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The Outsiders Quiz

Tommorow students have a quiz on The Outsiders, chapters 1 and 2. 

Download outsiders_study_guide.doc

Students are keeping a CHARACTER ANALYSIS SHEET and creating a SLANG DICTIONARY from the book as they read.

HOMEWORK:  Study chapters 1 and 2 and READ Chapter 3

Monday and Tuesday

New Spelling Words

Students were given new spelling words:

mathematics, really, audience, usually, diamond, favorite, memory, restaurant, recognize, disgusted, secretary, miniature, tournament, vacuum, Delaware, gratitude, elementary, juvenile, victim, category

Novel Study

We are reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton.  Students were assigned books to take home.. Their books need to be brought to class DAILY for class discussions and assignments. 
Here is some information on the book: http://www.enotes.com/outsiders/

There will be a quiz on chapters 1 and 2 on Thursday, December!  We will be reading one chapter per night. 

STUDENTS ARE NOT ENCOURAGED to read ahead.

Monday's Homework was to complete the EDITORIAL and read Chapter 1 in Outsiders; list characters and describe each.
Tonight's Homework:  Read Chapter 2 Outsiders.

Can Food Drive

Right now....Ms. Bailey's homeroom has 197 cans! 

We are trying to WIN the canned food drive and we NEED YOUR HELP....Please reach into your pantry and donate that can of diced peaches that you bought to bake that pie, but never got around to......

Editorials

Today......

We read more editorials.  Students responded to two editorials about teens and adults, then they read a real-life editorial in the AJC.  They read a story called, "Evacuees Get 2 Weeks" and wrote their own editorials. 

Tomorrow:  Persuasive reading test and Spelling test (ed and ing words)
We will be looking at magazine advertisements and how propaganda and persuasive sell!

Parts of Speech Glossary

Here are the words that each students should have in their Parts of Speech Glossary:

noun, common noun, collective noun, abstract noun, concrete noun, proper noun, pronoun, antecedent, personal pronoun, demonstrative pronoun, interrogative pronoun, indefinite pronoun, action verb, transitive verb, intransitive verb, mental verb, linking verb, helping verb

Persuasive Writing

Today.......

We worked on completing some assignments from last week.  We completed the sheet on "Parents, Not Cash Enrich....", then the  persuasive essay, "Eternal Frontier".

Writer's Notebook
Students completed JOURNAL ENTRY #6 - Teens with private phones in their room.

HOMEWORK: 
1.  Complete/organize your PARTS OF SPEECH GLOSSARY (we have been keeping this since Oct. 3rd.  Students need to make sure it is ready to hand in THIS WEEK!
Words for glossary:  common noun, abstract noun, proper noun, pronoun, demonstrative pronoun, interrogative pronoun, indefinite pronoun, action verb, transitive verb, intransitive verb, mental verb

2.  Bring in a magazine!

This Week....

Ms. Bailey was absent on Monday and Wednesday.....

Monday:  Students had new spelling words (action verbs)
traveled, traveling, received, receiving, panicked, panicking, controlled, controlling, qualified, qualifying, researched, researching, argued, arguing, mimicked, mimicking, committed, ommitting, horrified, horrifying

Students completed spelling definitions AND sentences.
Grammar text, pages 317-319, Ex. 1,3,4 (in class)

Tuesday:   No School

Wednesday:   Students used READER'S HANDBOOK and answered questions on Persuasive Writing.
                      Spelling, page 31

Thursday:    Students read a persuasive essay in their LITERATURE book, "The Eternal Frontier", then answered questions about author purpose and audience.

Homograph Test Help

Here are a list of homographs that students need to study for the test:|
Homographs are spelled the same, but have different meanings......

volume
sound level on a radio; one book in a set; an amount

account
telling of an event; money deposited into checking/savings

scale
to climb a wall; a tool used to weigh objects

quarter
a place to sleep/stay; a coin

field
open area of land; a topic of academic interest

peer
to look closely; a person of equal standing

present
to be somewhere; a gift

tumbler
an acrobat; a drinking glass without a stem

Wednesday - Friday

                         Persuasive Writing

On Wednesday we worked on taking notes on PERSUASIVE WRITING.  Students are learning author's purpose as well as the parts of a persuasive essay.

In our Writer's Notebook, we have been writing entries about topics with strong opinions!  Our (5) entries:
A school issue we feel strong about
Cafeteria food
Women in professional football
T.V. watching
Opinion on homework

This Friday, students have (2) tests: 
Spelling test, homophones (definitions too)
Homophone test (they can study their homophone packet)                                                       

HOMEWORK:  Wed., 11/2 and Thurs., 11/3:  STUDY FOR YOUR TESTS

Fairy Tale Presentations

Today, groups presented their Fairy Tales after they submitted their PEER GROUP GRADES for group members.

We have two tests on Friday, October 4th - Spelling Test, Homophones and a test on Homophones (multiple choice).

HOMEWORK: Homophone Worksheet due tomorrow!