Mechanics: Apostrophes Satpura National Park vid Tues. 1 /31 English 8 SLIDES ARE POSTED ON THE WEBSITE Today: Mechanics: Apostrophes Satpura National Park vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE5y18u0HWM We read: The Jungle Book Homework: Choose your new independent reading book for your next book report; Title and author DUE THURS.

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Who knows any beast fables? The Hare and the Tortoise…? The Ant and the Grasshopper...? The Lion and the Mouse...? So… what human values are these stories really about? Today we start a very famous beast fable about a boy adopted by wolves in India.

1/3/17 Anthropomorphize (say it: an-thro-po-mor-phize) When you talk about a thing or animal as if it were human, you are anthropomorphizing it. In fact, we’d better start a new vocabulary page: Open your notebooks to new page, head it: Jungle Book vocabulary Adoption: to bring into a family a child without parents Anthropomorphize: talk about a thing or animal as if it were human Wolf: (singular); wolves, (plural) Plot: (literary), what happens in a story, in order Values: (morality), how to live right; good behavior v. bad behavior Today we start a very famous beast fable about a boy adopted by wolves in India.

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Satpura National Park - central India

Indian Grey Wolf