Week of Oct. 3

Friday
Students competed to find the culprit and weapon in the Kitchan Calamity crossword. Congrats to Matt for being the first to solve the puzzle!
They then engaged in deductive thinking exercises and creative writing prompts to stretch their mental capabilities.
Homework:
Read and review vocab


Thursday
Students took the Week 2 vocab Words in Context quiz.
Afterwards, they read and made notes on the novel.
Homework:
Read




Wednesday
BTales #8
since his joke had fallen flat and noone had laughed william waggish regaled his friends with a knew limerick aboiut girls that wear green. brown faced with expressive dark pupils williams composition of mischievous poems to hide his real aspiration to be as eloquent a poet as his secret hero langston hughes
Vocab: regaled, eloquent, mischievous
We checked the Harbinger vocab words and definitions (orange sheet) and practiced the song.
Students used adjectives to describe a picture, then read an article on the person in the picture. Based on the reading, they had to decide which adjectives to keep (with justification from the text) and which adjectives to add (with justification from the text).
They then, individually, had to write a paragraph using the Ways to Elaborate we have been working on (today we added Cause and Effect, Compare/Contrast, and narrative from others' experiences).
Homework:
Finish the paragraph. The paragraph and one picture per group (remember to add members' names) with adjectives added and justified due Friday at the start of class.
Review Week 2 vocab - words in context quiz tomorrow.



Tuesday
BTales #7
the last member of the troup sam sagacious simply stood wisely and mutely as he waited for the clamor to die down. he held a huge heavy book nortons anthology of poetry in his hand and pretended to read it but he really was watching alessandra amorous who he liked
Vocab: sagacious, mutely, clamor
We continued with ways to elaborate, and in groups wrote a paragraph using the techniques.
Homework:
WordSmart 2x and graph the results



Monday
New vocab handout: Harbinger
We learned five ways to elaborate, ways of improving our writing, and took notes in our Lit. Elements notebooks.
Homework:
Complete vocab match-up.
Review vocab from Week 2 - quiz this week.