Today, we began by doing a worksheet on Title Punctuation.  There were 30 titles on the handout.  After each title it stated what kind of title it was, such as (book) or (poem). Using the handout from Monday on the Big and Little Rule, we had to underline the titles of big things (books, newspapers, magazines, ships, and so on) and put quotation marks around the titles of little things (poems, chapters, songs, etc.).  This was an activity that everyone should have been able to get a perfect score on.  However, many students did not read the  directions or use the information provided for them.

Now, we will be getting a daily reading activity in which we have to use our English binder or W-R’s Notebook to complete.  Every day this activity will be done for a grade.  The answers or explanations on how to do each day’s activity will be from specific information that we have covered in class and have written information on.  By reading carefully and thinking about the  information you will be able to do each day’s activity. 

Our root word today was onym, which means name or word.  Example words included:

acronym – a word formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term.

synonym: a word equivalent in meaning or nearly so to another word; a word that may be substituted for another word that has the same or a similar meaning, such as near and close (compare “antonym”)

pseudonym: a false and fictitious name, especially one adopted by an author; a pen name

Every period except second had some very good book talks.
Book Talk Tuesdays are a chance for us to share the good books we are
reading.

We also had additional time to work on our essays.
Again, it is very important to use the information provided to make sure
we are catching all of the convention errors in our essays.