San Diego Jewish Academy 9th Grade Humanities Vocabulary

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Week of 6-04 The Pearl | Top pulque, p. 4 indigent, indigene, p. 9 avarice, p.9 estuary, p. 13 poultice, p. 15 residue and distillate, p. 23 incandescence, p. 24 subjugation, p. 30 dissembling, p. 32 and cozened, p. 39, and legerdemain, p. 48 Nobel Prize Pulitzer Prize

Week of 5-07 Mythology | Top pulque, p. 4 indigent, indigene, p. 9 avarice, p.9 estuary, p. 13 poultice, p. 15 residue and distillate, p. 23 incandescence, p. 24 subjugation, p. 30 dissembling, p. 32 and cozened, p. 39, and legerdemain, p. 48 Nobel Prize Pulitzer Prize   Week of 5-07 Mythology | Top Pantheon archetype literary allusion River Styx ambrosia matriarchal patriarchal Oedipal Complex Five Ages of man "phil" hubris seer oracle Crete

Gods and Goddesses Zeus (Jupiter, Jove) Hera (Juno) Aphrodite (Venus) Hermes (Mercury) Apollo Artemis (Diana) Ares (Mars) Hestia (Vesta) Poseidon (Neptune) Hades (Pluto) Athena (Minerva) Hephaestus (Vulcan) Demeter (Ceres) Dionysus (Bacchus) and son Silenus Geia Uranus Cronus Titans Prometheus Epimetheus Pandora Eros (Cupid) Persephone (Proserpina) Charon Pyramus and Thisbe as archetype Daphne (laurel) Icarus Daedalus Arachne Midas Narcissus Echo Tantalus (tantalizing) Theseus (Aegeus, his father; Medea, the sorceress) Minos, Minotaur and Labyrinth, Ariadne Hippolytus and Phaedra Sisyphus Orpheus and Eurydice Aeneas

Week of 4-16 | Top bibliography citations personal voice byline pull-out quote drop cap initial cap evidence insight belief systems

Week of 3-05 From the vocabulary lists of 2-05 to 2-26, select any five words. Show your clear understanding of each by appropriately incorporating them into your Shakespearean scene.

Week of 2-26 | Top diverse predominate intercession distempered forsaken brine alliance commend toil poultice

Week of 2-19 anon thou aye enmity infinite beauteous friar rancor (or rancour) woo bawdy

Week of 2-05 | Top William Shakespeare sonnet tragedy prologue pun oxymoron Globe Theater mutiny star-crossed Cupid

Week of 1-15 tolerance threshold transition focus paraphrase translation equity borderland empowerment gender

Week of 1-08 | Top saunter veil dusk timid deceive impertinence folly shackles scandal mores

Week of 1-02 protagonist antagonist setting threshold excuse reason acknowledgement humility tolerance perception

Week of 12-11 | Top (presentation terms) rehearse visualization paraphrase audience delivery gestures eye contact focus spontaneity effective	Week of 12-04 (PowerPoint terms) slide slide sorter handout notes page background alignment spell check slide show animation transition
Week of 11-27 borderland Latin America nationalism mestizos mulattoes gabacha rejetas sin fronteras personification la migra	Week of 11-13 matriarchy vignette barrio translation heritage Latino(a) - Chicano(a) - Hispanic equity gender empowerment* repression *Empowerment: recognizing that people already have power through their knowledge, experience, and motivation, and then creating an environment that encourages letting that power out. - Katzenbach & Smith
Week of 10-29 | Top Take any five words from the previous weeks' vocabulary and one quote of your choice to create a show, not tell paragraph, poem, character sketch, vignette, or editorial. Coherent transitions, powerful language, and unexpected twists would inspire us. See sense web; one true sentence; show, not tell; and using quotes for added insight.	Week of 10-23 Analogy - a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump. Review all of the words in the list and be prepared to create an analogy for each one. See: Analogies - explains analogies and how to solve them on the PSAT or SAT. From the list of vocabulary words, excluding the words used for the week of 10-16, create two analogy roots and three possible answers for each. Answer (a) represent antonyms, (b) represents synonyms, and (c) respresents the correct choice. For example: QUEST:PILGRIM (a) NIRVANA:HELL (antonyms) (b) JOURNEY:EXCURSION (synonyms) (c) SURGERY:DOCTOR (correct choice)
Week of 10-16 Analogy - a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump. Review all of the words in the list and be prepared to create an analogy for each one. See: Analogies - explains analogies and how to solve them on the PSAT or SAT. Construct a test sentence for each of the following analogy roots. The sentence should show the clear and logical relationship between the two given words. For example: Nirvana is heaven. NIRVANA:HEAVEN QUEST:PILGRIM OMNISCIENT:ALL-KNOWING OSTRACIZED:INCLUDED SQUANDER:WASTE TRANSITION:SEGUE EXEMPLIFY:EXAMPLE GENRE':HORROR DESCRIPTIVE:FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE REVISION:CHANGE	Week of 10-09 sensory descriptive implication specific model irony figurative language genre convert revision
Week of 10-02 | Top lead (n) transition conclusion synthesize repertoire apply context exemplify coherent integrate	Week of 9-25 select five words from Siddartha
Week of 9-18 integrity rubric ostracized (Sidd. p. 37) benediction (Sidd. p. 41) courtesan (Sidd p. 43) disdain (Sidd. p. 62) squander (Sidd. p. 64) desolate (Sidd. p. 67) pilgrim (Sidd. p. 68) countenance (Sidd. p. 68)	Week of 9-11 Brahmin Buddha Nirvana quest omniscient incomprehensible esoteric prolific motif affirmation