1. Week 23 1. Cecelia waited patient for the committee to announce the winner. 2. The moment had final arrived. 3. The award went to Cecilia for her superb written short story. Each of these sentences contains one or more errors. Find the errors and correct the sentences. MUG Monday

2. Quick Announcements If your Harriet Tubman Quiz has "retake" written at the top, please come in during RAO to retake the quiz. If it has "retake-Vocab only" then before you can take the quiz you must write each vocabulary word in a sentence (correctly) and show it to me before I'll let you retake the quiz. On 1/27 and 1/28, high school students will give 4 year plan presentations On Feb 3rd, All-School field trip to Tulsa Tech campuses. A-K in the morning, L-Z in the afternoon. You MUST have your permission slip IN YOUR HAND to board the bus. A-K will leave promptly at 9:10.

3. Working with Non-Fiction Books Nonfiction Book Graphic Organizer Book Title________________________________________________________________ Dewey Decimal #________________________ Copyright Date______________________ City of Publication_______________________Publisher___________________________ Topic__________________________________________

4. Main Idea of this book (summarize- use a sentence) Working with Non-Fiction Books

5. FactsOpinions

6. Read (20 min)

8. Vocabulary: Write five important or unfamiliar words and page #. Then use a dictionary to write the definitions. 1. 2. 3. 4.

9. Opinions: Even nonfiction books have ideas or opinions, not just facts. Discuss one opinion your author might have expressed. Impact: Name and describe one major figure/group (from the book) and their importance, accomplishments, or contributions to society?

10. Intervention tomorrow and Thursday:

11. Riddle Wednesday There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh? Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world? How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet? What word in the English Language is always spelled incorrectly? Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible?

12. The sale of ivory is causing elephants and white rhinos to go extinct. Poachers have killed millions of elephants. "Fifty years ago there were around 15 million. Today there are just 470,000 left."People need to stop buying ivory. "Then, prices will drop. If prices drop, there will be less poaching." Some people still value ivory. This is bad because "In Mozambique every single white rhino has been poached. There is not one left alive." Because of the decline in rhinos and elephants, it is important that everyone stops buying ivory.

13. Argument Statement Claim 1 Claim 2 Counterclaim Evidence 1 Evidence 2 Reason/support for why counterclaim is wrong Closing Statement

14. Read (20min) Presentation from Mrs. Beer over High School planning

15. Creative Friday The school seemed normal enough. You shrug off the feeling of dread as you enter the doors. There’s no one in the office. Simply two doors. One is green, the other orange. Which do you take? What happens next? FIVE SENTENCES!!!

16. Text to the number: 22333 Message: Community1