Hello Parents!
** Book orders are due this Wednesday, 12/2
Homework this week: Vocab hw due Tues., vocab quiz on Fri., reading log due Fri. There will occasionally be reading homework from our novels, based on what we get done in class.
6th: Continue reading, Touching Spirit Bear, by, Ben Mikaelsen. Skills for the week: types of figurative language
LA – character analysis, identifying types of figurative language in context
Vocab list – List #11 – words from other literature
7th:
LA – to/too/two review
Blue Rdg Grp – Continue reading, The Girl Who Owned a City, by, O.T. Nelson. Quiz over Ch. 3-4, chapter notes can be reviewed. Skills for the week: types of irony
Vocab List – “How We Move”
8th:
LA – to/too/two review
Yellow Rdg Grp – Continue reading, Code Orange, by, Caroline B. Cooney. Quiz over Ch. 1-2, chapter notes can be reviewed. Skills for the week: types of irony
White Rdg Grp – Continue reading, Code Orange, by, Caroline B. Cooney. Quiz over Ch. 3-5, chapter notes can be reviewed. Skills for the week: mood & tone identification, interpreting characterization
Vocab List: “Who Wants to be Called That?”