Week 7 (9-13 March)

Vocabulary 1. compassionate 2. liberation 3. prevent 4. assumption 5. provoke 6. dismay 7. intensity 8. indecisive 9. abundant 10. tolerate Spelling 1. torrid 2. gruesome 3. jubilant 4. melancholy 5. monument 6. colleague 7. nibble 8. weep 9. shriek 10. habit

Grammar: Review of continuous tenses; irregular past tense verbs Reading: Continued reading in the assigned texts News Articles: Its Time to Accept That Elephants, Like Us, Are Empathetic Beings, (National Geographic: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/02/1 40221-elephants-poaching-empathy-grief-extinctionscience/) Nuclear Bomb or Killer Asteroid: Which Would Kill Us All First? (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nuclear-bomb-or-killerasteroid-which-would-kill-us-all-first-1436817) Song: Happy by Pharrell Williams