Wednesday, February 3, 2010

HOMEWORK 2/8-2/12

BASIC WRITING HIGH SCHOOL:

Monday, February 8
Horror Story is due today.
Black Cat 2 page response due.

GROUP 5 BLUE:

Monday 2/8
  • Read for 20 minutes and have a parent sign off.
  • History-see Kimberlee's blog.
  • Latin-See Joseph's blog.

Tuesday 2/9:
  • Read for 20 minutes and have a parent sign off.
  • Spelling quiz - 2o more words.
  • Comprehension Questions Due-The Guest

Wednesday 2/10:
  • Science: Read and outline Section 3- Chapter 4
  • Questions: Section 3 Chapter 4
  • First two pages of science research paper are due.

Thursday 2/11:
  • Writing Skills: Choose one of the types of paragraphs on page 69-70 and write a ten sentence paragraph of that type.
  • Read for 20 minutes and have a parent sign off.

Friday 2/12:
  • Read for 20 minutes and have a parent sign off.
  • The Guest: Identify 10 new vocabulary words, define them and use them in a sentence. Identify 5 subordinate clauses and 5 prepositonal phrases (write the entire sentence and underline the phrase or clause) Also, cite the page number.
  • Answer the following: What is the main conflict in The Guest and how does this cause other things to happen in the story? What happened at the end of the story? Why do you think that?
NEWS AND EVENTS:

DAR AWARDS:
Max Petersen in Group 5G (Local and State Winner) and Lily Bailey (Local and State Honorable Mention) in Group 5B will be receiving awards at two ceremonies. The state ceremony is on February 22nd at the Plymouth Library at 2:00 p.m. The local ceremony will be March 14th at the Samuel Holten House in Ipswich. Max and Lily will be reading their essays at the local ceremony. Congratulations to both for a job well done.


SPELLING BEE: Groups 4, 5G and 5B will be taking a short break from Wordly Wise to prepare for a Spelling Bee. We will be using an actual list from the 1984 Scripps Spelling Bee! They will be tested ONLY on spelling of 15-20 words, not vocabulary and parts of speech, each week. Finally, on Tuesday, February 16th, we will have a live Spelling Bee between the three groups from 1p.m.-2:00pm.

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