This Week's ELA: 9/2

Spelling & Vocabulary Lists: Soldier’s Heart #2 (1.5)              

Spelling words:

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

Wednesday: Divide your words into syllables.  Use the dictionary to help you if you need to!  Feel free to use color.

Tuesday - Thursday: IF you made below an 85 on last week's test, you must write this week's words 3x each (2x print/1x cursive).  Turn in Thursday.

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

1.     collide                                      11. truce

2.     crouched                                  12. fret

3.     fanfare                                     13. barrage

4.     residue                                      14. corrosion

5.     churning                                   15. soldier

6.     withdraw                                  16. foliage

7.     slogans                                     17. volley

8.     cowlick                                    18. sympathizer

9.     desert                                       19. rudimentary

10.  demoralized                              20. parried

Vocabulary:

Tuesday – Match the vocabulary words below with the correct definition on the right.  Write the letter of the definition on the line next to the vocabulary word. Think about how the words have been used in the novel being read in class. You may use a dictionary. Due Wednesday.

Tuesday-Wednesday: Sentences OR Vocabulary Draw (due Thursday).

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).

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

1.      appalling  ______                              A. noisy excitement or fuss

                     

2.      plummet  ______                              B. a person not on active military duty or not part of the

military

3.      unscathed ______                              C. a civilian who provides items to an army and has a

shop in the camp

4.      commandeer  ______                                    D. the process of cutting off or removing a limb from the body

5.      ravenous ______                               E. not hurt, damaged, or harmed in any way

6.      civilian ______                                 F. causing dismay or horror

7.      dysentery ______                              G. very eager or greedy for food, satisfaction, or gratification

8.      sutler ______                                                H.  to order or force into military service; to seize (private property) for

military or other public use

9.      hullaballoo ______                            I. a disease characterized by severe diarrhea and passing

blood, caused by infection

10.   amputation ______                           J.  to drop steeply and suddenly downward

IRA: Story Elements

            You have learned about literary elements, or parts of stories, that authors include. Identify the following from your book: characters, setting, conflict, and point of view.  Turn this in, with the correct heading and the book’s title correctly written, on Friday.

DITB 5 is also due Friday.