9TL Vocabulary Homework Week One

Well, we're almost done with our first full week of school; how do you like high school so far? In case you didn't have a chance to write down our vocabulary this week the words are:  Flash-Forward, Resolution, Flashback, Climax, Sequence, Exposition, Atmosphere, Foreshadowing, Plot, Setting and Conflict. Your homework for vocabulary was:

Monday: Define each vocabulary word and identify its part of speech (is it a verb, adjective, noun, etc.)

Tuesday: Write a sentence for each vocabulary word using context clues. An example would be: Mrs. Ordway said that a novels climax is the most exciting part of the whole story. This sentence gives the reader an idea of what the underlined word actually means if they are unsure.

Thursday: Create a plot diagram or find make one here at Read Write Think using their Online Plot Diagram if you create one online please don't forget to PRINT IT out.

Friday: All vocabulary work is due, staple and make sure that each page has the correct MLA format in the top LEFT hand corner of your paper. You will also have a quiz on these words, you will match words to definitions as well as put the words in sentences using context clues to help you.

On a side note, we will talk about quoting someone or something next week and I thought you should know what a proper quotation looked like.  Whenever you quote something that already has quote marks you will have double quotes on the outside and single quotation marks inside, it will look like this: " 'Ugh! It's like moist black velvet' "(7, Connell). Notice that after the quote you have to tell me where and whom wrote what you are quoting and this information is always in paraenthesis ( ) and then the period goes after the paraenthesis. In this case this quote can be found on page 7 of our Holt text book and the story was written by Richard Connell.

Happy Wednesday!