East LA Scholars Squared Dictionary by Amanda Wheeler https://padlet.com/awheeler8/jekvqyqthm4z Our new favorite words en-us 2016-10-13 20:36:06 UTC 2017-05-17 03:18:35 UTC hello@padlet.com Format for Word Study Post awheeler8 https://padlet.com/awheeler8/jekvqyqthm4z/wish/131938345
Word- Part of Speech
1.  Sentence from the original text.
2. What you think it means
3.  Dictionary Definition (http://www.learnersdictionary.com/)
4.  Two examples of how the word is used in other texts
(use http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/)
5.  Original Sentence
6. Any observations about how the word is typically used.
7.  Morphology (other forms of the word)
]]> 2016-10-19 22:07:42 UTC https://padlet.com/awheeler8/jekvqyqthm4z/wish/131938345 Perish- verb awheeler8 https://padlet.com/awheeler8/jekvqyqthm4z/wish/131938527
  1. "They ultimately had to return to Europe where many of them perished in the Holocaust."
  2. died
  3. Definition: to disappear or be destroyed. 
  4. Examples:
    1. " that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth, "
    2.  Animals leap from the ground and perish, holding the air inside their lungs until they, too, suffocate. 
  5. Original Sentence: Many pioneers perished in their journeys to start a new life in the West. 
  6.  Often used in a religious or formal setting. 
  7. Morphology: 
    1. adjective: perishing (very cold, British)
]]> 2016-10-19 22:09:37 UTC https://padlet.com/awheeler8/jekvqyqthm4z/wish/131938527 Xenophobia awheeler8 https://padlet.com/awheeler8/jekvqyqthm4z/wish/133414689 1. Most of the immigrant groups who resettled in the US experienced xenophobia as a result of their ethnicity.
2. A sickness
3. Fear or  hatred of strangers or foreigners.
4.  1. "However, real change will not occur unless each of us can acknowledge the xenophobia that lies in our hearts. Xenophobia is the fear of people who are different."
      2. "not so many decades ago, we had very, very worrying developments of xenophobia and racism and intolerance."
5. Many people in the US feel xenophobic towards Mexicans. 
6. Used mainly in relationship to immigration.
7. Xenophobic ]]> 2016-10-26 17:31:24 UTC https://padlet.com/awheeler8/jekvqyqthm4z/wish/133414689 ethn awheeler8 https://padlet.com/awheeler8/jekvqyqthm4z/wish/133484541 2016-10-26 21:24:06 UTC https://padlet.com/awheeler8/jekvqyqthm4z/wish/133484541 e awheeler8 https://padlet.com/awheeler8/jekvqyqthm4z/wish/133484546 1."Most of the immigrants groups who resettled in the U.S experienced xenophobia as a result of their ethnicity" 
2.your background or culture 
3.the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition.
4. 337 cases were missing for race or ethnicity and 75 cases for gender.
5. The boys ethnicity was African American .
6.Schools determinating their students culture backgrounds.
7.ethnic]]> 2016-10-26 21:24:09 UTC https://padlet.com/awheeler8/jekvqyqthm4z/wish/133484546 according (adj) https://padlet.com/awheeler8/jekvqyqthm4z/wish/133484881 1. According to the latest Cato Institute study, the chance of an American being killed by a refugee   is 1 in 3.6 billion.

2. According means like when you talk about the latest things.

3. Agreeing.

4. provided daily 50-minute individualized intensive reading interventions in groups of two to four students. According to the researchers' findings, participants " demonstrated significantly higher scores than comparison students.
 be able to reflect on and respond to by the end of a unit. According to Wiggins and McTighe, by applying essential questions to unit design, teachers help.

5. According to my resource, it's going to be about my family.

6. A reference too.

7. Accord, Accordingly ]]> 2016-10-26 21:27:09 UTC https://padlet.com/awheeler8/jekvqyqthm4z/wish/133484881