Students have vocabulary homework with week. Flash cards are linked below. Students have packets with due dates on them. The quiz will be next Friday, March 8.

Group A, C, and D:
Group B
Group C
Group D

Today we did a fun (for me!) activity. Students were given a 8 lists of words. They were told to circle one of the words on the list – any word they wanted – one they thought was interesting, intriguing, one they didn’t know, one that sounded cool – any reason at all. They were not told why they were doing this, only that they must. They were then required to write a poem using the words they circled. The word from the first list had to go in the first line, the word from the second list in the second line, etc. It was a difficult assignment and required them to really think of a way to weave all of their words into a cohesive poem.

When they were done, we moved on to oxymorons and homophones to write some silly poems. In some classes we had a little extra time so that students could share their poems. They will continue to share poems as the week goes on.