Due 10/1

Announcements

We will not have class on 10/15 (Fall Break).

We'll have a Fall Party on 10/29.  Bring in a snack or treat to share (and dress up if you want to!)

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Tuition is due this week.

Science

• Read over page 16 in your workbook.
• Read chapters 6 & 7 in your textbook.
• Complete Quest Guide page 17 in your workbook.  (Ignore the row for Aristarchus.  We will learn about him later!)
• Click here for a quiz over chapters 6 & 7.
• Optional-- Do you like art??  Check out this graduate student's project.  She illustrated each of the elements on the periodic table with its own character.  Very cool!

Grammar

• Complete lessons 13-15.

Literature

• Look over your essay corrections.
• Traps are used in Summer of the Monkeys.  Now, come up with a trap of your own!  Think of any wild animal, and design a trap to try to catch it.  It must make sense!   
• Draw or make a model of your trap.
• Next, write a paper that explains your trap and instructs your reader on how to catch the animal.  
• In class, we talked about writing that gives instructions.  You will need to be sure to have transition words to help your paper flow, and you'll write in 2nd person.  Remember, commands are in 2nd person, because the subject is an understood YOU!
• Before you begin, watch this video to help you.  
• Define the following vocabulary words, and write them in your literature notebook.
• codger
• dose
• halter
• heifer
• splotch
• unruly
• wonderment
• forge
• anvil
• loping
• dowry
  
• Read chapters 10-15 in Summer of the Monkeys.  
• In the book, Jay Berry's grandfather mentions "The Big Moment" by Paul Detlefsen.  Here it is:

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• Click here for the reading comprehension questions for these chapters.  
• Study your vocabulary words using the Quizlet site.  I have noticed a few of you aren't using this resource. Please do so!

Due 9/24

Announcements

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If anyone would like to help out at the Inman Farm Heritage Days demonstrations, just let me know!  I'll be down the hill at the apple cider press and washboard demonstrations.  Just text me if you plan to make it!

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Science

• Read chapters 4 & 5 in your textbook.
• Take notes for each section as you read. 
• Be sure not to skip over the material on Thales' proposition and the section on Numerals, Geometry, and Math's Origins.
• Create cards for any events/dates that we should add to our timeline.
• Check out this video for Egyptian Numeration (You can stop watching this one after the 4 minute mark)
• Babylonians used a base 60 system instead of a base 10.
• If you would like to learn more about the Babylonian System, click here for an optional video.
• After you are finished reading, complete this online QUIZ.  (You may use your book and notes on the quiz.)

Grammar

• Complete Grammar Lessons 9, 10, and 11
• Be sure to read through the lessons and all of the examples before you begin the work!

Literature

• Here the vocab list for chapters 7-9.  Add these to your literature notebook.
• aggravate
• maneuver
• passel
• tantrum
• infected
• pallet
• fermenting
• incubator
• Click here to study the Quizlet for these words.
• Read chapters 7-9.  As you read, write down characteristics for each character on the chart in your literature notebook.  These do not have to be in complete sentences, but you will need to explain how you know these things about the characters.
• Click here for the reading comprehension questions for chapters 7-9.  We've been going over these in class, but I will begin checking them soon for accuracy, sentence structure, etc.  Do your best!
• Click here to complete this week's essay question.  Please use the corrections given to you on your last essay to improve your work!  I am not comparing you to others... I am comparing you to yourself.  Improvement is the goal!  You must choose ONE and write at least two paragraphs to answer it completely.

Due 9/17/19

Click here to print this week's list of assignments.
Please make sure to have them completed and bring everything to class!

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Friday 9/20 & Saturday 9/21- I am looking for student volunteers to run two demonstration booths with me at the Inman Farm Heritage Days event right down the road from us at Minter's Farm.
It'll be hot, so bring a water bottle, money for food or a sack breakfasts/lunch/snack, and be ready to HELP!  (No whining allowed! 😉)
Available time slots:
Fri 9-12, 12-3, 3-6
Sat 9-12, 12-3, 3-6 

Science

• Read chapter 3 in The Story of Science textbook.
• Take notes in your science notebook of important dates and concepts are you read.
• If you find any important dates to add to our timeline, create an index card with an image, picture, or a few words describing the event, as well as the date.
• Read through and understand the vocabulary on page 5 of your workbook.  You may write any that you didn't know in your science notebook to help you remember.
• Complete page 6 Quest Sheet in your science workbook.  You will need to read the chapter carefully to be able to correctly complete this page!
• In class, we demonstrated the moon, sun, Earth system.  I want you to get creative this week.  You can represent the relationship between the moon (phases), sun, and earth in a colorful diagram, 3D model, painting, etc.  Feel free to get creative, but use this project to show what you've learned.  (Feel free to Google examples.... there are a LOT of great ones out there!)
• Click here for a video that reviews what you learned about rotation, revolution, the 365 day year, the 24 hour day, and seasons.  It also talks about tides, eclipses, and the equinox.
• Here is a Crash Course video of the moon's phases.

Grammar

• Look over mistakes from lessons 1-3.  Use these to improve, not to discourage!  FORTITUDE people!  (Don't know what fortitude means?  Look it up!)  We shall conquer this grammar!
• Complete lessons 5, 6, and 7 this week.  For each lesson, you must:
• Read through the lesson carefully, working through the examples and answers so that you understand the material.
• If anything is tricky, try to see if Khan Academy helps!  You can also send a question on Google Classroom.
• Complete the practice set and the review set for each lesson.
• Feel free to Facetime a friend from class to work on grammar together.  It sometimes helps to talk it out!
• Bring it all to class to be graded.

Literature

• Look up the vocabulary words for chapters 4-6 (given in class and pasted in notebook).  Write the definitions in your literature notebook.
• Study the vocabulary words on this week's Quizlet.
• Read through these reading comprehension questions before you read the chapters.  It will help... believe me!
• Read chapters 4-6 in Summer of the Monkeys.
• Write down examples of similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, hyperbole, and idioms under the correct flap in your notebook.  Bring these to class.  You can write down examples from chapters 1-3 and from this week's reading of chapters 4-6.
• Complete the Reading Comprehension questions in complete sentences.
• This week's essay question will be submitted ONLINE.  It must be completed and submitted by MONDAY MORNING at 11:00am.  Please plan ahead!

Assignments Due 9/10

I will post assignments here and on  Google Classroom!

To join, either follow the email invitation that I sent to your email address, OR go to classroom.google.com and enter our class code - t5tdou

If you have any issues, just let me know and I will try to figure it out!

• Tuition was due last Thursday.  If you need to pay by check instead of Paypal, you can just bring it to class on 9/12!

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(Black shirts increased the print cost from previous years.  Shirts - $20 / Hoodie - $25)

Science

• Read chapters 1-2.

• As you read, jot down any notes information that you think we should add to our class timeline.  Write them down in your science notebook and bring them to class.
• Your workbook has some vocabulary words defined for each chapter that you might find helpful.  We talked about most of them in class, but if you'd like to read over them as a review, it may help you to better understand the material in the textbook.  (You don't have to write them down, just read through them!)

Click here to review information that we learned in class about B.C./A.D. and B.C.E./C.E.

The following video is NOT required, but is interesting and applies to our class discussion.

Grammar

• Read through lesson 1 again.  You can skip the "Practice" section, because we talked through it in class.  I would like you to complete the "Review Set" for this lesson.  Write your answers in your Grammar notebook.
• ***Some answers can be circled or written in the space in the book.  If it can be done NEATLY, you can write these answers in the book and save the notebook for longer answers.  In the past, writing each answer in the book has become very messy for some kids!  If you need more space than the book allows, use the notebook.***
• Complete lessons 2 & 3, as well.  Read through and complete each lesson carefully.  Write your answers in your grammar notebook.  (Label the top of each page with the lesson number!)  If you have any questions, feel free to ask me in an email, text, or on Google Classroom!
• If you get to a lesson and you feel like you need some extra help, you can also check out the Khan Academy page for grammar.  Here you will find links to different grammar topics.  Under each link you can find videos that explain many grammar concepts!

Literature

• In class, we talked about different types of figurative language. Read over the information in your notebook. Then, take this quiz to see what you've learned. (These results are sent to ME, so please do your best!)
• Figurative Language Quiz  **If you have a difficult time logging in, just let me know and I'll see what I can figure out!**
• Click here to join the Quizlet page for our class. 
• Write the definition of each vocabulary word in your literature notebook.
• Next, go to the class Quizlet page.  Click on the vocabulary lesson for chapters 1-3 and complete the activities.  (I can see your progress... so do your best!)
• Read chapters 1-3 in Summer of the Monkeys
• Complete the reading comprehension questions.  Write the answers in your literature notebook.