Spelling Lesson 8- 8
th
Grade
1. antecedent
2. epilogue
3. episode
4. premier
5. protrude
6. anterior
7. premonition
8. preamble
9. prejudice
10. procession
11. epitaph
12. anteroom
13. presuppose
14. premature
15. prophet
Honors~
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epistle
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epidermis
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prelude
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proposal
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protocol
J1- Discuss ways in which the world is going to be different 50 years from now.
J2- What is censorship?
J3- How could a gonvernment with too much power be dangerous? How does censorship come into play here?
J4- Discuss some ways in which being ignorant will affect your choices.
J5- Do you know someone who is ignorant? How?
J1- Why could this book be considered contraversial?
J2- Write a Halloween poem. Any kind, any length.
J3- Some schools are trying to ban Halloween because of its religious origin. Pick a side (whether it should be banned at school or not) and argue that side.
J4- Free Write (1/2 page)
J3- List 3 reasons teens start smoking and 3 ways to avoid smoking.
J4- Why does the tobacco industry (Big Tobacco) target teenagers?
J5- List 5 new or interesting things you learned about the tobacco industry.
J6- What would you do if a good friend tried smoking.
J7- Read “Family Notes” (student issue, p. 4) and list 5 behaivors that indicate a potential risk for drug use.
J1- What is your favorite Halloween tradition?
J2- Discuss some popular superstitions or a superstition that you have.
J3- Write an acrostic poem using the word “HALLOWEEN.”
J4- Why do people like to be scared?
J5- Write about the best part of Halloween this year.
Lucy Gray; or, Solitude
Oft
I had heard of Lucy Gray:
And, when I crossed the wild,
I chanced to see at break of day
The solitary child.
No
mate, no comrade Lucy knew;
She dwelt on a wide moor,
—The sweetest thing that ever grew
Beside a human door!
You
yet may spy the fawn at play,
The hare upon the green;
But the sweet face of Lucy Gray
Will never more be seen.
“To-night
will be a stormy night—
You to the town must go;
And take a lantern, Child, to light
Your mother through the snow.”
“That,
Father! will I gladly do:
‘Tis scarcely afternoon—
The minster-clock has just struck two,
And yonder is the moon!”
At
this the Father raised his hook,
And snapped a faggot-band;
He plied his work;—and Lucy took
The lantern in her hand.
Not
blither is the mountain roe:
With many a wanton stroke
Her feet disperse the powdery snow,
That rises up like smoke.
The
storm came on before its time:
She wandered up and down;
And many a hill did Lucy climb
But
never reached the town.
The
wretched parents all that night
Went
shouting far and wide;
But there was neither sound nor sight
To serve them for a guide.
At
day-break on a hill they stood
That overlooked the moor;
And thence they saw the bridge of wood,
A furlong from their door.
They
wept—and, turning homeward, cried,
“In heaven we all shall meet;”
—When
in the snow the mother spied
The print of Lucy’s feet.
Then
downwards from the steep hill’s edge
They tracked the footmarks small;
And through the broken hawthorn hedge,
And by the long stone-wall;
And
then an open field they crossed:
The marks were still the same;
They tracked them on, nor ever lost;
And to the bridge they came.
They
followed from the snowy bank
Those footmarks, one by one,
Into the middle of the plank;
And further there were none!
—Yet
some maintain that to this day
She is a living child;
That you may see sweet Lucy Gray
Upon the lonesome wild.
O’er
rough and smooth she trips along,
And never looks behind;
And sings a solitary song
That whistles in the wind.
Spelling 7- 7
th grade
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Proofread
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Fireproof
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Timetable
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Lifetime
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Nighttime
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Someone
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Anytime
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Meanwhile
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Everywhere
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Whenever
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Blue-eyed
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One-half
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Ninety-four
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Self-addressed
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Great-aunt
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Doesn’t
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It’s
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There’s
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Here’s
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Would’ve
J16- List 3 traits that you got from a parent.
J17- List the 5 most applicable or interesting things you learned from the body systems unit. Sentence format.
J1-
J43- How would the world be different if everyone showed more empathy towards one another?
J44- Write a journal/diary entry from the point of view of someone who was bullied earlier that day in school.
J45- Draw a cartoon strip (5-8 squares) of someone showing empathy or compassion towards another person.
J35- What motivate sports fans?
J36- Do you like poetry? What you to like/dislike about it?
J37- Why are sports such a large part of our culture?
J38-
