I hope you are enjoying your extra day of rest this weekend. Don't forget that we have a spelling test on Tuesday. This week is very special! A friend of mine, Mrs. Laura Jo Fojtasek, will be coming to our class on Wednesday to show us photos and talk about her THREE trips to Peru! We will also have our Mayan feast on Wednesday during your regular lunch time--you won't need to bring your lunch that day.
Your dads will be in for a treat on Friday (besides donuts and breakfast tacos!) You will be presenting original plays based on an Inca legend that you will read in class on Tuesday.
You can access this week's schedule here with assignments and due dates.
On Tuesday, when you need to look up information about the Inca, link to the website below:
http://incas.mrdonn.org/index.html
The grammar handouts and reading assignments, if available, can be linked to below.
Study Guide for History Test
Tuesday's Grammar Lesson
Wednesday's Grammar Lesson
Thursday's Grammar Lesson
Friday's Grammar Lesson
Tuesday's In Class Reading: Incan Primary Sources
Questions on articles about the Inca (these articles are not available online)
Next week's spelling and vocabulary are below.
SPELLING and Vocabulary for TEST on Monday, January 28
Learn to spell these words, and be able to match each with its correct definition.
1. preposition: a word that shows the relationship of a
noun or pronoun to another word in the sentence. (aboard,
about, above, across . . .)
2. interjection: a word that expresses sudden or strong
feeling. Gosh! I hate when that happens!
3. contraction: two words drawn together and shortened by
dropping some letters. Every contraction
has an apostrophe [ ‘ ] in it. The apostrophe
tells where the letters were dropped to form the contraction. Is not
= isn’t
4. apostrophe: a punctuation mark that shows that letters
have been left out, or that a possessive form is being used [ ‘ ].
She’s as frisky as her mother’s colt.
5. homonym: words that are spelled alike and
pronounced alike, but have different meanings such as bat (the flying
mammal) and bat (used in baseball).
6. indirect
object: the noun or pronoun that is
between the action very and the direct object of a sentence. It answers the questions “to whom” or “for whom”
the action is done. She gave Mother the soup.
7. direct
quotation: the exact words that
someone says. Direct quotations are
always enclosed by quotation marks [ “ “
]. She
said, “I want to leave!”
8. indirect
quotation: the content of what a
person says without using his or her exact words. There are no quotation marks surrounding an
indirect quotation. She told him she wanted to leave.
9. predicate
adjective: an adjective in the
complete predicate that describes the subject.
Germs are microscopic.
10. predicate
nominative: a noun or pronoun in the
complete predicate that renames the subject.
A teacher should be a person
of character.
