WOD: verbiage (noun) an overabundance of words; wordiness. The sheer volume of verbiage she indulged in over the years made her seem intelligent to her classmates.

Biography Work -- Handouts, assignments. Biography pick due Monday, Oct. 6.

Your book must be at least 200 pages. Pick someone you are interested in knowing about. Find a subject you are interested in and a person who was (is) involved in that. Go to my bookshelf, Twin Hills school library, bookstores -- used and new, and the Sonoma County Public Libray: www.sonomalibrary.org. Go to search, keyword a subject you are interested in and select a biography. You can even just put the word "biography" in the keyword, and you'll get a huge list of suggestions. If you have a library card, you can have your choice of book sent to Sebastopol library for pickup. No muss; no fuss, and something you want to spend the next month with!

Mark 8 parts of speech on this quote: "Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are not opened."

Grammar worksheets: Went over nouns. Pronouns. Handouts.

HW:
*Thurs. Grammar worksheets (concrete nouns) due and Manipulating sentences
*Fri: Writers notebooks and spelling post-test