THE ILLUSTRIOUS MR. PASTOR
HOMEWORK, FRIDAY,
ZEPtember 6, 2024:
AP ENGLISH #GETLIT-ERATURE! -Read, annotate, react to Twain and Baldwin by Monday night at 11:59 p.m.
AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE ELITE! - Hemingway Annotations due Monday, Analysis ESSAY (150 points!) due Tuesday
ENGLISH II CP: THOROUGHLY FULL SEND annotations and post-reading question responses for Walker, McKay, and Hikmet by Sunday night at 11:59 pm
ENGLISH II GEN: THOROUGHLY FULL SEND annotations and post-reading question responses for Walker, McKay, and Hikmet by Sunday night at 11:59 p.m.
Weekly Spelling, Vocabulary, and Word Parts: 9/3-6
Weekly Spelling Words for Context Evaluation:
- intricate (complex)
- multifarious (involving many elements)
- industrious (hard-working)
- forthright (direct and honest)
- plethora (an abundance of)
- quintessential (most important)
- sublime (out of this world!)
- niminy-piminy chit (adj. + n.) (extremely annoying, petty person)
- Scholarly (related to academic studies)
- insinuate (to slyly suggest)
- Proclivity (strong tendency towards)
- Galvanize (to strengthen)
Weekly Vocabulary Words:
- Conundrum (n.) - highly confusing or befuddling situation or problem
- Acknowledge (v.) - to recognize and acknowledge as being valid and true
- Bamboozle (v.) - to swindle and trick in a sneaky manner
- Immutable (adj.) - unchangeable and permanent in nature
- Exemplify (v.) - to prove by means of giving examples
- Figurative language (n.) - metaphors and other such literary devices
- Dynamic (adj.) vs. Dynamic (n.) - changeable or powerful factor; element that can alter a situation
- Outlier (n.) - anomaly or exception that is worth examining
- Reprehensible (adj.) - worthy of hatred and intense disdain
Weekly Word Parts:
PREFIXES
AB (away from) - abnormal far from normal
AC (towards) - accelerate: move towards more quickly
ROOTS
ARCH - leader (archenemy: your main enemy)
AUTO- self (autodidact: self-taught)
BIO - life (Biology: study of life)
SUFFIXES
ACIOUS/ICIOUS - full of: spacious (full of space)
ADE - process of (serenade: process of singing to someone)
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