Happy St. Patrick's Day My Little Leprechauns!
Today in class we received the remainder of our vocabulary/spelling words for part 1 of The Giver. If you did not have your note cards/flashcards in school today, please have them for me to see for Monday.
The next 9 words are...
Vocabulary The Giver Part 1 continued:
aptitude a natural talent or ability
avert to prevent something from occurring
crescendo a gradual increase in volume or intensity
benign having a kind or gentle disposition
anguish extreme anxiety or emotional torment
attribute a quality, property or characteristic of somebody or something
unanimous a view shared by everyone in agreement
fleeting passing or disappearing quickly
integrity the quality of having high morals or standards
For homework tonight, you must make flashcards/note cards for these words. And as usual, if you do not have index cards at home, make them with lined paper/computer paper/colored paper... whatever paper you can find! We do this so that you can use these as study tools. Re-writing the words reinforces their meanings into your mind, and come time for the test can be used as valuable study tools, so you can practice reciting the meanings of the words.
Today in The Giver, we read chapter 5 and learned about "the Stirrings"
*The Stirrings are feelings a person feels when they are hitting puberty. For Jonas, it was the feeling of "wanting" (desire).
* We learn that in this society, those feelings are controlled by pills that every person takes, starting from the age of puberty, to the age in which they get put into the House of the Old.
* The Committee of Elders has as a rule that each person must report their feelings of Stirrings, and that once that feeling is felt, everyone must take a pill that makes those feelings go away.
* The control your most basic human instincts/feelings
Homework: Note cards/flash cards for the rest of the vocabulary words. Vocabulary quiz Thursday.
See you all Monday! Be excellent for the substitute!
