1. Study vocab.
2. Make sure your CCR Notecard Timeline Book is complete!
3. Re-read the Revolutionary Moment on pp. 43-46.
4. Continue the inference chart we started in class today: Revolutionary Moment/Ji-Li's Choices/Ji-Li's Reactions.
5. Complete the da-zi-bao notecard.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Vocabulary: Monday, March 28, 2011
affront (n.)
*a personally offensive act*a deliberate insult or display of disrespect
"This latest affront was too much for the students to bear" (44).
Examples
Antonym
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Vocabulary: Thursday, March 24, 2011
rivet (v.)
*to hold someone's attention completely so that he/she doesn't notice anything else"All eyes were riveted on a dense ring of people in the street" (22).
Example Antonyms
Homework Due Monday, March 28, 2001
One page journal entry – READING JOURNAL
“Though we were not facing real guns or real tanks, this battle would be even harder, because our enemies, the rotten ideas and customs we’re so used to, were inside ourselves” (28-29).
Do you agree or disagree with Ji-Li’s statement that fighting issues, ideas, & habits inside yourself is more difficult than fighting others outside yourself?
How do we combat an enemy that is “inside ourselves”?
Have you ever successfully changed a way of thinking or a habit? If so, what did you have to do in order to make this change?
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Vocabulary: Wednesday, March 23, 2011
auspicious (adj.)
*bringing fortune or good luck*promising success and favorable situation/conditions
"They always said that since an especially auspicious date was chosen to hang the sign, the store has been prosperous for more than thirty years!" (25).
Examples
Antonyms
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Vocabulary: Tuesday, March 22, 2011
vicious (adj.)
*unpleasantly severe or malicious*disposed or inclined to evil or vice
Because of his height and his serious face he usually played the villain at the children's theater where he worked. He was the vicious landlord, the foolish king" (13).
Examples
Antonym
Social Location Map Portfolio Checklist
Your Social Location Map Portfolio must have the following completed maps:
- Your own Social Location Map
- Bobby's Social Location Map
- Bobby's Setting Explosion
- Hazel's Social Location Map
- Hazel's Setting Explosion
- Arnold's Social Location Map
- Arnold's Voice Explosion
- Marjane's Social Location Map
- Egyptian Protester's Social Location Map
- Egyptian Protester's Voice Explosion
- Ji-Li Jiang's Social Location Map
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