Wednesday, September 26, 2012

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 17

"Everybody is a genius.  But, if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid."   Albert Einstein

·         Collected homework:

• Number your story 1 – 25.
• Staple it ON TOP OF the graph (staplers on center table)
• Give your story to the original owner of the graph and let them read your story.
• Then I will collect them.

·         Think about your list of 25 events in your life as I read the following story:
o   “The Farmer’s Luck” by Jon J. Muth -  from Zen Shorts
·         Write a new paragraph for “The Farmer’s Luck” using one of the events from your list of 25
·         Grade vocabulary tests
·         Next sentence type introduced – “5-things sentence”…(choose five items from the room then write them into a sentence by forming a relationship or connection between the items…) Then add a verb or a modal auxiliary (would, should, could, must, may, might, shall, can, will).
o   Finally, make a sentence out of what you have. (You will of course have to add words.)
o   Add chunking slashes
o   Share examples
o   Discussed our ability to do this.

·         Reviewed omniscient narration (pg. 233)

·         Previewed “The Interlopers” (read bits of beginning, middle, end; looked at illustrations; made predictions)
·         Read “The Interlopers” by Saki – pgs. 232 – 240.

ENGLISH homework:

Complete all exercises on the back page this week’s vocabulary handout.

Finish reading “The Interlopers” by Saki – pgs. 232 – 240.

Study for Friday’s vocabulary test: Lesson Three vocabulary words (edifice, ambidextrous…). The test will have a word bank and 20 fill-in-the-blank sentences – you provide the correct vocabulary word for each sentence.