1. January 7, 2013  Welcome back!! Sit where you want. You’ll have a seating chart tomorrow!  Come in and get a piece of paper out.  We are reviewing policies and Unit 5 Vocab for your TEST on Wednesday!  Schedule for the week is on the board!

2. INFORMATION:  Phone: 832-484-4195  Email: mshallenberger1@kleinisd.net  Room: 418  Website: http://classroom.kleinisd.net/webs/ mshallenberger1

3. MATERIALS  You will need a binder (one inch, 3 rings) for this class. BRING EVERY DAY!!  You will need a spiral that will be left in your class period bin.  You will need a pen or pencil every single day.  Keep all handouts, current assignments, notes, and returned assignments in this binder.  You will need loose leaf paper.

4. TURNING IN WORK  Your grade will reflect the quality of work you turn in.  Use blue or black ink. Write neatly.  Heading must be in top left corner:  Name  Class Period  Date  All major graded writings will be turned in on turnitin.com

5. Make Up Work  The Schedule is on the board and on the website.  Check the board for the absent policy.  Here it is for a reminder:  Check to the white board/website for what you missed  Get the date and check that number folder in the folder holder  If it’s a test/quiz/ or assignment that’s not in there, YOU schedule a time when to make it up  IMPORTANT: don’t just not do your work because you weren’t here. It will kill your grade.

6. More info  You still get 3 hall passes  You may retest for 69 or below…  If you need help, ASK! Or stay for tutoring. You must schedule this with me.  This Wed, 1/9/12, is “end of semester grade bootcamp” and Tuesdays project make ups. There are 30 of you failing for the SEMESTER, as of right now you’ll be taking this class over.  Unit 5 Vocab test on Wed. Make ups are Wed-Fri AM.  Finals next week!

7. audio  https://www.sadlier- oxford.com/vocabulary/iwords/Level_F/Unit_5/Vocabular y_LevelF_Unit5.mp3 https://www.sadlier- oxford.com/vocabulary/iwords/Level_F/Unit_5/Vocabular y_LevelF_Unit5.mp3

8. amnesty ( noun) pardon for an offense against the government; any act of forgiveness pardon My sister needs to declare amnesty against her ex- husband and get on with her life.

9. autonomy (noun) self- government; political control independence home rule self-governed Toddlers enjoy a sense of autonomy as soon as they begin to walk on their own.

10. axiomatic (adj) self-evident; expressing a universally accepted idea  self-evident  taken for grated  obvious The passengers on the Axiom spaceship in the movie “Wall-e”, never questioned their axiomatic existence living in space for generations.

11. blazon (Verb) to adorn or embellish; to publish or proclaim widely broadcast broadcast trumpet trumpet She couldn’t wait to blazon her “In a Relationship” status on Facebook.

12. caveat ( noun) a warning to prevent misunderstanding or discourage behavior  word to the wise  admonition The teacher tried subtle caveats to let the students know that they needed to settle down and get to work.

13. equitable (adj) fair, just, embodying principles of justice rightreasonable even handed $50 for a day’s work washing windows seemed equitable.

14. extricate ( verb) to free from entanglement; to remove with effort extractdisentangle It took all afternoon to extricate the cat from the tree.

15. filch (verb) to steal, especially in a sneaky way. swipepurloinPilfer I was shocked to discover he had been filching money from his little sister’s piggy bank,

16. flout (verb) to mock, treat with contempt sneer at scorn scoff at She flouted the Homecoming tradition and refused to wear a mum.

17. fractious (adj) unruly; quarrelsome, tending to be troublesome recalcitrantpeevish One fractious student in a class can cause the everyone to be miserable; it is best to remove him.

18. precept (noun) a rule of conduct or action principlemaxim Mrs. Zellmer has rather strict precepts for classroom behavior.

19. salutary (adj) beneficial, helpful, healthful wholesomecurativesalubrious Daily exercise will have a salutary effect on your weight and stress levels.

20. scathing (adj) bitterly severe, causing great harm ferociousharshsearing After reading the scathing comments about the applicant, we certainly didn’t want to hire him.

21. scourge (verb) to whip or punish severely (noun) a cause of suffering flogbeatplaguepestilence You should not scourge the donkey to get him to behave. The one freshman in the group was a scourge to their mature conversation.

22. sepulchral (adj) typical of the tomb/grave; extremely gloomy dolefullugubriousmournful The sepulchral background music in the commercial made me even more depressed.

23. soporific ( adj) tending to cause sleep (noun) something that causes sleep narcoticanesthetic My husband will not attend the ballet with me because he feels it is soporific.

24. straitlaced (adj) extremely strict in moral standards; prudish; puritanical overly strict stuffy The straitlaced student would not feel comfortable at a wild, permissive party.

25. transient (adj) lasting only a short time (noun) one who stays only a short time. impermanentephemeral George and Lennie were transient farm workers.

26. unwieldy (adj) not easily carried or managed because of size or complexity cumbersomebulkyimpractical The giant sack of football equipment was too unwieldy for one guy to carry.

27. vapid (adj) dull, uninteresting; lacking in sharpness, flavor, or liveliness blandlifelessboringinsipid I was totally bored by the play because most of the actors were just plain vapid.