This Week's ELA: Rascal Week 1

Spelling and Vocabulary Lists from the story Rascal (Week 1)

Spelling: Words with the VCCV pattern

Monday – Write spelling words CORRECTLY in your agenda in ABC order.

Wednesday – Complete a spelling choice (due Thurs.) IF you made below 90% on last week’s test.

Study your spelling words Monday – Thursday for your test on Friday!

1. dentist                                     11. culture
2. jogger                                       12. goggles
3. fifteen                                      13. summon
4. flatter                                      14. champion
5. mutter                                     15. kennel
6. mustang                                   16. valley
7. absent                                      17. fragment
8. hollow                                     18. gallop
9. empire                                     19. vulture
10. blizzard                                   20. pigment

Vocabulary

Match vocabulary words to definitions (due Tues.).

Complete a vocabulary activity of your choosing (due Thursday) IF you made below 90% on last week’s test.

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

1.  exceptional  _____             A.  having or showing pleasant, good-natured personal qualities; affable;

                                                            friendly; sociable

2.  laborious    _____             B.  to harass or urge persistently; pester; nag

3.  badgered     _____             C.  having or showing good manners; polite

4.  ecstasy       _____             D.  something delightful or pleasing, especially a choice food considered

                                                            with regard to its rarity, costliness, or the like

5.  luminescent _____             E.  rapturous delight

6.  courteous   _____             F.  forming an exception or rare instance; unusual; extraordinary; unusually

                                                            excellent; superior

7.  amiable       _____             G.  feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something

                                                            considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base (low, low class)

8.  indignant    _____             H.  requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance

9.  maneuvered _____             I.  the emission of light

10.  delicacies  _____             J.  to change the position of (troops, ships, etc.) by a maneuver; to steer in

                                                            various directions as required

IRA: Problem/Solution

     Describe at least one problem the character in your book faces.  How does the character solve the problem OR what steps does the character take to solve the problem (if it hasn’t been solved yet)?

Poetry Practice:

“In Flanders Fields”

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

by John McCrae, May 1915