17 October/2011, Monday

I have 3:00 P.M. duty next week. I will be available before school, at noon, and after school after 3:30.

Monday is a double-double Life Skills period #5 and #6.

Mother's club is tomorrow.
Period #1 English Grammar- Grammar Quiz on rules. Big SPELLING Test coming up after 100 words..... The test will be purely spelling. There will be five words from Lists one, two, and three and ten words from List 4. There will be a Quiz on List Four as well.
Went over rules on quotation marks. Next week we will be studying apostrophes.
Spelling words 15 - 20 of List #4.
List #4 1. disdain, 2. longevity, 3. triage, 4. blog (verb), 5. endearment, 6. segregate, 7. foibles, 8. alms, 9. vex, 10. idiosyncrasy, 11. polytheists, 12. corruption, 13. transaction, 14. obliging,15. credit,         16. defiant, 17. conscientious, 18. allay, 19. hysterics, 20. frenzy, 21. presentiment, 22. attribute,       23. interchangeable, 24. dogmatic, 25. erratic.
List # 5 1. Materialism, 2. Plebs (Plebian), 3. Capitulate, 4. Traumatic, 5. Conventional, 6. Impunity,  7. complicity, 8. Pandemonium, 9. Priority, 10. Relative (not meaning a family member),
11. Conceited, 12. Rakish, 13. Remorse, 14. Euphemism, 15. Malapropism, 16. Reluctant, 17. Stupendous, 18. Motes (as with particles) 19. Dupe, 20. Culprit, 21. Sampler (Re: crocheting),

We will be spending a lot more time on the Grammar rules. Some people are having difficulty in specific situations and these need to be resolved.
H.W. - Spelling words 10 - 15 in List #4. Spelling (Know how to spell each word, define each word and use each word in a sentence that shows the meaning of the word.)Grammar: Exercise "A" on posessives.

Period #3 History 7 and 8 - When we complete the unit on Canaan, we will be writing a TEST on chapters 1 and 2. This will probably be on Thursday or Friday of this week.
 I checked HW. We again discussed unions, capitalism, and starting a business. Tomorrow we will complete  page17 on Canaan and I will explained how settlements start. (Transportation, industry, geography, distance from.., access) This will be the beginings of settlements, entrepeneurs, cultures and nations.

H.W.- Read Genesis Chapter 13. Read pages 16 and 17. Answer Questions 1 - 4 on page 18. 
P.S. When referring to the French Revolution in class, the word that I was looking for was "Enlightenment". This time was referred to as a period of enlightenment. If you were not illuminated by the knowledge of science and the "new" philosophy, you were considered to be lesser. This where they lumped Christians.


Period #4 English Literature 7
Literature QUIZ on Thursday, October 20 on terms and application of them. (plot, character, setting, themes and their components) This will be mostly a fill in the blank style of test.
We re-wrote the quiz on the first two stories
I checked HW.
HW: Answer the questions at the end of "The Secret Heart".


Period #5 English Grammar 7 - Big SPELLING Test coming up after 100 words.....The test will be purely spelling. There will be five words from Lists one, two, and three and ten words from List #4. There will be a Quiz on List # Four as well.
LIFE SKILLS today. Topic: disconnect and Choices.
List #4 - 1. disdain, 2. longevity, 3. triage, 4. blog (verb), 5. endearment, 6. segregate, 7. foibles, 8. alms, 9. vex, 10. idiosyncrasy, 11. polytheists, 12. corruption, 13. transaction, 14. obliging, 15. credit,        16. defiant, 17. conscientious, 18. allay, 19. hysterics, 20. frenzy, 21. presentiment, 22. attribute,        23. interchangeable, 24. dogmatic, 25. erratic

List #5 -  1. Materialism, 2. Plebs (Plebian), 3. Capitulate, 4. Traumatic, 5. Conventional, 6. Impunity,   7. complicity, 8. Pandemonium, 9. Priority, 10. Relative (not meaning a family member),
11. Conceited, 12. rakish, 13. Remorse, 14. Euphemism, 15. Malapropism, 16. Reluctant,                   17. Stupendous, 18. Motes (as with particles) 19. Dupe, 20. Culprit, 21. Sampler
H. W. - Spelling words 1 - 5 on List #4. (Know how to spell each word, define each word and use each word in a sentence that shows the meaning of the word.)



Period # 6 - Life Skills -   today. Topic: disconnect and Choices. Tomorrow LS will be last period.


Period # 7 English Literature 8 English Literature QUIZ on Thursday, October 20/2011. This will be terminology(plot, theme, setting, character, etc.) and application to stories studied this term and real life situations. This will be mostly a sentence/paragraph type of test.
We decided to write "Pen-Pal" letters to students in China. We read the last pages of "Another April".
HW: Answer questions 1 and 2 on page 18.