“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!
- a) revision b) requirement c) believeable d) all correct
- a) insurance b) security c) seperately d) all correct
- a) cooperation b) maturaty c) ignorance d) all correct
- a) movable b) narritive c) creative d) all correct
- “______ is bliss.” (Use a word from above.)
- 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
- _____
- _____
- _____
- _____ (Not enhance.)
- I’m not paranoid! I’m _____ about being apprehended!
- The fan ____(ed) her way into the sold-out concert by flirting with the security guard.
- I found your story _____(ing), but ultimately unbelievable.
- Since 1967, cigarette smoking has ___(ed) to its lowest rate ever.
- They had to close the gates to ____ the flow of llamas into the stadium.
- 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)
- The root of this word meant “noisy.”
- The roots of this word meant “to tangle or to plot.”
- The root of these words meant “watertight.”
“TmA, 10/16.”
- Why does Beetle put up with the boys’ taunting?
- Why do you think Beetle saved the cat? (Don’t say she felt sorry for it.)
- Why did Beetle cuss at the cat instead of talking nicely?
- Why do the villagers dislike Jane the Midwife? (She’s ______.)
- So why do they take that dislike out on Beetle instead?
- Why did the midwife make Beetle stay outside while she delivered the babies?
- What event prompted Beetle to start watching through the windows and learning from Jane?
- (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.