Monday/Tuesday

The time with my lovely students is slipping away, like sand through my fingers. Oh, how I'll miss these kids this summer!

There's at least some truth to the above sentences...

I gave the students a "found poem" assignment for Night. A "found poem" is almost exactly what it sounds like--it's using words and phrases that are "found" in another text (a book, a newspaper, a magazine, a story, etc.) and recontexualizing those words (using them in another way) to make an original poem. Their job is to go through Night and find words and phrases that are meaningful, powerful, poetic, imagistic, descriptive, etc. and then use those words to write their own poem.

There's a Tuesday quiz taking us through page 97. It was super-easy for those who did their reading. Unfortunately, that's not everybody. We should finish the book up the next couple days and be ready to start the dramatized version of Anne Frank's diary.

Word parts:

vol is "will" like volunteer or malevolent/benevolent
trich is "hair" like trichosis (see below) or trichina, worms that cause trichonosis
troph is "nourishment" like autotrophs and heterotrophs (they're learning about these in science) and atrophy
tox is "poison" like toxic and detoxification
sect is "cut" like dissect, intersection, and vivisection
zygo is "yoke" like zygote and zygodactyl (birds with feet that look like yokes)
zym is "ferment" like enzymes and zymurgy, the chemistry involved with making beer

That's it for this list. I think we'll do one last list so that we can end with 15 instead of 14. It's a better ending number. That's 375 word parts unless my math is way wrong.