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!

T-Shirt and Hoodie Order Form

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!