Tuesday

We made a trip to the library today, turned in Uglies (some of the students shed tears), and grabbed our new novel--Walk Two Moons. Students will need to read to page 16 by tomorrow. There will be a short and easy and painless quiz.

We did some pre-reading stuff for the novel and had a little time to read in class. There was also some time to go over more of our word parts for this list. The word parts we looked at today:

numer means number (easy one!) like in the words numeral and numerous
fort means strong like you'd want your snow fort to be if you built one
agog means leader. I'm a pedagogue, the leader of a classroom.
plasto means molded like in the word plastic or rhinoplasty, one of the meanest words in the English language
ecto means outer. I had a friend in college who used to dumpster dive behind grocery stores, and his favorite find ever was a bunch of Hi-C Ectocooler, some drink inspired by the Ghostbusters movie. That's not nearly as scary as the frozen burritos he found and actually consumed in a grocery store dumpster though. But back to the word part--ectoparasites are parasites that stay on the outside of a body.
And necro means death like in the word necropolis, a city of the dead. You know, like a cemetery.

We'll get back to persuasive reading and writing tomorrow!