INTO THE WILD
VOCABULARY
Monday, February 23rd
SWBAT define vocabulary in
context in ITW
Do Now:
Write down these words (not in your journal)
and guess what they mean.
 Congenial
 Escarpments
 Antimony
 Anomaly
 Contumacious
WEEK AHEAD
 Monday
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Define SAT WORDS
READ CHAPTERS 5 AND 6 OF ITW AND WRITE
ONE JOURNAL ENTRY FOR THURSDAY
 Tuesday:
 Wednesday
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ESSAY DUE TODAY
 Thursday
 Friday:
SAT QUIZ 8
Vocabulary Activity
Chapters 1-3
congenial (5) - escarpments (10) -antimony (10) - anomaly (11) contumacious (11) visage (16) amiable (16) convivial (18) - plebeian (18) - mien (18) onerous (22) –
Chapters 4-5
egress (28) -indolently (32) –saline (32) - sere (32) –bourgeois (39) –
lumpen (39) –itinerant (43) - primordial (44) –fatuous (44) –sedentary (44) –
Chapters 6-7
hegira (48) - creosote (48) –desiccated (49) –
phantasmal (49) arroyo (49) –
indigent (50) –
destitute (51) - serape (51) –harangues (51) –
fulminate (52) –
endemic (52) –
unalloyed (55) unbidden (63) –
GROUP CONTEXT ACTIVITY
 Use
the sheet.
 First spend five-ten minutes going through
each word and guessing the definition.
The number corresponds to page
number. Look at the word in context.
 Then take the dictionary and use your
phone to define the words on your list.
 When done, put words on the board.
SHARE WORDS
 How
many of your guesses in context
were actually right,