week of 10/22
This week students will be taking notes over common roots, prefixes, and suffixes. They should make flash cards for each and be reviewing them every night. Students will have a test over this material towards the end of next week.
For 6th and 7th grade, Word Explorer lesson 4 is due today or tomorrow. Lesson 5 will be due next Monday/Tuesday.
Wednesday/Thursday, students will have the Vocabulary 3 words to work on, which will be due next week Tuesday, and they will also be working on a TAKS practice passage. Students MUST highlight the passage and take notes using the strategies taught. We will go over the text and answers in class on Friday.
On Friday, students will be working on a Stanford practice passage in class, as well as a newspaper assignment. In addition, as always, Reading Logs are due – 100 pages total.
Next week, students will continue working on TAKS passages and will begin reviewing the Vocabulary 3 words. Students will also be working with and reviewing the Roots, prefixes, and suffixes notes. Please work with your child every night reviewing these notes and vocabulary words.
Students will also be receiving the rubric next week for their next project – a research project over a chosen individual. Please make sure your child begins working on this project and closely follows the rubric. Parents – please be sure your child does not plagiarize information from research sources. All information on the project should be written entirely in their own words, other than required quotes.
Have a good week!
