The agenda for Wednesday, September 18th included reading assignments, comparing and contrasting the poems "Found Out About You" and "Wait", and completing AVID tutorials, homework, and Sustained Silent Reading. Students were also to learn the idiom "Avoid You Like the Plague", the daily vocabulary word "Confrere" meaning professional colleague, and the literary vocabulary term "Omen" referring to signs or disturbances seen as indications of future events.

1. Wednesday, September18Wednesday, September18
AgendaAgenda
ReadingReading
Compare/Contrast “FoundCompare/Contrast “Found
Out About You” and “Wait”Out About You” and “Wait”
AVIDAVID
Tutorials, HW, SSRTutorials, HW, SSR

2. “It is the
wounded
oysterthat
mends itself
with a pearl.”
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
(1803-1882)

3. Idiom:Idiom: AvoidYouLiketheAvoidYouLikethe
PlaguePlague
•Stay farawayStay faraway
Daily Vocabulary:Daily Vocabulary: ConfrereConfrere
•A professional colleagueA professional colleague
Literary Vocabulary:Literary Vocabulary: OmenOmen
•A natural disaster, a sign ofA natural disaster, a sign of
good luck, ora disturbance ingood luck, ora disturbance in