- Assimilate- incorporate. Integrate new knowledge (or person) with what is already in place.
- Avid- eager or enthusiastic about something.
- Dilapidated- run down, ruined or decay; result of neglect.
- Frivoling- to spend or waste something in a foolish, or frivolous, way.
- Gamboled- to leap or skip around playfully.
- Scudded- to move swiftly and smoothly.
- Corporeal- relating to or involving the physical body rather than the mind.
- Ephemeral- short-lived; lasting for only a short period of time, leaving no permanent trace.
- Ineffable- indescribable. Unable to express in words.
- Inexorable- impossible to stop.
- Enfolded-to surround or enclose somebody or something. To embrace.
Exercises:
1- Words and definitions
2- In context of book
3- Sentences
4- Pics
HJ5- In a paragraph, assess your activity level during spring break. Did you stick to your exercise plan?
HJ6- Advice Line: Give a student advice for how to say “no” to a “friend” who offers them alcohol.
HJ7-List 5 potential consequences of choosing to drink alcohol as a teen.
HJ8- Identify 3 factors that influence teens to use tobacco.
HJ9- Discuss 3 personal reasons NOT to smoke.
J1- Describe an alternate universe that you would love to travel to.
J2- Make a list of qualities/abilities/skills you have that come in handy when you’re faced with a challenge. List 5.
J3- Write one good thing about 10 people in the class.
J4- What are your first impressions of Meg and Charles Wallace?
J5- Write the main internal conflict, and the main external conflict in Wrinkle.
Group A
- benefactor
- colleague
- commute
- communal
- contradict
Group B
- benign
- collections
- comment
- commencement
- contraband
Group C
- contrast
- benefit
- collaborate
- commitment
- eulogy
Group D
- collision
- commodity
- commerce
- contrary
- euphoria
- Journal 1
- Spelling 9: Ex. 1- Write words
- Grammar: Quotation Marks 1-2 (p.598-601)
- “Wrinkle” Preview Activity/Discussion: Before Reading
HJ1- Describe what you know about asthma, and what it means to live with asthma.
HJ2- Discuss what cardiovascular health is. Name specific aspects involved in cardiovascular health.
HJ3- Discuss the movement of oxygen and CO2 in the aveoli.
HJ4- How has physical health changed over the last 30 years? List/discuss some reasons for the changes.
HJ1- List 5 “healthy hygiene” practices that you follow.
HJ2- Do your consider yourself, overall, a healthy person? Why/Why not? What do you take into consideration when assessing your overall health?
HJ3- List the 3 sides of the health triangle. Then for each side, discuss something that you did over spring break that contributed to the health of that particular side.
HJ4- How do you deal with stress when it gets overwhelming?
HJ5- List the four Fight or Flight reactions.
HJ16- What advice would you give a vegetarian in order to assure they got all of the nutrients (proteins) that they need in their diet?
HJ17- What is BMR? List 3 factors that influence it.
HJ18- List 5 good hygiene practices.
For each of these you will watch the video, take 3 notes while watching, and then take the 10 question quiz:
BP1- Mood and Tone (under ‘writing’)
BP2- Show not Tell (writing)
BP3- Biography
