First and fifth periods had their first encounter with the “Say Something” reading engagement. We read a text about a traditional Chinese school as part of our introductory unit regarding tradition in the classroom.

Second and sixth periods completed the parts of speech review. We’ll be having a test Friday or Monday. It depends on how tomorrow’s review goes.

Today’s review before starting the final three parts of speech was as follows:

Determine the parts of speech of the bold words below. Find at least one that exhibits some kind of ambiguity.

1) Within a few years, 2) Amazon.com’s creative destruction of 3) both traditional book publishing and retailing 4) may be footnotes 5) to 6) the company’s larger and more 7) secretive goal: giving 8) anyone on the planet 9) access to an almost unimaginable amount of 10) computing power.

Homework

• First and fifth periods: none.
• Second and fourth periods: study for the parts of speech test using online resources.