LITERATURE

Vocabulary

ASSIGNMENTS (WEEK ONE)WE WILL FOCUS ON THE SAME 5

WORDS FOR 2 WEEKS.

Monday: Define the five words

Tuesday: Thinking map with at least 3 of the words

Wednesday: 5-10 students will present some sort

of visual image for the 5 words

Thursday: Fill in the blank questions using context

clues and knowledge of the word

Friday: 5-10 students will act out the words

WEEK TWO

Monday: circle the correct word using context

clues and knowledge of the word

Tuesday: Thinking map with at least 3 of the words

Wednesday: Journal writing using the 5 words

Thursday: Review

Friday: Test

WORDS FOR SEPTEMBER 5

Adjacent: not distant ;nearby; having a common endpoint or border

Alight : to come down from something ; dismount ; deplane

Barren: not productive; producing little or no vegetation; desolate

Disrupt: to throw into disorder

Dynasty: a succession of rulers of the same line of descent; a

powerful group or family that maintains its position for a

considerable time

TUESDAYThinking map: Tree map

Word

Synonyms AntonymsExample Sentence

WEDNESDAY

5 students will act out

the vocabulary words

THURSDAYC H O O S E T H E V O C A B U L A R Y W O R D T H A T B E S T C O M P L E T E S T H E F O L L O W I N G S E N T E N C E S . C O P Y T H E W H O L E S E N T E N C E I N Y O U R J O U R N A L .

Although they live in a house ____________________________ to ours, we never

really got to know them well.

In the 11th century, a foreign warlord invaded the country and set up a(n)

________________________ that ruled for more than 250 years.

Our carefully laid plans were completely ___________________________ by a sudden

and totally unexpected turn of events.

As we sat at the side of the lake, we enjoyed watching the wild geese swoop

down and ___________________ on the surface of the water.

As the drought continued without letup, the once fertile farmlands of the region

slowly became ________________________ “dust bowls.”

FRIDAY

5 students will

present their visual

image of the

vocabulary words

M O N D AYC H O O S E T H E VO C A B U L A RY W O R D T H AT B E S T C O M P L E T E S T H E F O L L O W I N G S E N T E N C E S. C O P Y T H E W H O L E S E N T E N C E I N Y O U R J O U R N A L .

Are we going to allow minor disagreements to (disrupt, alight) the club

that we have worked so hard to organize?

For three generations their family has formed one of the leading

automotive (resume, dynasties) of this country.

The flight attendant asked the passengers to make sure that they had all

their personal belongings before (disrupting, alighting) from the aircraft.

The principal asked the students not to hang around in front of the

houses and other buildings (adjacent to, resume) the school.

The administration had no major scandals, but it was also (barren,

dynasties) of outstanding accomplishments.

TUESDAY

Thinking Map:

WEDNESDAY

Write in your journal. Free write.

You can write on any topic but

make sure that you use your 5

vocabulary words correctly in your

writing.

THURSDAY

Review

FRIDAY

Vocabulary test. You

have 10 minutes to study.