We spent some time reviewing our vocabulary word parts from List 8. I also gave the students an assignment--they have to make 25 new inventions for the word parts. They need to name their invention (with the word part in the name) and write a brief description of what the invention does. Hopefully, what the invention does will have something to do with the word part's meaning. You want an example?
A Sensomatic 5000 (because inventions sound cooler when they have numbers after them) is a thing you wear on your head. It will start vibrating to let you know when somebody is about to TOUCH you.
Ok, that's dorky. But doing this will help the word parts stick in their heads. I hope.
Oh, important announcement: I'm moving the next vocab test to next Friday instead of next Wednesday.
We had some discussion over the novel and the nonfiction text we read earlier in the week. Things are getting good in Yellow 1793! New conflicts are popping up, and we're really getting a chance to see what our characters are made of! The students answer three constructed response questions, and they graded a peer's C.R. using the ISTEP rubric.
I collected the grammar homework. We'll review the sentence stuff from yesterday on Friday.
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