Day: October 16, 2024

Wednesday, 10/16: Scramble, Spelling, Vocab, Beetle

“Sentence Scramble, 10/16.” Be sure to capitalize and punctuate. More versions = more credit.

  • saw witches and devils
  • and fear lived
  • suddenly
  • everywhere
  • in every cottage
  • the whole village

What kind of sentence did you end up with? S? CD? CX?

“Spelling, 10/16.” Write the incorrectly spelled word correctly, or if they are all correct, write “all correct.” NOT COLLABORATIVE! For #6, write the answer not the letter!

  1. a) revision  b) requirement  c) believeable  d) all correct
  2. a) insurance  b) security  c) seperately  d) all correct
  3. a) cooperation  b) maturaty  c) ignorance  d) all correct
  4. a) movable  b) narritive  c) creative  d) all correct
  5. “______ is bliss.” (Use a word from above.)
  6. The reason we drop the last e from a word like store  before we add an ending like age  is that… a) Store ends with a consonant sound.  b) The ending age  also ends with an e.  c) The ending age  begins with a consonant  d) The ending age  makes it an adjective.  e) The ending age  begins with a vowel.

“Vocab, 10/16.” 
  
intrigue, benevolent, apprehensive, wheedle, sift, tumultuous, stanch, ebb, sham, enhance, staunch

  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____ (Not enhance.)
  5. I’m not paranoid! I’m _____ about being apprehended!
  6. The fan ____(ed) her way into the sold-out concert by flirting with the security guard.
  7. I found your story _____(ing), but ultimately unbelievable.
  8. Since 1967, cigarette smoking has ___(ed) to its lowest rate ever.
  9. They had to close the gates to ____ the flow of llamas into the stadium.
  10. The root of this word meant “to seize or grasp.” (It shares this root with a similar-sounding word that means “to catch.” HINT HINT)
  11. The root of this word meant “noisy.”
  12. The roots of this word meant “to tangle or to plot.”
  13. The root of these words meant “watertight.”

“TmA, 10/16.”

  1. Why does Beetle put up with the boys’ taunting?
  2. Why do you think Beetle saved the cat? (Don’t say she felt sorry for it.)
  3. Why did Beetle cuss at the cat instead of talking nicely?
  4. Why do the villagers dislike Jane the Midwife? (She’s ______.)
  5. So why do they take that dislike out on Beetle instead?
  6. Why did the midwife make Beetle stay outside while she delivered the babies?
  7. What event prompted Beetle to start watching through the windows and learning from Jane?
  8. (Prediction.) What do you think our main conflict will be? What makes you think so?

 

Read Aloud. Chapters 4 and 5.   The Midwife’s Apprentice online link.