Double Block No Fixed Address Pg 81-106 & Continue with Grammar Booklets Lessons 35-39

Attendance.

Personal Novel Read 20 min.

Grammar Booklets Continue Lessons 35-39 (catch up from last day if required as well). 

2nd Half - No Fixed Address Continue. October Cont. . .

Page 81-106

Vocab:

A.O.F. - After Original Felix 

Precocious

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

M.C.F.D. - Ministry of Child and Family Dept.

Doused 

Discombobulated 

Hankering

Biases 

Quaver

Recession

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

Lorded  

Note: Audible Ch 13-Ch 15 - start at Ch 16 next class.

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