Students copied down the definition of legend: a nonhistorical or unverifiable (not provable) story handed down by tradition from earlier times and popularly accepted as historical.
Examples of legends were listed such as King Arthur, Johnny Appleseed, etc.
"Word, words, words" assignment was distributed. Students were assigned 5 of 25 "Sleepy Hollow" vocabulary words to find synonyms for. They may obtain the synonyms for the rest of the words from classmates or do all 25 on their own, but all 25 words and their synonyms must be listed in the spelling/vocabulary section of their notebook by Friday. They should use the synonyms to determine the meaning of the word. If they still don't understand the word they should then use the dictionary. (Note: Dictionary.com, linked in the sidebar, contains a fine thesaurus function. The thesaurus in MSWord can also be used.)
We begin "Sleepy Hollow" tomorrow and plan to finish by Friday. At that time, they will have to write a news article about the story using at least 10 of the words from the above assignment.
Classes spent 15 minutes in the library browsing the Scholastic book fair.
Notes: The second benchmark exam will be given Wednesday. Open house is Thursday evening.
