Date
Assignment
Week of 11/17/2008 RELIGION: Review flashcards daily. This week's words: Monday's concept: David annoys King Saul + shrine, church, basilica, cathedral; Tuesday's concepts are Israel (northern kingdom) and Judah (southern kingdom); Wednesday's concepts are the first and second temples in Jerusalem; Thursday's concept is Nathan the Prophet

SPELLING: Units 13 completed before Friday's test; complete two pages daily. The words are mapped, piloting, permitting, beginning, bothered, limited, forgetting, reasoning, preferred, equaled, wondering, slipped, listening,  fitting, pardoned, shoveling, favored, knitting, answered, modeling, ordered, planned, spotted, winning, gathering, propelling, equipped, transmitted, recurring, profited.

VOCABULARY: Units 13 completed before Friday's test; complete two pages daily. The words are appease, assuage, belligerent, condone, indignant, infuriate, reconcile, resent, retaliate, wrath.

WRITING: 1) In-class Quick Write this week; topic; My Best Friend; Monday: brainstorm: 1) describe friend, 2) compare and contrast to other friend, 3) how does this friend affect you; 4) hat makes this friend tick; 5) what would life be like without this friend, or how will your friendship evolve in the future; 6) what makes this friend better than all other friends; Tuesday; rough-draft in class; Wednesday; revise in class; Thursday: finish and submit final draft for evaluation; 2) Revising The Gopher Saga: Setting: Alcatraz Island and around San Francisco; Characters: all sixth grade students in gopher form; Problem: the Gophers of Alcatraz find themselves stranded in and around San Francisco; Climax: Sea lions of Pier 33 take gophers back to Alcatraz. Each student will write his or her own chapter in the story.

LONG-TERM WRITING PROJECT (research phase): read the articles on gophers and Alcatraz; circle interesting ideas to include in your chapter of the class book entitles The Gopher Saga (a working title); brainstorm ideas for the main plot and own your chapter; remember to include setting, character introduction and development, problem, climax and conclusion.

ENGLISH: Monday: reviewing parts of speech + diagramming + proofreading; Tueday: WB PGs. 52-53: Perfect Tenses; Wednesday: WB PGs. 54-55: Regular and Irregular Verbs; Thursday: WB PGs. 56-57: Writing With Verbs; Friday: WB PGs. 58-59: Subject-Verb Agreement.

READING: Answer questions 1-5 in complete sentences on pg. 208

COURTNEY/HEAFEY MATH: Class problems TB PG. 399, #1-9 + WB PG. 108

BOLDEN MATH: Tuesday: Order of Operations WB PG. 70; Wednesday: Distributive Property: WB PG. 71 + TB PG. 263; Thursday: Evaluating Expressions with Fractions: WB PG. 72 + TB PG. 265

SCIENCE: Worksheet

SOCIAL STUDIES:  QUIZ on Wednesday + Chapter Test Friday

MUSIC: none

ART: Students are working on a mosaic.

MISCELLANEOUS: 1) BOX TOPS COMPETITION: Bring in box tops by November 24!