Monday, March 29, 2010

Week of March 29

Friday
No School - Spring Break Day



Thursday
Tales #68
and to farther complicate things at that moment belindas parents return to there abode
Vocab: complicate, abode
Tales #69
harold the brave hero never faltered. its my fault he told belindas irate parents as he rose up to greet them
Vocab: faltered, irate
Completed, graded, and collected packet on figurative language and rhyme scheme.
Practiced writing imagery and personification.
Homework:
Review vocab, roots, literary terms, etc.



Wednesday
Collected w/s 112 from yesterday.
Completed, graded, and collected packet on figurative language and finding information in the dictionary.
Played a Jeopardy-style game to review figurative language.
Homework:
Review vocab, roots, literary terms, etc.



Tuesday
Checked and discussed w/s from yesterday (Cliches, Vivid Lang.).
Completed, discussed, collected w/s 111 and 113 (sensory details, proofreading).
Homework:
w/s 112 - Visualizing Comparisons



Monday
Tales #67
everyone else stood stupefied unable to move their limbs like frogs who have been mesmerized by a flashlight
Vocab: stupefied
Graded "Why I don't shoot bears" packet.
Copy into Composition Notebook and respond:
Serene, Scary, or Suspenseful
The mood of a story of passage is the general feeling it conveys. A story's mood might be tense in one passage and light in another. U se the sentence below as the first line of a story, and then create six differet second sentences, each of which creates a different mood.
Pierre sat quietly and stared out the window.
Homework:
w/s 70 and 94: Cliches and Using Vivid Language