Monthly Archives: March 2014

Directions: These questions are to be typed and answered in complete sentences with supporting quotes and page numbers where needed. This is due on Monday, March 24.   How is the American Dream characteristic of American ideals and philosophy? What … Continue reading →

4/7 Monday – BOOK NOTES #3 ARE DUE! Yes, it’s another Vocabulary Monday! List #37 (Good Learnin’): archaeology, anthropology, entomology,  etymology, genealogy, neurology, oncology, paleontology, pathology, semantics, sociology, theology; List #38 (All Alone): banish, exile, expel, hermit, isolate, ostracize, pariah, quarantine, recluse, relegate, … Continue reading →

3/31 Monday – No school. Cesar Chavez Day. 4/1 Tuesday – In class essay. Q1. 4/2 Wednesday – Score essays, continue viewing Death of a Salesman. 4/3 Thursday – TBA 4/4 Friday – Vocabulary test #3 HW: BOOK NOTES #3 ARE DUE … Continue reading →

3/24 Monday –  Yes, it’s another Vocabulary Monday! List #35 (More or Less): barren, capacious, copious, diminutive, meager, paucity, rarefy, replete, rife, scanty, surfeit, voluminous; List #36 (Tough Times): adversity, anemic, anguish, blight, despondent, dirge, doldrums, doleful, elegy, epitaph, malady, tribulation. Copy … Continue reading →

3/17 Monday – Vocabulary Squares are back! List #33 (How Rude!): affront, boorish, brazen,  effrontery, flippant, glacial, haughty, impertinent, impudent, insolent, irreverence, truculent and List #34 (Earth, Moon and Sky): arable, arid, astral, bucolic, celestial, cosmic, desiccated, fallow, fecund, lunar, nautical, … Continue reading →