First and sixth periods went over persuasive techniques. Things went better in sixth period, and we were able to get a bit more accomplished. We’ll continue working on persuasion for the next couple of weeks.

Second and sixth periods began a whirlwind overview of phrases. Today we looked at prepositional phrases and how they can be used as adjectives and adverbs.

Seventh period did some more work with the story “Papa’s Parrot” and context clues.

Homework

• First period: none.
• Second and fourth periods: complete the exercises on pages 510 and 511 (a scan of those pages is available here).
• Sixth period: Use a make-believe study looking at the effect eating breakfast has on test scores (it raises them) to create an argument from authority to support the need for students to eat breakfast..
• Seventh period: none.