Mrs. Lee's Literacy Lovers
- C. S. Lewis
Happy Saturday! We have only two four-day weeks between us and Thanksgiving Break! While I'm certainly looking forward to some time with family, my students and I have so much to do and learn in these eight school days. This week in reading, we will be studying the genres of lyric poetry and sonnet. I think the kids will welcome and enjoy this change of pace from our usual stories. We will also work on identifying two things within the pieces of text: theme and personification. We will have three days to work on these skills in class before we test on Thursday. We will not be in school on Friday due to Veteran's Day. In language this week, we will identify appositives and appositive phrases. We will test on that skill Thursday as well.
Spelling words: simple, royal, national, valuable, survival, muscle, whistle, squabble, durable. incurable, scramble, scruple, quadruple, noodle, squiggle, throttle, securable, beagle, dimple, bicycle Vocabulary commemorate - to do something to honor or remember contemplate - to think about something seriously for a long time forlorn - lonely and miserable majestic - grand and impressive lyric poetry - has a song-like quality and expresses the speaker's thoughts and feelings sonnet - a 14-line poem that expresses a single, complete thought rhyme scheme - the pattern of rhymes at the end of lines in a poem meter - the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem Helpful Links Appositive Phrase Game 2 Minute Teacher: Appositives 19 Examples of Personification Identifying Theme Game "Finding a Theme" lesson - VERY HELPFUL! As always, thanks for visiting! :) ~ Mrs. Lee
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