Do Now Brainstorm a list of words that contain these root words and then guess what each word could mean cir cirum peri Week 4 cir cirum around circuitous circumscribe circumspect circumstantial ID: 771840
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Do NowBrainstorm a list of words that contain these root words and then guess what each word could mean. cir, cirum peri
Week 4 cir, cirum = aroundcircuitouscircumscribecircumspectcircumstantial peri = around, surrounding, near peripheral periodontal peril perish General Vocabularycompare contrast SAT Wordominous Literary Devicesetting Grammar Focus Review nouns and pronouns
monolith (noun)Definition: large, narrow stone used as a monument or for religious purposes circuitous (adjective) Definition: not straight, short, and direct not said or done simply or clearly Sentence: Rather than take a winding and circuitous route through time and space, the three Mrs. Ws decided to take the children a faster way, through a tesseract .
circumscribe (verb) Definition: to limit the size or amount of (something)to draw a shape around (another shape) Sentence: A tall electric fence was constructed outside CENTRAL Central Intelligence to circumscribe any suspicious person from breaking in and attacking IT.
circumspect (adj.) Definition:thinking carefully about possible risks before doing or saying somethingSentence: Charles Wallace must take a circumspect approach when dealing with the Man with Red Eyes and IT or his pride and arrogance will prevent him from saving his father.
circumstantial (adjective) Definition: providing or including the details of a particular situation or event Sentence: The three Mrs. Ws will need to provide circumstantial evidence that Meg’s father has been kidnapped by IT before the children can rescue Mr. Murry .
peripheral (adj.) Definition: not relating to the main or most important partouter/surface part of the field of vision Sentence: The children hadn’t been in the cookie cutter town on the planet of Camazotz long before they caught a peripheral view of the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building.
periodontal (adj.) Definition:surrounding a tooth, affecting and supporting the tissues and structures of a tooth Sentence: Because Charles Wallace had a proclivity for eating too many candy bars on Hallowee n, his dentist said Charles developed a periodontal disease.
peril (noun) Definition: the possibility that you will be hurt or killed or that something unpleasant or bad will happensomething that is likely to cause injury, pain, harm, or loss Sentence: The lives of Charles Wallace, Meg, and Calvin may be in peril if they attempt to do battle with their antagonists, the Man with Red Eyes and IT.
perish (verb)Definition: to die, be destroyed, or slowly break apart by natural process Sentence: Mr. Murry will slowly perish from the mind control of IT if Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin do not rescue him.
General Vocab: compare (verb) Definition:To say or show that something is similar to something else Sentence: The students will compare the texture of a Milky Way candy bar to the texture of a Three Musketeers to see how bars are similar.
General Vocab: contrast (verb) Definition:To say or show how two things are different Definition: The students will contrast the flavor of the Milky Way candy bar to the Three Musketeers bar to discuss how the two flavors are different.
Compare/Contrast ShapeWeightSmellTouchTasteHersey Bar Crunch Bar
SAT Word: ominous(adj.) Definition:threatening, suggesting something bad is going to happen in the future Sentence: In novels and short stories, objects, such as ravens, owls, storms, and dark clouds are ominous warnings that something bad is about to happen in the plot.
Literary Device:setting Definition:the time and location in which the story takes place. Setting can also include social statuses, weather, historical period, and details about immediate surroundings. Settings can be real or fictional, or a combination of both real and fictional elements.Settings may influence theme, characters, and action in a story. Answer the following question in your notebook: How is the setting of the town on Camazotz inspired by communist Russia of the 1950s? What do you think the author, L’Engle , was trying to show by including this setting in A Wrinkle in Time ?
Concrete & Abstract Noun Review1.Abstract nouns name feelings, ideas, or qualities. Concrete nouns name things that can be recognized by the senses.2.Glue “C” for concrete or “A” for abstract on foldable to identify underlined noun.3. Under your flap, write a sentence using underlined noun.
Review—Wrinkle in Time Words Do you remember the definition of. . . tesseract-a cube generalized to 4 dimensionssomber-gloomy, dark, depressingdubiously-with doubt/uncertaintydilapidated-run down lookinginexorable-impossible to stop
Grammar Focus: Review of pronouns & abstract nouns Definition:-any word that replaces nouns or other pronouns-The antecedent is the word the pronoun replaces.Example: The Murry family (antecedent) fixed their (pronoun) sandwiches in the kitchen. vague pronoun: when a pronoun is used but the antecedent is unclear Example: When Meg handed Mrs. Whatsit the sandwich, she sneezed. Who sneezed—Meg or Mrs. Whatsit?