Homework and other: Wednesday, February 26th

Tonight: summary for the pandemic flu of 1918 - use today's notes

Vocab: Practice packet due Friday (and quiz Friday!)

Homework: February 11th

1. Parent letter signed

2. Take disease-related words from today's reading and put into categories 

3. Use "pandemic," "epidemic," and three other words from today of your choice and use them in a paragraph. You must also use because, but, and so, or since, however, and although (or a combination!)

Tuesday, February 4th

Whoa, snow days! 

Complete a reader response for homework tonight. Be sure to use TWO of last week's vocabulary words in your response and underline them. 

Vocab Quiz

Tomorrow! Complete the vocabulary practice packet and use those words! Remember our "because, but, so" exercises. 

Great job on SRI today! So proud of you!

Homework and vocabulary: Tuesday, January 28th

Periods 2, 3, 4, and 7 will start on the vocab practice for Friday's quiz. The entire practice packet is due Friday!

Period 6 was short today because of the fire drill, so those students will have vocabulary instruction tomorrow. Here are the words: 

1. Aptitude (noun)

    A natural talent or ability; quickness in learning

2. Inept (adjective)

    1. Without skill

    2. Out of place; foolish

3. Adjunct (noun)

    An added part not essential to the whole

4. Conjugate (verb)

    To give forms of verbs in a fixed order

5. Injunction (noun)

    An authoritative command or order

Homework: Monday, January 27th

Complete the vocabulary self-assessment/reflection. Please be honest! Any information you give me will help me to understand what I can do better to help you learn our new vocabulary this year.

Back to the grind!

It's officially Q3. 99% of us started off the quarter with a 100 quiz grade due to fabulous effort on our argumentative essays. We have three questions left on CCSS and then we are done with testing (for a little while, at least). 

Monday is a half day for students. Please remind your parents. 

Remember to bring in your independent reading books every day as you never know when we will be independently reading!

Stay warm this weekend.