Monthly Archives: September 2014

ELA 9-29-2014

Journal 15Spelling 2: ex. 3- accentuate double leTTer.Grammar: Pronouns 4 (p. 712-713, 1-11)Vocab 2: review sentencesRead chapter 18-19 in LPoG

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Health Journals 11-15

HJ11- Discuss what you’ve learned about your activity level?HJ12- What are 4 basic food safety principles?HJ13-List 3 reasons people start smoking.HJ14- Discuss how making the choice to use tobacco could alter the course of you life? (At least 3 sentences.)HJ15- … Continue reading

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Lit Circle 5 Make-up Assignment

What do the boys do with the stones and the paint? Why do you think that Karim feels like “they’d done something here, on this little piece of ground? They’d made it truly theirs.” How did they make it theirs? … Continue reading

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ELA 9-25-14

Journal 14- collected J10-14Spelling 2: ex. 2- write words right to leftVocab 2: ex. 3- sentencesLit Circle 5– See ‘make-up assignment’ if you were absent.

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Tobacco PPT

TobaccoPPTRead through this powerpoint and take notes on important/new information. (2 notes per page)

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Pronouns 1/2

Grammar book p. 706-09

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ELA 9-23-14

Journal 13Spelling 2: Ex. 1-write wordsGrammar: Pronouns 3– Review (p710-711: 1-5, 1-8)Reading: Chapters 13-16 Prepare lit circle roles for Thursday.

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Spelling Lesson 2

Group AcontrollerpatrolledforbiddenconferredpreferredGroup BunforgettabledeferredexpelledtransmittingdeterringGroup CoccasionallyoccurringincurredpropelleradmittingGroup Domittedpermittedacquittedoverlappinghandicapped

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Literature Circle 4 Make-up Assignment

In Chapter 11 Karim talks about a “shift” that he feels: “For a long moment, neither of them spoke, and in the silence, Karim felt something shift. Up till now, they’d been mere children, watching the struggle from the sidelines, … Continue reading

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ELA 9-19-14

Journal 12Grammar: Pronouns 2 (p.708-709)Vocab Ex. 2: In context-write sentence the word is used in when you find them in book.Lit Circle Discussion 4            -if absent alternative assignment is posted.Assign new roles and start reading ch. 13-16

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