Last Friday’s blog post offered you the opportunity to earn bonus points if you posted a response that identified the names of students in sections nineteen and twenty with first and last names that are also common nouns, making them playable Scrabble words. The lists below include those students’ names with the playable names in bold.
Section 19
- Kira Booker (one who books)
- Annika Brown (brown color or pigment)
- McKinnley Coles (pl. of cole, a plant of the cabbage family)
- Jess English (to fasten straps around the legs of a hawk)
- Jack Hutchins (to raise with a type of lever)
- Jack Madigan-Green (to raise with a type of lever, green color or pigment)
- Larisa Shaw (stalks and leaves of root plants)
- Hannah Smith (a metal worker)
- Simone Smith (a metal worker)
- Olivia Wall (an upright structure that encloses an area)
Section 20
- Ava Gaudioso (of all)
- Santino Hall (a corridor or a large room for assembly)
- Lily Murphy (a potato)
- Regan Shea (an African tree)
- Chaning Smith (a metal worker)
- Autumn Spaulding (the season between summer and winter)
- Renae West (the direction opposite of east)
Continue to review last Friday’s blog post, both to increase your word power and to put your classmates’ names with faces.
Next Up
Tomorrow in class we will examine an excerpt from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” one of your pieces of collaborative writing from January 10, and David Sedaris‘s “Me Talk Pretty One Day.”
Jane Lucas 