November 4, 2010

1.  Bell-Ringer:  Finish your paragraph comparing the book and movie of The Outsiders, if needed.  Revise and edit. Check to make sure you have all the parts of the hamburger there.

Receive packet for  "The Perfect Paragraph."  Perfect Paragraph Packet.pdf
Write your name and period on the front of the paragraph packet you receive.
Then
   a. Carefully read page 1 about creating paragraphs.
   b. Complete pages 2 and 3.   Creating outlines for paragraphs.

2.  Spelling test on bi- and words using this prefix -- with meanings.
        Receive handout for -able, -ible words.

3. Reading Minute:
A1: Once Upon a Marigold -- Jean Ferris
A2: Rascal --  Sterling North
A3:  Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites  -- Chris Heimerdinger
A4:  Confetti Girl -- Diana Lopez

4.   Watch the PowerPoint and fill in "cloze" notes about the history of our language.

History of the English Language PowerPoint 

Cloze Notes for History of the English Language PowerPoint

A1  to the Vocabulary Sources

A2 to the Vocabulary Sources

A3 to the Vocabulary Sources

A4 to "pig and pork"

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Your word part for next time includes two suffixes that mean the same thing:

Suffix	Meaning	Examples
-able	capable of   (adjective)	capable, agreeable, expandable, remarkable
-ible		edible, visible, audible, legible, tangible

See this post for more information on the test:

-able/-ible for spelling test

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extra credit:
Be the first to tell me how we got the word "television, including what languages the word parts come from, and get 6 extra credit points. See below:

Brian P. Cleary

John Baird coined the word TELEVISION by uniting the Greek word tele (“distant” or “far”) with the Latin word vision (“to see”). Had the word been all Greek or all Latin, we might be complaining that there’s nothing to watch on the teleopsis or the proculvision.