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Friday, February 08, 2008

The Giver III

OM:

What is the morning ritual? What is its purpose?

Students had a substitute the past two days while my colleagues and I scored the ELA Assessments. Students should have read through chapter 8 by today. Took book quiz number 2 (they took the first yesterday), discussed some issues raised in the story and then continued reading.

Spelling test will be on Monday. Next list follows:

Spelling #16
Vocabulary



appetite (n) – desire, especially for food

drizzle (v) - rain in fine, mistlike drops

emerald (n) - green jewel

fumble (v) – grasp or grope clumsily

interview (n) - meeting of people, as to confer or ask questions

jewelry (n) - gems, or ornaments with gems

optimistic (adj) - having the tendency to be cheerful about life

plural (adj) - more than one

quaint (adj) - pleasingly odd or old fashioned

sacred (adj) - devoted to a god or God