Self-Starter:
a. "Holiday"
Write/list/ get down all you can think of about your Christmas/New Year's vacation. Write continuously for about five minutes. Don't worry about writing complete sentences or about spelling or punctuation as you do this.
b. Clocks -- set appointments
c. Pair Share
d. Write, in complete sentences, describing Christmas the best you can for someone who has never experienced or even heard of it before. This would be someone like the people who live in the community of the Giver -- people who do not have books or movies or passed-down memories, or even weather the way we know it.
We read from The Giver --
The Giver
A1 page 108 to page 125, right after "'Love.' It was a word and concept new to him."
A2 page 118 to page 130
A3 page 118 to page 126, right before the page break and "Father? Mother?"
A4 page 121 to page135, right before the page break and "Back in their dwelling, that evening. . . "
Reminders:
The spelling test on "fore-" will be given on January 5.
The next test will be on the suffixes -er and -or on January 11.
If you have not taken or finished the November/December Book-of-the-Month Assessment, you need to come in this week to finish it.
No late, make-up, or extra credit work will be accepted in this class after Friday, January 6.
