This Week's ELA: Hidden Worlds

3^rd 9 Weeks, Week 6 2/9/15

Spelling: Roots cred and jur/jus/jud

*Spelling choice activity is due Thursday if you made less than 90% on last week’s spelling test.  A vocabulary choice is due Thursday if you made less than 90% on last week’s vocabulary test. 

*You need to know the definitions of these words and how to use them as well as how to spell them for the tests on Friday.  Use the worksheet with the definitions to help you study.

cred = ________________________________      jur/jus/jud = ___________________________________

1.     credible (adj.)               __________ believable; reliable

2.     incredible (adj.)           __________ a document that proves a person is believable

3.     credential (n.)              __________ doubting; unwilling or unable to believe

4.     credit (v.)                       __________ to believe that someone will do something

5.     creditor (n.)                  __________ to refuse to believe; to reject as untrue

6.     credulous (adj.)           __________ tending to believe too easily; easily convinced; easily fooled

7.     accreditation (n.)       __________ a set of religious beliefs or principles

8.     creed (n.)                       __________ not believable; improbable; unlikely

9.     discredit (v.)                 __________ granting approval or believe in a school

10. incredulous (adj.)       __________ a person who believes that he will be paid back the money

that he loaned

                                                                        a person chosen to interpret laws,

11. just (n.)                           __________    decide on a winner, or settle a controversy

12.  justice (n.)                    __________ fairness or rightfulness

13. judge (n.)                        __________ to break the law by lying; to break a formal promise or an oath

14. perjury (n.)                    __________ to give up rights; to recant

15. justify (n.)                      __________ an expert in law

16. jury (n.)                           __________ the fact that is said to prove that something is true

17. jurist (n.)                        __________ to prove; to offer (especially as in excuses or reasons)

18. justification (n.)          __________ lawful; fair

19.  abjure (n.)                     __________ a group of people sworn to abide by the laws to determine the truth

20. jurisdiction (n.)           __________ the territory or land in which justice and laws are

                                                                  administered and followed

Vocabulary: Hidden Worlds: Looking through a Scientist’s Microscope

*Complete a vocabulary choice for this week’s story words if you made less than 100% on last week’s story vocabulary test (due Thurs.).

*Study vocabulary words and definitions each night Monday through Thursday for your test on Friday.

Vocabulary:

1. biology: scientific study of living things

2. dormant: sleeping; seeming to be asleep

3. erupted: burst forth

4. murky: dark; not clear

5. observer: one who sees

6. research: a careful study to find and learn facts about a subject

7. scoured: clean, cleared, worn away

8. specimens: some of a group or classes taken to show what others are like; sample

Skill: sequencing events in a story

*WOWs are due Wednesday.

*Science 5 kingdoms or 7 levels of classification display is due no later than Thursday!

*Valentine “brunch” Thursday

*NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS FRIDAY AND MONDAY!!!!!!