Week of Feb. 22

Friday
Took Roots (leg) quiz and vocab/parts of speech quiz.
Tales #57:
well if it isnt that cool dude with the fake chains and the atrocious grades he said. hello conan have you taxed you're brain lately
Vocab: atrocious, taxed
Howling for Justice (respond to and tape prompt into composition notebook).
Homework:
Study vocab, roots, parts of speech, etc.



Thursday
Our warm-up was a political cartoon about the Winter Olympics, with the question: What is the author trying to say; what is being implied? What can we infer from the image? We got some terrific responses and saw how our schema, or prior knowledge, plays into what we infer from images and text.
Unjournaling #197 (paragraphs one and two only): Create a character named Pat.
Remembering what we learned yesterday about inference (the stew story), students were to follow the prompt, but imply as much as possible. They then swapped with a partner and had the partner make inferences about the character.
Picture Prompt Writing: complete in composition book, and tape 1/2 sheet in afterwards.
Homework:
Study vocab, roots, parts of speech, etc. Roots test on tomorrow.




Wednesday
Tales #56
harold mortified that the lovley cassandra might think he is a wimp stood up to conan like a true warrior
Vocab: wimp, mortified
Worked on inference techniques. Practiced inferring from text and giving reasons behind inference.
Homework:
Study vocab, roots, parts of speech, etc. Roots test on Friday.



Tuesday
Students solved literary elements clues using the language arts textbook and previously received handouts.
Homework:
Study vocab, roots, parts of speech, etc. Roots test on Friday.




Monday
New Latin Roots vocabulary (leg).
Tales #55
just then harold spied cassandra who was setting on the couch chattering to another classy girl
Vocab: chattering, spied
Graded last week's vocab/roots quiz.
Worked on predicting activity: speculating about future events based on elements in the text.
Homework:
Study vocab, roots, parts of speech, etc.