Week 13

 Hello everyone, we are starting the second week of the "One Plastic Bag" story and related learning materials so I hope that everyone is ready to wrap it up.

Please remember to practice learning the spelling and definitions of the vocabulary words frequently as it will be a core part of the learning as well as the quizzes and tests.

Week 13 Vocabulary

 Spelling Activity: https://wordwall.net/resource/102862819

1 tamarind  (n.): a tropical fruit with a sour taste 

 2 fabric (n.): cloth used for making clothes or other things 

 3 emerge (v.): to come out or appear from somewhere 

 4 scurry (v.): to move quickly with short steps 

 5 aluminum (n.): a light, silver-colored metal

 6 confess (v.): to say something true that you didn’t say before

 7 tote (v.): to carry something, especially by hand 

 8 minties (n.): a kind of small candy or mint sweet

 9 escape (v.): to get away from a place 

 10 torn (adj.): broken or cut so it is not whole 

 11 barely (adv.): only just; by a small amount

 12 notice (v.): to see or become aware of something 

 13 ugliness (n.): the quality of being not beautiful or unpleasant to look at 

 14 butcher (n.): a person who sells or prepares meat 

 15 mosquito (n.): a small flying insect that bites 

 16 forage (v.): to search for food or supplies 

 17 pluck (v.): to pull something off quickly 

 18 crochet (v.): to make something using yarn and a hooked needle 

 19 stitch (v.): to make or repair clothes with a needle and thread 

 20 strip (n.): a long, narrow piece of something 

 21 thread (n.): a long, thin piece of cotton, silk etc. used for sewing 

 22 blister (n.): a small sore on the skin, often caused by rubbing 

 23 purse (n.): a small bag used to carry money or personal items 

 24 pile (n.): a group of things put on top of each other 

One Plastic Bag

Reading Story: 

https://youtu.be/DAkBSU_T638?si=90_msGCzrTcxSXRt

Reading Questions Review:  https://wordwall.net/resource/102864252

  This story is a type of biography, and it follows the main character Isatour Ceesay and her friends as they try to make the Gambia more beautiful.

Her village in Njau, Gambia is getting inundated with lots of plastic bags and other types of plastic trash.

Her nation and village start to feel ugly to her, but she needs bags to put her fruits inside after her basket is broken.

Grandmother Mbombeh lives in a kitchen hut with her goats.

Grandmother serves some spicy rice and fish to Isatou.

She tells Grandmother Mbombeh about her broken basket and about the plastic bag she found.

She notices that more and more people in her village are starting to use plastic bags.

And they are also throwing them on the ground.

Her village is starting to get even more ugly, and she finds out that her grandmother's goats have been eating plastic bags.

The goats eat the plastic bags and twist their insides so they cannot survive.

Now, there is a pile of garbage in the village and mosquitos swarm near dirty pools of water.

Isatou's friend Fatim has the idea to wash the plastic bags with omo soap.

Isatou's sister decides to crochet the plastic bags into purses, and teaches Isatou how to do it.

Now, they ask their friends from the village to join them, and Isatou's friends agree.

They cut the bags and roll them into spools of plastic thread.

Afterwards, they crochet them into purses.

While others mocked these women as being dirty, they successfully made many purses.

Soon, many people in the village decide to buy these purses and put coins inside.

The pile of rubbish keeps getting smaller and smaller, and her village is more beautiful now.

Week 13	Homework 回家功課
Monday November 24th	1. Week 13 Vocab #9-16 x 3 + definitions x 1 2. Write 3 sentences
Tuesday November 25th	1. Grade 3 Shared Worksheet
Wednesday November 26th	1. Week 13 Vocab #17-24 x 3 + definitions x 1 2. Write 4 sentences
Thursday November 27th	1. A2 Worksheet
Friday November 28st	1. Write Week 13 vocab #1-8 x3 + definitions x1 2. Write 3 sentences 3. Sensay 4. Reading Worksheet