Monday, November 25, 2013

Grade 9

Please note that all seven of the class vocabulary words have been updated to show their definitions. See the post for November 22.

Tonight, write a paragraph explaining how the speaker's experience in "I, Too, Sing America" and Virgil Tibbs' experience in In the Heat of the Night are similar.  We discussed three points of comparison: racism, how the two characters handle themselves, and how they feel they should be treated.

Your next spelling test will be on Monday, Dec. 9th. The words are as follows:

  1. elimination
  2. melee
  3. nonchalance
  4. occasionally
  5. feasibility
  6. authentic
  7. picturesque
  8. premonition
  9. redundant
  10. remembrance
  11. sincerely
  12. surgeon
  13. versatile
  14. vulnerable
  15. recipient