Tuesday, December 4, 2012

This Week's ELA: Unit 3, Week 5 "Zathura"

 Spelling Final /er/
Monday: Write spelling words CORRECTLY in your agenda in ABC order (due Tues.).
Tuesday:  Write your spelling words 3x each IF YOU MADE 85 OR BELOW on last week’s test (due Wed.)!
Wednesday: Finish a spelling choice if you made less than 100% on last week’s test or this week’s pretest (due Thurs.).
Study your spelling words Monday – Thursday for your test on Friday!

1.     sugar                                                   11. crater
2.     gentler                                                   12. pillar
3.     scissors                                                13. splendor
4.     founder                                                 14. peddler
5.     director                                                  15. professor
6.     scholar                                                  16. soldier
7.     saucer                                                   17. shatter
8.     labor                                                        18. governor
9.     commander                                        19. vapor
10.error                                                        20. equator

Vocabulary
Complete a vocabulary choice if you made less than 100% on last week’s test (due Thurs.).
Study vocabulary words and definitions each night Monday through Thursday for your test on Friday.

1.     defective (adj.) – having a flaw or weakness; not perfect
2.     tokens (n.) – pieces that mark movement on a board game
3.     reversed (v.) – moved in the opposite direction from what is usual
4.     rotated (v.) – turned around on an axis
5.     meteor (n.) – a mass of metal or rock that enters Earth’s atmosphere from space
6.     robot (n.) – a machine designed to do certain human tasks
7.     dangling (v.) – hanging loosely
8.     staggered (v.) – moved unsteadily or with a swaying motion


TESTED READING SKILL: draw conclusions

IRA: This month’s genre is NON-FICTION (but not biography).  BEFORE YOU BEGIN READING YOUR BOOK, write down three facts that you already know about this subject.  Next, write at least three questions that you have about the topic.  Use complete sentences.  Now begin reading your book.  (As you read, if you find the answers, feel free to include them.)  Turn in your IRA by Friday.

GRAMMAR: Irregular verbs and the perfect verb tenses

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