Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Announcements and Reminders for Tuesday, May 15, 2018:     Today we will check your composition books for your words, phrases, sentences from The Graveyard Book.  Next time is our field trip.                     Remember to wear comfortable walking shoes and bring a jacket if it looks like it might be chilly.   I thought this was a gnu because he knew about the weather, but it turns out it's a bison.

Targets for Today: I can read, write about, and discuss literature.

Today’s  Agenda for Tuesday, May 15, 2018: 1. Individual reading.  Finish your Holes answers, if needed. 2. Check composition books for words, phrases, sentences. The student will earn  one point for each word, phrase, or sentence recorded in the composition book. If the page # is included, give an additional point.  If the student has recorded three words, phrases, or sentences,  he or she could potentially earn 6 points for each day.  __________/ 4        May 11 __________/4         May   9 __________/4         May   7 __________/4          May   3 __________/4          May   1 __________/4          April 27 __________/4          April 25 3. Instructions for next time:   Come dressed for the weather and for walking.  Bring water if you wish.  Rules:   How to do gravestone rubbings:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GukkkmNEzR4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=100y2PdymJk   Begin at 1:15 -- to about 2:50 *Use only one side of the paper.  How to find a ghoul gate: Find the description in The Graveyard Book of ghoul gates. pg. 61       "One grave in every graveyard belongs to the ghouls.  Wander any graveyard long enough and you will find it -- waterstained and bulging, with cracked or broken stone, scraggly grass or rank weeds about it, and a feeling when you reach it, of abandonement.  It may be colder than the other gravestones, too, and the name on the stone is all too often impossible to read.   If there is a statue on the grave it will be headless or so scabbed with fungus and lichens as to look like a fungus itself.  If one grave in a graveyard looks like a target for petty vandals, that is the ghoul-gate.  If the grave makes you want to be somewhere else, that is the ghoul-gate.       There was one in Bod's graveyard.     There is one in every graveyard." pg. 74 "Bod stopped beside a grave that  looked the way he felt:  it was beneath an oak that had once been struck by lightning, and was now just a black trunk, like a sharp talon coming out of the hill; the grave itself was waterstained and cracked, and above it was a memorial stone on which a headless angel hung, its robes looking like a huge and ugly tree-fungus."   Please plan to take pictures!   4. Then Let's listen to more of  The Graveyard Book http://www.mousecircus.com/videos/ from  Chapter 6, page 174 to 24:54, page 188.  Continue to prepare for creating a map of Bod's graveyard.              or           To create an article, "Secrets of the Graveyard Revealed,"  describing the characters.

If You Were Absent on Tuesday, May 15, 2018: See above.

Vocabulary:

Help and Enrichment

Teacher stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlTHHslh74M

http://www.authorama.com/jungle-book-1.html