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WORD MENU SWARM - Adjectives


TEAM A - 6th Grade Adjectives - A - M

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dPO1uDgTmB3zylJJ7SWohmPMj1yb3jqovPcMbBdTA78/edit

TEAM B - 6th Grade Adjectives - N - Z
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vGJUtwfQJswT0tpKslcsy8ISy3lpB4oHkPZidAy5btY/edit

TEAM C - 7th Grade Adjectives - A - M
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nAZici-HkwCDORvuLGeTHvWheu6nuZ4-Sac_btm92mE/edit

TEAM D - 7th Grade Adjectives - N -Z
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X2xhXkvux-gjhLTX0UpGgcEHTGIuDA3jmCoP7lES1U4/edit

TEAM E - 8th Grade Adjectives - A - M
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F210uV5Vsibi2z32pmBv2Djb6a0yaveRLpWuZxwox3s/edit

TEAM F - 8th Grade Adjectives - N -Z
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19qJYjTIJ-KBmo5WhZK8u25br_Ze8Vc2tNxbYtQtsJtU/edit

Links to Google Doc Presentations on Sentence Composing Grammar:

Opening Adjective Phrase
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cIKqLD7XFM-HqJUBuywYaETMahDUTEUgWDKo2Zo2ne4/edit

Delayed Adjective Phrase
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QL-sy9GvpmA3JcAtvZBoWkooI03bT-yXDkBdRn2gLMY/edit

Opening Adverb
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sKE3ooSTT5fkdOiaWiT3OWv7g8IMWfOFwP3YmnZIAzs/edit

Delayed Adverb

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FwuDlSOJbzEhXXCJLz9j4P7-RdXREIfPesyuMLZLnz0/edit

Vocabulary Word List for Test 4
Tentative Test Date:  Wednesday, 1/23

"The Richer, the Poorer” 

by Dorothy West 

p. 316-32

Words to Know:  whim, frugally, sentimental, self-denial, enhance

“One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts” 

by Shirley Jackson

p. 349-357

Words to Know:  ambiguous, genial, impertinent, insatiable, repress   

“Amigo Brothers” 

by Piri Thomas 

p. 363-371

Words to Know:  unbridled, pensively, bedlam, perpetual, game, barrage, improvise, dispel, evading, feint 

from “An American Childhood” 

by Anne Dillard 

p. 383-386

Words to Know:  reverent, spherical, translucent, redundant, righteous   

“Key Item” 

by Isaac Asimov 

p. 433-435

Words to Know:  circuit, complex, acceded, diffidently, neurotic 


"The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" 
by Rod Serling 
p. 417-428
Words to Know:  antagonism, contorted, defiant, flustered, idiosyncrasy, intense, optimistic, incriminate, legitimate, persistent

STUDY TIP:  Make sure you know the part of speech for the word, so you will be able to use it correctly in your written sentence.  :)

Vocabulary for Week 1/14/13