children, demagogue - one who "leads" by placating the people and playing on their wants and "needs")

ALG - pain (gastralgia - digestive pain; neuralgia - pain in the nerves)

ANIM - life / motion (animated: lively or moving, inanimate: not moving)

SUFFIXES

AC/IC - like / pertaining to: aquatic (pertaining to water); cardiac (related to the heart)

ACITY/OCITY - quality of: velocity (having the quality of speed, hot nasty speed), sagacity (being wise; having the quality of wisdom)