This Week's ELA

LA 1.5: Latin Roots Ped and Man, Manu 

Spelling:

Tuesday: Write your words in ABC order in your agenda (due Wednesday). IF you made below an 85 on last week's test, you must write this week's words 5x each (3x print/2x cursive). Turn in by Friday.

Wednesday: Create a spelling chain. Write one of your words, link another word to it, and so on and so forth until you've linked all 20 words together (due Friday.)

Tuesday through Thursday, please study your words nightly for your test on Friday.

1. pedestrian 11. emancipate
2. millipede 12. manacles
3. peddler 13. manager
4. tripod 14. mandate
5. pedicure 15. maneuver
6. centipede 16. manicure
7. quadruped 17. manipulate
8. pedal 18. manual
9. impediment 19. manufacture
10. biped 20. manuscript

Vocabulary:

Tuesday: Use 10 of your spelling words to fill in the blank to match each vocabulary definition (due Wednesday). IF you made below 85% on last week's vocabulary test, you must use each of this week's words in a fabulous sentence with at least 10 words (due Friday).

Wednesday: Vocabulary Draw: Draw and label a picture of each vocabulary word (due Thursday).

Tuesday – Thursday: Study vocabulary words and definitions for the test on Friday.

1. _________________________: a creature with two feet

2. _________________________: a creature with 1,000 feet

3. _________________________: something that stands in one's way; an obstacle

4. _________________________: to set free; to lend a hand in freeing someone; to release from someone's hands

5. _________________________: to handily or skillfully go around something

6. _________________________: an order or command placed in one's hands

7. _________________________: handcuffs

8. _________________________: a person who has the upper hand; a person who is in charge of someone or something

9. _________________________: a handbook; a book of directions

10. _________________________: to skillfully operate by hand

English: Since many students are not using the homophones your and you're correctly, this week you will need to practice using those words.

Due Thursday: Write each word and its explain the difference in them on a sheet of notebook paper. Use each word appropriately in a model sentence.

*On Friday, you will be tested on these words by using them correctly.

This Week's IRA: Wonderful Words

Fold paper into four quarters. Write your correct heading on your paper. Label your sections nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Find at least 5 interesting, wonderful words for each part of speech and write them in the appropriate quadrant. Also write in parentheses a simple synonym for the wonderful word.