Wednesday, February 26 20th century seniors

Learning Targets: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 11-12 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.6 Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. Agenda: 1. Introduce vocab list: 20 new words from One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. see clues below (20 minutes) 2. Students will work individually to make a comic strip from characters or a scene in the novel using 7 words from the new list. 3. Students will turn in their comic strips as an exit slip. Homework: Read to page 112 A visiting doctor covered with gray

Need: Vocab list and clues Blank sheets of paper Markers

One Flew Over the cuckoos nest vocabulary #1

1. Placate: (verb) to calm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPr936y2veQ Leslie Knope upset needs to calm, placate. 2. Ornery: (adj.) of ugly disposition; hard to manage If the class becomes ornery- difficult to manage. What does an ornery class look like? Loud, obnoxious, stubborn.

3.

Veritable: (adj) real

4.

Gripe: (verb) to complain constantly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcoIMyU9bE4 The office Dwight complaints 5. Deduce: (verb) derive or conclude by reasoning Similar to reduce 6. Ethereally: (adv) heavenly Ether- upper regions of space- air or sky 7. 8. Forlorn: (noun) depressed Straggle: (verb) to stray or fall behind. Straggler- noun. this is the verb- to Struggle keeping up 9. Braggart: (noun) a person who does a lot of bragging; a boastful person Brag is in the word. Friend named ART BRAGS a lot 10. Derision: (noun) contemptuous or jeering laughter; ridicule

Story of me student teaching and I was met with derision. 11. Ruminate: (verb) to reflect on over and over again Monday you were introduced to existensialism. If you went home and incessantly reflected on it then you would be ruminating over existensialism. Or if you were dumped you would be ruminating on your relationship. 12. Imperious: (adj.) arrogantly domineering or overbearing. King-like. This is describing someone on my team as a freshman came in imperious. Very dominant, arrogant, and overbearing and expected everyone to obey/follow them. 13. Emaciated: (adj.) very thin, especially due to starvation or illness Victims of the holocaust looked emaciated. Very thin because of starvation 14. Sedentary: (adj.) inactive; tending to laziness

Sed- looks like seat. Stationary. 15. Lethargic: (adj.) sluggish; tired

After a big thanksgiving meal I feel lethargic and sleepy. 16. Verbose: (adj.) containing more words than necessary; extremely wordy. From verbum which means word. Wordy-writing or speaking 17. Perfunctory: (adj.) characterized by routine or superficiality, mechanical; lacking in

interest or enthusiasm Funk is in the middle. function Something you do out of habit and without enthusiasm. Examples-take out the garbage, wash dishes, homework. 18. Squeamish: (adj.) easily nauseated Some people are squeamish when they see blood 19. Gregarious: (adj.) extremely social or outgoing Greg- people person 20. Didactic: (adj.) designed to teach morality; moral instruction