April 27:

Vocabulary Lesson 16

Quickwrite: What would you do if someone knocked on your door and told you that you were leaving on an adventure the next day?  How would you feel?  What would you pack?  Where would you want to go?  Who would you want to take with you?

April 28:

Vocabulary Lesson 16

The Hobbit:  Today we started chapter one and worked on questions to go along with chapter one.  If you were absent, there is a full text version of The Hobbit on my website.  You can read what you missed to catch with the rest of your class.

April 29:

Vocabulary Lesson 16

The Hobbit:  We finished chapter one and the questions to go along with it.  We will have a quiz over chapters 1-3 when we finish chapter 3.  We viewed chapter one as adapted by the animated version of The Hobbit.

April 30:

Vocabulary Lesson 16

Writing assignment: We’ve read chapter one of The Hobbit and we’ve watched chapter one as adapted by the animated version of The Hobbit.  Compare and contrast the two versions of chapter one.  First, draw a Venn diagram in the space provided below.  Then, on your own paper write a paragraph comparing and contrasting the two versions.  You should include similarities and differences. 

May 1:

Essay:  Should he go or should he say?  Find a link to this assignment in the writing assignments folder located in the Fourth Nine Weeks folder.