Thursday, October 5, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:        Happy Autumn-Time!  Let's plan to go to the Graveyard on Friday, October 13.  The term ends on October 18, and   the last day to hand in late or make-up work is October 11.   Fall Break is October 19, 20, 23.

Targets for Today:  I can read for enjoyment, and participate in discussions about literature.   I can notice and appreciate the choices of words, phrases, and sentences made by an author.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. The Graveyard Book  Last time we read to the top of page 18.  18:50 Today we finished  chapter 1 -- through page 33, then to Chapter 2, 18:54       "In the hill," he said.    http://www.mousecircus.com/videos/   Today we will meet Silas, and . . . . ➨As we read, watch for interesting words and favorite quotes.   Add them to your composition book.  Examples: word and phrases :      "only moonlight, mist, and shadow (12)" ;  insubstantial   "insubstantial hand (14) "         obelisk (20);  masticating    The horse was "masticating a clump of thick grass (31)." lucid (37)  to descibe how Silas would explain things to Bod --  easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible: a lucid explanation.  quotes:    " If we can, then we will (16)." "Thou dost have a face like unto a squished plum."  page 43. 2.  Discussion Clock appointments --   Used: 4, 10, 7   Today ___5____  Discuss either your own choice of book, or talk about The Graveyard Book so far.  3. Read individual books. 4.  More Graveyard book    to Chapter 2, 18:54       "In the hill," he said.

If You Were Absent:

Planning
Chapter 1  -- 46 minutes
Chapter 2 --  43 minutes
Chapter 3 --  59 minutes    --   Ghoul Gate (begins page 61)
page 74   18:40  -- through the Ghoul Gate 74-98 in chapter 3

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Friday, October 13, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:                            Let's plan to go to the Graveyard on Friday, October 13.                                             The term ends on October 18, and   the last day to hand in late or make-up work is October 11.   Fall Break is October 19, 20, 23.

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Today’s  Agenda: 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."

If You Were Absent:

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October 3, 29017

Announcements and Reminders:

Targets for Today:  I can apply learning from literature to the physical world.  I can read for enjoyment, and participate in discussions about literature.

Today’s  Agenda: Prepare for Rithmatic Tournament -- the Melee!   Outside on the East side of the school --  Duel or draw chalklings   If time:  Get started with The Graveyard Book  How Neil Gaiman came to write The Graveyard Book http://www.mousecircus.com/videos/  The Graveyard Book Tour: Week 3  Minute :52 -end of this segment. Begin the book.    Watch for favorite words and quotes.  http://www.mousecircus.com/videos/

If You Were Absent:

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