Be very well behaved for the substitute -- for those classes who have a substitute there is potential extra credit at stake!
March Book-of-the-Month: Nonfiction (including biography, autobiography, single-subject nonfiction books not including how-to books) Deadline for your project: March 22 (You may have a little time in the computer lab on March 16.)
Signing up for your book is due by March 11.
Your assignment is to read your book and create for it an external text feature it does not already have. See the tab above for Book-of-the-Month.
1. Bell-Ringer: Subject-Verb Agreement Quiz (Use the worksheets we've done -- that are taped into your composition book -- as you take this open-notes quiz.)
2. Spelling Test on -ly, its meaning, and sample words from the state core
3. Receive the new spelling assignment for "pre-"
Vocabulary/Spelling #15 Test on March 3
Prefix to study: pre - which means before
1. preposition -- extra credit: The word part that "position" comes from means "to place." Preposition means “to place before.” A preposition is placed in front of other words that it is joining to a sentence. It shows the relationship of those words to the rest of the sentence.
2. preview -- extra credit: The word part "view" means "to see." To preview is "to see before."
3. predict -- extra credit: The word part "dict" means " to say." To predict is "to say before."
4. precede -- extra credit: The word part "cede" means "to go or move.” To precede is “to go before.”
4. Non-Fiction: "Survive the Savage Sea" -- an excerpt from the nonfiction book.
For more information on the Robertson family's story, see http://www.survivethesavagesea.com/
You can read from the book if you go to http://books.google.com/books?id=fkgu22wQ6NQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=survive+the+savage+sea&source=bl&ots=ELxiWhdZSz&sig=t4B6p1f_OcJqc2CBo0W7LcNe24M&hl=en&ei=T5tlTeG6PJD6sAOLlvTmBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false
We read from Day 1, Day 6, Day 7, Day 14, Day 15, Day 29, and Day 38.
