Announcements and Reminders:
If you have not handed in your book assessment (the cube), turn it in as soon as possible. (Quality copy -- NOT cut out -- rough draft, and rubric)
Friday is the last day to hand in late or revised work and extra credit.
Turn in hall passes if you don't plan to use them this time or next time.
Next time: Bring Treats to eat and/or share, if you wish.
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Today's activities:
(A1 -- Birthday recognitions -- B7)
1. Write to this prompt: Respond with what you know, what you think, how it makes you feel.
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Child Soldiers: It's Not Happening Here,
But It's Happening Now Under Notes and QuickWrites, respond to the above image and caption. Write at least 1/2 page. |
2. Vocabulary: page 25 in your composition book
a. Frigid: very cold in temperature as in "frigid water."
b. List as many adjectives as you can that refer to how warm
or how cold the temperature (weather) is. This is a contest.
3. Reading from A Long Walk to Water
Words for Temperature:
bitter, freezing, frozen, frosty, icy, gelid, chilly, chill,wintry, bleak, subzero, arctic, Siberian, bone-chilling, polar, glacial,hypothermic; nippy
balmy
hot
lukewarm
mild
pleasant
sunny
sweltering
temperate
tepid
broiling
close
melting
roasting
scorching
sizzling
summery
toasty
warmish
warm, burning, scorching, boiling, blistering,sizzling, searing, broiling, fiery, heated, scalding,blazing, humid, red, sultry, sweltering, torrid,tropical, white, baking, calescent, close,decalescent, febrile, fevered, feverish, feverous,flaming, igneous, incandescent, like an oven, on fire, ovenlike, parching, piping, recalescent,roasting, smoking, steaming, stuffy, summery,sweltry, thermogenic, tropic, very warm
stifling, muggy, oppressive
cold, chilly, chill, nippy, fresh, arctic, frigid, frosty,refreshing, air-conditioned, biting, chilled, chilling,nipping, refrigerated, algid, coldish, frore, gelid, shivery, snappy, wintry
b. List as many adjectives as you can that refer to how warm
or how cold the temperature (weather) is. This is a contest.
3. Reading from A Long Walk to Water
Images for A Long Walk to Water
A1 to page 107
B5 page 81 to page 113
B6 page 79 to
B7 page 73 to
B5 page 81 to page 113
B6 page 79 to
B7 page 73 to
Words for Temperature:
bitter, freezing, frozen, frosty, icy, gelid, chilly, chill,wintry, bleak, subzero, arctic, Siberian, bone-chilling, polar, glacial,hypothermic; nippy
balmy
hot
lukewarm
mild
pleasant
sunny
sweltering
temperate
tepid
broiling
close
melting
roasting
scorching
sizzling
summery
toasty
warmish
stifling, muggy, oppressive
cold, chilly, chill, nippy, fresh, arctic, frigid, frosty,refreshing, air-conditioned, biting, chilled, chilling,nipping, refrigerated, algid, coldish, frore, gelid, shivery, snappy, wintry
