Today you will follow these instructions:
- Pick up your computer from the cart when instructed.
- Pull up your PWP#2 either through TurnItIn, GoogleDocs, a printed version, or where ever you have it saved.
- You will trade your paper with 4 people and fill out the Peer Editing Checklist that has been handed out to you.
- Once you have completed this, you will turn your paper in to Mrs. Whittington.
- Use your computers to make the changed required on your PWP.
If you have extra time you may:
- Research pictures for your Archetypes poster.
- Continue writing or changing your PWP#2.
- Study Vocab list #3 (below on the blog)
- Finish reading Most Dangerous Game, under the Scanned Class Documents tab.
- Prep for SAT's with this silly Vocabulary Game - SAT Bubble Game
When there is 10 minutes left in class:
- Log off your computer and close it.
- Place it back on the cart from the number slot you got it from (number shown on the top of the laptop)
- Plug in the black charging cord and push that side of the laptop in first.
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Vocab List #3
Quizlet - Terms and Example Words
Ninth
Grade Vocabulary – List Three
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Prefixes
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de-
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down, away, off
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descend, deject (cast
down), decline
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di- / dif- / dis-
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apart, different
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diverge, differ, dissent, disengage,
discord, discomfort
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ex-
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out of, from, former
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exhume, exhale, exodus,
exit
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Roots/Bases
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alter-
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other
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alternate, alter ego
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ced- / cess-
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yield, go
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recede, secede, proceed, intercede,
concession
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demo-
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people
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demography, democracy,
epidemic
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ego-
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self
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egotist, egomania
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min-
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small
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minority, minuscule,
minute
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miss- / mit(t)-
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to send
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transmission, remittance, permit,
submission, mission, emit
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pon- / pos- / posit-
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put
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correspond, compose,
composition
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port-
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carry, door, port
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portable, transport, portage, report
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temp- / tempor-
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time
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temporary, temporize,
contemporary
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Suffixes
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-cracy
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government by
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democracy, autocracy,
meritocracy
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-crat
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ruler
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democrat, autocrat
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Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Fairy Tale Notes
Fairy Tales Power Point - All notes in class were taken from this PowerPoint.
Fairy Tale Notes - If you have lost your notes you can print out new ones here.
Read Rumpelstiltskin and then find similarities from the notes to the story.
Literary Symbolism/Archetype Sheet
Fairy Tale Notes - If you have lost your notes you can print out new ones here.
Read Rumpelstiltskin and then find similarities from the notes to the story.
Literary Symbolism/Archetype Sheet
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Review on TurnItIn Submission
- Click in the link above.
- Enter your email and password (remember, I told you to use your personal email, so if you are unable to log in, go back and look at where you wrote down your log in info, if you lost it try to reset your password).
- Once logged in, click the class block you are in.
- Find the assignment you are submitting and click the blue 'submit' button.
- Upload your file. You can click the small blue down-arrow next to where it says 'Single File Upload' at the top to switch between a single file upload and copy and paste.
- Enter your submission title then click 'Upload' at the bottom of the page.
- Follow any other steps it then asks of you to complete your submission.
We have gone over this in class multiple times and you have all successfully logged in. Your first polished papers MUST be uploaded to Turnitin.com to be graded. Otherwise they stay at a 0 in the gradebook, no exceptions.
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Vocab List #2
Quizlet - Quizlet Vocab List Two
Quizlet - Example Words Quizlet
Quizlet - Example Words Quizlet
Prefixes
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a- / ab- / abs-
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away, from
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abstract, abduction,
abstain, abnormal
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ad-
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to or toward
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adhere, adjoin, adjacent (lying near to)
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im- / in-
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not
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imperfect, impolite,
impossible, impractical,indiscreet,
invisible, ineligible,
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Roots/Bases
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ami- / amic-
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love
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amiable, amicable, amorous
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aud-
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sound
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auditorium, audible, audiologist, audiotape
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gram- / graph-
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to write or draw, writing,
printing
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telegram, graphite,
graphology, biography, telegraph, geography
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chron-
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time
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chronicle, chronology, chronometer,
synchronize, chronological order
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grad- / gress-
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to step
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graduate, progress,
gradual, progression, transgression
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hydr(o)-
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water
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dehydrate, hydraulics, hydroelectric,
hydroplane
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mut-
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change
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mutant, mutability, mutate
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terr(a)-
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earth, ground
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subterranean, terrain, terrestrial,
disinter, territorial
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Suffixes
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-er / -or
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one who does
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teacher, counselor
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-ologist
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one who studies
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zoologist, biologist
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-ology
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study of
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zoology, biology
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