THE ILLUSTRIOUS MR. PASTOR
HOMEWORK, Monday,
May 19, 2025:
AP ENGLISH #GET-LIT-ERATURE! FULL SEND YOUR LIFE!
AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE ELITE! Portfolios due at Finals
ENGLISH II CP: Best of Me Portfolios due at Finals
ENGLISH II GEN: Best of Me Portfolios due at Finals
Weekly Spelling, Vocabulary, and Word Parts
Weekly Spelling Words for Context Evaluation:
- Perceptive (highly aware)
- Fundamental (basic)
- Suspicion
- Peripheral
- Satellite
- Dialogue
- Monetary (related to money)
- Priority
- Judgment
- Submissive
- Controversial
- Casualty (injury or death in war)
- Occasional
- Statistic
- Agricultural (related to the land)
Weekly Vocabulary Words:
1. Refinish (v.) - to apply a new surface to a structure
2. Portrayal (m.) - how an event or person is depicted
3. Proper (adj.) - done in the right manner
4. Resonant (adj.) - resounding loudly and clearly
5. Chronology (n.) - account of something in the order in which it occurred
6. Clarify (v.) - to make clearer or easier to understand
7. Complication (n.) - factor that makes a situation more difficult or complex
8. Revitalize (v.) - to inject new energy into
9. Transcript (n.) - written account of a show
Weekly Word Parts:
PREFIXES
NEPHR (kidneys) - nephritis: kidney disease
OSTEO (bone / skeletal) - osteoarthritis: joint inflammation
ROOTS
DENDR (tree) - philodendron: plant that climbs trees
CLINE (lean) - decline: lean down
CHROM (color) - monochromatic: all one color
SUFFIXES
OPIA (eye) - myopia (near sighted)
ISK (small) - asterisk ( little star)
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