1. Bell Work: Wednesday, August 22 – Let’s Get Organized
Take out your binder or folder for English and put your papers in the following order:
Syllabus
Calendar
Bathroom passes
Semester list of vocabulary
Vocabulary Worksheet/ Vocabulary definitions
Vocabulary Flashcards instruction
CommonLit Student Account sheet
CommonLit “Want to Get into College?” article\
Book Report Instructions for Book Selfie
Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes list
RPS List #1
RPS Quiz #1
RPS List #2 (Pick up handout at door)
Composition book (not in your binder, but to check that you have it.)

2. Take out your RPS #2 Handout and fill in the information
Roots: Accomplish = verb meaning achieve Induce = verb meaning persuade, cause, bring Involve = verb meaning include, join, to be a part of Prefixes Co = together Im = not or into In = not, into, or in Ex = out of, from Suffixes -ents = inclined to performing/causing, or one who performs/causes -pt =

3. RPS #2 Handout – bottom half of first side
Read the article and notice how the words on your list are used.
Based on the context clues, root words, prefixes, and suffixes, write a definition of each word and notice how the part of speech changed.
RPS #2 Handout – second side
Based on your definitions and context clues, match the words from the bottom of the first side to the definitions on the back and write in the context clues that helped you.
Answer the questions on the bottom

4. CommonLit assignment
Check out the computer that you will choose everytime we use this cart.
Log in to the computer and to Google Classroom.
Work on “Child of Slavery” in class today.
Homework will be “Teaching Shakespeare in Prison”
ALL CommonLit articles must be finished ASAP, for sure by this weekend (Sunday) because I have already started grading them, they are going into the gradebook, and next week we will be using them for a writing assignment.