Happy Super Bowl Sunday!
I hope you all have your popcorn and snacks and are ready to watch the big game. That means you've studied your spelling and vocabulary for tomorrow's test and read Chapter 9 in WOBBP, right?
This week, we'll continue to read The Witch of Blackbird Pond, as well as some information about the Quakers and why they were persecuted by others in the New England Colonies. In History, we'll finish investigating the theories about the Lost Colony of Roanoke, and move on to the Jamestown Colony--1607, and England's first PERMANENT colony in the New World, though it was almost wiped out by starvation and wars with the Native Americans.
Your new spelling words and reading assignments are below. Your spelling/vocabulary test will be next Monday, February 13.
Enjoy the Game!
LITERATURE Assignments from The Witch of Blackbird Pond
For MONDAY, February 6: Spelling Test; You should have read Chapter 9 and written in your Reader's Journals. Begin working on writing spelling words 3 times each in cursive--due on Thursday.
For TUESDAY, February 7: Read Chapters 10 & 11 and write in Reader's Journal.
For WEDNESDAY, February 8: No classwork today--Field Trip to the Rodeo
For THURSDAY, February 9: Read Chapter 12 and write in Reader's Journal. Spelling words written 3 times each in cursive are due. Study for Quiz over Chapters 9-12.
For FRIDAY, February 10: Read Chapters 13 & 14 and write in Reader's Journal.
For MONDAY, February 13: Study for Spelling Test; Read Chapters 15 & 16 and write in Reader's Journal.
SPELLING WORDS/VOCABULARY for TEST on Monday, February 13 You will have to spell the word correctly; then match it with its definition. These also need to be written 3 times each in cursive.
1. indentured--being bound to another person as a worker for a specific time
2. employer--a person who hires another person to work for him or her
3. plantation--a large farm or estate on which crops are raised
4. nonchalance--the characteristic of seeming to be carefree or unconcerned
5. wraith--an apparition or ghost
6. vanity--excessive pride or conceit
7. tremulous--marked by trembling or shaking
8. coarse--rough
9. incredulous--disbelieving or doubtful
10. monotonous--repetitiously dull; repeated notes on the same pitch
