Today in Humanities, students continued to type the revised draft of their informational article. Tomorrow will be the last day in class when they will have access to computers to do this. Students then took the quiz on their SUB root words and received new weekly vocabulary words, which come from the book I Promised I Would Tell. This week's words are:
1. deportation-n- the act of removing a person or people whose presence is unlawful or prejudicial
2. defy-v- to dare or challenge
3. bewilderment-n- the state of being confused
4. barrack-n- a structure resembling a shed or barn that provides temporary housing
5. inevitable-adj- incapable of being avoided
6. inhumanity-n- a cruel or barbarous act
7. ravine-n- a small, narrow, steep-sided valley that is usually worn by running water
8. cease-v- to come to an end
Students will practice with these words all week and then have a quiz over them next Tuesday. Later, we did some pre-reading activities for chapter 2, Into the Darkness. We talked about human rights, defined as those basic standards without which people cannot live with dignity. We brainstormed a list of what we believe are human rights for all people. Tomorrow when we read chapter 2 we will examine the events in the book which are examples of acts against human rights and those responses to the acts.
HOMEWORK: Vocab pictures for new words.
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