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English Language Arts (Period 5)

Course Description

Wednesday & Thursday, June 1&2
Revisions to Argumentative Essay
Review Literary terms
Friday, June 3
Final AR Test Due
Monday, May 16
Spelling Words:  shipment, flatly, admits, omits, expels, shipper, flatten, admittance, omitting, expelled
Vocabulary Power Worksheet pp. 37-40 due Friday
Read Canyon Novel Chapters 7-10, answer questions 5-14
All Late or Make up work through Thursday, May 12 is due by Friday, May 20
Tuesday, May 17
Spelling Sentences
Canyons Novel Ch. 9
Character, point of view, and historical fiction
Finishing reading Canyons Novel Chapters 7-10, answer questions 5-14
Wednesday, May 18
Begin reading chapters 10-18
Thursday, May 19
Finish reading chapters 10-18
Friday, May 20
Spelling Test
All overdue or past due work due.
Monday, April 25
Vocab Quiz from last week
Work on Argumentative Essay
Spelling Words and Worksheet
Tuesday, April 26
Work on Argumentative Essay
Wednesday, April 27
Work on Argumentative Essay
Thursday, April 28
State Testing Practice in Rattler Pit
Friday, April 29
State Testing Practice in Rattler Pit
Argumentative Essay Due
Spelling Test
Spelling Worksheet Due
Monday, April 18

Vocabulary Power-Lesson 10

aptitude, laughingstock, reflective, sulk, forlorn, limelight, squabble, superb, impudent, mingle

Begin writing argumentative essay - Introduction due on Tuesday, April 19

Tuesday, April 19

Work on Vocab worksheet and finish introduction for Argumentative Essay

**Grammar Assignment: Unit 8: Subject/Verb Agreement, Lesson 48 - 51/Unit Review Pgs 167 - 171.  This is due on Friday, April 29.

 

Wednesday, April 20

Work on Vocab worksheet and start body paragraph 1 for Argumentative Essay (due Thursday)

Thursday, April 21

Body paragraph 1 for essay due.  Begin work on body paragraph 2 which is due Monday, April 25

Friday, April 22

Vocabulary Test, Work on body paragraph 2

 

 

 

 

Monday, April 11
Grade Report going home today for signature.  Return by Wednesday, April 13 for 5 extra credit points.  All late work must be turned in by Monday, April 18!
Spelling Words:  launch, applaud, awesome, stalwart, naughty, author, caution, awkwardly, warrior, daughter
Spelling/Conjunction Worksheet due Friday, April 15
Monday, April 4
Vocabulary Packet - due Friday 4/8
Tuesday, April 5
Adverb Packet in Class, finish as homework (due 4/6)
Thursday, April 6
Preposition Packet due
Friday, April 1
Finish Study Sync lesson questions
Spelling Test
Spelling worksheet due
Wednesday, March 30
Finish Pit Bull Story
Read "Trojan War"
Thursday, March 31
Trojan War Comprehension questions in lab
Tuesday, March 29
Descriptive Paragraph - In Class from a photo
Spelling Worksheet - Due Friday, April 1
Tuesday & Wednesday, March 15-16
Read "Black Ships Before Troy" and answer 5 Comprehension Questions
Monday, March 14
Fable and Illustration Due
New Vocabulary:apiary, arboreal, botany, burrow, carnivorous, cultivate, habitat, terrarium, zoology
Vocab Squares - Pick five words to define then either illustrate or write in a sentence.
Monday, March 7
Spelling/Adverb Packet due Friday
New Spelling Words:  knight, autumn, pledge, heir, honorable, doubtful, design, folklore, debt and knowledge
Tuesday, March 8
Read Aesop's Fables in Study Sync  (pages 27-30)
Due Questions 1-5 in Journal
Friday, March 11
Spelling Test
Spelling/Adverb Packet 1 Due

Monday, February 29

Spelling Test Today

Homework:  Vocabulary Squares with new vocabulary.  Choose 12 to do.

New Vocabulary:  aquatic, cunning, feline, gait, haughty, lair, lure, lurk, shuffle, solitude
amphibious, anthropology, animated, antibiotic, biology, homicide,
homogeneous, humane, philanthropy, unanimous

Tuesday, March 1

Vocabulary Power Lesson 5 and Lesson 6
Homework Packet pp. 11 - 14  due Friday
 
New Vocabulary:  aquatic, cunning, feline, gait, haughty, lair, lure, lurk, shuffle, solitude
amphibious, anthropology, animated, antibiotic, biology, homicide,
homogeneous, humane, philanthropy, unanimous
 
Thursday, March 3
AR Test Due
Work on AR Book Summary
 
Friday, March 4
AR Book Summary
 

Tuesday, February 23

Vocab Quiz from previous week

Finish Speeches

 

Friday, February 26

Spelling Test and Homework Packet: StudySync Lesson 6 and 7 Due
technique, chorus, frantic, architect, focus,
character, dramatic, career, reckless, bouquet,
genuine, justify, surgery, journal, energy,
urge, legend, gigantic, majority, jealous.
 

 

 

Tuesday, February 16

Vocab/Grammar Packet Due

Vocabulary Test

Wednesday, February 17

Speeches Due

 

Monday, February 1

Write your spelling words in a sentenced. 

fantasy, consent, citizen, recent, vicinity, privacy, concise, incident, license, bicycle

Friday, February 5

China Paper due

Spelling Packet Due

Spelling Test

Tuesday, January 26

Vocabulary Words:  assess, implement, compensate, peripheral, deteriorated, potential, devastating , summit  (definitions, use in a sentence)

Thesis statement worksheet

Wednesday, January 27

Transitions

Grammar - Capitalization in Easy Grammar book

Thursday, January 28

Vocabulary/Grammar Packet

Friday, January 29

Vocabulary Quiz

Vocabulary/Grammar Packet due

 

 

Tuesday, January 19

Spelling Words:  admit, admission, permit, permission, explain, explanation, exclaim, exclamation, include, inclusion, explode, explosion, divide, division, decide, decision, omit, omission, collide, collision, separation, instruction, connection, expand, expansion

Spelling packet due on Friday, January 22

Wednesday, January 20

AR Test due (will do in Rattler Pit during class)

 

Monday, January 11

Vocabulary Squares  (write definition and sentence):  alignment, calamity, eclipse, generated, inconvenience, periodic, prolonged, tenacity

Read Anthology Book Page 254-255

Wonders Book Pages 238-241, "The Day the Dam Broke."

Tuesday, January 12

Finalize Greener Presentations

Grammar Packet due Friday, Jan. 15

Wednesday, January 13

Greener Presentations

Thursday, January 14

Greener Presentations

Grade Report Home for Signature

Friday, January 15

Vocab Quiz/Irregular Verb Quiz

Finish Greener Presentations

Grammar Packet Due

Signed Grade Report Due

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, January 4

Spelling Words:  inspire, separate, instruct, react, hesitate, inspiration, separation, instruction, reaction, hesitation, consult, illustrate, observe, connect, represent, consultation, illustration, observation, connection, representation. (Write each word in a sentence)

Irregular Verb worksheets

Tuesday, January 5

Read 254-255 in Anthology Wonders Book.  List an environmental problem.

Spelling packet due Friday.

Wednesday, January 6

Group Project in Lab:  Research and Environmental Issue

Thursday, January 7

Summarize research and prepare presentation

Grammar:  Review Irregular Verbs

Friday, January 8

Spelling Test/Irregular Verb Quiz

Presentations

Spelling Packet Due.

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, December 7

Spelling Test #1

actor, platter, mirror, calendar, observer, stroller, customer, vinegar, waiter, wander, scatter, ancestor, bachelor, singular, traitor, daughter, flavor, behavior, maneuver, janitor

 Write each word in a sentence and underline the word.

Tuesday, December 8

Vocabulary Words

abundant, impoverished, ingenuity, productivity, sharecropper, solitude, unearthed, windswept

Write the definition of each word and illustrate it or use it in a sentence.

Thursday, December 10

Grammar/vocab/spelling packet due today.

Friday, December 11

Spelling Test and Vocabulary quiz

January 20, 2015

First AR Test of the trimester is due.
 

Monday, November 30

Vocabulary words - define and write in  sentence due Tuesday.
Read Wonders book story entitled  "facing the Storm"  Pages 180-183.
 
Thursday, December 4
Vocabulary Test
Finish "Lizzie ...." in Wonders Anthology book and do questions 1-4.

 

 

Monday, November 23

Journal Write on something you are thankful for.  Underline all prepositions.
Easy Grammar Pages 1-10.
 
Tuesday, November 24
Finish Easy Grammar Assignment
Finish Egypt Presentations

 

Monday, November 16

Read "Who Created Democracy" in Wonders Anthology book on pages 117-125.
Create a Venn Diagram per question 2 on Page 127
 

Tuesday, November 17

Read as a whole class "People Just Like Us" and complete comprehension Test
 
 

 

 
 

Thursday, November 12

Technology of Mesopotamia Comprehension and Vocabulary Test Corrections Due

First Trimester Book Report Due.
Student may select first or second AR book for this report.
The book report form is attached to this posting.
 
Spelling Test
sloped, stifling, marveled, sipped, encouraged, permitting,
orbiting, credited, labored, patrolling, referred, regretting, totaled,
unraveling, uttered, reviving, surrounding, accused, confiding, hovered
 
All Late work must be turned in.
 
 

Due:

Second Accelerated Reading (AR) Book Test Due.
(Two AR tests are required per trimester.)
 
 
 
 
Monday, November 2
Classwork -
1.  Vocab 5 Introduced (artifact, communal, derived, inscription, millennium, stationary, utilize and yield)
2.  Read in Anthology book Pgs 98-112 The Technology of Mesopotamia
3. Journal Write
 
Classwork/Homework - Vocabulary Squares due Tuesday, November 3
 
Tuesday, November 3
Classwork -
1. Finish The Technology of Mesopotamia.  Do questions 1-4, page 113.
2.  Journal Write
 
Wednesday, November 4
Classwork-
1.  Chart Problems and Solutions Pg 61 Your Turn Packet
2.  Review Nouns - Common, proper, concrete and abstract Pg. 454-455
3.  Journal Write
4.  Read Workshop Making Money on pages 79-81and work on questions on pages 82-84 together
 
Homework - Your Turn Vocabulary Pg 60 of Packet due Thursday
 
Thursday, November 5
Classwork-
1.  Finish Making Money and questions on Pgs 82-84.
 
Friday, November 6
Classwork -
1.  Vocabulary Quiz
2.  Journal Write
****Narrative Essay Final Draft Due****
 
 
 
 
Due Thursday, October 29
The Mysterious Olmecs Packet
 
Due Friday, October 30
Printed copy of Narrative Essay (we will print in Rattler Pit)
Spelling Test
 
 
Monday, October 5
Spelling Words: Test on Friday
accuse, affect, beautiful, bought, busy, caught, different, done, effect, embarrass, especially, except, excuse, library, minute, nickel, probably, their, there, they're
 
Write each word in a sentence with at least 8 words in each sentence in journal.
 
Thursday, October 8
Grammar Packet Due
 
Friday, October 9
My Turn Practice Workbook Pages 26-28 due
 
 
Monday, September 28
Assign New Vocabulary (due Tuesday):  classification, compartment, engulfs, flanked, maneuvering, obscure, species, submerged
Review Book Report form
Assign My Turn Practice Workbook pages 21-25 (22 to be done in class)
 
Tuesday, September 29
Discuss Narrative Essay
In Class Practice Narrative Paragraph
 
Wednesday, September 30
First AR Test due
Read "The Secret World of Caves" on Pages 50-55
 
Thursday, October 1
Vocabulary Test
 
 
 
 
Due Friday, September 27
Turn in Unit 1 Practice Workbook (Finish pages 16-18,20)
Spelling Test 2
 
Due Wednesday, September 25
Write each spelling word in a sentence:  slope, acute, remote, bathe, gaze, type, jeans, tile, bleach, loan, tote, foal, foe, coax, bleak, continue, pave, meek, fuse, shrine
 
Due Thursday, September 26
In-Class Comprehension Check on Homer Figg Story
 
Due Wednesday, September 16
Pages 6-10 in Your Turn Practice Book

Tuesday, September 8

Study Spelling Words!
gram, clash, dense, dread, prank, strict, drill, swan, prod, shrunk, scuff, clutch, threat, dwell, fund, text, rank, brink, mock, plaid
 
Page 5 of Reading Wonders Practice Book
 
 

Due: Wednesday, September 30

Accelerated Reading (AR) Book #1 Test Due
Link to test in on Magnolia website under "Student Links."
 

Due Thursday, November 5

Personal Narrative Essay Due
Students will work on this in-class and will create a Google docs file in the computer lab.
 
 

Due: Friday, November 13

First Trimester Book Report Due.
Student may select first or second AR book for this report.
Instructions for this will be made available next month.
 

Due: Wednesday, November 18

Second Accelerated Reading (AR) Book Test Due.
(Two AR tests are required per trimester.)