This Week's ELA: Soldier's Heart 2 + NEW Poetry Practice

Spelling & Vocabulary Lists: Soldier’s Heart #2                        

September 14-18, 2015

Spelling words:

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

Wednesday-Thursday: IF YOU MADE BELOW 90% ON LAST WEEK’S TEST, divide your words into syllables.  Use the dictionary to help you if you need to!  Feel free to use color.  OR 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

*If you made below 90% on last week’s Super Sentence, you must write a super sentence with spelling words #1, 2, 9, and 20 (due FRIDAY).

Vocabulary:

Monday – 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 Tuesday.

Tuesday-Wednesday: IF YOU MADE BELOW 90% ON LAST WEEK’S TEST, write sentences OR complete a Vocabulary Draw (due Thursday).

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

Work on CPA research.  Outline (3 main points with at least 3 details each) is due 9/23.

Work on Walk Two Moons project (due NO LATER THAN 9/25).

**NEW** 
Poetry Practice!  Please practice reading aloud this poem fluently each night to someone at home (Mon.-Thurs.).

 

The Games in My Room

A Funny Videogame Poem for Kids

The video games that
I keep in my room,
like Tetris, Terraria,
Minecraft, and Doom,
and one about somebody
raiding a tomb,
and one with invaders from space...

They're up on the dresser
and down on the floor.
The Legend of Zelda
and Street Fighter IV,
Splatoon and Nintendogs,
Ms. Pac Man and more,
are scattered all over the place.

There's Sonic the Hedgehog
and Dragon Ball Z,
and Mario Party,
and Madden for Wii,
and FIFA 15 for the
Playstation 3.
They're littered and strewn all around.

There's Kidz Sports and Kirby
and Kingdom Hearts II,
Jurassic Park, Jeopardy,
Just Dance Wii U,
and don't forget Pokemon
Red, Green, and Blue,
all over my desk and the ground.

They're under my bed
in a battered old box.
They're tossed in the closet
with Legos and blocks.
They're stuffed in a drawer
with my undies and socks.
They're thrown around every which way.

It's kind a problem.
It's sort of a shame.
It's clearly my fault.
No one else is to blame.
The game I can't locate
is always the same...
it's the one that I'm wanting to play.

--Kenn Nesbitt