Hello, Students,
I am really enjoying reading Adam of the Road and hope you are, too! If you can tell me tomorrow what king and what charter the old man at the Inn told Adam a story about, I'll give you 5 points extra credit on your spelling test this week!
The picture above is what St. Giles's Fair in Oxford looks like these days
Your homework assignments for the next week are below. Be sure that you are doing all of your reading carefully. This week, you will also need to choose your favorite scene setting for your set design, and your favorite character for your costume design so that you can begin working on those in class on Wednesday. You should also choose the scene that you will be writing for your script--this needs to be at least one and 1/2 pages of dialogue or one page of monologue. You will probably have to work on this script at home, but bring it on a flash drive and you can also work on it in class or in the computer lab when time allows.
The 9 weeks is almost over, so please bring in those reading logs. You can count your reading at school for your 30 minutes each day--just write it down!
Your spelling list and homework is below:
For MONDAY: You should be reading Chapters 7-9 of Adam of the Road, and filling out your "Following the Story" chart.
For TUESDAY: Read Chapters 10 (Here Nick) and 11(Adam Swims the Wey) for discussion. Fill out your “Following the Story” charts as you read.
For THURSDAY: Read Chapters 14 (Adam to the Rescue) and Chapter 15 (St. Gile’s Fair) for discussion. Fill out your “Following the Story” charts as you read.
SPELLING WORDS for Test on Friday: (you can match the words to their meanings for Extra Credit)
1. daunting = intimidating
2. pottage = meat and vegetable stew
3. plaintive = sorrowful
4. heath = wasteland
5. foul = offensively filthy
6. fowl = a bird that can be eaten as food
7. gesticulate = gesture
8. grieving = sorrowing
9. heraldry = the art or science of coats of arms
10. substantial = real, actual
