Other Lives

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/10/26/240955303/saudi-women-get-behind-wheel-for-drive-in-protest

So True!

Other Lives

http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2013/10/13/231460515/a-decade-on-a-boy-a-ball-and-a-west-bank-wall

Amigo Brothers

Additional texts:
"When Winning Took a Backseat" - Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo

Happy Birthday to the U.S. Navy!

http://www.history.navy.mil/birthday.htm

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

See Sample Character Cube

Character Cube Example: Ponyboy

1. Individual Reading Time

• Collect evidence from your book.
• Work on your book character cube evidence and rough draft.  Due today!
•      It is due today! 
• What's due? 
•     Pencil in your ideas on the blue template draft.
  c  Complete a notes page with three passages from the book about your character.
  c  Get your draft and notes page checked off by a teacher by October 9.

Hand in your rough draft and quotes for the Character Cube!
Don't forget to pick up graded work from
the lower wire basket for your class. 

2.           

CSI  American Fork



Now Investigating:  Conventions 
in Sentences Investigation 

Label with today's date and "Commas with Adjectives"

Comma Sense: Why or Why Not with Adjectives?

If you are absent today , go to the above link and study the rules and sentences.

3. B5 needs spelling tape-ins.

4. The Outsiders
B5   page 143 m. iTunes Chapter 9, cut,  20:50

B6 to middle page 158,   iTunes, page 155+, 4:24 



B7 to page 152,  iTunes  Chapter 9, cut,  34:50

B8 to page 143,   Chapter 9, cut , 21:36


"It ain't long enough. Sixteen years ain't long enough." p. 121

Contranym

Brian P. Cleary

A CONTRANYM is a word that is its own opposite. Examples: BOLT (means secure or run away), CUSTOM (can mean usual or special), DUST (can be to add fine particles, like crop dusting, or remove them).