February 17/18, 2010

Important note:  Please check your scores on MYAccess.  Many students still need to revise and edit their work on the Theme in Literature essay (your January Book-of-the-Month assessment)  and the Persuasive essay (based on The Giver).   A few still need to do one or more of these assignments. 
Reminders: 
-- The last day to work on either of these assignments for credit is March 12. However, if you do not submit before March 4, you will not be able to receive points for revising.
-- Your user name is your first name and student number.  Your password is 999 with your last name.
-- Check messages and comments on PowerSchool and when you log into MYAccess.

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1. Spelling test on "re-" words.
Prefix to study:   re-  which means   again
1.    receive           extra credit:   (1 Point)   “ceive” is from the Latin capere “to take”
2.    review        extra credit:   (1 Point)   “view”  is from the Latin videre “to see”
3.    revise         extra credit:   (1 Point)   “vise”   is from the Latin videre “to see”
4.    revoke       extra credit:   (1 Point)   “voke”  is from the Latin vocare “to call” 

2. Receive words for test to be taken on February 25/26:

       (Students copied them from the board.)

Spelling words based  on the suffix "-tion":

-tion means act or state

Words: attention, population, operation, transportation

  

Extra Credit:  

trans = across

port = to carry

at = to 

"tend" = bend or stretch

  

oper = to work

populare  = people, to inhabit


3. Begin nonfiction unit



3. Museum Walk   

Pictures for Museum Walk -- If you were absent.

4. Learning about how snowflakes are formed and making paper snowflakes

http://cavemanenglish.pbworks.com/Museum-Walk

 

Notes for teacher:  

A2 needs to watch video clip.

A4 needs to do "exit slip."