5th LITERATURE/HISTORY
This
week and this coming weekend, we will be finishing The
Swiss Family Robinson in literature.
If any of you has a “block and tackle” could you bring it to school?
In
History, you'll be taking your test over the Revolutionary War on Wednesday (STUDY!!!). You’ll also be learning about the difficulties the Founding
Fathers had writing the Constitution and the many issues that
came up for debate during the Constitutional Convention.
By
this Friday, May 25, you need to memorize and be able to recite the Preamble to
the Constitution. You
will find it below. Your spelling words
this week come from the history that you will be studying.
The Preamble to
the Constitution of the United States of America
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.
SPELLING for Test this Friday, May 25 –you will need to be able to spell and define
the words. I have given you the part of speech that your definition should
match. You will have an assignment on Wednesday to write the word once and
the definition once (you will be looking up the definitions) in cursive
handwriting.
1.
establish
2.
justice
(N, needs a definition)
3. insure (V, needs a definition)
4.
domestic
(Adj, needs a definition)
5.
tranquility (N, needs a definition)
6.
defense
(N, needs a definition)
7.
welfare
(N, needs a definition)
8.
posterity (N, needs a
definition)
9. ordain (V, needs a definition)
10.
Constitution (Proper N, needs a
definition)
11.
Preamble
(N, needs a definition)
READING HOMEWORK for May 21-29
For Monday 21st,
Chapters 8 & 9
For Tuesday (read
even though we won’t have class)
For Wednesday,
Read Chapters 10 & 11
We won’t
have class on Tuesday, so you will need to read two chapters for Wednesday
For Thursday, Chapter
12
For Friday,
Chapters 13 & 14
For Tuesday 29th,
(over the long weekend) You will finish
the book by reading Chapters 15-18
You Book Reports are DUE WEDNESDAY,
MAY 30
