December 8/9, 2008
Attention: Your book-of-the-month club genre for third term may be historical or multicultural fiction, biography, autobiography, or literary nonfiction.
A Song for Theme -- Write in your composition book (about 1/2 page) about the song shown -- "Something for Nothing."
Word Sort for Suffixes -- Don't forget to study these for the upcoming test.
(By the way, I did find some information on whether to use -er or -or when spelling a word. There isn't an easy, simple rule, but there are some general guidelines._
Quiz on Topic and Theme
Example of the Book Assessment Project --
Remember that your CD projects are due next time.
Assign families
Reading The Giver, from page 50
For absent students --
Exercise 1: Word Sort for Suffixes:
Sort these words into three categories.
farmer
artist
doctor
lawyer
physicist
specialist
teacher
author
dancer
chemist
dictator
banker
butcher
podiatrist
educator
What part of speech are all of these words?
Exercise 2:
Sort these words into two categories:
Category 1: Words that have a suffix that means ____________
Category 2: Words that have a suffix that means ____________
hopeful
worthless
careless
careful
hopeless
useful
beautiful
useless
fearless
frightful
What part of speech are all the words in Exercise 2? _____________
Quiz on Topic or Theme
Topic or Theme
Identify the following as topic, theme, or neither.
_________________ 1. We can more easily forgive others when we realize what they must be feeling.
_________________ 2. Forgiveness
_________________ 3. Lily is angry at the boy on the playground who doesn’t follow the rules.
_________________ 4. How can we forgive people who offend us?
_________________ 5. Ron risks his life to help Harry when he plays in the chess game.
_________________ 6. Friendship
_________________ 7. True friends will go to great lengths to help a friend.
_________________ 8. Helping a friend
_________________ 9. It’s fun to play chess.
_________________ 10. It is often our differences that make us helpful to each other.
Read the song lyrics below, and in your composition book write about 1/2 page about the whole song or about any part of it. Label this entry "Something for Nothing."
"Something For Nothing"
Rush -- Lyrics by Neil Peart
Waiting for the winds of change
To sweep the clouds away
Waiting for the rainbow's end
To cast its gold your way
Countless ways
You pass the days
Waiting for someone to call
And turn your world around
Looking for an answer to
The question you have found
Looking for
An open door
You don't get something for nothing
You don't get freedom for free
You won't get wise
With the sleep still in your eyes
No matter what your dreams might be
What you own is your own kingdom
What you do is your own glory
What you love is your own power
What you live is your own story
In your head is the answer
Let it guide you along
Let your heart be the anchor
And the beat of your own song
[ Rush Lyrics are found on www.songlyrics.com ]
