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.