1. Mechanics: Apostrophes Satpura National Park vid
Tues. 1 /31 English 8
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Today:
Mechanics: Apostrophes
Satpura National Park vid
We read: The Jungle Book
Homework:
Choose your new independent reading book for your next book report;
Title and author DUE THURS.

2. Stock up with fresh supplies:
new notebook, if necessary; new paper portfolio;
Pen or pencil everyday
Buy flashcards, high-lighters.
Expect binder checks.
Save all mechanics worksheets; save quizzes and tests.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Google asia, display map, zoom into India

6. Satpura National Park - central India

7. Indian Grey Wolf