Week+4+~+Sep+9+-+13,+2013

==== __Reading Selection:__ __//The Great Rat Hunt//__ by Laurence Yep

==__Essential Question:__ What are the advantages and disadvantages of communicating our feelings to others? How can we make it a positive experience? ==

__Quote of the Week:__ "Survival is a matter of how you respond to change." ~Charles Darwin~
__Unit 2 __
 * 1) __chicanery__ – trickery, or attempts to evade
 * 2) __hegemony__ - predominant and authoritative influence exercised by one nation over others, as in a confederation
 * 3) __facetious__ - not meant to be taken seriously or literally; amusing; humorous.
 * 4) __enervate__ - to deprive of force or strength; weaken
 * 5) __belie__ - to misrepresent; disguise the nature of
 * 6) __abrogate__ - to abolish by official means; annul by an authoritative action; repeal; to put aside; put an end to
 * 7) __abstemious__ - sparing or moderate in temperate in eating; characterized by abstinence
 * 8) __deleterious__ - injurious to health; harmful
 * 9) __bellicose__ - inclined or eager for fighting ; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
 * 10)  chromosome - any of the 23 pairs of threadlike bodies that transmit the genes in a linear order.
 * 11) __epiphany__ - a sudden, intuition or perception into the reality or essential understanding of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience.
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20.8px;">__evanescent__ - vanishing; fading away; fleeting; tending to become imperceptible; scarcely perceptible.
 * 13) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20.8px;">__feckless__ - ineffective; incompetent; futile; having no sense of responsibility; indifferent; lazy.
 * 14) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20.8px;">__incontrovertible__ - not controvertible; not subject to question or dispute ; indisputable
 * 15) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20.8px;">__lugubrious__ - mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated manner

=<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__MONDAY__ = =<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">1) Warm Up: Vocabulary Practice 1 # 1 - 5 = =<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">2) Distribute Reading Logs = = 3) Last week’s Reading Log is due today = = 4) Copy Unit 2 Vocabulary List =

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">FAIR TESTING
=__<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Group Activity __=

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">1) Vocabulary Review- Create flash cards for Unit 2

 * ==<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__On the lined side__ - Write the definition, an antonym and a synonym if possible and a complete sentence showing that you understand the meaning of the word and how to use it ==
 * ==<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__On the blank side:__ Draw a picture depicting the meaning of the word ==

__<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">FRIDAY- Collect Summer Reading Assignment __

 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">FAIR TESTING **