Monday, May 7, 2018

Monday, May 7, 2018


Announcements and Reminders for Thursday, May 3, 2018:
     We have only 18 days of school left, counting today and the couple of hours or so on the last day.

    Let's plan on our field trip to the cemetery on May 17.   Check with parents to see if any can come.  We need two or more.
                 

Targets for Today:

I can read, write about, and discuss literature. 


Today’s  Agenda for Thursday, May 3, 2018:

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:  
Example:   
gibbered  p. 85
loped  p. 88 
ochre  p. 90
pg. 95 -- Great, magical description as Ms. Lupescu and Bod travel back to boundary.
Lycanthrope is basically a synonym for werewolf.  (pg. 97)

2. Read quietly in your own book, or Holes

3. Continue reading The Graveyard Book.  
from the beginning of chapter 4  to  Chapter 4, 40:27, page 124

In your composition book,  under "Word Collector, " copy two or three words or phrase you find interesting or useful. 

"like a fluttering of heavy velvet"  pg. 100
unshriven   p. 104    from Oxford Dictionaries:  "'Years ago, the worst possible thing that could happen to a person was to die unshriven - or to die with sins still not forgiven.'

"a snap, loud as a hunter's gun"  pg. 108
"like a rotten tooth" p. 114
"winding its waves of fear around him, like the tendrils of some carnivorous plant." p. 115





If You Were Absent:

See above. 


Vocabulary:




 Help and Enrichment 



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