Spelling handout for B1.
Spelling practice for all. -- 10 minutes
Test for all classes on January 15/19 on
Prefix to study: post- which means after
1. postgraduate
2. postpone
3. postwar
4. postscript
extra credit: script comes from scribere which means “to write.” (1 Point)
Extra Credit from looking here: In the word "postpone," the "pone" part means "to put," so to postpone something is to "put it after."
More Extra Credit:
[The word posthaste is from the phrase "haste, post, haste," a direction on letters.]
Word History for posthaste --
1545, usually said to be from "post haste" instruction formerly written on letters (attested from 1538), from post (3) "system for sending mail" + haste. The verb post "to ride or travel with great speed" is recorded from 1558.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harpe _______________________
More about our January genres and the Book-of-the-Month Assignment.
Books should be read by January 26/27.
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The Giver has a lexile level of 760L.
Read The Giver.
Chapter 3 = 10 minutes
Chapter 4 = 12 minutes
Chapter 5 = 9 minutes
Chapter 6 = 15 minutes
Chapter 7 = 16 minutes
Chapter 8 = 10 minutes
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B1 -- Chapter 2 through Chapter 4 -- Track 9 about 2/3 through
B2 -- from end of Chapter 2 -- "Did you still play at all, after Twelve?" page18, Track 5 almost done through chapter 4 -- just started chapter 5. Track 9 about 2/3 of the way through.
B4 -- almost to end of Chapter 2 -- "Did you still play at all, after Twelve?" page18, Track 5 almost done through page 29, top of the page, track 6 about 1/3 of the way through.
A1 -- to page 16 "His father smiled" to page 21, "Hippo."
A2 -- to page 21, "he, too, had that look."
A4- to page 23 Track 6, about 2/3 through "he had taken an apple home."
Gather evidence by observation.
Visualize what you read.
Notice your own alignment with the text. From where are you viewing the action?
Answer questions about the text.
Notes to teacher: assign speaker
