I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark TwainUS humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

We learn by doing IF we reflect on what we

have done.

John Dewey

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

-Voltaire

"Try again, fail again. Fail better."

-Samuel BeckettIrish playwright and poet

altruistic• Using a dictionary, look up and write the

definition for “altruistic.”

• Write a sentence using the word “altruistic” to describe a character from our summer reading.

• Draw a picture illustrating the definition.

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see."

-Winston ChurchillBritish Prime Minister, historian, writer, and artist

ambivalent• Using your dictionary, write and

define the word “ambivalent.”

• Write a sentence

using the word.

• Draw a picture

which illustrates

the definition.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

-Albert EinsteinTheoretical physicist, philosopher and author

angular

Using your dictionary, write the definition for “angular.”Write a sentence using the word.Illustrate the definition.

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

Ayn Rand, writer

arrogantarrogant•Using your Using your dictionary, write and dictionary, write and define the word define the word “arrogant.”“arrogant.”•Write a sentence Write a sentence using the wordusing the word•Illustrate the definition.

aversion•Using your dictionary, write and define the word “aversion.”•Write a sentence using the word.•Draw a picture which illustrates the definition.

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

William Faulkner, Nobel prize novelist and short story author

discern

•Use your dictionary to find and write the definition for “discern.”•Write a sentence using the word.•Draw a picture illustrating the definition.

"Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?"

Rose Kennedy

disdain•Use your dictionary to find and write the definition for “disdain.”•Write a sentence using the word.•Use your thesaurus to find an SAT style synonym and antonym.

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." George Orwell English author and journalist

disparity•Use your dictionary to find and write the definition for “disparity.”•Write a sentence using the word.•Draw a picture illustrating the definition.

"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough, and liked it, never really care for anything else."

Ernest Hemingway,

American author and journalist

disparage•Use your dictionary to find and write the definition for “disparage.”•Write a sentence using the word.•Draw a picture illustrating the definition.

embellishembellish

•Use your dictionary to find and write the definition for “embellish.”•Write a sentence using the word.•Draw a picture illustrating the definition.

"The healthy man does not torture others. Generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.“Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology.

engender• Use your dictionary to

find the definition.• Write a sentence

using the word.• Draw a picture to

illustrate the definition.

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

Abraham Lincoln

innocuous• Use a dictionary to find and write the

definition of “innocuous.”• Write a sentence containing the word.• Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."

Confucius,

Chinese Thinker and Philosopher

insipid• Use your

dictionary to find the definition.

• Write a sentence using the word.

• Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."

Eugene Ionesco,

Romanian and French playwright and dramatist

lament• Use a

dictionary to find and write the definition of “lament.”

• Write a sentence containing the word.

• Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

"When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him."

Euripides,last of the three great tragedians of

classical Athens (the other two being

Aeschylus and Sophocles

laud

•Use your dictionary to find the definition.

•Write a sentence using the word.•Draw a picture to illustrate the

definition.

"Don't forget that I cannot see myself -- that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror."

Jacques Rigaut, French surrealist poet

Obscure •Use a dictionary to find and write the definition of “obscure.”•Write a sentence containing the word.•Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

"Unfortunately, a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares."

Sir Peter Ustinov,English actor, writer and dramatist

•Use your dictionary to find the definition.•Write a sentence using the word.•Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

ostentatious

"It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence." Mahatma Ghandi,

the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader

of India during the

Indian independence movement.

prodigal

•Use your dictionary to find the definition.•Write a sentence using the word.•Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.“

Anthony Brandt

repudiate•Use a dictionary to find and write the definition of “repudiate.”•Write a sentence containing the word.•Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

"What is food to one is to others bitter poison."

Lucretious was a Roman poet and philosopher

Reticence•Use a dictionary to find and write the definition of “reticence.”•Write a sentence containing the word.•Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal.“

Albert Pine, English Author

revere•Use a dictionary to find and write the definition of “revere.”•Write a sentence containing the word.•Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

"It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us." Norman Maclean, American author and scholar

Serene•Use a dictionary to find and write the definition of “serene.”•Write a sentence containing the word.•Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

subtle•Use a dictionary to find and write the definition of “subtle.”•Write a sentence containing the word.•Draw a picture to illustrate the definition.

A subtle look

Not a subtle look