Weekly Reminders:
GRADE 4-HOMEROOM
A. Gym uniforms must be worn by 4th graders on Tuesdays and Fridays for gym unless students are told differently. The children may wear gym uniforms this week also (for the pictures) instead of regular uniforms since they have gym.
B. All children will need to have a pair of rosary beads for the May Procession this Thursday, May 31.
C. Progress Reports will be distributed on Thursday, May 31. Please sign and return on Friday.
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GRADES 6, 7, 8
A. All classwork/homework must be completed in blue or black ink (other colors will not be accepted).
B. If an assignment states that looseleaf is to be used, no other types of paper will be accepted (paper ripped out of notebooks or legal pads is unacceptable).
C. Homework must be handed in on the day due unless I receive a note from a parent explaining why you did not complete your HW. This will only be accepted if there is an emergency at home (not because you were too tired or that you had too much other HW).
D. Homework and classwork must be neat. Work that is sloppy or illegible will not be accepted.
ELA/Reading Homework for Grade 6
Book for Quarter 4- Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin, published March 9, 2010. Read Chapters 16-20.
MAP Skills, Common Lit, Khan Academy, Front Row or No Read Ink: Assignments will be given during the week. Make sure you check the blog every day for assignments.
My Perspectives (Pearson)- Please review (in your textbook or online in Pearson Realize) the story, vocabulary, and concepts (word study and conventions) that we have worked on in class.
ELA/Reading Homework for Grade 7
Book for Quarter 4- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, published April 20, 2006. Read Chapters 8 & 9.
MAP Skills, Common Lit, Khan Academy, Front Row or No Read Ink: Assignments will be given during the week. Make sure you check the blog every day for assignments.
My Perspectives (Pearson)- Please review (in your textbook or online in Pearson Realize) the story, vocabulary, and concepts (word study and conventions) that we have worked on in class.
ELA/Reading Homework for Grade 8:
New Book for Quarter 4- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor. Read Chapters 7, 8.
MAP Skills, Common Lit, Khan Academy, Front Row or No Read Ink: Assignments will be given during the week. Make sure you check the blog every day for assignments.
My Perspectives (Pearson)- Please review (in your textbook or online in Pearson Realize) the story, vocabulary, and concepts (word study and conventions) that we have worked on in class.
Social Studies Homework for Grade 8
Unit 8 Boom Times and Challenges- 1938-1945– Chapter 26: World War II
Tuesday,5/29- Write definitions for the words below in your Social Studies NB, Due Friday, 6/1. Read pages 800- 819 in your textbook.
Wednesday,5/30- Copy the notes for Chapter 26 into your Social Studies notebook. It will be collected on Tuesday, 6/5. No extensions.
The notes are posted in Google Classroom.
The notes are posted in Google Classroom.
Your research project is due today. If you haven’t completed it, please do so. There is an outline posted in Google Classroom. Projects will be presented this week.
Vocabulary for the Week:
totalitarianism (804), Benito Mussolini (804), fascism (804), intellectual (805), scapegoat (805), Adolf Hitler (805), Nazis (805), Joseph Stalin (805), Axis Powers (806), appeasement (806), Winston Churchill (806), Allied Powers (806), Lend-Lease Act (808), Pearl Harbor (808), War Production Board (810), rations (811), solidarity (812), A. Philip Randolph (812), Tuskegee Airmen (812), Benjamin O. Davis (812), zoot-suit riots (813), internment (813)
Have a wonderful week!
