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Activity 1

Activity 2

Find a short news article on or abcnews, cnn or scholasticnews, print it, them summarize it on the back.

• Choose a person who died last year from the list below
• Research your person and record facts about their birth, life, and death.
• Write a 3 – 5 sentence summary of the person’s life. DO NOT PLAGIARIZE. Use your paraphrasing and summarizing skills to ensure that your work is in your own words.
• Present your work to me either printed from Word or Pages, or written on paper. Title it with your person’s name. If you have time, feel free to add appropriate images.

Background Information on Daniel Boone

Copy of the Poem “Daniel Boone”

Vocabulary Words for “Daniel Boone” by Arthur Guiterman

Use the sentences below to help you understand the meaning of each bold word. We will make a vocabulary square for each.

Because no one would come with me, I was the lone student walking the rocky trail to the top of the mountain.

I could tell the dogs had trod on the carpet, because I could see their muddy footprints

Uncle Hank roved the streets of town all night because he didn’t know where to go and Aunt Sally had kicked him out.

Even thought they are my kin, I am embarrassed to be seen with my cousins.

The stool my grandpa made with his ax was hewn from one solid old log.

I like to visit the glen because having the hills on either side makes it peaceful and private.

Even though it takes a lot of work, I strive to always have all of my homework done to the best of my ability.

When I kicked the beehive, an angry horde of bees flew out and chased me all the way to the pond.

I looked out at the vast ocean, amazed that no matter how hard I stared I couldn’t see the other side.

When I got home I noticed that bits of trash were strewn all about the house, and I knew that the dog had gotten into the garbage can again.

Congrats to all my students who successfully used all 11 of our vocabulary words in a story. I’m proud of you!!

Kansas and I had a consultation. Kansas was indignant. She divulged my secret. She said she would be discreet. She said Bailey was implicated so we formulated what we were going to do. We all perused Bailey. She said I was ostensible and that I speak eloquently. She was vexing. I was listless.

-Nakita

My family and I had a discreet consultation to help formulate an idea for the contest. We think my brother divulged our vexing problem, but we couldn’t implicate him by perusing. My mom was listless about asking him. My brother was indignant because he thought we were blaming him. We knew my brother was ostensible, because he was too nice on the inside.

-Kansas

I was walking down the hall and I saw my friend and I divulged a secret. My other friend was sitting there and started to get indignant because I didn’t tell him what I was talking about. Then I went in class and I started talking eloquently to all of my friends and teachers about something I saw on the news yesterday. Then one of the kids argued vexingly because I said something and he didn’t believe me. He left the room and I was the only one left in the classroom so I shut the door and locked it, then I discreetly got in his bag and put the class’s snake in it. Then later on he opened his bag and saw it and screamed so the teacher put it back in the bag. Everyone perused the teacher. I formulated a plan to keep me from being caught. I implicated the other kid to get me out of trouble. Then later that day I hosted a consultation for my friends. I was in an ostensibly abandoned building because it was really nice on the inside. By the time I got home at 9:30 I was listless.

-Triysten

We had a consultation about a vexing problem. We were divulging things we knew about the murder of Alice Smith. We had to formulate a plan to implicate Alice’s brother because he had something to do with her death. But we had to do this discreetly because someone might become indignant about what we’re talking about. Detective Melanie gave an eloquent speech about how she thinks that Alice’s brother is only ostensibly innocent and thinks that he is hiding something from them. While everyone was taking their turn telling what they know I was sitting back perusing everything that was said. After the consultation was over everyone was listless.

-Marissa

My family and I sat down to have a consultation. My dad would just sit there listlessly while we were formulating our plan to see where we wanted to go for Christmas vacation.

My mom said, “Hawaii? And Bob, you’re implicated in our conversation!”

India said, “Florida?” and I said, “Arizona?” But of course everyone went with India’s idea so I was indignant.

“But who will discreetly watch our house?” I said.

“Maybe the Kranks because they won’t divulge that we are gone,” said mom.

So we got a brochure to the best hotel in South Florida.

“It looks nice,” mom said.

“Mom, make sure you peruse and read the fine print,” I said, “they might try to eloquently trick you.”

My mom was vexed by the idea. The hotel was ostensible: the workers were nice until you stepped into the building, but you never came out the same person…

-Dametriae

Today I called a discreet consultation to talk about an indignant statement that was said earlier. The place we met for the consultation was ostensibly welcoming. The building was small and had flowers and bushes on the outside. The inside was bare and a huge space of… nothing. The place was listless. The crowd was listless. The eloquent speaker started to talk about the indignant statement.

We tried to keep our consultation discreet, but someone divulged our meeting to the press. The press perused every detail. We had to formulate an idea to keep the story out of the newspaper. We discreetly came up with a plan and some people perused all the details. The idea became vexing because some people were not listening so I had to repeat myself over and over again. Later a person divulged our discreet plan again to the press.

Later we implicated Senator Robert Lowry as the person divulging our vexing secrets to the press. So later we had a consultation to see if he got to keep his seat as senator. He became indignant with the results.

-Destinee

Kevin was so indignant! He didn’t understand how his friend Jimmy could get all the girls! Of course Kevin was ostensibly happy for him. Jimmy thought that maybe Kevin should speak more eloquently, but that plan failed. When Kevin got home from school he began to formulate a plan to get the prettiest girl in school, Amy, to like him. By the end of the night his brain was listless! The next day at school Kevin decided to discreetly peruse Amy to find out things she liked to do or talk about. He followed her around every hallway. Luckily, they had a lot of classes together. During 6^th hour Jimmy started to notice Kevin’s odd behavior so he called him over to the lunch table for a consultation. Jimmy asked Kevin why he was acting weird and following Amy around. Kevin said he had no idea what Jimmy was talking about and that he was not implicated by his accusation. Jimmy didn’t believe that at all. He ended up coming to the conclusion that Kevin liked Amy. Jimmy stood on the table to divulge Kevin’s secret. Kevin was so embarrassed and never came back to school again.

-Hannah H.

As the Mac’ Daddy at my business, I am holding a consultation on how to be a “BOSS”, and to learn how to speak: eloquent. My co-workers weren’t putting forth any effort to be productive, it was vexing – yes, very vexing. After dealing with that issue, I was listless. My ex-husband’s best friend was being indignant about everything. I am very Mac’ Daddyish about everything on the inside, rather than the outside – I’m just a BOSS, – call me ostensible. People implicate me for being a Mac’ Daddy. It’s not divulging – everybody already knows. “Mac’ Daddy” was not a formulation – it was created by me – the Head Mac’ Daddy! I peruse my Mac’ Daddy abilities, but I don’t let it become known, discreetly.

-MyR’anda

Dear Mr. Joensen:

This letter is to inform you that we will be having a consultation. I will be eloquent. I have been hearing you are being very vexing. Just because this business is ostensible doesn’t mean you have to be vexing. You are also listless, and we need people who aren’t. This meeting and letter is secret, so please don’t divulge it. Please peruse this letter. And if you’re going to be indignant about this, don’t do anything towards me. All we are asking is that you implicate yourself and formulate ideas. We don’t want you to be discreet about this, just don’t tell a lot of people.

Love,
Skye

Last Tuesday I was hit in the back of the head with a metal pipe. I laid listlessly on the ground for 5 hours trying to formulate a plan to get back at my enemy, but I thought to myself that that would be indignant. But the next day he hit me in the back with a golf club. This was becoming vexing. So I didn’t get even, when I got back I hired a lawyer for a discreet consultation. As he began talking I started to peruse him as he was divulging how to get back at my enemy. This man was very eloquent and he persuaded me to tell my enemy my plan, but not do it to scare him. As I told my enemy my plan he began to cry, so I knew he wasn’t ever mad at me, but was simply ostensible.

-Devon

Once there was a pony. The pony always spoke very eloquently, saying stuff like, “Let us get some tea!” But today she was very listless. So everyone else decided to have a consultation discreetly.

“Mrs. Pink Party Pony is vexing us with her words, making no one understand her and everyone knows she is ostensible and tries to divulge all kinds of things!” said Red Riding Rhino.

So they started to formulate a plan. They made sure to peruse the details and not to implicate anyone.

“Hey Pink Party Pony!” said Angie Angel, and she heard something at the door, “Hold up!” she said. Everyone was in the hallway so she told them to get out!

-Shania

Below are the 10 words we will focus on learning for this week’s story, “A Poison that Leaves No Trace” by Sue Grafton. Each word is clickable to see a dictionary definition, but refer to your Vocabulary Folder if you need more help!

Consultation
Discreetly
Divulge
Eloquent
Formulate
Implicate
Indignant
Listless
Ostensibly
Peruse

Welcome, Mrs. Coughlin’s Reading students!

We are nearing the end of Unit 2, and I want to get your thoughts and feelings about what we have learned. The tone of our conversation needs to be honest, but professional. I want to know what you really think, but I need you to put yourself in the place of a person who is responsible for education groups of teens – YOU!

There are 3 main things we focused on this Unit:

Theme: Identifying it and figuring out what choices authors made in order to guide thier readers toward understanding the lesson they wanted to teach.

Mood: Identifying it and learning new vocabulary for talking about emotions in a story.

Main Idea: Finding topics, main ideas, supporting details, and making sure that the supporting details truly supported the main ideas.

Here is the assignment:

In the comments section of this blog answer these questions in thoughtful, complete sentences using your best spelling, sentence structure, and punctuation.

Question 1: Of the 3 topics above, which do you think was the most valuable to you and why?

Question 2: Do any of the skills we learn in our class help you in other classes? Why or why not?

Question 3: What 1 assignment or activity do you remember most from this unit. Why do you remember it?

Today you are going to use your Main Idea assignment to add a comment about your personal opinion to a blog. You have 3 choices of topic: 4-Day School Week, Driving Age, and Cell Phones in School. If you chose one of those topics for the assignment you did last week, please choose that topic now, if you wrote about a different topic, please choose one of the 3 available and write a new answer.

Smart Escape

It’s an American tradition for teens to get their license to drive at age 16, but is that the right age? Should it be 18? 14? There are a lot of opinions out there, but what do teens think?

Palm Centro Smartphone

Some adults see cell phones as toys that cause distractions in the classroom. But there are useful ways to use them as well, aren’t there? Both sides of the argument are discussed here.

If allowed to have them in school, would students be able to keep on task? What do kids think? You tell me!