Read:

• Chapter 7, Growing Up
• Chapter 8, The Search
• Chapter 9, Finding Home

Write:

• As you are reading, write down any sentences or paragraphs that you like or have special meaning to you in your journal.
• Pay attention to any words or phrases that you don't understand and write them in your journal. Look up the meanings of these words.

Vocabulary:

While you are reading, look for the following words. Write them in your notebook and use a dictionary to find the definition.

• visualising
• transported
• meditation
• aimlessly
• ultimatum
• incentive
• trodden
• modernised
• meagre
• traumatic
• agitated
• obscure
• optimistic
• methodical
• eliminated
• claustrophobic
• adrenaline
• astonished

Spelling and Grammar:

You may choose a passage from the reading that you think is important and use it as your copywork, or you can use the selection below.

Sometimes I would lie in bed, visualising the streets of my home town, seeing myself walking home through them, opening the door and watching over my mother and Shekila as they slept.

• Write it in neatly your journal.
• Be careful to punctuate and capitalize the way the author did and watch for spelling. If you make any errors, correct them.
• Study this passage this week until you are asked to dictate it to your teacher.
• Let's learn about another type of mechanics this week, the Oxford comma. Watch the video below about the Oxford comma and then notice the commas in the passage you copied.

Share your favorite passage so far in the comments below.