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Tuesday, January 26

World Event

 

Wednesday, January 27

Chapter 8(Muhammad) SS test

Permission slip for Middle Eastern lunch

 

Thursday, January 27

Middle Eastern dancing and lunch

Vocabulary story(avail, bane, bureaucracy,ceremony, duplicate,

fret, grade, hallmark, placate, plateau, psychology, respective,

sated, subsequent, tete-a-tete)

 

Friday, January 28

Book Talk--Title, Author, Genre, Recommendation,

3 statements supporting the recommendation

Book Review

Vocabulary Quiz (avail, bane, bureaucracy,ceremony, duplicate,

fret, grade, hallmark, placate, plateau, psychology, respective,

sated, subsequent, tete-a-tete)

Tuesday, January 19

World Event

Wednesday, January 20

Martin Luther King writing and picture.

Thursday, January 21

Literature Journal

Find a sentence from your book that "speaks to you".  Write it down. 

Write your paragraph telling why this sentence is important in your book.

Friday, January 22

Quiz-Word Roots pps. 1-12(chrom, derm, bio/opy/ops, therm, hydr, andr,

auto, eu, onym, miso, theo, nom, naut)

Tuesday, January 12

State Reading Test during class

 

Wednesday, January 13

When I Was a Kid final writing(typed or in pen)

Also include rough draft and editing sheet.

 

Thursday, January 14

Vocabulary story

Literature journal

What song or type of music would provide the perfect

accompaniment for your story?

 

Friday, January 15

 

All Baseball in April work.

Vocabulary Quiz (anthropomorphize, arouse, binge, cannibalism, compatible,

comrade, conspicuous, disoriented, dubious, earnest, eavesdrop, initial,

stamina, tedious)

 

 

 

 

 

Happy New Year!!   Here is what is going on this week.

 

Tuesday, January 5

World Event, Extra point for Middle East

 

Wednesday, January 6

When I Was a Kid--interview and rough draft

Word Roots nom-naut

Vocabulary story

Thursday, January 7

Book Talk-adjectives

Book Review

Friday, January 8

Vocabulary Quiz(amorous, comely, compatriot, deliberate,

extraordinary, gig, heed, kudos, melee, notorious, premature,

radical, revolutionary, squeamish, yield)

 

 

 

Have a wonderful vacation.  I have attached the assignment

When I Was a Kid.  This will be due on Wednesday, January 6.

Book Talk and Book Review will be in on Thursday, January 7.

Enjoy!

We had a great day at the Middle East Conference at Portland State on Friday.

Lauren Maclean, Gillian Thomas, Michaella Joseph and Euri Kashiwagi were

enthusiastic participants. They will be sharing what they learned with

the rest of the 7th graders in January.

Have a happy and restful vacation.

Here are this week's assignments:

Tuesday, December 15

World Event, Extra point for Middle East

 

Wednesday, December 16

Root page-theo

Chapter 7, The Geography of the Arabian Peninsula test

 

Thursday, December 17

Literature Journal 

What nonliving thing has affected a character or event in the story?  Explain.

 

Friday, December 18

Vocabulary presentation(in class)

Friendly letter(final)

Tuesday, December 8

World Event-extra point for Middle East news

 

Wednesday, December 9

Vocabulary story

"Broken Chain" packet page

 

Thursday, December 10

Literature Journal

 

Friday, December 11

Vocabulary Quiz  acquaintance, allay, beckon, destiny, eject, hinder,  inevitable,

irrational, luminous, navigate,pithy,sentimental, solemn, velocity

 

"Baseball in April" packet page

 

 

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 Tuesday, December 1

World Event, Extra point for the Middle East

 

 

Wednesday, December 2

Book Talk-Theme

Book Review

Vocabulary Story(see words listed below)

 

Thursday, December 3    End of the Grading period

Word Roots: miso

Vocabulary quiz-abdicate, banish, boon, dejected, lenient, mediocre, nocturnal, paranoid,

Precocious, rendezvous, rescind, stealthy, sustenance, tradition

 

 

Friday, December 4

Teacher Planning Day

 

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Week of November 16-20

 

Looking forward to seeing you next week at conferences.  Check the

schedule below for this week’s assignments.

 

 

Tuesday, November 17

World Event, Extra point for the Middle East

Bring descriptive writing for editing

 

Wednesday, November 18

Word Roots, eu, onym

Vocabulary sentences

 

Thursday, November 19

Literature Journal

Writers often choose precise words that help readers visualize the story.  Describe an event from your story that you can clearly picture in your mind.

 

 

Friday, November 20

Vocabulary Quiz

Bring silent reading book

 

Conference days are on November 23 and November 24. 

I sent home conference reminders last week with your child.

If you need to schedule a conference, call the office at 916-5656.

The secretaries will schedule your conference

  Tuesday, November 10

World Event, Extra point for Turkey

 Wednesday, November 11

Veteran’s Day  No school

 Thursday, November 12

Book Project

Root page-auto

 Friday, November 13

Chapter 6, The Byzantine Empire test

Warm-up writing story