Monday April 19th, 2010
If you were away on Friday and did not get to do your spelling/vocabulary quiz you need to do that TODAY!
Activity: Language power – Capitalization- lesson this will be marked for completion please hand in your work sheets.
New Text: "Gloria Estefan"
What do they think this book will about? What are some of the clues you can gather from looking at the front and back covers?
Vocabulary Words: “Gloria Estefan”
1. Disconnected – not connected, disjointed, broken
2. Attach - to join, connect, put together
3. Procedure - an action, step by step process
4. Prejudice – an unfavourable feeling or opinion formed without knowledge, thought or reason.
5. Latina – A woman of Latin-American or Spanish speaking descent/origin.
6. Mixture – a combination or blend of different components
7. Achievement – something accomplished, attaining a goal, success
8. Performance – a display of a skill, talent or art
9. Convince - to persuade, to make someone agree or believe in something
10. Determination – the will to succeed, extremely motivated.
Class Reading: pages 1 -9
Title: Reading Comprehension Questions Pages 1 -9.
Answer these questions in FULL and COMPLETE sentences with capitals and punctuation or I will ask you to re-do them!
If you do not know what a word means please use a dictionary to look it up and learn the meaning.
1. Who is Gloria Estefan?
2. What part of Gloria was injured in the bus accident on March 20th, 1990?
3. Have you ever broken a bone? If yes which bone? If no what do you think your life would be like if you had to wear a cast on your arm for eight weeks?
4. Estefan had to make a choice between having a surgery to correct her broken bones or have her entire body in a cast for six months. Which choice would you have made and why?
5. Estefan and her parents were considered to be exiles, they moved to the United States in the Late 1950’s and early 1960’s? Why did they move?
6. Who is the Author of this book?
If you have completed all of your work you may use this time for self selected reading put your computer away.
Thank you!
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