This week, we will be continuing to read The Witch of Blackbird Pond and will study The Lost Colony of Roanoke. It is fascinating and very mysterious!
Below, you can link to this week's schedule of assignments, as well as many of the handouts you will be getting this week. Don't forget to study for tomorrow's spelling test. Tomorrow, you will also receive your 4 week progress report, which needs to be signed and returned to me by this Friday. You will also get a "newsletter" to give to your parents about upcoming events.
This week's assignment schedule
Reading Logs for February 1-14
Questions for Chapter 36 & 37 in History book
Roanoke Research Packet
Article What Happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke?
Article What Happened to the Lost Colony? (theories)
Character Journals for Chapters 13-16
Character Journals for Chapters 17-21
What is a Husking Bee?
The Connecticut Charter
Quote for WOBBP 3 Chapters 10-11
Quote for WOBBP 4 Chapters 13-14
Your spelling words and vocabulary for this week are below.
SPELLING and Vocabulary for TEST on Monday, February 11
Learn
to spell these words, and be able to match each with its correct definition.
1. allotted = assigned or apportioned
The students were each allotted five
minutes to present their reports.
2. arrogant = haughty or
prideful
The young man was arrogant to his
servants.
3. banished = sent away
Hannah and her husband were banished
because they were Quakers.
4. blithely = carefree or
heedless
The girl blithely ignored the way the
community felt about her.
5. constable = policeman
The constable kept the prisoner in a
cage in his yard.
6. cordial = warm and
genuine
Mercy was always cordial to visitors.
7. decorum = proper polite
behavior
The judge expected decorum in his
court.
8. devious = not
straightforward, shifty or crooked
The men thought up a devious scheme
for taking the Charter.
9. gnarled = twisted or
knobby
Hannah’s hands were gnarled from
years of hard work.
10. hapless = unlucky
The hapless young men were caught
breaking windows.
11. ingenious = clever or
inventive
There have been many ingenious
inventors in our history.
12. papist = a Roman
Catholic sympathizer
The Puritans accused many others of
being papists.
13. precarious = dangerous
or risky
Kit knew that going to Hannah’s was a
precarious decision.
14. tryst = an appointed
meeting
The Sons of Liberty agreed on a tryst
to throw the tea overboard.
15. unorthodox = not
orthodox; not conforming to the usual beliefs
Kit is one of the most unorthodox
characters in the novel.
