Week 9 ELA

Volcanoes by Seymour Simon, Week 1.9

Spelling:

Monday: Write your words in ABC order in your agenda (due Tuesday).

Tuesday: Make a spelling chain, “text” your spelling words, or color code them and provide a key (due Thursday).

*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 on Friday.

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

1. thrown 11. mood

2. scientists 12. explosion

3. clue 13. growth

4. dew 14. eruption

5. incredible 15. slope

6. volcanoes 16. bruise

7. boast 17. loose

8. cruise 18. rude

9. stroll 19. flow

10. route 20. gushes

This Week's IRA – due Friday:

Week 9: Cause/Effect Relationships – Use notebook paper with your correct heading.

Things happen in stories for a reason, and one thing leads to another. A cause is why something happens. An effect is what happens. Find at least THREE different cause and effect relationships (or events) in your AR book. Describe each event in a complete sentence in your own words. Remember the following key words and phrases that you can use: because, caused, since, so, and as a result.

Vocabulary

Monday: Write the correct word from the word bank for the given definition.

Tuesday: Vocabulary draw, sentences, or crossword puzzle with clues (due Thursday).

Wednesday: IF you made below 85 on last week’s test, write each vocabulary word in a fabulous 5^th grade sentence (use at LEAST 10 words)– underline the vocabulary word (due Thursday).

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

pursuit active subdue constantly lava

goddess magma reproach presume molten

1. ___________________: to get control of (a violent or dangerous person or group)

by using force

2. _________________: an activity that one engages in as a vocation, profession

3. ­­­_________________: fused or liquefied by heat

4. _________________: an expression of disapproval or disappointment

5. ____________________: to think that something is true without knowledge that it is

true

6. ____________________: moving around; busy; having movement; fully or

completely involved

7. ____________________: without stopping; continually; repeatedly

8. _______________________: a female supernatural being who is worshipped and

who is thought to have control over existence, some

part of the world, or some aspect of life

9. ___________________: molten rock inside the Earth’s crust

10. __________________: molten rock flowing from a volcano’s opening or vent