At the beginning of class today, everyone had time to work on the Roots and Prefixes Set 8 - Practice sheet. We then reviewed responses on this sheet as a class.
Next, I returned everyone's midterms to them so that everyone had time to see how they had done. We then spent a few minutes discussing the song "Hit 'Em Up Style" that was featured on the midterm. In our discussion we considered the following questions:
How were sanctions being used in the song?
Was the speaker justified in her use of these sanctions?
Were these actions the best possible choice (why/why not)?
Next, we had some discussion around what our next focus would be for our work in the class. The choice was between beginning a new book or beginning to work on our 3rd quarter research project. After some brief discussion we decided to go with the research project and that the project will focus on public figures/famous people.
We then had a partner discussion in which partners discussed various public figures (living or dead) that they thought were admirable, heroic, or otherwise interesting.
Homework:
Choose one of the people you identified in your discussion today that you think you would like to research and explain why you think that person is worthy of further investigation. If you're having trouble narrowing down to just one person at the moment, discuss the pros/cons of the people you are left with.
Study for the set 8 roots and prefixes quiz on Friday.
Roots and Prefixes Set 8 - Word List
Roots and Prefixes Set 8 - Practice
Complete missing work and revise any assignment that scored below a 3.
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