- Genre Reading: Students worked on Humor Comics.
- Students attended Mass celebrated by Father Tim.
- Treasures Reading:
- Students read aloud their "HURRICANES" summaries.
- Key words included:
- atmosphere
- Atlantic Ocean
- Bahamas
- battery powered radio
- blanket
- clothes
- coast
- contact
- cyclones
- dangerous
- depression
- destruction
- disruption
- East Coast
- enough food and water for a few days
- evacuate
- eye of the hurricane
- flashlight
- gathers energy
- get under a table
- learn
- listen
- heavy rain
- hurricane
- Hurricane Katrina
- instruction
- interested
- June
- middle of the country
- New Orleans
- ocean
- peaceful
- preparing / prepare
- radio
- rain
- really bad winds
- safe / safer
- satellites
- scary
- stay away from windows
- spoil
- supply
- tropical storm
- United States
- water
- winds circling
- 73 miles per hour or less
- 74 miles per hour or greater
- 80 degrees
- Free Verse Poetry: "Suspense"
- Does not have regular rhyming patterns / rhythm
- Is often written in lines that vary greatly in length
- May use nontraditional punctuation
- May use literary elements to convey ideas
- Personification is a technique in which the writer gives human characteristics to animals, objects, and ideas.
- Imagery is the use of words to create vivid mental pictures to help readers visualize ideas expressed in text.
- Onomatopoeia is the use of words that sound like what they are describing, such as the word buzz for a bee sound.
- Review of Fiction Text: "The Hungriest Dog"
- Review of Text: "Going the Distance"
- Draw Conclusions
- Main Idea & Details
- Author's Purpose
- Latin Roots
- Charts
- Vocabulary: Students reviewed for their Unit 7 Test.
- Religon: Father Andreas spoke about the Eucharist.
Homework
- Math: Quiz on Monday
- Reading: Work on Humor Comic
Fifty word Summary on "Hurricanes"
Reading Test on Unit 2
- Vocabulary: Unit 7 Test on Monday
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