February 4

Pieces of Eight – That Darn Bigmouth Parrot

After Jim’s heroics he walks right into the enemy’s hands! We read the exciting chapter 27 today in class. Mrs. Scales really does a good sounding parrot voice (okay, maybe she doesn’t, but she sure has fun trying). We have almost finished the book and every chapter is full of excitement and adventure now.

In our WR’s notebook we have to write a character sketch of Long John Silver. Can Jim trust him? What is the man really like? Silver is going to be very important as the book comes to an end and our paragraph or longer character sketch has to help us determine what kind of man Long John Silver really is.

Study Guides will be checked tomorrow through chapter 27 for points.

Our root word today was:

The ROOT-WORD PLI or PLIC, which means Fold, Braid or Bend from the Latin: plicare, plecare, to fold, bend, curve, turn, twine, twist, interweave, weave.

Mrs. Scales had a root word activity set up for us to do on moodle. In doing that activity the example word duplicate Exactly like the original; existing in two identical or corresponding parts; double (adjective) was used. Other example words might be duplicity or replica.


Posted February 4, 2010 by mrsscales207 in category Language Arts

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My life has taken many paths. I grew up in Farmland, Indiana and graduated from Monroe Central High School in 1979. Yes I know that seems like a long time ago to most of you. After I graduated from High School, I went into the U. S. Navy. Not a lot of women enlisted in the Navy back then. Boot camp was still segregated (that means there were only women in my boot camp) and yes, boot camp is as bad as they say it is. I survived though and began seeing a little more of the world than just our lovely corn and soy bean fields of Indiana. I was an advanced avionics technician and worked on F14 Tomcat jets in the Navy. Back then women couldn't go on ships but I was stationed in Bermuda for a little over a year. Bermuda is beautiful and the people are warm and friendly. I married my husband while in the Navy and we eventually moved to Minnesota.

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