If you've lost your copy of the class disclosure document, you can find those materials at 7th Disclosure Dorsey 2011-2012.doc
Second Term Spelling
Our spelling for second term will focus and word parts -- prefixes and suffixes -- and commonly used words that include those word parts. We'll work with one word part at a time, along with spelling the example words on the chart, with a test every week or so.
Prefixes and Suffixes Chart 2010 -- This is a file to download.
The Word Parts Poem
If you have a base word and you happen to find something in front or something behind -- a prefix begins: a suffix ends, and that is the basic rule, my friends.
The Word Parts Poem
If you have a base word and you happen to find
something in front or something behind --
a prefix begins: a suffix ends,
and that is the basic rule, my friends.
Book-of-the-Month See the Book of the Month tab above for more complete and up-to-date information.
A distopia is the opposite of a utopia, which is a perfect society, and most likely could not exist. Sometimes (or is it always) a distopia is the result of an attempt to create a utopia. In the attempt to create a perfect society, the members of the society give up (or are forced to give up) things that we value in our imperfect society, such as freedom.
This time the book-of-the-month will be a "book-of-the-months." For November and December you will read another novel -- this time it will be a distopian. Remember that it should be at least 100 pages long, a novel, one you haven't read before, and preferably close to your reading level -- 100 points below to 50 points above. If you read one book in a distopian series earlier this year, you could read the next for this assignment.
Examples of books you could read include
Hunger Games or other books in the series
Uglies or other books in the series
Matched or other books in the series
Gathering Blue or The Messenger by Lois Lowry (We will be reading The Giver as a class.)
Ender's Game or other books in the series
Hidden Talents or True Talents by Lubar
Truesight and others in the series
The Last Book in the Universe by Philbrick
Tunnels or other books in the series
City of Ember or other books in the series
Leviathan or other books in the series
Incarceron or other books in the series
Maze Runner or other books in the series
Maximum Ride or other books in the series
Among the Hidden or other books in the series
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Eva by Peter Dickinson
The Adoration of Jenna Fox
House of the Scorpion
The Ear, The Eye, and The Arm
The Tripods Trilogy
Bar Code Tattoo or other books in the series
A Wrinkle in Time
The Roar
The Looking Glass Wars -- (a very different version of Alice in Wonderland)
Birthmarked recommended by Mrs. Jones in the media center
Blood Red Road ? (I haven't read this one.) (It has been recommended for those who loved Hunger Games.)
The House of Power (Atherton Series) ? (I haven't read this one.)
The Sky Inside ? (I haven't read this one.)
House of Stairs ? (I haven't read this one.)
The Alliance -- by Gerald Lund
Recommended and Ridiculous: The Phantom Tollbooth
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Scott Westerfeld (author of The Uglies series) recommends this new book. Below is his blog post about it. However, I don't know yet whether it has stuff in it that your mom wouldn't like, so approach with care:
Scored – A New Dystopian Novel
Ridiculously Simplified Synopses (1) from Shelfari:
- Which comes first? Your future or your friends?
