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Assignment
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| 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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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READING:
Answer questions 1-5 in complete sentences on pg. 208
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COURTNEY/HEAFEY
MATH: Class problems TB PG. 399, #1-9 + WB PG. 108
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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
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SCIENCE:
Worksheet
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SOCIAL
STUDIES: QUIZ on Wednesday +
Chapter Test Friday |
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MUSIC:
none
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ART:
Students are working on a
mosaic.
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MISCELLANEOUS:
1) BOX TOPS COMPETITION:
Bring in box tops by November 24!
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