It’s September 15. 
Today is International “Day of Democracy.”  What will you vote for?

Trivial Fact of the Day:   There are four U.S. presidents who never held any other elective office: Ulysses Grant, William Taft, Herbert Hoover, and Dwight Eisenhower.

Interesting Quote of the Day:  “It’s never too late to late to be what you might have been.”  --George Eliot (pseudonym for Mary Anne Evans, British author of Silas Marner)

Vocabulary Word of the Day:  ominous  (adjective) – This word suggests that something evil or harmful is about to come true.  Storm clouds can be ominous. What are two or three other things that might be described this way?

Reading Day!!! 

Be sure to update your reading log everyday. Continue working on nonfiction text features using expository text.  What is a noun? Go on a hunt for different nouns.