Monday, January 5, 2015

This Week's ELA: 1/5/15


Latin Roots Ped and Man, Manu             

*Your spelling words and vocabulary words are the same!
Monday: Write your words in ABC order in your agenda.  Complete the vocabulary match. 
Your vocabulary choice is due Thursday.  It counts as both your vocab & your spelling choice.
Tuesday through Thursday, please study your words spelling and meaning nightly for your test on Friday.  You will need to understand the words in context, not just be able to match them to their definition, plus you must be able to spell each of the 20 words correctly.



1.             pedestrian            ____  a creature with two feet
2.             millipede              ____  a foot treatment that many people enjoy
3.             peddler                ____  a creature with 100 feet
4.             tripod                  ____  any four-footed creature
5.             pedicure              ____  something that stands in one's way; an obstacle
6.             centipede             ____  a lever that is moved by the foot
7.             quadruped           ____  a person who walks door-to-door selling something
8.             pedal                   ____  a three-footed stand often used to hold a camera still
9.             impediment          ____  a creature with 1,000 feet
10.         biped                   ____  a person walking across the street in a crosswalk

11.         emancipate ____  a hand treatment that many people enjoy
12.         manager              ____  to handily or skillfully go around something
13.         manacles             ____  an order or command placed in one's hands
14.         maneuver             ____  handcuffs
15.         manicure              ____  a person who has the upper hand; a person who is in charge
16.         mandate              ____  a handbook; a book of directions
17.         manual                 ____  to make by hand or machine; to produce something new
18.         manipulate  ____  a handwritten or typed piece of writing, such as a book
19.         manuscript  ____  to skillfully operate by hand
20.         manufacture         ____  to set free; to lend a hand in freeing someone; to release from                                                                      someone's hands




This month’s genre is biography/autobiography.  Your project is due on 1/30/15.

*Don’t forget about the optional extra credit World War II novel/book project as we discussed in class, also due no later than 1/30/15.

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