We are a part of a classroom community and today we learned about classroom participation points.

Participation Points – These are NOT extra credit points.
Everyone must contribute to the classroom community in some combination to earn 15 points this grading period. You can see the complete list of options and
point totals by looking at the Classroom Community link above.

One of the jobs, is the Master-At-Arms.  That person must answer the phone saying, “Mrs. Scales’ room.  Student speaking, how may I help you?” If the caller needs Mrs. Scales the M-A-A should say, “May I tell her who is calling?” before interrupting the class. If the phone call is something that can be handled without interrupting Mrs. Scales the M-A-A should take a message and then tell the student or Mrs. Scales afterwards.  The M-A-A should also handle anyone coming to the door during class.

Our root word for today was the Greek root log or logue, which means word, thought, speech, study of, written word

Logic : LOG ic (loj’ ik) n. Science that deals with speech and reason

Elocute : e LOC ute (el’ o kute) v. Speak out in public; declaim

Dialogue : DIA logue (die’ a log) n. Conversation (speech) between two or more persons

We also reviewed our final project options for The Call of the Wild.  Everyone seemed to understand that they have to do however many project options it takes to add up to 75 points or more.  Mrs. Scales reminded us
that we have a writing workshop tomorrow and then we will only have three days of class time to work on the projects.  All final projects are due by the end of class on Friday.  We can take the AR quiz over the book anytime between now and Friday, but the packet has to be turned in first.  If we don’t turn in the packet and get the AR test taken by Friday we will have to write an AR summary to take the AR test.

We were also reminded that Progress Reports go out on Wednesday.