Monday October 27

Warmup: Look over vocabulary words
Computer Lab: NaNoWriMo signup and newspaper study
Vocabulary quiz
Word of the Day: concept (5), diligent
Chapter 6 discussion
News stories
Homework:  Read The Outsiders Chapter 7 and answer these questions:  What did Pony learn from Randy? How did that change how Pony feels about the Socs?

Also for homework:
periods 4 and 6: one half page or more news story about chapter 6, the church fire.
period 5: the lead of the news story: one, two or three sentences telling who, what, when, where and why

Vocabulary Quiz words:
4 and 6: condescending, conformist, convergence, deleterious, digression

5: compensate, compliment, complement, component, comprehensive, comprise

Thursday, October 23

Warmup: Page 56 Holt Handbook exercise 7
Outsiders chapter 5
Adverbs review
Word of the Day: comprise -5, digression - 4,6
Similes and metaphors
Homework: read Chapter 6 of The Outsiders
Study for vocabulary quiz:
4 / 6
condescending, conformist, convergence, deleterious, digression
5
compensate, compliment, complement,component, comprehensive, comprise