I gave them a story starter and asked them to give the story a middle and an end. They need to finish this at home this week and type it. If they have forgotten the story I'm including it below:
Door in the Floor
"Abandon hope, ye scalawag!" David yelled and swiped his stick swordat his friend Steven. They charged each other up and down the haystack
in the old barn behind David's farmhouse. Today they were pirates,
yesterday they were cowboys, tomorrow who knows?
"Arrrr! Blimey! You got me!" Steven uttered a dramatic gasp, clutched
his chest and fell backward, down the stack of loose hay and onto the floor
of the barn.
Laughing, David called, "Hey Steven, come on back up! You can stab
me this time!" He called again, "Steven? Come on up." But Steven didn't
appear.
"Hey David!" he heard Steven yell. "Come here! You gotta see this!"
"What? What'd you frnd?" David slid down the hay bales.
"Check this out. There's a door in the floor." Steven stood over what
looked like a trap door. A large metal ring and two hinges were all that
marked its place.
David frowned as he stood beside Steven. "That's really weird. I've
never seen that before. Let's see where it goes." Together they grasped
the ring and lifted with all their strength. A blast of hot wind hit their
faces. Dust billowed around their feet. The scorching air smelled ancient
and stale.
They let the trap door fall open with a thud and bent to look into
the darkness.
And then...
Greek and Latin words this week:
Greek
tonos- tone
mantis- prophet
mathema- science
Latin
dexter- on the right hand
lupus- wolf
bracchium- arm
figo- fix, fasten
manus- hand
pes- foot
pono- lay, put, place
jungo- join, unite
cum- with, together
caput- head
jacio- throw
digitus- finger, toe, inch
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