Thursday 25 October 2012

Ben Mikaelsen and your New Vocab

Welcome back Bat Crew!

We are now in Chapter 3 of our Read-Aloud Touching Spirit Bear.  We are enjoying it so far.  It's great to have the audio books, which is how we've been listening to the novel. 

Here is a little bio about Ben Mikaelsen, author of Touching Spirit Bear:




Ben Mikaelsen was born in La Paz, Bolivia, in 1952.
He currently lives outside Bozeman, Montana. He likes
adventure, travel, and odd pets. He and his wife adopted a 700-pound black bear named Buffy from a research facility because it had been declawed and could no longer survive in the wild.  Mikaelsen has loved writing since he was ten. He has won the International Reading Association Award and the Western Writers of America Spur Award.

Here are your new vocab words for October 29th. Your test will be November 9th:
1.taunt
2.unflinching
3.persistent
4.turbulent
5.charred
6.cavity
7.eternity
8.haphazard
9.relentlessly
10.torrents
11.solitary
12.suffocate

Remember, your mission is to do the following:
1. Write out the twelve words
2. Write the part of speech: is it a noun? a verb? an adjective? an adverb?
3. Define the words
4. Write your own sentence for each word.
You have two weeks to do it so you have plenty of time to get it done!

Touching Spirit Bear Vocab!

Touching Spirit Bear Vocab!

Welcome Batcrew!
Here is your first Vocab list for the Class
Read-aloud: Touching Spirit Bear, by Ben Mikaelsen. There are twelve words. Your mission is to do the following:
1. Write out the twelve words
2. Write the part of speech: is it a noun? a verb? an adjective? an adverb?
3. Define the words
4. Write your own sentence for each word.

Sounds like a lot? Don't despair! You have almost 2 weeks to get it done! You will be tested on the words for Friday October 26th...so you have plenty of time.. BUT DON'T PROCRASTINATE!


Vocabulary for Chapters 1 -5:

  1. defiantly
  2. omen
  3. banishment
  4. juvenile
  5. smirk
  6. grudgingly
  7. shrouded
  8. venomous
  9. sullenly
  10. scoffed
  11. collapsed
  12. wavered


 
Author of Touching Spirit Bear, Ben Mikaelsen and his 750 lb pet Black Bear, Buffy
Coming Soon: A little bit more about Ben Mikaelsen!

 

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