Today we read for 20 minutes.
There will be another quiz tomorrow on the novel Speak from p. 95-137: this will, in a way, be a re-test. I'll take the higher of the two grades from the last two quizzes.
Then we did part 2 of our provincial exam practice: discontinuous texts. We learned that this section is usually either a newspaper article or a webpage; it almost always contains a chart, pie graph, or time-line. You will be asked between 9 and 12 questions on this reading.
Students read "Larry Lemieu Lifesaver" and answered the 10 questions that followed. I offered Pink Lady apples to anyone who could get all 10 questions correct.
