For next Thursday test our selections are:
“Why Books Are Dangerous” Neil Gaimon
excerpt from “A Tremendous Trade” a magazine article by Jeremy Caplan
excerpt from “Aunt Millicent” by Mary Steele
“The Scholarship Jacket” Marta Salinas
Vocabulary Words from homework sheet:
obvious, comfortably, sensible, gruff, term, eventually, shattered, frisk, suspect(verb), confiscated, interrogated, headmaster, sniveling(verb), fragments(noun), sarcastic comments(noun)
roots: philos, anthropos, bio, animare, homo
academic words : syntax, inference generalization, skim, scan, careful read
Reading logs and homework are now on seperate sheets and will be due at beginning of class on Thursday.
Please see pages section for info on next Independent Reading project due on November 9.
Students have been given directions for a characterization chart. This project should be completed as the student reads his or her own novel. Cards must be hand written.