This Week's ELA: Tuck & Walk Two Moons Wk 3

Spelling and Vocabulary Lists/Week 3   Tuck Everlasting and Walk Two Moons

Spelling words:

Monday: Copy spelling words into your agenda in ABC order (due Tuesday).

Tuesday-Wednesday: Complete ONE of the following choices (due Thursday).

A.            Five times each: Write each word five times each (three times print, two times cursive).  Remember to write your words down your paper in columns, not across in rows (like we did in class).

B.              Spelling triangles: Write the first letter on the 1^st line.  On the next line, write the 1st          

and 2nd letter.  Continue until you’ve spelling out the entire word.

            1. w

            2. wo

            3. wor

            4. word

Study each night for your test on Friday!

1. connect

2. connected

3. connecting

4. connection

5. confess

6. confessed

7. confessing

8. confession

9. deny

10. denied

11. denying

12. denial

13. express

14. expressed

15. expressing

16. expression

17. plummet

18. plummeted

19. plummeting

20. tentative

21. tentatively

*Your test on Friday will have 25 words!  Be sure to review the previous weeks’ words too!

Vocabulary words:

Monday: Match each term to the correct definition.

Monday-Thursday: Study vocabulary words and definitions each night for the test on Friday.  Work on your sentences (due Friday).

DUE FRIDAY: Use each word in an original, super sentence that is at least ten words long.  Please underline the vocabulary word in the sentence.  Don't forget to capitalize the beginning of your sentence and to use ending punctuation!  Your super sentence should try to answer at least five of the six questions (Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?).

*You will have TEN words on your test Friday.  Be sure to study previous weeks’ vocabulary.

Match each term to the correct definition.

1.    petulant ___________

2.    philosophy ___________

3.    reliable ___________

4.    acrid ___________

5.    unspeakable ___________

6.    remorseless ___________

7.    revulsion ___________

8.    unwittingly ___________

A.  without knowing, without being aware

B.  our ideas about the world and about

      life

C.  without mercy

D.  a feeling of disgust or dislike

E.  a bitter taste or smell

F.  something one can depend on

G.  something so bad and so horrible you

      can’t even talk about it

H.  crabby or grumpy

IRA (Independent Reading Activity) Setting: Postcard from the Book

            Create a postcard of the setting of your book and write a note on the back from that place, either as yourself visiting the place in the book (to one of the characters in the book) OR write as if you are a character in the book.  Your “postcard” is due no later than this Friday, 9/4.