Saturday, November 1, 2008

Glossery Page for "devastating"

Headline:
Devastating news, only 28% of Vancouver voted in the last election

Aviva

Expulsion Glossary By Jonah

Expulsion

Dictionary:
The act of driving out or expelling.

Morose Glossary Page by Jonah

Acrostic:

Many people are depressed about failing the math test
On Monday Jason was gloomy
Ronald had a temper from fighting with his friends
Over the past week the class was sad because the pet hamster died
Sandy's tennis lesson was canceled, so she was gloomy
Everyday Jane misses her father

Friday, October 31, 2008

Homework

-Analogy worksheet (Monday)
-Multi-genre glossary entries and blog post (every Friday)
-Keep on drafting those essays

Have a fun and safe weekend.

Futile Glossary Post

analogy:
Failure is to futile, as amusing is to entertaining

expulsion glossary page

Headline:

-Kid receives expulsion for destroying school statue

Morose Glossary Page

Analogy:
Morose is to gloomy as unhappy is to sad.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Belligerent Bob Dialogue

“Hi,” said Ned.

“High!  I’m not high.  I don’t do drugs.  Is that what you think I do?” yelled Bob.

“No.  Really, I was just trying to be nice,” replied Ned.

“Are you mocking me?” hollered Bob.

“No!”

“You know what, let’s take this outside!”

"Well, somebody's belligerent today," muttered Ned as he ran away from Bob.


-Sam 


Hi, my computer wouldn't let me underline belligerent so I put in bold instead.

defenestration

Headline:
Demonstration leads to defenestration - protestor gets thrown out of window.
NY Times

Analogy

Analogy
methusala is to old as sad is to unhappy

Headline

This is my headline:



Local train stations have plethora of passengers.











-Abee

My Glossary page for the word"posthaste"

Hi Mr. G,

Here is my posthaste analogy:

Posthaste is to fast as unhurried is to slow

Aviva

Dictionary entry

[hyoo-bris,hoo-] Noun 

excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.

Melody

Dictionary Entry

Pessimist: A person inclined to see all the difficulties and disadvantages or to look at the dark side of things.

Successor

Analogy
Successor is to replacement as thankful is to grateful.

Newspaper Headline
"Liberals chose new successor for Stephane Dion."

~Adina~

Catastrophic

"A catastrophic oil spill loses millions of dollars for T.R.C oil management."

Analogy


Vista is to windows as Mac is to greatness.


-Benny

Ponder Headline

Headline:

"NASA ponders about life on Mars!"

Danny

Analogy

Excessive is to boundless as small is to tiny

Analogy

phlegmatic is to sluggish as big is to large