October 7, 2009

Homework:
Finish Unit 2 vocabulary
The good draft of the Thank You, M'am essay is due Wednesday.
Get grade slip signed and return

Today:
Daily Buzzword and extra credit questions.
Reviewed the Completing the Sentence
Handed out grade slips (must be signed and returned)
Work time for last minute questions on the essays


Daily Buzzword and extra credit questions:
October 06, 2009
verbatim (adverb or adjective) \ver-BAY-tim\
What does it mean?
: in the same words : word for word
How do you use it?
Each student in Russell's class was assigned to memorize a poem and then recite it verbatim to the class.
Are you a word wiz?
"Verbatim" developed from the much older Latin word "verbum." "Verbum" is also an ancestor of other words such as "verb" and "verbal." Based on the modern words that come from it, what do you think "verbum" originally meant?
A. alphabet
B. copy
C. word
D. repeat

Take our word for it: "verbum" means "word." That Latin root is the ancestor of many modern terms, including "verbatim," "verb," "verbal," "proverb," and "verbose" (that means "wordy"). The Latin root is even related to the parent terms that gave us the word "word" itself. "Verbatim" first began to be used as a word in English in the fifteen century.

Extra Credit Questions (prefixes)
They were arguing unnecessarily about issues that were _____consequential.
The photograph shows a black silhouette _____imposed over a white sky.