1. Welcome! August 24th, 2018 Tuesday
Do Now
Get out your weekly Bell Ringer sheet and begin working on Tuesday’s assignment. Once the bell rings, you will have five minutes to guess the meaning of the word. Make sure you explain your thinking!
Remember: Do Now's are INDEPENDENT and QUIET exercises. Thank you 

2. The petulant man is always blaming others for his own problems.
Read the following sentence and guess the meaning of the word petulant based on the context.
The petulant man is always blaming others for his own problems.
If a person (or their manner) are described as petulant, they are
childishly sulky or bad-tempered.
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3. The Book Thief
Turn to page 351. We’re going to read to page 363, and then you’ll read and annotate pages on your own.
As we read: Make sure you’re paying attention and annotating as we go! It will help you remember what’s happening. 
As you read: Don’t forget to annotate! You will need at least one well-thought out, 2+ sentence annotation per page

4. Standover Man Project IXL: M.3 and M.4
Product: Write and illustrate your own story similar in style to The Standover Man. First, choose a theme or a message that you want to share from your own life. Next, write a simple story to go along with it, and draw accompanying pictures in your own unique style. Your version should be similar in length to The Standover Man (200 words minimum). You should also include at least 10 pictures (while they don’t have to be colored, they should not be in pencil.). It should be neat, and your words should have depth.
Rubric:
Length: 200 words minimum ____/10 points
Pictures: 10 minimum pictures ____/20 points
Message/Theme: is evident and ____/30 points clearly important to the reader