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Language Arts
Book orders are due on Wednesday. Online ordering is open.
Mondays are always busy days as we introduced the vocabulary and skills that we will be reviewing throughout the week. Today the students went to music and IMC. We came back to class and got straight to work. We took our spelling pretest and got our homework for the week together. We reviewed run-on sentences during grammar minute. Our grammar skill of the week is singular (single) and plural (plenty) nouns.We then introduced our story vocabulary: overheard, opportunities, border, unions, strikes, citizen and boycotts. Our comprehension skills for the week are generating questions and making inferences. Our story is My Diary from Here to There
RIT Words.
Consonance - The repetition of consonant sounds. Although iti s similar to alliteration, consonance is not limited to the first letters of words.
Irony - An expression in which the author says one thing but means just the opposite.
Anecdote - A brief story used to make a point.
Parallelism - Repeating similar word or phrases to give writing rhythm
Allusion - A reference to a familiar person, place thing or event.
HW: Weekly Work
Math
Today we continued on the World Tour in Math. Our goal today was to establish routines we would use throughout the year. Students used their student reference books to find information about Egypt.
HW: SL and Math Boxes 3.6
Science (Woods)
Today we reviewed the concepts of rocks, minerals, erosion and deposition by reading our Sciencesaurus and and answering questions.
HW: None
