1. Unit #13 Tip of the week— Do NOT double the final consonant before adding –ing, -ed, -er, or –est in one-syllable words with w or x endings. exceptions – related rules to be learned in future weeks

2. Tip words— 1) mowing 2) waxed

3. Academic Verbs— 3) evoke to bring about, conjure up The writer evokes a sad mood in the poem. 4) negate to go against or contradict; to void The counter argument negates the claim of the topic sentence.

4. Commonly misspelled words— 5) dependent There’s a dent in dependent. 6) privilege I’m not privileged to have a vile leg.

5. Roots/prefixes/suffixes— mis/mit = to send biblio = book centri = center homo = same

6. 7) emit to send out 8) bibliography a record of one’s source books 9) concentric shapes that share the same center together 10) homonym words that have the same name (nym)—spelling—but mean two different things (n. wind versus v. wind)

7. Commonly confused words— 11) threw (past tense verb) Jake threw the ball. 12) through (adv./prep.) We will walk through the auditorium.