Hello, Students!
This week, we begin a new novel and one of my favorites since I first read it back in the day: The Witch of Blackbird Pond. It will usher us into the Thirteen Colonies of the British. It is a great study in character development, so each of you will be choosing (at random) one of the main characters from the novel to follow throughout your reading. You will also be creating a Colonial-style doll that will look like and be dressed like your character. I will be teaching you to sew with a needle and thread, and with a sewing machine, so this will be a fun and exciting unit--even for you, boys! Just think, you'll always be able to sew on your own buttons from now on!
This week, you will have homework again--the reading and journals that you aren't able to finish in class will be done each night at home. You will have a quiz every 4 chapters of the book, and in between, will be asked to respond in writing to one of the book's quotations. So read carefully!
Your reading logs will be due this Friday, as usual, and you may count your class time reading so long as you are all quietly reading during class. If you can't get your reading done at school, you can't count that time. You can count any reading on The Witch of Blackbird Pond that you read at home on your reading log.
Also due on Friday, February 1, is your permission slip for the Rodeo at the Bell County Expo (the trip is on Wednesday, February 6.) We do need parent volunteers to drive and chaperone, and you will be bringing a sack lunch that day to eat while on the field trip.
This Friday is the 100th day of school! We're over the half-way point. If you know for certain whether you will be attending CCS in the fall or not, please let us know. It is important for us to know how many of you will be returning so that teachers can be hired and curriculum planned and ordered. Thank you!
Below are links to your work this week, and your spelling and vocabulary list is below.
See you tomorrow!
This week's schedule of assignments
Grammar for Monday
Grammar for Tuesday
Grammar for Wednesday
Grammar for Thursday
Grammar for Friday
Intro to The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Colonial Dolls
Character Journal for WOBBP Chapters 1-4
Character Journal for WOBBP Chapters 5-8
Character Journal for WOBBP Chapters 9-12
WOBBP Quote for Writing #1
WOBBP Quote for Writing #2
Rubric for Map It Out (map is not available online)
SPELLING and
Vocabulary for TEST on Monday, February
4
Learn
to spell these words, and be able to match each with its correct definition.
1. aloof = reserved and
apart
2. chagrined =
embarrassed or humiliated
3. constraint =
repression of behavior or feelings
4. deft =
skillful
4. dour =
stern or forbidding
5. frippery =
showy or gaudy
6. gaudy =
cheaply showy, as in dress
7. grotesquely =
strangely or in a distorted way
8. haughtily = in
a proud or arrogant manner
9. incredulous =
doubting or skeptical
10. monotonous =
having little variation
11. nonchalance =
showing indifference
12. punctilious =
very exact and careful
