1. Drill # 68 12/12/11 A-Day Please write the date and drill # on your paper. Predict the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence below: If you want to improve your scores on your vocabulary tests, it is imperative that you study, study, study!

2. Objectives SWBAT: –predict word meanings using context clues. –apply the rules of standard English to correctly punctuate sentences with colons. –explain plot developments in a novel.

3. Homewor k Vocab Unit 13 CTS (p.153-154)

4. Housekeeping Interim reports go home Wednesday, 12/14. Media Center Wednesday Winter Festival Countdown Continues: Winter Festival on Friday, 12/23 All students who are referral free from Monday, 11/28- Thursday, 12/22 are eligible to participate.

5. Vocab Unit 13 Predict the definition of each of the words by using context clues. Each group will work together complete the predictions for both sides of the chart. When your group is finished, one member of the group will check the correct definitions in the book and share them with the rest of the group.

6. Grammar—Colons Blue Grammar Book Lesson 14.1 (p.241-242) Complete Exercise 1 (p.242) We will complete #1-5 as a class, you will complete #6-10 independently. : )

7. Grammar—Colons 1.The two cities in Dicken’s tale are Paris and London.

8. Grammar—Colons 2.The novel deals with these issues love, justice, mercy, and loyalty.

9. Grammar—Colons 3. In the preface, Dickens acknowledges Thomas Carlyle’s History of the French Revolution.

10. Grammar—Colons 4. A maid accidentally destroyed Carlyle’s manuscript of that history by throwing it into a fire.

11. Grammar—Colons 5. Here is Dickens’s stated purpose “It has been one of my hopes to add something to the popular and picturesque means of understanding that terrible time…”

12. Literature Chapter 8 (page 64) Change the following sentence by using a colon. She was entrusted with issuing public announcements, wedding invitations, setting off the fire siren, and giving first-aid instructions when Dr. Reynolds was away.

13. Now you try it. Create a sentence about the book using a colon.

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15. Literature Chapter 8 (pages 63-74) Complete the pre- reading portion of the chart. When we are finished reading, you will complete the last column of the chart.

16. Closure Choose one character and explain: 1.How does chapter 8 add to your understanding of Scout, Jem, Atticus, Boo Radley, or Miss Maudie?

17. Revisit the Objectives SWBAT: –predict word meanings using context clues. –apply the rules of standard English to correctly punctuate sentences with colons. –explain plot developments in a novel.