Today's mostly a research day. I have two sets of encyclopedias. The students, for whatever reason, just look at those with disgust, almost like they think they're diseased. I had one student pick up one of the encyclopedia volumes and ask, "How the heck do you even turn this thing on?" I also have over 50 books from our library and the Indianapolis Marion County Public Library and some folders with printed off website sources. They want to use computers and something they keep calling "The Internet" but they'll have to wait until next week for that.
They're busily taking notes, keeping track of their sources on a source sheet (I hope--or their plagiarizing!), and answering those research questions.
We finished off our word parts for List 11, and I collected their notes to give them their easy grade. Today's word parts:
ag and act both mean "to do" like in agile, agency, aggressive, action, activate, and react.
nounce means "tell" like pronounce, denounce, announce, and renounce. Those are all telling verbs.
And to finish it off, we had pro which means "forward" like with proceed, prognosticate, project, and promotion.
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