It’s November 18. 
Today is “Mickey Mouse Day.” Who is your favorite Disney Character? Did you ever stand in line to take a picture with him/her/it?

Trivial Fact of the Day: French author Michele Thaler wrote a 233-page novel which contained absolutely no verbs.

Interesting Quote of the Day:  “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”  --T.S. Eliot (American Poet)
Vocabulary Word of the Day:  cloying (adjective) – if something (or someone’s personality) is so sweet it makes you sick, you can describe it with the word cloying.  Is there anything you cannot eat because it is cloying?

Tuesday!!!

Since we have no newsela anymore, we have a new site to try out today.  We work through this as a class to see if we like it or not.  5 minutes to work on quizlets to prepare for our test on Thursday. Simple, compound sentences, FANBOYS = PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE