Monday, April 14, 2008

Tuesday, April 15, 2008


In the race to McDonalds on Friday, in the morning class, the purple and black teams both are in the lead with 4 points! In a close second are the green and silver teams, both with 3 points. Coming up third are the gold and the yellow teams. It is anyone's game!!

Today we will be playing LINGO (Language Arts + Bingo = LINGO!!) Students will be given a blank board and will be able to choose their 24 words to go in each blank square. They may choose out of the following super hot "must know CRCT words"
1. Clincher sentence
2. Unifying detail
3. Tone
4. Mood
5. Character
6. Personification
7. Alliteration
8. Hyperbole
9. End rhyme
10. Internal rhyme
11. Point of view
12. Author’s purpose
13. Dictionary
14. Thesaurus
15. Encyclopedia
16. Search engine
17. Index
18. Table of contents
19. Rhyme scheme
20. Idiom
21. Foreshadowing
22. Setting
23. metaphor
24. simile
25. bibliography
26. context clues
27. limerick
28. haiku
29. homonym
30. modifies
31. misused

We will also go over the homework from yesterday (10 practice CRCT questions regarding subject verb agreement!). Each student who brings in their homework earns one point for their color team!

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