Week of April 5

Friday
Tales #72 view here
Vocab: calamity, averting
Tales #73
harold sat down and hastily penned a letter to his vision of pulchritude
Vocab: vision, penned, pulchritude
We took this week's Roots Test (pend) and graded the last two Roots Tests (tain/stat).
Homework:
Review vocab, lit. terms, roots



Thursday
Collected the plot diagrams of The Highwayman.
Did some intensive AIMS review in the lab. If you were absent, be sure to visit my Lang. Arts web site and work on the games under the Literary Elements heading. Then do some of the Analogy games as well.
Homework:
Review for the quiz tomorrow (Roots - pend).



Wednesday
Tales #71
cassandra wrote a note to the valiant bespectacled young man to tell him that she is proud of him
Vocab: valiant, bespectacled
We continued our in-depth work on The Highwayman poem, sharing, reworking, and improving the extensions we wrote last night.
Homework:
Create a plot diagram/story map of the poem; include setting, characters, etc.




Tuesday
More work on imagery in The Highwayman poem.
Students found examples of figurative language in the poem, and later compared their findings to this online interactive version.
Homework:
Write an additional verse to the poem, describing a ghostly meeting between Bess and the highwayman. Start the verse with a line from the poem such as: “over the cobbles he clattered” or “the wind was a torrent of darkness.” Perhaps write from the point of view of a traveller witnessing the scene. Try to stick the same style and rhythm of the poem as much as possible.



Monday
Tales #70
the next day in school there was a renewed respect for the four eyed weirdo since their werent many middle school heros
Vocab: renewed
Copy into composition notebook and respond:
-- Some call death "the ultimate sacrifice." What are some examples of people who have died to save others? What do you think were their reasons for giving their lives?
Review rhythm, meter, internal and end rhymes, alliteration, and onomatopoeia.
Discussed what a highwayman was; read about the background of the poem.
While listening to a reading of "The Highwayman" poem by Alfred Noyes, students took notes about the plot, the characters, and what happens to them.
With a partner, answered 12 questions related to the poem (in composition notebook).
Homework:
Review vocab, roots, literary terms, etc.