Friday, October 22, 2010

October 29, 2010


Important Reminder:  Friday the 22nd was the last day to hand in late and revised work for Term 1. If you have an F, see me. 

1.  Bell-Ringer:Prepare to watch the movie again -- fill out anything you need to from the movie so far on the chart in your composition book, and receive your spelling to study for the test next week: your first prefix or suffix and the set of words that goes with it.  

   Our spelling for second term will focus and word parts -- prefixes and suffixes -- and commonly used words that include those word parts.  We'll work with one word part at a time, along with spelling the example words on the chart, with a test every week or so.  

 

Prefixes and Suffixes Chart 2010   -- This is a file to download.

A2 may not have received their handouts today for this assignment.

Your first prefix is bi- which means two or halves.  Test on November 4.

When you write it on the spelling tests, make sure you include the hyphen after it: bi-.
You will also spell the words bicycle, bisect, binoculars, and bimonthly.


If you can tell the meaning of each of those words (according to the word parts) you will receive more credit.


1. bicycle   = two circles or wheels
2. bisect = cut into two parts
3. binoculars = involving two eyes  (Ocular refers to the eye.)
4. bimonthly  = every two months or twice a month


No retakes will be available, so study the words and word parts sets as they come.


Halloween (and School) Spirit!

2.  Reading Minute:  See the calendar for your day.

A1 The 13th Reality by James Dashner

A2  Zoobreak by Gordon Corman

A3  Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

A4 The Watsons Go to Birmingham-- 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

4.  Reading:  Developing reading skills and learning literature terms and strategies. 

The Outsiders -- We will be watching the movie, comparing and contrasting the movie with the book, and comparing and contrasting the way the characters are portrayed in the movie and in the book.

A1 watched movie from  45:18 to end of movie. 
A2 finished book, watched movie from minute 27 to  1:34:20
A3  movie from  minute 34. (Socs chasing Pony and Johnny at the park) to scene 26 (motorcycle escort)
A4 movie from minute 35:26 to Ponyboy passing out after Dally dies.

Extra Credit:  Be the first to tell me the title of this movie that C.Thomas Howell (Ponyboy) also acted in.  It came out the year before The Outsiders, and he and the other boys pictured here were in a scene where they had something very unusual happen when they were riding bicycles.
This extra credit has been used.  It is no longer available.
See Ponyboy on the left, looking up at ?