- Bring your nonfiction book, if you have it.
- Media Center visit to look at and perhaps check out nonfiction books
- Finish and discuss The Giver, which is fictional:
- What about that ending?
- Themes/anticipation guide
Your nonfiction assignment is to create your own original text feature that your book does not already have:
- a glossary
- a who's who in the book
- a map
- a timeline
- a subject index
with no late work after March 12.
The last day you will be allowed to hand in this assignment will be March 12 (the deadline for all late and revised work for this term). You are encouraged to hand it in by March 1. We plan to have some time in the computer lab on March 8/9 in case you really need it.
Spelling test February 17/18:
Prefix to study: re- which means again
1. receive extra credit: (1 Point) “ceive” is from the Latin capere “to take”
2. review extra credit: (1 Point) “view” is from the Latin videre “to see”
3. revise extra credit: (1 Point) “vise” is from the Latin videre “to see”
4. revoke extra credit: (1 Point) “voke” is from the Latin vocare “to call”
