23/01/12 Monday, Day #3

Tuesday will be the last day for completing assignments, quizzes, and tests.

I have "after school duty" ever day this week and next. All extra help will have to be in the morning or at noon.

Period #1: Grammar 8 - We will have a Grammar test next week, probably on Wednesday.

Started on "recognizing helping verbs". Spelling words 1 - 5 on List # 11.

List #11 - 1. arid, 2. rehabilitation, 3. penchant, 4. facet, 5. copious, 6. embellish, 7. regurgitate, 8. apprehensive, 9. dichotomy, 10 anomaly. , 11. scuttle, 12. emancipation, 13.renounce, 14. egalitarian, 15.draconian , 16.atheist, 17. enabler, 18. renounce, 19. articulate, 20. frieze, 21. disingenuous, 22. critique, 23. bizarre, 24. sophist, 25.nuance


List #12 - 

H.W. - Spelling list #11, words 5 - 10. Read over the page on verbals.(Pages 96 and 96).

Period #3 History 7 and 8 - HISTORY TEST ON THURSDAY. Chapters 4 - 6. We will include as much in chapter 6 as we have covered - probably just to 6.3.
We started on 6.2

  H.W.- Answer the first four questions on 6.2. Start reading 6.3.

Period #4 English Literature 7 Worked on "Writing the All-Purpose Paragraph". 

New paragraph topic for the day: People who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat their past.

HW :Complete the paragraph in its final form with an outline.

Period #5 English Grammar 7 -

Worked on the sentence fragments, run-on sentence again.

List #10 - 1. Miniscule, 2. din, 3. roost, 4. prank, 5. shards, 6. oligarchy, 7. tyrant, 8. cognizant, 9. logistics, 10. perked, 11. admonish, 12. perpetuate, 13. entail, 14. subjugate, 15. remorse, 16. abdicate, 16. devour, 17. consume, 18. audacious, 19. extrude, 20. static, 21. obnoxious, 22. obliterate, 23. crumple, 24. devoid, 25. archaic.

 List #11 - 1. arid, 2. rehabilitation, 3. penchant, 4. facet, 5. copious, 6. embellish, 7. regurgitate, 8. apprehensive, 9. dichotomy, 10 anomaly. , 11. scuttle, 12. emancipation, 13.renounce, 14. egalitarian, 15.draconian , 16.atheist, 17. enabler, 18. renounce, 19. articulate, 20. frieze, 21. disingenuous, 22. critique, 23. bizarre, 24. sophist, 25.nuance


List #12 - 1. Draconian.        

H. W. -  Spelling words 1 - 5 on List # 10.

Period # 6 - Life Skills - the topic was a what you did not know.

Period # 7 English Literature 8 - Life Skills.
This week we will write a paragraph to be submitted.

Our next unit will be on plays. Before that I would like to do a unit on something that you would like help in..

HW: Think of something that you would like help with before the next unit.