Monday, 23 April 2012

1.  Share your essay with your partner.  Take turns reading your partner's essay out loud.  Highlight or underline the topic sentence in red.Highlight or underline the body/supporting detail in yellow.Highlight or underline the closing sentence in green. Circle the comparative and superlative adjectives.  Score  the essay 1 to 5 with a 5 score having at least 5 comparative or superlative sentences, 4 having 4 comparative or superlative sentences, 3 with 3, 2 with 2, and 1 with 1.  Return the essay to your partner and review your own essay.
2.  Vocabulary:  generous, ragged, thief, account, poverty, stocks, shares, hospital, immediately, funeral, disasters, injured, immigrant, widow, inherited.
3.  Page 50 and 51 in text.  Read and do the activities for A tale of two millionaires. 
4.  Page 52 in text: synonyms and antonyms.  Do all the activities
5.  Homework: Page 35 in blue workbook.