Good evening!  Welcome to Miss Lamb's class! 

Every day when your students come into my class, they complete a warm-up activity that is usually on the SmartBoard, just like this.  Tonight, I will be asking you to do the same, as you complete the "In a million words or less..." activity that is placed by the sign-in sheet.

Please take a paper and complete the writing assignment, telling me as much about your student as you can.  Although some of you may have already completed this on your syllabus, please do not hesitate to tell me more about your student as a person--what does he or she do that makes you proud?  What accomplishments or activities, especially outside of school, is your student involved in?

THANK YOU! 

Just like last Thursday, grab a copy of the Vocabulary #3 Review Assignment.  Complete the multiple choice questions and the justification using your notecards.  Turn into the basket when you finish and continue working on your compare/contrast assignment.

Because of Picture Day, we will forego our quick write at the beginning of class.  We will be heading to pictures at 8:05.  Please listen carefully to Miss Lamb's announcements and then head to the lobby of the gym.

THANK YOU!

Use your knowledge of forms of the following words to complete the sentences:
1.  If Roy learns that Sarah is dejected, he might call her in order to...

2.  If Jeff, walking through the office, overhears Lucia say he has never been remiss in anything, he will probably feel...

3.  If a scientist records some conjecture as documented fact, other scientists with probably...

Today, you are a storyteller.  Miss Lamb will pass out photos from the book Sacred Legacy:  Edward S. Curtils and the North American Indian.  With your picture, we will take about 8 minutes to tell the story of the person in the picture.  These are your only guidelines--that and writing for the entire time!  Be creative and have fun!

Good morning and happy Friday!

Writing on Friday should be slighlty more enjoyable and less academic.  Therefore, today we will be free-writing over your pet peeves.  Use your best descriptive writing to explain your pet peeve.

Miss Lamb is gone today, so your warm-up is a hand out reviewing for your vocabulary quiz tomorrow.  Complete the hand out, turn it in, and then begin the day's assignment.

Handout from Miss Lamb:
DIRECTIONS:  A Wordle is an image made from words.  This Wordle is made from all made from all of the words of the story we are about to read.  The more frequently a word appears, the larger the word is in the Wordle.  Examine the Wordle below.  On the back of this paper, write a paragraph—a detailed and descriptive paragraph—in which you make predictions about our upcoming story.  What do you think the story will be about and what proof you have for your predictions?

Today's warm-up is a little bit different.  Instead of answering a prompt from the boark, you will be finishing your vocabulary--both your cards and the practice sentences on the back of your vocabulary paper.  Miss Lamb will be coming around to check these sentences and your cards at the end of the first ten minutes of class, so make sure they are finished!

This week's words and roots are as follows:

FRACT/FRING/FRANG: 
fractious, infraction, infringe
CIS: excise, incisive, concise
TOM: tome,  epitome, dichotomy, anatomy
PUNCT:  compunction, punctilious,  pungent

OBJECTIVE:  Today we will assess our learning of last week's vocabulary terms and  expand our vocabulary through learning 4 roots and 13  words using those roots.

CCSS:  Language 4. Determine or clarify the  meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and
phrases by using context  clues and analyze meaningful word parts.