Toady’s primary in class activity was conducting our first literary circle meeting. For most classes it was a huge success.

Students explained the first literary book reading assignments to each other and had meaningful discussions about the connections they made. Role sheets were turned in for scoring and new roles were chosen for the next chunk of reading in our literary circle books.

We reviewed the correct answers to all of the crossword puzzles as a way to help study for tomorrow’s big vocabulary test, and students were reminded to bring earbuds or headphones for the spelling portion of the test. We also found an error on one of the crossword puzzles. While the word presumptuous was listed twice with two equally correct definitions, it was misspelled on one of the questions. Presumptuous is spelled p r e s u m t u o u s.

Students were given time after the literary circle meetings to study for the vocabulary test tomorrow or finish the final draft of their friendly letter assignment that is also due at the start of class tomorrow.  Students were reminded to turn in all three copies of the friendly letter assignment tomorrow. The final draft should be on top, the revised draft in the middle, and the rough draft on the bottom.