Greetings, students! I hope you're having a nice weekend, and getting some sunshine and fresh air! Remember to bring your Valentines tomorrow for our party!
This week in literature, we will be presenting our book reports on our colonial books. I can't wait to hear your scripts, see your finished costume and set designs, and hear about your book! You have been doing such a creative job on the pieces of your projects that it will be great to see these all come together for your whole presentation. We will have two students presenting per day, tomorrow through Wednesday.
Our next book continues in the colonial period, but will be from the point of view of a native captured from West Africa and brought over to New England to be sold as a slave. The book is entitled, Amos Fortune and is a true story. You will get your copy on Wednesday during class. Your homework will be to read Chapters 1 and 2 by the following day, Thursday; and to read Chapters 3 and 4 by Tuesday of next week, February 22. Your spelling words this week will be taken from this book.
Tomorrow, we will take last Friday's spelling test, so study those words from last week one more time.
HOMEWORK:
For Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday--make sure your book report project is completed. We will take volunteers to present tomorrow, but draw for who will report on Tuesday and Wednesday.
For Thursday, read Chapters 1 and 2 of Amos Fortune (you will receive your book on Wednesday)
For Tuesday, February 22, read Chapters 3 and 4 of Amos Fortune.
SPELLING WORDS: (define the words for extra credit)
1. lingering = continuing to stay
2. conical = shaped like a cone
3. reverence = deep respect or awe
4. rhythmic = having rhythm
5. obeisance = a gesture of respect or reverence, a bow or curtsey
6. reverberations = echoes
7. guttural = throaty sounds
8. incantation = a chanted spell
9. bounded = leaped
10. echoed = a sound that vibrates back to the ear
