TABLE OF CONTENTS

- NORTH STAR HOMEWORK

- VOCABULARY LOG

- PRE WRITING TASK

- WRITINGS

- RESEARCH

- REFLECTION PAPER & STUDENT SELF-ASSESSMENT

- NORTH STAR HOMEWORK
 VOCABULARY

NOUN

TARGET: a goal to be reached

We have achieved our target for quarterly sales.

Children were the target of the new advertising campaign.

WIT: mental sharpness and inventiveness; keen intelligence. A natural aptitude for using words
and ideas in a quick and inventive way to create humor.

He does not lack perception or native wit

My father, the family wit and teaser, knew better than to joke about the disaster.

SEIZURE: a sudden attack, as of some disease

He suffered an epileptic seizure on the subway platform.

I was prescribed drugs to control seizures.

ADJECTIVES

MEAGER: deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate.

They were forced to supplement their meager earnings.

They provided her with food to supplement her meager rations.

DILAPIDATED: fallen into partial ruin or decay, such as from age, misuse, wear, or neglect.

Health and educational facilities are dilapidated, with unemployment and inflation soaring
constantly higher.

We bought a dilapidated old house.

SORDID: (of a person or a person's actions or feelings) without moral principles; ignoble, morally
low; corrupt; filthy; squalid.

He sat with his head buried in his hands as his sordid double life was revealed.

I don't want to hear the sordid details of your relationship with Sandra.
VERBS

ATTAIN: To come to or arrive at, as through movement, growth, or the passage of time

Redwoods can attain a height of 300 feet.

The alteration-mineralization in the porphyry lithocap may attain 1 km in thickness

PREACH: to give advice, esp. in an annoying manner; to proclaim or make known by sermon.

Her parents always preaching at her to clean up her room.

The bishop preached to a huge crowd.

YEARN: to have an earnest or strong desire; long.

Joseph does not cultivate in his heart a yearning for revenge or retaliation.

Sometimes a yearning for power is not always altruistic.

DEFEAT: win a victory over (someone) in a battle or other contest; overcome or beat.

Arab armies defeated the Byzantine garrison

He was defeated in the last election.

ADVERBS

RATHER: instead, on the contrary

It's not generosity; rather, it's self-interest.

This is not a thoughtful criticism. Rather it is an insult.

CONJUNCTION

DESPITE: in spite of; notwithstanding.

Despite being one of the world's most 'volcanic' countries, Chile doesn't know much about its
volcanoes and needs to expand.

He won the game despite overwhelming odds.