The students have a vocabulary review sheet. There's an assignment for Friday (pictures or "invented" words or a combination for each of the 25 word parts), and a worksheet thing that we'll go over tomorrow.
The vocabulary quiz is Friday. This one is different because it's only going to have the 25 new word parts. That should make it easy for them to study and very easy for them to get a good grade on it.
Tonight's reading focus: style and voice--what kinds of things is the author doing to make the novel fun or interesting to read? We used O. Henry (see below) as an example.
Speaking of O. Henry, a pseudonym, we started a story called "The Ransom of Red Chief" about a 10-year-old boy who is kidnapped by some men wanting 2,000 dollars. It's a hilarious story! No, really. It is, mostly because of O. Henry's style. He uses a lot of irony in his work, so we took some notes on the three different types of irony--verbal, situational, and dramatic. As we read O. Henry's story, we'll look for all three examples.
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