Monday, October 22

Tuesday, October 23

• Vocab quiz - Latin Roots I
• Reading time
  • Add reading to log
• OED
  • English is descriptive
  • not prescriptive
• Finish symbols page
  • Write at least two good sentences per symbol
    • check the instructions!
• Finish other assignments!
  • Characterization story
  • "All Summer in a Day" q&a

Wednesday, October 24

• Latin Roots II - more vocab!
• TORT (TORS): twist
• 1. torture – 1. n. – anguish of mind or body; 2. v. – to cause anguish of mind or body; to twist or wrench
• 2. torturous, adj. – causing torture, painfully slow or difficult
• 3. torque – 1. n. – the force used to cause something to rotate(Also a noun meaning a twisted band of precious metal worn by ancient Gauls and Britons); 2. v. – to rotate or twist
• 4. tortuous, adj. – twisty, windy, and difficult; not straightforward.
• Read
  • log pages
• Book talks - including:
  • title and author
  • setting
  • characters
  • conflict
  • don't give away anything important!
• Poetry Wednesday!
  • "Acrostic" by Lewis Carroll
  • "l(a" by e.e. cummings
• Drawing settings!
  • half page each
  • 1 from OM&M
    • bunk house? barn? next to the slough?
  • 2 from your chosen book
  • include:
    • time - somehow
    • details of place
    • at least one character
    • 4 colors
  • under each picture write:
    • title of book
    • author
    • why this setting is important in the story

Thursday, October 25

• vocab warm-up:
• 5. contortionist, n. – person who can twist his or her body into odd postures.
• 6. retort – 1. v. - reply quickly or sharply in kind(to “twist back “); 2. n. – a witty, cutting reply.

VICT (VINC): conquer, show conclusively

• 7. convict - 1. v. – prove to be guilty; 2. n. – person serving a prison sentence.
• 8. evict, v. – to expel by a legal process; to oust
• Read:
  • log pages
• Handout for drawing settings!
• include:
  • time - somehow
  • details of place
  • at least one character
  • 4 colors
  • under each picture write:
    • title of book
    • author
    • why this setting is important in the story
    • a quotation from the book that relates to this setting
      • page number!
• note: did you start one for Of Mice and Men?
  • 5 pts. extra credit

Friday, October 26

vocab warm-up:

• 9. evince, v. – show clearly; disclose
• 10. invincible, adj. – incapable of being conquered
• 11. vanquish, v. – to over come in battle; to conquer

FRACT (FRAG): break

• 12. fraction, n. – part of a whole
• Reading time
  • log pages
• Visual Friday! - Lucky Strike ad
  • what's going on in this picture?
  • what makes you say that?
  • What more do we see?
• Book symbol assignment
  • look at model
  • figure out symbol in your book
    • what is it? how is is used in the story?
    • What is the author telling the reader with this symbol?
• Time to work
  • symbol assignment
  • setting assignment