Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Announcements and Reminders for Tuesday, February 6, 2018: I am available for Cave Time on Tuesdays and Fridays.  Wednesday is an enrichment day in my classroom:  Mock Trial. Thursday is Request Day.  If you haven't brought your composition book,  bring it as soon as possible.  We have checked some of the items you have written  in your composition book.  If you need to catch up, see the tab above for Composition Book

Targets for Today: Read, of course! I can read for enjoyment, and participate in discussions about literature.

Today’s  Agenda for Tuesday, February 6, 2018: Don't forget to bring your composition book to leave in class.   1.  Read The Rithmatist from page 199 through page 227.     "Melee" is pronounced ˈmāˌlā. If you finish before the rest of the class, read your own book.  2.    In your composition book under "Reading Response Log" which begins on page 31,  write a 6-to-8 sentence summary of the section you read today. Label it "Rithmatist Summary 14-15" and add today's date   2-6-18. Discuss it with your 4  o'clock appointment.  Already Used:11 and 9 and 7  and 5 and 3 and 2 and 1  o'clock 3. Read The Rithmatist from  the top of page 199 - 227 to page 237, middle of page -- 6:28:15.   If we are listening to it, you may practice your rithmatic drawings (with pencil on paper). Summary for the part we read on our own:  Part of Chapter 14 Joel decides he needs to talk with his mother.  She is cleaning the floor of the dueling area.  He finds out that she works such long hours because she is trying to pay off the debts his father had accumulated before he died.  The money is owed to some people who would not be patient if she didn't keep up payments.   The next day there is a lot of excitement at the school, and Joel finds out that another rithmatist has gone missing.  It is Charles Calloway, the son of a knight-senator.  Four servants were murdered. Chapter 15 Joel and Professor Fitch go with Harding to East Carolina to check out the crime scene before the policemen destroy the chalk diagrams.   Melody finds out that they are going -- without her -- and is very angry.  Harding is asking parents to send their children back to the school -- both rithmatists and nonrithmatists.   They find out that the strange chalk lines are actually  rithmatic.

If You Were Absent: See above.

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