Monday, February 13, 2012

Week of Feb 13 - Classwork and Homework

If you need homework help, make use of M/W/F morning resource time or make an appointment after school to meet with Ms. Barnes.

LANGUAGE ARTS
Bring "The Outsiders" book for SSR (silent sustained reading) every day

Reading/Writing
Life in 1960s; cliques and gangs
"The Outsiders" - read and do green book quotation collection and vocab daily
In-class literary analysis test and final essay - Feb. 29 through Mar. 2

Literary Devices

Book Project
Fantasy, mystery or sci-fi choice book jacket and review now PAST DUE.

Grammar
nouns, verbs, adjectives - identification, diagramming sentences

SOCIAL STUDIES

Next week - ratification of the US Constitution
Memory work: Preamble to the United States Constitution
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.