Friday, April 27, 2018

Announcements and Reminders:

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

Today’s  Agenda: If you have finished Holes and have answered the questions place your composition book in the top wire basket to be graded.   1. Check your composition book to make sure you collected words and phrases from The Graveyard Book last time. EXAMPLES:   word:  insubstantial sentence: "He looks like nobody but himself."  p. 25 If extra time, do some Individual Reading. Video tour of Highgate Cemetery:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-Y9IlFYJRU https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=highgate+cemetary 2. Continue reading The Graveyard Book.  from Chapter 1  32:20 http://www.mousecircus.com/videos/ to Chapter 2  --  20:40, page 48 at the page break In your composition book,  under "Word Collector, " copy two or three words or phrase you find interesting or useful.  Example:   "And what would that be when it was at home?"  page 27 "The morning rain came down like tears."  pg.  32 abode pg. 38 "Thou doest have a face like unto a squished plum."  pg. 43 3.  Stop and Talk -- Use your _____o'clock appointment.  Discuss each of the following, starting with the first, and going on as I direct. Discuss how you feel about graveyards.  Have you wandered in them, or only been in them for funerals?  Of have you been to a funeral?    What does freedom of the graveyard mean for Bod?  Did you have a best friend at about age five?  Tell about that.   4. Individual, quiet reading in your choice of books.  If you have not finished Holes and the packet to go with it, do that.

If You Were Absent: Read on your own in The Graveyard Book to catch up with the class.

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