LITERATURE & HISTORY: April 9-13

This week, we will finish our study of The Light in the Forest as well as our study of the 13 British Colonies. Your spelling words will be taken from a list of words that every 6^th grader should know—and should be easier than those you normally have from our novel. Your spelling test will be on Monday, April 16.

We will be reading the short book, If You Lived When There Was Slavery in America, and comparing the life of the colonist with the life of the forced laborer. All of these things are leading us toward the dissension that began with a tightening of British rule over these pesky colonies, and the eventual War for American Independence that finally broke our colonial ties to England.

Our next novel will be Johnny Tremain, but we will wait until after our major test over the 13 Colonies to start this novel. (Major Test over 13 Colonies—Thursday, April 19) In the meantime, back by popular demand will be. . . Grammar and Writing!!! Yea!!!

SPELLING WORDS for test on Monday, April 16. There are more words than usual, but no vocabulary.

1. appointment

2. constitution

3. descendant

4. endurance

5. foreign

6. governor

7. heritage

8. independence

9. liberty

10. monument

11. nationality

12. official

13. population

14. regulation

15. strategy