Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Announcements and Reminders for Tuesday, May 1, 2018:

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

Today’s  Agenda for Tuesday, May 1, 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:   "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 In your composition book,  under "Word Collector, " copy two or three words or phrase you find interesting or useful.  Example:    2. Continue reading The Graveyard Book.   http://www.mousecircus.com/videos/ from Chapter 2  --  20:40, page 48 at the page break to Chapter 3, 23:27, page 77 "Come with us?"  3. Stop and Write  -- What frightens you?   Write at least a half page. 4.  Stop and Talk -- Use your __6___o'clock appointment.   Discuss  what you just wrote. 5,  More Graveyard Book. 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: See above. Read on your own in The Graveyard Book to catch up with the class.

Vocabulary:

Help and Enrichment

     I am frightened of car accidents and falling accidents, of losing one of the little children when we are out somewhere.  Heights bother me, and enclosed spaces -- more and more as I grow older.   Not having the "freedom of the graveyard," I would be frightened of ghosts or Indigo Men, and definitely of the Sleer.   This book tells me that the more we know about a situation, often the less we will be frightened, or at least we will know what to be frightened by.    Spiders don't scare me, though they can startle me.  The same with most snakes, though I would be frightened by poisonous snakes.
I am scared of losing control -- especially of losing control of my mind!