Reminders:
A. All work must be completed in blue or black ink (other colors will not be accepted) and pencil is not allowed.
B. If the assignment states that looseleaf is to be used, no other types of paper will be accepted (paper ripped out of notebooks or legal pads are unacceptable).
C. The students are given 20 vocabulary words per week. They will have to copy the words and definitions on Monday for Homework and it will be checked on Tuesday by the Homeroom Teacher. If your child does not have internet access at home, he/she will be able to stay in the Afterschool Program on Mondays from 3:00-3:30 in order to copy the words into the Vocabulary NBs.
D. Calendars will be sent home this week.
E. Uniform Company will be at OLQM next Monday.
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HOMEWORK AND CLASSWORK FOR THIS WEEK
Vocabulary for the Week: Check Mr. Placido’s blog
You are responsible for all of the following work, whether or not you have class. Make sure anything done on looseleaf is given to Mr. Marcial before Friday afternoon. Any missing assignments will be given a zero. Notebooks will be checked when I return.
5th Grade Reading- 4/30/12
There will be a test Tuesday, May 8 on the vocabulary words from the following stories. You should have all of these vocabulary words written in your Reading notebooks:
1. Milo’s Mysterious Gifts
2. Peach Blossom Spring
3. Images
4. LAFFF
5. The Dolphins Led Me Home
6. Wolf Watch
Lesson Plans:
Classwork & Homework: Unit 4
1. Monday- In the front of your Reading Notebook, define the following words using the glossary in the back of the book. This work can be started in class and finished for homework. It is up to you to get as much done as possible during class, so there is not too much to complete for homework.
Vocabulary for Last Days at Red Clay:
harvest, meal, sheaves, bales, enforce, missionaries, traditions, worship, lottery
**Remember to copy the vocabulary for the week into your Vocabulary NB tonight if there are any new words given.
2. Tuesday- Read the story Farming on Avenue B.
Complete page. 184 (Practice Book) on looseleaf. Rewrite the whole paragraph in Exercise A. On the back of the looseleaf complete Exercise B. Remember to put a complete heading on the looseleaf.
3. Wednesday- On looseleaf, complete pg. 186 (Part A: 1-6) and pg. 186 (Exercise B)
4. Thursday- Practice Book pg. 187 (1-7). Do this in the middle section of your Reading NB (skills section). Write everything out.
5. Friday- Practice Book pg. 188 Exercise A (Copy the form on looseleaf and fill it in). On the back of the looseleaf complete Exercise B.
Make sure you do each day’s assignment on a separate piece of looseleaf. There should be a complete heading on each sheet of looseleaf. Do not staple the assignments together. Hand in each day’s assignment separately.
You can check your grades on the SIS system for the work that I have checked so far. Many people have not handed in assignments, and have a failing grade for Reading. Your notebooks will be given a Project grade for each assignment when I return. If you have any questions about anything, you can send me a note. Just give it to Mr. Marcial with your work.
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6th Grade Reading- 4/30/12- You are responsible for all of the following work, whether or not you have class. Make sure anything done on looseleaf is given to Mr. Marcial before Friday afternoon. Any missing assignments will be given a zero. Notebooks will be checked when I return.
There will be a test Tuesday, May 8 on the vocabulary words from the following stories. You should have all of these vocabulary words written in your Reading notebooks:
1. Aunt Millicent
2. Rabies
3. Things That Go Gleep in the Night
4. Miss Faberge’s Last Daze
5. Kinship
6. Leader of the Pack
Lesson Plans:
Classwork & Homework: Unit 4
1. Monday- In the front of your Reading Notebook, define the following words using the glossary in the back of the book. It is up to you to get as much done as possible during class, so there is not too much to complete for homework.
Vocabulary for Nickel-A-Pound Plane Ride:
donation, ushered, maneuvered, sensation, earnest, burly
2. Tuesday- Read the story Leader of the Pack.
Complete page. 181 1-10 (Practice Book) on looseleaf. Write everything out. On the back of the looseleaf do page 184 1-10. Write everything out. Remember to put a complete heading on the looseleaf.
3. Wednesday- On looseleaf, complete pg. 182 (Part A: 1-7, restate) and Part B on the back of the looseleaf.
4. Thursday- Practice Book pg. 183 (1-4) and pg. 185 1-5. W rite everything out. Do this in the middle section of your Reading NB (skills section).
5. Friday- Practice Book pg. 186 Exercise A and B. Complete on looseleaf and write everything out.
Make sure you do each day’s assignment on a separate piece of looseleaf. There should be a complete heading on each sheet of looseleaf. Do not staple the assignments together. Hand in each day’s assignment separately.
You can check your grades on the SIS system for the work that I have checked so far. Many people have not handed in assignments, and have a failing grade for Reading. Your notebooks will be given a Project grade for each assignment when I return. If you have any questions about anything, you can send me a note. Just give it to Mr. Marcial with your work.
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7th Grade Reading 4/30/12
You are responsible for all of the following work, whether or not you have class. Make sure anything done on looseleaf is given to Mr. Marcial before Friday afternoon. Any missing assignments will be given a zero. Notebooks will be checked when I return.
There will be a test Tuesday, May 8 on the vocabulary words from the following stories. You should have all of these vocabulary words written in your Reading notebooks:
1. Housekeeper Wanted for Gentleman Cat
2. River Rescue
3. Only One Woof
4. The Campers at Kitty Hawk
5. Daedalus and Icarus
6. Wings to Fly
7. The Great Balloon Craze
8. Airy-Go-Round
9. Through Skies Never Sailed
Lesson Plans:
Classwork & Homework: Unit 4
1. Monday- In the front of your Reading Notebook, define the words below using the Skills Practice Book. It is up to you to get as much done as possible during class, so there is not too much to complete for homework.
Vocabulary for Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed:
Write all words and definitions on pgs. 163 & 164 (skills practice)
Vocabulary for The Dog of Pompeii:
Write all words and definitions on pgs. 171 & 172
2. Tuesday- Read the story The Great Balloon Craze in the textbook. In the Practice Book, complete pg.128 (1-12-write ans. only on looseleaf, and skip lines). Complete pg. 129 1-12 (write everything out and skip lines). Do page 129 on the back of the looseleaf. Make sure you have a complete heading on the loose-leaf.
3. Wednesday- Work on Social Studies during Reading.
4. Thursday- In the Skills Practice Book, complete pg. 132 (1-6) and 134 (1-7). Complete on looseleaf and write everything out. Do page 132 on the front of the looseleaf and 134 on the back. Make sure you have a complete heading on the looseleaf and skip lines.
5. Friday- Word Study Book- complete pg. 54 (1-19 question and answer) and pg. 56 (1-48, make a chart like in the book). Do this in the middle section of your Reading NB (skills section) and label as Syllables.
Make sure you do each day’s assignment on a separate piece of looseleaf. There should be a complete heading on each sheet of looseleaf. Do not staple the assignments together. Hand in each day’s assignment separately.
You can check your grades on the SIS system for the work that I have checked so far. Many people have not handed in assignments, and have a failing grade for Reading. Your notebooks will be given a Project grade for each assignment when I return. If you have any questions about anything, you can send me a note. Just give it to Mr. Marcial with your work.
7th Grade Social Studies
Lesson Plans:
This work can be started in class and finished for homework. It is up to you to get as much done as possible during class, so there is not too much to complete for homework.
Classwork & Homework: Unit 4 (Chapter 10- The Frontier Travels West)
Make sure you do each day’s assignment on a separate piece of looseleaf. There should be a complete heading on each sheet of looseleaf. Do not staple the assignments together. Hand in each day’s assignment separately. Each LL should have a date and the page numbers on it.
Monday, 4/30 – Tues, 5/4 (Class work)
On looseleaf, identify or define the following words or groups of words. Number each word, underline, and skip a line between each word and definition.
1. Tecumseh
2. Wilderness Trail
3. Harrodsburg
4. township
5. Battle of Fallen Timbers
6. Treaty of Greenville
7. frontier
8. ceded
9. Louisiana Purchase
10. Lewis and Clark expedition
11. Old Northwest
12. Old Southwest
13. Sacajawea
14. Barbary States
15. neutral sights
16. the Leopard
17. the Chesapeake
18. Embargo Act
19. War Hawks
20. Henry Clay
21. John C. Calhoun
22. Captain Thomas Macdonough
23. Dolly Madison
24. national anthem
25. New Orleans
26. Jean Lafitte
27. Treaty of Ghent
28. Hartford Convention
29. Virginia Dynasty
30. Burr- Hamilton Duel
31. revenue
32.protective tariff
33. nationalism
34. Era of Good Feeling
35. Adams-Onis Treaty
36. Monroe Doctrine
37. Missouri Compromise
38. slave states
39. free states
Classwork: Weds, 5/2- Fri, 5/4
pg. 357 Vocabulary Review 1-10 (write everything out).
Chapter Checkup Questions 2-3-4
Homework: on LL. Complete heading, pg. numbers, restate and skip lines
pg. 356 Skills Practice 1 to 5
p. 355 Question 5- Thinking Critically
p. 357 Chapter Checkup- Thinking Critically- Questions 5 and 6
Make sure these assignments are handed to Mr. Marcial by Friday. Remember to look at your Grades for the 4th Quarter on SIS. Many people have not handed in assignments or are not doing them carefully. Remember that Progress Reports on May 11.
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8th Grade Reading 4/30/12
You are responsible for all of the following work, whether or not you have class. Make sure anything done on looseleaf is given to Mr. Marcial before Friday afternoon. Any missing assignments will be given a zero. Notebooks will be checked when I return.
There will be a test Tuesday, May 8 on the vocabulary words from the following stories. You should have all of these vocabulary words written in your Reading notebooks:
1. The Eternal Frontier
2. Bigger Than Life
3. Pegasus and Bellerophon
4. Aerin’s Dragon
5. Lee Bennett Hopkins Interviews Robin McKinley
6. Playing for Keeps
7. The Night the Martians Landed
8. Invasion from Mars
Lesson Plans:
Classwork & Homework: Unit 4
1. Monday- In the front of your Reading Notebook, define the words below using the Skills Practice Book. It is up to you to get as much done as possible during class, so there is not too much to complete for homework.
Vocabulary for President Cleveland, Where Are You:
Write all words and definitions on pgs. 162 & 163 (skills practice)
Vocabulary for Maria Pepe, Girl of Courage:
Write all words and definitions on pgs. 169 & 170
2. Tuesday- Read the story Aerin’s Dragon in the textbook. In the Skills Practice Book, complete pg.123 (1-13-write ans. only on looseleaf, and skip lines). Complete pg. 124 1-10 (write everything out and skip lines). Do page 124 on the back of the looseleaf. Make sure you have a complete heading on the looseleaf .
3. Wednesday- Work on Social Studies during Reading.
4. Thursday- In the Skills Practice Book, complete pg. 127 (1-7, restate) and 128 (1-9, Quest/ans). Complete on looseleaf and write everything out. Do page 127 on the front of the looseleaf and 128 on the back. Make sure you have a complete heading on the looseleaf and skip lines.
5. Friday- Skills Practice- complete pg. 126 (1-10 question and answer). Do this in the middle section of your Reading NB (skills section) and label as Test Taking Skills.
Make sure you do each day’s assignment on a separate piece of looseleaf. There should be a complete heading on each sheet of looseleaf. Do not staple the assignments together. Hand in each day’s assignment separately.
You can check your grades on the SIS system for the work that I have checked so far. Many people have not handed in assignments, and have a failing grade for Reading. Your notebooks will be given a Project grade for each assignment when I return. If you have any questions about anything, you can send me a note. Just give it to Mr. Marcial with your work.
8th Grade Social Studies
Lesson Plans:
This work can be started in class and finished for homework. It is up to you to get as much done as possible during class, so there is not too much to complete for homework.
Classwork & Homework: Unit 4 (Chapter 10- World War II)
Make sure you do each day’s assignment on a separate piece of looseleaf. There should be a complete heading on each sheet of looseleaf. Do not staple the assignments together. Hand in each day’s assignment separately. Each LL should have a date and the page numbers on it.
Monday, 4/30 – Tues, 5/4 (Class work)
On looseleaf, identify or define the following words or groups of words. Number each word, underline, and skip a line between each word and definition.
1. General William “Billy” Mitchell
2. totalitarian
3. dictator
4. Benito Mussolini
5. Adolf Hitler
6. V. I. Lenin
7. Axis Powers
8. demilitarized
9. Neutrality Acts
10. blitzkrieg
11. isolationists
12. lend lease
13. Atlantic Charter
14. Charles Lindbergh
15. Pearl Harbor
16. Grand Alliance
17. pacifists
18. Field Marshal
19. D-Day
20. V-E Day
21. genocide
22. concentration camps
23. Holocaust
24. Battle of Coral Sea
25. Midway Island
26. island-hopping
27. General Douglas Mac Arthur
28. Leyte Gulf
29. Manhattan Project
30. Alamogordo, New Mexico
31. Harry Truman
32. Hiroshima
33. Nagasaki
34. total war
35. relocation center
36. rationing
37. Margaret Mead
38. Philip Randolph
39. Charles Drew
40. 442nd Regiment Combat Team
Classwork: Weds, 5/2- Fri, 5/4
pg. 355 Vocabulary Review 1-10 (write everything out and underline the correct answer). Chapter Checkup Questions 2-3-4-5
Homework: on LL. Complete heading, pg. numbers, restate and skip lines
p. 355 Questions 6-7-8 Thinking Critically
p. 353 - Thinking Critically- Question 6
Make sure these assignments are handed to Mr. Marcial by Friday. Remember to look at your Grades for the 4th Quarter on SIS. Many people have not handed in assignments or are not doing them carefully. Remember that Progress Reports on May 11.
Have a great week!
