Literacy Skills for October 14-17, 2008

Literacy Skills for October 14-17, 2008

Due: Tuesday, October 14--Three reading responses are due in Lit. Skills class today.
I am giving students time to complete the Cracker Jackson comprehension work, due October 20-24. Students are to find at least one web address for a topic related to the novel, HOOT. Write the address and bring to class. Students have been assigned vocabulary work for HOOT. Definitions are due October 17 and October 23.
List: Chapters 1-5: ambush, vandalism, monetary, humidity, skeptical, dogged(ly), sarcasm, menace, consternation ( Definitions are due October 17.) snide, baleful (ly), provoke, sinewy, gore(d), disgruntled, dispatcher, forthright(ly), civilized. Definitions due October 23.
Other vocabulary . Assignments will be announced.--Chapters 6-9: assertive, surveillance, perpetrators, jeopardy, altercation, ominously, sodden, menacing(ly), caustic(ly), homicide, fervent(ly), informant, noncommittal, queasy, incentive, scabrous, nonchalant(ly), travesty. Chapter 10-14--truss, beaker, recurring, ballistic, exasperated, cowling, fugitive, subterranean, commode, terse, interrogating, turbulence, rebuke, emblem, reconnaisance, salvage, dilapidated, derelict. Chapters 15-17--amateur, vile, malevolent, patronizing, fiasco, cheesy, morph, castanets, sullen, bogus, harrowing, rap sheet, hoodlum, rankle, bungle, heist, vault, agitate. Chapters 18-epilogue: involuntary, frenzied, extravaganza, jurisdiction, lustrous, improbable, crackerjack, charitable, dignitaries, slanderous, withering, mutilate, flamboyant, toupee, melodramatic.
Students should be selecting their biography novel as well. This week, I am not assigning 3 reading responses to all students. Those students who are still reading Cracker Jackson ( differentiation) will submit 3 reading responses on Monday, October 20. Other students will complete the written work for Cracker Jackson by October 24.
In November we will cover extended responses and the homework will aim for very thorough written responses . A rubric will be provided and explained.

Nightly reading for 30 minutes
Complete AR tests in the library before school, during activity, or during Lit. Skills class.
A biography report is due November 14. The critical thinking report sheets are available in the classroom. ( The student has self selection in November. The second trimester biography is for Black History Month. The third trimester biography is for Women in History Month.)

Several students completed the second Betsy Byars novel, Cracker Jackson. The written work will be completed in class and at home. Students are expected to submit neat and accurate work, typed preferred.

HOOT- by Carl Hiassen.
Students will have vocabulary , comprehension, and research work for this novel. During this week we will have several activities and discussions in preparation for reading the book.
We will research burrowing owls and many other topics related to the novel on Friday, October 17 in the Mac Lab.
More information to follow.