Week of 9/24
This week students will be taking the major quiz over the Vocabulary 1 words. We will begin discussing genres and base words with affixes (prefixes and suffixes) and will be taking notes over these. Students will be receiving the Vocabulary 2 words to begin working on, and they will be due at the end of the week.
We will begin reading new stories this week, and we will be using this story to discuss and apply the Vocabulary 1 and 2 words. The stories the students will be reading are:
6th grade: “Lob’s Girl”; 7th grade: “The War of the Wall”; 8th grade: “The Lottery” (please note this story is not in the textbook – students will be receiving a paper copy).
In addition, students will have homework in their Word Explorer vocabulary books. They will be working on Lesson 1 – Using a Dictionary and Thesaurus. We will discuss the lesson and begin working on it in class, and it will be due the end of the week.
Don’t forget that this week’s reading logs are also due on Friday – 100 pages read total.
