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Classwork Friday, September 25th: Expository Writing checklist.rtf 2. Post journal entry: 'What is special for me about Chuseok?' Read 2 other students' entries and post a comment under their entry. 3. Make video vocab of the following words: pelt, ritual, tallow, embers, torrent.
 * 1. Work on expository essay. What is a thesis statement? Talk with me about your paper. Also, look at checklist: **
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Homework due Friday, September 25th: 1. Finish Boy of the Painted Cave chapters 4-8 packet.

Homework due Wednesday, September 23rd: It was scary when Tao had to face the mammoth. Also I was surprised that he was brave enough to go to the mammoth and draw them. Lastly, I thought they were real close friends when Ram ran toward to the mammoth to save Tao.** Classwork Monday, September 21st: 2. visit library for AR book** 3. Journal: **Write the beginning of a story about a class that misbehaves while there is a substitute teacher in class.** 7 sentences minimum.
 * 1. Read //Boy of the Painted Cave c//hapter 10. Post 3 comments about the plot, 2 comments on characters and 3 vocabulary words (define and sentence).
 * 1. read chapter 9 and begin worksheet

1. Warm-up: In your journal, write about something that has really been annoying you lately. If everything is perfect, then you can make something up. Minimum 5 sentences (10 minutes) 2.Quietly read chapter 9. Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Post. (25 minutes) (You may have to look up some of these terms)
 * Classwork Thursday, September 17th:**

Find an example of personification on page 82. The open valley was a sea of waving grass. Find an example of metaphor on page 82. What kind of work did the women of the clan do? They made food and raised the baby. What is Saxon? Saxon is a sacred bull. What do you think Tao meant when he says that he has Saxon’s spirit carved on his stone? That means that he carved the picture of Saxon on his stone. Who was Tao’s visitor? Tao's visitor is graybeard. Where did he come from? He came from the valley's village. How did Tao offend Graybeard?

3. Complete the 4 page Boy of the Painted Cave vocabulary hand-out. Hand in. Do for HW if incomplete.

**Classwork Wednesday, September 16th** 1. Journal: Pretend you are Tao writing a letter to his mom (who he has never known). 7 sentence minimum. 2. STAR reading test. Do not use your old password. Use abc and then change to something new. 3. Find 4 vocab words from chapter 8. Define and make a sentence. Post. 4. Work on expository writing assignment.

Homework due September 14th: //1. mussels:// A seafood which is like clamshell but bigger/ They ate mussels, but they looked unpleasant. //2. flint:// A rock that makes fire, a rock to start fire/ he got the flint, and hitted it toward the big rock. //3. ritual:// A ceremonial worshipness/ The men started the ritual and the cerimony began. //4. birch: A type of tree/ I got up the birch tree and jumped. 5. tarpan////: A type of animal/ The tarpan ranaway as soon as it saw me.
 * Read chapter 8. Define the words, make a sentence and then answer the questions in full sentences,

1. What do you think Graybeard means when he says to Tao "You must learn to live with things you cannot change."?// I think it means that you should follow the rules. //2. What did Tao and Graybeard eat? They ate fresh water mussels. 3. What advice does Graybeard give to Tao about making images? He said that Tao must study the animal closely. 4. Describe how Graybeard teaches Tao to draw. He teaches by telling him what he did wrong and giving him advice what he should do to fix his mistake. 5. What kind of 'magic' does Graybeard show Tao?// He shows magic where he gets a rock, and the rock reflects the sun's light and the reflected light brights toward Tao.**

Classwork September 10th: //1. soot: A black gas. 2. stagger: To be wobbling 3. clan: A group of people, troup 4. clench: To be tightening its mouth 5. omen: a portent of evil and good.//
 * Read chapter 7. Define the words, make a sentence and then answer the questions in full sentences,

//1. What was the reason for Volt to hate wolf dogs so much? He hates wolf dog because he got hurt and bruised by a hinia but thinks that a wolf dog did it. 2. What creature does Graybeard think may have scarred Volt's face? Haina is the one that graybeard think who did it. 3. What did Graybeard do when he saw the images that Tao had drawn in the sand? Why? He overed it with dirt because he didn't want Tao to get in trouble. 4. What has Graybeard been doing for the past 20 years? He went over the villages and drw images. 5. How old was Graybeard when he left the Valley People?// the was 16 summers old.

Classwork due September 10th 3 vocab words. 1. clenched: feeling anger. 2. knot: A fastening made by a string of rope 3. fistful: A handful f something. Homework due September 8th: 1. //Boy of the Painted Cave// QUIZ ch 1-5. Vocabulary and Comprehension. Study the worksheets handed out in class. You should have read chapters 1-5. 2. Journal: If you were Tao, how would you feel living alone in your new cave? Why would you feel this way? 3. Read chapter 6. Copy and paste the questions to your wiki. Answer in sentences. --Where did Tao and Ram mostly hunt? Tao and Ram mostly hunted in the slough --What kind of fish did they catch in the icy creeks? They caught string of salmons in the icy creeks. --Why couldn't Tao tell Volt that he hunted with Ram? Because Vault believed that wolf dogs are evil, and Ram is a wlf dog. --Who is Graybeard? Graybeard is the chosen one, the son of the image drawer. --What will Graybeard do in the Secret Cavern? He will draw images in all the villages. 4. Post your video vocab on your page using YOUTUBE. 5. Watch TV: Watch TV: []**

Homework due September 7th: 2. Read chapter 5 and summarize in your own words. Post. Ram was scared that he ran away from the village. Tao followed Ram and he told Ram to never follow him to the village. He went back to the village and told the villagers that Ram was to fast to catch. Later he went back to his cave and started to draw images when a image drawer came into his cave.**
 * 1. Create I-movie VIDEO VOCAB for words # 1-11.

Homework due Thursday, September 3rd: Tao was too curious to not know about his parents. He asked Kala about his parents but she wold not tell him so he only asked about his mother. He was told that his mother was Vedra of the mountain people. Kala was telling the story when his hunting partner Ram, the wolf dog came. The setting was mostly in the Village, he was in Kala's cave. There was fire and many other things like, skinned deers. The Characters are, Volt, the leader of valley village. There is Kala, the woman who raised Tao until this age. And Tao a bad footed boy who tries to find a way to be a image painter. 1. whimpering: To be feared or scared about something and shaking or making sound of fear. 2. Slough: A swamp 3. ritual: To be doing series of action in a solemn ceremony.**
 * 1. Read chapter 4 of //Boy of the Painted Cave//. Write 4 sentences about the plot, 2 sentences about the setting, 2 sentences about the characters and define 3 vocab words. Post on your wiki.

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