Bell Ringer

Today’s Agenda:10/26/10Bell RingerRead Aloud:Foreign StudentLesson:InferencingReading Time:Seventh GradeHomework:Vocab page 916RC5 (1.4.5)The student usesinformation from thetext to makeinferences and drawconclusions.Bell RingerTry to solve the mystery!!Complete the chart for this story:Jill Svoboda is driven from her home in Los Angeles, CAto a government building. She meets an official whotravels with her for a time and then directs her back to thebuilding. At the building, Jill is fingerprinted andphotographed even though she has committed no crime. Jilldrives home with a smile on her face.The mystery1.Why was Jill smiling and what agency does the officialwork for?BackgroundKnowledgeText CluesMy Inference2. Suffix of the week: Draw a picture that will help you toremember the meaning of this suffix. (-al meansrelating to)

Foreign StudentIn September she appeared row three, seat seven,heavy pleated skirt, plastic purse, tidy notepad, thereshe sate, silent straight from Taipei, and she bowedwhen I entered the room. A model student I noticed,though she walked alone through the halls, everyassignment neat, on time, complete, and she’d listenwhen I talked.But now it’s May and Si Lan is called Lani. Shestrides in with Noriyo and Lyee and Natividad. Shewears slacks. Her gear is crammed into a macrameshoulder sack. And she chatters with Pete duringclass and I’m glad.How does the girl change?Why do you think the narrator is “glad” that by the endof the school year, the girl chatters with Pete duringclass?

Inferencing

Your Turn!!!Read the first half of SeventhGrade (to page 494) silently.Then fill out the exit ticket fortoday.Homework: Vocab p.91