ORANGE DAY

ENGLISH 12

Today we worked on a new set of vocabulary words designed to help you write about/talk about yourself in the event of writing a college essay, going on a job interview, etc. We worked on looking up the definitions on our own, and then we went over them as a class...we will finish the rest of going over them on Tuesday....the words were as follows:

elitist
extrovert
introvert
glib
meticulous
vivacious
jovial
intuitive
inquisitive
cognizant
zeal
talisman
solidarity
altruistic
galvanize
potent
resilient
reticent
unpretentious
veracious

COLLEGE ENGLISH

1. Personal Narrative/College Essay unit
-do "kite or clothesline" verbal activity....
-do "internal scavenger hunt" activity on own
-begin sharing (whip) around room to share some responses
-for next time, please write a ONE PAGE piece based on ANY of the categories/items IN a category...be sure it is rich in VOICE!!!! It will be graded as participation
-we revisited the rubric for the personal narrative, reiterating what VOICE is

2. Vocab quiz is on TUESDAY