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!