English (Period 4) Assignments
- Instructor
- Marina Belenkaia
- Term
- School Year 2012-2013
- Department
- English
- Location
- C105
Upcoming Assignments
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Past Assignments
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Poetry Books
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Bring Literature textbook that was assigned to you
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no homework
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No homework; "My Name" story was turned in
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"My Name" (story was distributed in class; use it as your guide for this assignment)
TALK to your parents/other relatives/guardians to learn how you got your name. Write about your feelings about your name; what do you associate it with; would you prefer a different name?
If there is no way to know why you were given your name, write about your feelings about your name, etc.
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Concrete poem (final copy: white or color construction paper; writing is typed or in pen or in colors)
A concrete poem is a single line of poetry written in the shape of the object being described.
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"Commas" and "Figurative Language" worksheets will be collected
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Make sure "Commas" worksheet is completed! It will be collected.
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Roots Review Weeks 7-8
"Using Commas Correctly" worksheet: finish all exercises
"Using Commas Correctly" worksheet: finish all exercises
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Roots Review weeks 7-8.
Quiz Thursday, 4/25
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Roots Review weeks 7-8
Individual articles for the Tuck Everlasting newspaper have to be completed!
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1. Finish "Context and Reading" worksheet
2. Review roots weeks 6-7
3. Complete individual articles/pictures for the group newspaper
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Final copy of individual articles, pictures, etc, for the Tuck Everlasting newspaper.
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Study the roots!! (weeks 5-6)
Work on your individual part for the Tuck Everlasting newspaper project
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Final copy of a poem
Roots Review Weeks 5-6
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Draft of a poem
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Draft of Poetic Thoughts
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No homework. Have a good weekend!
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Roots Review Weeks 4-5
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Students took a roots quiz. No homework.
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Roots Review Weeks 4-5
Quiz tomorrow
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Make sure to have your Tuck Everlasting with you!
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1. Color poem, if you haven't turned it in!
2. Metaphor poem: Final copy: Typed or handwritten on write or color construction paper
3. Read Tuck Everlasting ch. 22-24
4. Review roots weeks 2-4
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1. Color Poem: Final copy: typed or handwritten in pen on white or colored construction paper. You can add illustrations in the color of your poem. Writing can be in the color of your poem.
2. Metaphor poem: draft: choose a concept (feeling, idea, object, etc). Write four metaphors with explanations about that concept.
Use "Figurative Language" worksheet (that I haven't collected) for reference if you are confised on similies and metaphors.
3. Tuck Everlasting: Make sure you read ch. 21
4. Review roots weeks 2-4
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Tuck Everlasting:Read ch. 19-20
Bring Figurative Language WKSH
Review Roots weeks 2-4
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Figurative Language worksheet with examples
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Review roots weeks 2-3
Have your figurative language examples
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Collage Picture Book (Report)
--see instructions on the "Worksheets and Attachments" page of the website
--see instructions on the "Worksheets and Attachments" page of the website
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Use Tuck Everlasting:
Find two examples of simile, two examples of metaphor, and two examples of personification. Include a page number.
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Tuck Everlasting: Read ch. 17-18
Review roots weeks 2-3
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No homework.
We are about $120 short for the bus for our next field trip. There is also a $2 per person donation for a guided tour of the Buddhist Temple. If you are able to donate any amount for this last field trip, it would be greatly appreciated. The field trip is being scheduled for May 10, 2013.
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Review roots WK 1-2!!
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Review: assertion and supporting details, credibility of characterization, contrived or realistic plot.
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Bring the chart with assertion and support back! You might want to practice: add a few more examples of characterization and plot.
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work on collage
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Option 1:
Write a letter from Jesse to Winnie asking her to drink the spring water when she is seventeen. Convince her! Include different reasons!
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Write a letter from Winnie to Jesse with your decision. Tell him why you would/would not drink the water.
Your letter has to be either typed or neatly handwritten in pen (lined paper is ok). Check: spelling, capitalization of names and first words in sentences, commas, complete sentences. Remember, it is a letter! Therefore, no bullet points listing the reasons! Make sure you have the greeting and closing: "Dear ___," and "Sincerely, ________."
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work on collage (due March 14)
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Work on the collage book report
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Work on the Collage Picture Book Project
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Find an book for the book report
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No homework
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Favorite Belief:
Winnie's grandmother told her that the elves had returned to the forest. Elves are one of those myths that we want to believe in, but really do not have concrete evidence for their existence.
Choose ONE popular belief (elves, Loch Ness Monster, Big Foot, UFOs, Ghosts, Leprechauns, fairies, mermaids, etc.). Research the origins and any other information you can locate about the topic. Use the following guidlines:
Title
A paragraph about the origin or history of the belief
Description of a creature and the belief
Personal feeling about belief
Picture (can be drawn or printed out)
Site your sources
Writing must be either typed or handwritten in pen. Neatness and effort count!
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Make sure you read Tuck Everlasting ch.6-11 and complete your individual vocabulary work!
Favorite Belief mini-research is due!
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Tuck Everlasting Read/Review ch.6-11
Vocabulary work: find each word in the book; copy the sentence that contains the word; include a page number; underline the word; identify its part of speech.
Ch. 6
troupe
perversely
burly
faltered
bridle
comprehend
ch. 7
populated
source
Ch. 8
elated
receded
parson
Ch. 9
reservoirs
vanity
revived
rutted
enveloped
vigorous
penetrate
Ch. 10
perilous
cavernous
homely
kingfisher
eddies
lolled
camphor
assaults
helter-skelter
disarray
revolutionary
indomitable
Ch. 11
luxurious
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Read ch. 6-11
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Tuck Everlasting:
Ch. 7 Add four words you don't know or are not sure about from the chapter. Copy the sentence that contains the word; include a page number; underline a word; identify part of speech.
Read ch. 8-9
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Tuck Everlasting:
Ch.6 Choose any four words you do not know and complete the vocabulary activity (copy the sentence that contains the word; include a page number; underline the word; identify its part of speech).
Read ch. 7 Add "populated" and "source" to the vocabulary list and repeat activity above.
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Tuck Everlasting read ch.6
On a separate sheet of paper copy the following words:
1. troupe
2. perversely
3. burly
4. faltered
5. bridle
6. comprehend
Find each word in the text. Copy the sentence that contains that word (include page number); underline the word in the sentence (on your paper not in the book); identify part of speech (the way the word is used in the sentence).
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No homework.
All make-up work is due
All make-up work is due
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No Homework
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Tuck Everlasting: Ch.1-5 Quiz (comprehension)
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Review ch. 1-5; quiz is tomorrow
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Tuck Everlasting: Review ch. 1-5
Vocabulary work will be collected
Vocabulary work will be collected
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If not finished:
1. Draw the setting of Tuck Everlasting. Read description of the wood in ch. 1 and ch. 5 and draw the road, the cottage, and the wood.
2. Ch. 1-5 vocabulary work. Make sure to have it with you in class!
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Tuck Everlasting:
Read ch. 5
Use the same vocabulary page to work with vocabulary words from ch. 5
1. reluctantly
2. galling
3. disheartened
4. consolingly
5. plaintively
For each word:
write a sentence (or a part of a sentence that contains that word); include a page number;
write dictionary definition in your own words
write a synonym
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Use your ch. 1 and 2 vocabulary page to continue:
Ch. 3 vocabulary words:
1. intrusions
2. exasperated
3. staggering
4. stationary
Ch. 4 vocabulary words:
1. self-deprecation
2. remnants
3. seized
4. intense
5. jaunty
Copy the sentence (or a part of the sentence) that contains a word; include a page number.
Write a dictionary definition in YOUR OWN words
Write a synonym
Read ch. 1-4
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Tuck Everlasting read ch. 3-4
Make sure all vocabulary work for ch. 1-2 is completed
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Use Tuck Everlasting to complete this assignment:
READ EVERYTHING FIRST!
Vocabulary Words from Ch. 1
1. tangent
2. ambled
3. bovine
4. contemplation
5. infinite
6. veered
7. gallows
8. accessible
9. isolation
10. oppressive
11. meager
12. dimensions
13. tranquil
Vocabulary words from ch. 2
1. melancholy
2. ceased
3. brooch
4. tolerantly
For each word:
1. Find the word in the chapter. On a separate sheet of paper, write the word and its page number.
2. Copy the sentence (or a part of a sentence) with the word.
3. Write a dictionary definition IN YOUR OWN WORDS.
4. Write a synonym.
Complete all!
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Tuck Everlasting
Read Ch. 1-2 Complete #12-13 on the Response to Literature WKSH
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Tuck Everlasting: Read Prologue and Ch. 1; Complete questions 11-12 on the "Response to Literature" WKSH
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Read "About the Author: Natalie Babbitt" (was distributed in class). Use this handout and Tuck Everlasting book (distributed and assigned in class) to answer #1-11 on the "Response to Literature" WKSH (distributed in class).
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No homework. Have a great weekend!
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Drafts of the essay were turned in. No homework.
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Complete draft of the essay (will be collected)
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Rough Draft of your "Best Experience of my vacation" essay
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100 Roots Test
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100 Roots Test
Communication Books
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Work on word cards and communication books
Communication books will be due Tuesday at the end of the class
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Grade printouts were sent home. All make up work is due Monday, 12/10!
History: Ch. 15 has to be completed
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How-to Recipe Project (see instruction on the "Worksheets and Attachments" page)
You are NOT making the dish! It is an essay!
Please type it or handwrite it on blank white or construction paper in pen.
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Roots week 10 (last ten roots!!): 2 examples for each roots with definitions
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Finish roots examples and turn them in Monday (if you haven't done so yet)!
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Roots weeks 8 and 9 test! Roots examples from this week will be collected.
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Study roots! Test Friday!
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Roots Week 9: find another example for each number and write its definition. You will have two examples for each number with definitions.
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Roots Week 9: write ONE example and definition for each number
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Extra Credit (see attachment below)
All writing has to be typed or handwritten in pen. History work can be presented in a form of a report or on a poster (12x18) with writing and pictures. Don't forget to credit all the sources you are using!
English work: if you are presenting a movie rated PG-13 or higher, make sure your parents sign your assignment.
You may complete only ONE item for History and only ONE for English.
Yes, you may do one for history AND one for English.
All extra credit work has to be turned in on Monday, November 26th (unless you are absent)!!
All writing has to be typed or handwritten in pen. History work can be presented in a form of a report or on a poster (12x18) with writing and pictures. Don't forget to credit all the sources you are using!
English work: if you are presenting a movie rated PG-13 or higher, make sure your parents sign your assignment.
You may complete only ONE item for History and only ONE for English.
Yes, you may do one for history AND one for English.
All extra credit work has to be turned in on Monday, November 26th (unless you are absent)!!
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Roots Week 8 Test
Roots examples will be collected
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Biography Book Report (See the attachment on the "Worksheets and Attachments" page of the website)
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Study Roots!
Biography Book Project is due!
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Roots Week 8: two examples for each root; no definitions
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If you are finished with the Bio Project, bring it in!
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Roots examples will be collected
Work on biography book report
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Roots Week 7: two examples for each root; no definitions
Bring index cards for word cards
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Work on your biography book report
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Roots Week 6 Test
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Roots Test tomorrow
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1. Roots Week 6 (can be found on the "Greek and Latin Roots" page of the website). On a separate sheet of paper, write a root, its meaning, and one example of a word that contains the root.
2. "Compare the Candidates" wksh was passed out and completed in class. Work and finish the other side of the worksheet " Before They Were Presidents"
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Get a biography book (150-200 pages) and start reading it!
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Optional retake test (Roots Weeks1-5)
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"Shakespeare's London" p.734-735 Use the outline (done in class) to write a summary of the selection (4-6 sentences). Yes, you are allowed to type it.
Roots Examples Week 5 have to be turned in!!
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Review roots weeks1-5. Friday there will be an optional retake test at lunch
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"Main Idea" WKSH
Review Roots Wk 1-5
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Communication Book:
Use index cards to create "word cards" similar to what Jason is using in Rules. Think of "important" words; those that you absolutely need to communicate. By tomorrow, you should have eight word cards. Bring them to class.
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Roots week 5 test
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Roots test (know all roots weeks 1-5). Roots examples will be collected.
Bring 5 blank index cards
Bring 5 blank index cards
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No homework
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Roots Week 5 (can be found on the "Greek and Latin Roots" on the website). On a separate sheet of paper, write each root with its meaning. Then find one word that contains a root and write a definition of it. Remember, the definition must reflect the root's meaning. You need one example for EACH root!
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Descriptive paragraphs: if you haven't turned them in, work on the final copy; attach it to construction paper (was given in class)
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Roots Week 4 Test (know all 40 roots)
Roots examples will be collected
Roots examples will be collected
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1. Roots Test is tomorrow
2. Roots Week 4 examples will be collected
3. Descriptive Paragraph: draft. Remember, you are only describing a location!
2. Roots Week 4 examples will be collected
3. Descriptive Paragraph: draft. Remember, you are only describing a location!
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Verb Tense Worksheet
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Roots Week 4 (can be found on the "Greek and Latin Roots" page of the website). On a separate sheet of paper, write each root with its meaning. Then find one word for each root that contain that roots. Write the word with the definition. Remember, definition has to reflect the meaning of the root!
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Roots examples due
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Roots Week 4 (can be found on the "Greek and Latin Roots" page of the website)
On a separate sheet of paper, write each root and meaning. Find one word that contains each root. Write that word and its definition. Remember, definition has to reflect the meaning of the root! You need to do at least roots #31-35. The rest of the roots is due Wednesday.
On a separate sheet of paper, write each root and meaning. Find one word that contains each root. Write that word and its definition. Remember, definition has to reflect the meaning of the root! You need to do at least roots #31-35. The rest of the roots is due Wednesday.
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Grade printouts were sent home Friday, 10/5/12.
ALL MAKE UP WORK IS DUE MONDAY, 10/8/12!
ALL MAKE UP WORK IS DUE MONDAY, 10/8/12!
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Roots Week 3 Test (You DO need to know the roots from previous weeks)
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Roots Week 3 Test: know roots wk1-3
Roots examples will be collected
Roots examples will be collected
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Roots Week 3 are on the "Greek and Latin Roots" page on the website. On a separate sheet of paper, write each root with definition. Then find one example for each root and write a definition for the examples.
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Work on the book project!
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Roots quiz weeks 1-2.
Examples will be collected.
Examples will be collected.
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Roots Week 2: (roots for this week can be found on the "Greek and Latin Roots" page on the website).
On a separate sheet of paper, write each root with its meaning. Find two words that contain the root as a prefix, stem or a suffix. Write the definition of the word you chose. Remember, it must reflect the root meaning.
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Rules vocabulary treasure hunt: context clues. Write what you think each word means based on the way it is used in the sentence. Do Not use a dictionary!
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Begin Roots work!!
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Work on the narrative book report
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Read "Breaker's Bridge" p.392
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Work on your Book Report!
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Roots Week 1 Test (examples will be collected)
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Clauses and Vocabulary WKSH was collected; if you did not turn it in, please do!
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Bring a book you are reading for your narrative book report.
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Study Roots (test on Friday; examples will be collected)
Bring Clauses WKSH
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Greek and Latin Roots Week 1: Roots were copied in class (they are also posted on the website under "Greek and Latin Roots" page). On a separate sheet of paper write each root and its meaning. Find two words that contain the root as a prefix, stem or a suffix. Write the definition of the word you chose. Remember, it must reflect the root meaning.
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Review "Clauses" WKSH
As you watch the news tonight or read newspaper or on-line articles, pay attention to any information about the 9/11 anniversary. You may take notes and bring them to class. We will have a class assignment tomorrow.
As you watch the news tonight or read newspaper or on-line articles, pay attention to any information about the 9/11 anniversary. You may take notes and bring them to class. We will have a class assignment tomorrow.
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Review "Dragon, Dragon"
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No homework. Nouns/Pronouns and Adjectives/Adverbs wksh were collected.
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Adjectives/Adverbs WKSH:
#1-5--Underline the adjectives and circle the nouns or pronouns they modify. DO NOT do anything with the predicate adjectives.
#6-9--Follow directions
#10-13--Follow directions
#14-18-- are optional. Directions are given; if you can't do it, leave it blank.
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Nouns and Pronouns Wksh: Complete part A and B. Part C: circle the correct pronoun only (we did not discuss subject/object).
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Read/Review a book from a Summer Reading List (posted on the home page of the school website). Or review any book you read during the summer. Or read a book. We will have a class writing assignment. You are allowed to bring and use the book.
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Summer reading book: bring a book (optional but might be helpful); we will be doing a writing prompt in class.
Have the illustrations for the Parts of Speech chart completed and colored (except those we didn't do)
Bring colors
Have the illustrations for the Parts of Speech chart completed and colored (except those we didn't do)
Bring colors
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Book Fair Tomorrow! Bring money!
Finish illustrations for a Parts of Speech chart (only the boxes we did in class; you don't have to go ahead)
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Parts of Speech worksheet: illustrate nouns, subjects, predicates (definitions and examples were done in class)
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Finish "Magazine Covers": Include a title for the magazine, title for the article, pictures (can be printed out), captions. You are featuring your partner (the one you interviewed) and telling us all about him/her on the cover. All writing has to be in pen or colors. All pictures have to be colored (black and white if printed)
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Bring a composition notebook that will be kept in class
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Bring back your interviews! Bring colors
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No homework, but bring a signed content letter if you haven't done so yet.
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Textbook were distributed. Take them out of your backpacks and leave them at home!
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Read "Dragon, Dragon" p.434