24 October: Vocab Practice, Active Reading

1. Journal
2. Vocabulary Practice
3. Active Reading

Journal: “change” If you could change 1 thing about your high school, what would it be and why? Give specific details. 100 word minimum.

Vocabulary Practice (continued from Wednesday)
(B) Make a cinquain for the following nouns:1.Dilettante 2.Injustice 3.Lamentation 4.Hypocrisy 5.approbation

(C) Make an acrostic for the following words:1.Abyss 2.Just 3.Ethics

(D) Find at least 4 pictures to represent the following words: 1.Corpulent 2.Disconsolate 3.Articulate 4.Purview 5.Divinity

There will be a vocabulary test on Tuesday, October 28!

Active Reading Article: “When senior year is canceled, adulthood hits with a jolt”

Instructions:

• Actively read the article.
• Highlight and make notes next to characteristics of teenagers in 1959.
• Identify injustice. Who was being unjust? Why? Who was affected? How did the closing of Granby High School affect students’ lives, even 50 years later?
• What would you do it you suddenly were told there was no more high school (and there was not another school for you to go to)? Think reasonably, rationally, and logically. What would happen to your life? What would you miss out on?
• Compare and contrast teenagers in 1959 with teenagers today. Compare and contrast “those in charge” in 1959 with “those in charge” today. Make a Venn diagram for each.

HOMEWORK: Study for vocabulary test. Active Reading.