April 27 2026 - TTOC Day - No Fixed Address Continued . . .October. Page 81-106

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Personal Novel Read 20 min. Students have personal novels - should some students need to borrow a book for 15 - 'strawberries and other secrets' short stories - by the kettle behind teachers desk - students to return these after.

*Please inform class - outside class activity day postponed to tomorrow.

Students to change their personal novels to class No Fixed Address Novels. 

TTOC - you could - up to you - choose to still bring class (if working well on quiet read of their personal novels) outside to read No Fixed Address class novel to them pages 81-106. Will leave that up to you. Lesson below. 

Read - No Fixed Address - Continue with: October

Page 81-106 

Bring class back in - or remain inside - then provide vocab to class to define - using dictionaries - side of the room. 

October. . .

Page 81-106 

Vocab: To Define. Words in ( ) below already defined for students. All other words - students to utilize dictionaries.

A.O.F. - (After Original Felix) 

Precocious

Slumps - (periods of depression re: Astrid - typically 3 days.)

Doused 

Discombobulated 

Hankering

Biases 

Quaver

Recession

Mc Job - (min. wage job - e.g. McDonalds)

Lorded  

If Time At The End:

Students can get into their small groups from last day and start to plan (blank paper under kettle) their 'Dream Van' - max 5 per group. We will come back to this later. 

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