Week of October 11-15
Mood:  happy
Now Playing: The Scholarship Jacket
Tuesday, October 12
Vocabulary sheet and read story silently. Finish for homework.
Go over Unit 3 vocabulary workshop. Test will be Oct. 22.

Wednesday, October 13
Root-dict, rupt
Review vocabulary & check worksheet
Read story together & take comprehension test

Thursday, October 14
Root-pos (Test Friday)
Dictionary Skills
***Remember that porjects are due tomorrow***

Friday, October 15
Review roots & take test
Students will present projects

Week of October 4-8
Mood:  a-ok
Monday, Oct. 4
-Finish final drafts. If not finished in class, must complete at home for homework tonight. Everything on the BLUE sheet must be turned in on Tuesday for final grade.

Tuesday, Oct. 5
-Turn in research sleeves
-Root:scrib
-Work on "puns" (play on words)
-Study Unit 2 Vocab Workshop- The following words will be covered on the test Friday. You must know how to spell them and know the definitions.
1-available
2-cater
3-hazard
4-homicide
5-indifference
6-indignant
7-lubricate
8-mutual
9-retard
10-transparent

Wednesday, Oct. 6
-Root-capt, tact (test Friday)
-Will begin story Amigo Brothers
-Finish vocab worksheet on Amigo Brothers
-Study Vocab Workshop Words (test Friday)
-Reading Workbook p. 71
-Assign project-pg. 431 "Learning for Life"

Thursday, Oct. 7
-Check vocab worksheet & workbook
-Read Amigo Brothers & Discuss
-Reading Workbook

Friday, Oct. 8
-Review Vocab & story
-Review roots, suffixes & prefixes
-Review vocab workshop
-Take tests

Week of September 27-October 1
Mood:  bright
Now Playing: The Life Of Jim Morris
Tuesday, Sept. 28
Root - juven, ven
Vocabulary Workshop - Unit 2

We are finishing our notecards for our research paper on Jim Morris. Everyone should have atleast 30 notecards. (10-Movie sheet, 10-Internet, 10-Excerpt from his autobiography) The outline is as follows:
I- Introduction (This is your thesis statement.)
II- Childhood
A. Born
B. Family
C. Growing Up
D. High School
III- Early Adult Life
A. College
B. Attempt at pro-bowl
C. Family
D. Baseball Team Deal
IV- Later Adule Life
A. Tryouts
B. Minors
C. Majors
V- Conclusion (This sums up everything you just talked about.)

Wednesday- Sept. 29
1. We will organize our notecards
2. Write our bibliography
3. Start our rough draft
4. Go over Unit 2 words in Vocab Workshop
5. Root cogn, termin
Thursday- Sept. 30
1. Complete rough draft
2. Proofread
3. Begin cover sheet
Friday- Oct. 1
1. Root Quiz
2. Begin Final draft

Tuesday, September 14
Mood:  energetic
Now Playing: Jim Morris-The Rookie
We will be watching the movie, The Rookie, this week. We are gathering information to write a biography on Jim Morris,the title character of the movie. We will gather our information from the movie, the internet, and his autobiography. (BE SURE TO KEEP UP WITH YOUR NOTE-TAKING SHEET FROM THE MOVIE-You Will Turn These In!)

We started vocabulary workshop this week. We will test on the Unit we are working on every other Friday. This test schedule can be found on the front inside cover of the vocab. book. We are working on Unit 1, page 21-27.

We also are still working with roots, prefixes, and suffixes. This week we are workin on the roots-
celer-fast
gress-step
avi/avia-bird
memor/memori-remember
Prefixes:
ac-to,toward,near
de-away,down
di-apart,away,not
pro-for,before,forward
re-back,again
com-with,together
Suffixes:
-ate-to make,to act
-ion-state,quality,act
-al-like,related to
-ary-someone or something that belongs to
-ate-to make,to act
-trix-feminine
-y-state,quality,act
We will have a quiz on these Friday.

Week of September 7-10
Mood:  happy
Now Playing: A Boy and His Dog
Tuesday- Get Vocabulary Words and Root-"mob"
Finish Vocabulary Worksheet and study root worksheet.

Wednesday- Library
Continue to study vocab and root worksheets.

Thursday- Get root-"brev" & "cede" worksheet. Read and discuss story. Take comprehension and vocabulary test.
Study both root worksheets.

Friday- Review roots and take quiz. Go over idioms.

Have a Great Weekend!!!

HELLO & WELCOME TO MY CLASS
Mood:  happy
WELCOME TO ANOTHER NEW YEAR!! WE DO NOT HAVE ANY HOMEWORK FOR THE WEEK OF AUG. 23-27.