Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Help for tonight's homework and next week's TEST

Tonight's homework is to read and complete a section of the green sheet and to do a double-sided worksheet reviewing terms and vocabulary for next week's test. The students should have all they need in their notes, but just in case, here are the words :

Language Arts Terms

Journal Setting Audience
Character Monologue Transition
Sensory Details Action Persuasion
Understatement Conflict Tall Tale
Description Dialogue Characterization
Persuasion Exaggeration / Hyperbole / Overstatement
Voice Tone Argumentation
Coherence Argumentation / Organization
Logic Generalization Supporting Details
Theme Moral Onomatopoeia
Alliteration End Rhyme Repetition
Issue Objective Subjective
Simile Metaphor Drama / Play
Narrator Fiction Non-fiction
Poetry Folk Tale Genre

Fun and Useful Words:

Heed
Conflagration
Reap
Combustible
Etiquette
Balk
Juvenile
Delectable
Culinary
Judicious
Simian
Vague
Toil
Tyro
Lionize
Jostle
Notorious

Word Parts:

Prefixes: Ex, Uni, Mono, Pyro, Ambi, In, Im, Anti
Roots: Aud, Rupt, Agri, Gastro, Onym, Spec,Dynam, Man, Mania
Suffixes: Ish, Able, Ible, Ous, Ess, Ful, Y