Week of Oct 3 - Classwork/Homework - Periods 1,4,6

WEEK OF OCT 3rd

LANGUAGE ARTS

Reading/Writing
Writing fluency essay - essay about a specific successful person - in class Mon 10/3

Read "The Landlady" in textbook pg. 71 - in class Wed Oct 5, and due Fri Oct 7

Re-write Emerson's poem "What is Success?" - due Thu 10/6

Reading Logs

Reading Log #3 - due Mon 10/3
Reading Log #4 - due Mon 10/10

Entry 1 - conflict description (internal/external)

Entry 2 - foreshadowing (1-3 clues) and prediction

Entry 3 - main character development

(what does the character think, feel say, do, look like?;

what do others say about the character?)

Vocabulary
Vocab 1b definitions - due Wed 10/5
Vocab sentences - due Thu 10/6
Vocab quiz - Fri 10/7
hover, jostle, laggard, plaudits, preclude, revert, rubble, servile, vigil, wrangle

SOCIAL STUDIES
History "Frozen Moments"
The 5 Themes of Geography
- location: the "where" of geography; in relation to other things
- place: human and physical characteristics
- human/environmental interaction: humans interact with and change their environment
- human movement: the transfer of people, products, ideas; why people moved
- regions: areas with similar characteristics