Some of the boys in first period moved my rocker to the front of the room where it will stay while we are reading the wonderful novel we have just begun. Thanks Jordan, Kyle, and Zayne.

Book order forms are out for January and anyone wishing to order needs to have their money to Mrs. Scales by next Wednesday, January 13th.

Our root word for the day was Sub, Sup, which means under or less than. Several example words were given.

Our DLW sentence was: The Great Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt were bilt with more than too million blocks waying two tons each. Mrs. Scales did not give us hints today, but anyone who is really good with grammar knows that there is a subject verb agreement error, some using the right word, and spelling errors in today’s sentence.

As one of the reading strategies a color code for characters could be found on the front board today. It read:
Squire Trelawaney – pink
Doctor Livesey – yellow
Jim Hawkins – orange
Mr. & Mrs. Hawkins – blue
Billy Bones “captain” – green

After going over some reading pointers to help sharpen our insights, we began reading Treasure Island. It was great, we highlighted each character and their descriptions in their color to make filling out our study guides easier. The first chapter was mostly green and yellow. A lot of the chapter described the captain who showed up at the inn. There were little bits of information about Jim Hawkins and his parents who own the inn, but mostly captain and how he drank a lot of rum and watched out for other sailors or ships. Then the yellow came in near the end when Dr. Livesey stopped by the inn one evening to look in on Mr. Hawkins who had taken ill. Well, let’s just say that the captain and Dr. Livesey didn’t get along right from the start.

It is easy to see how the author, Robert Louis Stevenson kept readers looking for the next weekly installment. After reading chapter 1 it is pretty clear that something is going to happen in the next chapter. Mrs. Scales explained that this literary technique is called foreshadowing.

Mrs. Scales reminded everyone not to get behind on their study guides and that any reading listed on the lesson plans must be completed whether we are in class or not.