Wednesday, February 15, 2012

15 February 2012, Wednesday - Day #6

Extra help morning, noon and after school.
  Thursday is MULTI-COLOUR day. Find a twin on your team and dress the same.

Period #1: Grammar 8 -  We wrote the Spelling TEST.

 
List # 13 - 1. discernment, 2.connotative, 3. illustrious, 4. extricate, 5. caustic, 6. emergent, 
7. inundate,  8. expostulate, 9. redeem, 10. pontificate, 11.obsess, 12. submit, 13. avenge, 14. retreat, 15. tribute, 16. maneuver, 17. ignoble, 18. supremacy, 19. cavalry, 20. privilege, 21. citizen, 22. orator, 23. eloquent, 24. immortal, 25. inevitable.

List #14 - 1. obtuse, 2. sustainability, 3. superfluous, 4. patriotism, 5. aghast, 6. phlegm, 7. continuity, 8. promiscuous, 9. existentialism, 10. mantra, 11. agnostic, 12. ogle 13. Toil, 14. leisure, 15. entrenched, 16.    

Home Work - Grammar exercise "A" on page 100.

Period #3 History 7 and 8 - We had Life Skills. Success Nation. How stuff works.
Test on Chapter 4 - 6 probably on Wednesday, February 22.
Started working on 6.5 - A New World Empire.Summarize pages 65 - the bottom of page 66.

 Home work.-  Summarize pages 65 - to the bottom of page 66 for Thursday. (Not the Beige/Brown Box)

Period #4 English Literature 7
We will look at the song "God of Justice" by two different artists.To show how two different people can see the same thing differently.

Home Work: Complete the reading of Fires at Valley Forge. Become familiar with your part. 

Period #5 English Grammar 7 -We had winter carnival events for the afternoon.
Started to introduce the difference between verbs and verbals.

List #12 - 1. obtuse, 2. connotative, 3. illustrious, 4. discernment, 5. caustic, 6. emergent, 
7. inundate,  8. expostulate, 9. redeem, 10. pontificate, 11.obsess, 12. submit, 13. avenge, 14. retreat, 15. tribute, 16. maneuver, 17. ignoble, 18. supremacy, 19. cavalry, 20. privilege, 21. citizen, 22. orator, 23. eloquent, 24. immortal, 25. inevitable.  

List # 13 - 1. discernment, 2.connotative, 3. illustrious, 4. extricate, 5. caustic, 6. emergent, 
7. inundate,  8. expostulate, 9. redeem, 10. pontificate, 11.obsess, 12. submit, 13. avenge, 14. retreat, 15. tribute, 16. maneuver, 17. ignoble, 18. supremacy, 19. cavalry, 20. privilege, 21. citizen, 22. orator, 23. eloquent, 24. immortal, 25. inevitable.
  
List #14 - 1. obtuse, 2. sustainability, 3. superfluous, 4. patriotism, 5. aghast, 6. phlegm, 7. continuity, 8. promiscuous, 9. existentialism, 10. mantra, 11. agnostic, 12. ogle      

Home Work -Spelling words 6 - 10 on List #12 for Friday. Remember: TEST after list #12 on Lists 9 - 12.

Period # 6 - Physical Education.

Period # 7 English Literature 8 - Lit. Quiz on critical thinking and point of view on Thursday, February 16. Paragraph form. 
Looked at articles from different perspectives.

Home Work: Read a short article from a newspaper form a front page story or from world news. Look at it from the perspective of the speaker and from another point of view. Be prepared to read it in class and comment on it.

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