This Week's ELA: 10/5-9

Week 9            Story: Maya Lin Architect of Memory

Spelling: Inflected Endings

*Copy words in agenda in ABC order (due Tuesday).

*IF YOU MADE BELOW 90% on last week’s test, complete a spelling choice activity (due Thursday): 3x each, spelling triangles, XYZ order, backwards spelling, or spelling code

*Study nightly (M-Th) for the sp. test on Friday.

1. jogging                                             11. deserved

2. dripping                                          12. applied

3. skimmed                                          13. relied

4. raking                                              14. renewing

5. amusing                                           15. complicated

6. easing                                              16. qualified

7. regretted                                          17. threatening

8. forbidding                                        18. gnarled

9. referred                                            19. envied

10. injured                                           20. fascinated

Vocabulary:

Write the part of speech and definition from the glossary for each vocabulary word ON YOUR OWN PAPER.  Finish for HW if you didn’t finish in class (due Tuesday).

Complete a vocabulary choice activity (due Thursday).

Study each night, Monday – Thursday, for your test on Friday.

1.     dedicated (        ) –

2.     equality (         ) –

3.     artifacts (      ) –

4.     exhibits (       ) –

5.     site (       ) –

We will read the story Maya Lin Architect of Memory in class together on Tuesday. All students should re-read the story at home Tuesday night to prepare for comprehension work (on Wed.) and the story test on Friday.

IRA: Main Idea and Supporting Details

            Read an article of your choice (from the newspaper, a magazine, a reliable online source, etc.).  Create a main idea web with at least four supporting details.

TESTED SKILL: Main Idea and Supporting Details

Poetry Practice

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Robert Fros