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Assignments for week of 2/7 -- 2/11

2011-02-07T13:51:00.000-08:00

Here are the assignments for this week:

Tuesday/Thursday classes:

Language Arts: Keep studying your vocabulary lesson 7. Quiz on Thursday the 10th.
Memorize your lines from "The Merchant of Venice"--the short bit, Portia or Shylock, as well as the entirety of the scene from Act 5 .

Latin I: Quizzes 5 and 18 on Thursday. Worksheets 5 and 18 due by Thursday. I will check worksheets 1-4 and 15-17 on Tuesday to make sure those are completed, too.

Latin II: Quiz on Tuesday, covering Word Lists 9 and 10. Continue working on your lessons. You should have completed through Lesson 38. Next week you will complete lessons 39-41, and if you are done with 38 you may work ahead if you like. I will check lessons on Thursday.

Latin III: Quiz on Thursday, covering Word Lists through 11. Lessons through 42 should be completed this week. You may work ahead to lessons 43-45. I will check lessons on Tuesday.

Greek: Verb test on Tuesday the 8th. If you know your present tense endings, you will do well. Continue studying your endings for first conjugation. Quiz on nouns will be on the 24th. That will require declining Second Declension nouns (you have only learned the second declension endings, not First). There will also be some vocabulary knowledge required. Consult your worksheets.

Math 4: For Tuesday, finish your assigned homework on finding a fraction of a number. We will work some more on this in class. PLEASE work HARD at memorizing your math facts, especially times tables for 6, 7, and 8. These seem to be giving you the most trouble.

Wednesday & Friday

Math 4: Work your Division Wrap-Ups. Once through the whole sequence, and three more times for 6, 7, 8 and 9. Work your Fraction Wrap-ups for identifying equivalent fractions; do not do the last 2 wrap-ups in the set. This is also your homework for Thursday.

Debate: Be prepared for your debate. Your topic is "Resolved, that chess is more challenging than backgammon."

E-mail me if you have any questions!

Mrs. M.

Snow Day!!

2011-01-31T19:25:00.000-08:00

It's a snow day! However, there's still work to do. Here's what you need to be working on:

Language Arts: Keep working on memorizing your lines from The Merchant of Venice. It would be good to work on Thursday without scripts. Finish your Vocabulary Lesson 7. Also, begin reading Woodrow Wilson's speech in your Realms of Gold 2 book. If you can't finish it, that's fine. We will be reading parts of it in class on Thursday. Your main focus should be memorizing your lines.

Latin I: Study your new word lists and complete the lessons. This is either Lesson 4 or Lesson 17. You know what you're working on. Quiz Thursday.

Latin II: You have a quiz on Thursday, mainly on Word List 9. Study for the quiz and complete your lessons.

Latin III: You have a quiz on Thursday on the material covered in Lessons 36-41. This is mainly adjectives and the dative case.

Greek: e-mail me with your preferred e-mail address and I will send you the new Handout with your vocabulary, First Conjugation endings, Second Declension endings, and the present tense of the irregular verb "to be". I have parents' e-mails, but I am not sure if that is the best to reach each of you, so please e-mail me with a request for the Handout. ninjagran@gmail.com.

That's about it for today. Other than working on your preps given above, enjoy your snow day!

Mrs. M.

Updates & Changes

2010-09-28T13:01:00.000-07:00

We have some updates and changes to due dates.

Spelling Quiz will be given with the Vocabulary Quiz on October 7. No quiz Sept. 30.

Edgar Allan Poe report is now due October 12. If necessary, this date may be postponed so students can take the time they need on organization. We are using a new system of organizing their papers, and it may take a while to master it.

For this week, all students must have their thesis statements written on the appropriate 3 X 5 card by Thursday, 9/30.

Mrs. M

Assignments and Deadlines

2010-09-16T10:49:00.000-07:00

We're almost to the first progress reports! Here's what's due over the next couple of weeks:

English 1 & 2:

Read "The Purloined Letter" by 9/21

Edgar Allan Poe report due 9/30

Next Vocab Test 10/7 on Lessons 3 & 4

Next Spelling Quiz 9/30 on Lesson 3

Spelling Quiz 10/14 on Lesson 4

Read "Invictus" (handout) by 10/7

Choose a book for your book report before fall break (report is due in January; must begin reading now!)

Write a 1 page analysis of any poem we have read; due before fall break

Write a 1 page analysis of one of Poe's stories, due before fall break

Latin 3:

Lessons 1-16 must be completed before fall break
Next test on word lists 1-5 on 10/7

Greek:

Pages 1-48 in yellow/blue workbook done by 9/30 (2 weeks extra for Yasmine)
Alphabet quiz 10/7

Please call or e-mail if you have questions about specific assignments.

This week's focus: English: Edgar Allan Poe. You should be finishing "The Purloined Letter" and planning your Author Report. MLA format, 3 to 5 pages. The report should recap Poe's life, discuss his poetry and prose, and have a good introduction and conclusion. A sample of MLA format will be provided next week. Right now, finish the story, be prepared to discuss it on 9/21, and be thinking about your report and identifying your sources. You need 3 good sources on your "Works Cited" page.
Latin 3: working through lessons, some review of last year's work, increasing your comfort level with conjugations and declensions.
Greek: Mastery of the alphabet is key right now. Keep working in the workbook and handout sheets.

Valete,

Mrs. M.

Start of new year

2010-09-13T15:31:00.000-07:00

It's a new school year. To determine whether or not parents would like me to post homework, etc. or just a general syllabus on this blog, I would like to ask you to email me and let me know what you want to see on this blog. Would you like daily homework assignments? More general information about what we're working on? Or just due dates for major assignments? Please send me an email at terry.martin@wacr.org or ninjagran@gmail.com and let me know what you would like this blog to look like. Thanks!

Mrs. Martin

Homework week of 4/13-4/17

2009-04-13T15:08:00.000-07:00

HISTORY

Western Civ (6th grade): Read the first two chapters in the French Revolution unit. We will begin discussion on Wednesday. Make sure you have thoroughly read the chapters by the end of the week. You will have FOUR chapters to read next week, so pace yourselves. NO written assignments this week.

Economic Themes (7th): Continue working in your packets. You will need to FINISH the section on the Depression by the 23rd, when you will HAND IN your packets for grading. We are currently discussing the Depression. You will receive your Depression "persona" this week so you can start preparing for the Lock-In on the 23rd. You will also receive recipes to prepare and bring to the lock-in. VERY IMPORTANT: You have TWO book reports due in May. Make sure you are keeping up on reading the books. You should have FINISHED the first book (the novel covering 1910-1940) by now and should begin working on the outline for your book report. AS SOON AS you have finished that book, start reading "In the Presence of my Enemies."

The Near East: Prepare for a mini-quiz (open book) on India on Wednesday. You will use this as a study guide for your unit test in May. After the quiz we will begin our study of Southeast Asia. As usual, you will complete the review questions at the end of each chapter.

LATIN

Goals for this week:

Latin 1A: New students will progress at the rate of one lesson per week. Check with Mrs. Martin to see where you should be. Regular 1A students (Intermediate) should prepare for Quiz 11 next Tuesday. Make sure you have WORKSHEET 10 completed!

Latin 1B: Make sure you have WORKSHEET 21 and all earlier worksheets completed. (Spenser is on Lesson 16.) There will be a quiz on Thursday. It will be a big one covering Lessons 15-21. Spenser will do Quiz 16.

Latin II: All levels, there will be a semi-pop quiz on Wednesday or Thursday depending on your level. This will be a partly open book quiz; you will do as much as you can and have the last 5 minutes to look in the book. Yasmine will begin this Tuesday and finish Thursday, because her classes are half hour. Test 7 is coming up NEXT WEEK, so make sure you are solid through Lesson 48 at that time. You should be working on Lessons 46-48 this week.

Latin III: Work on Lessons 46-48. Your homework is to write TEN sentences using the nominative, genitive, and dative, and at least one adjective and one adverb. These are tough so take your time with them. These are due NEXT WEDNESDAY, April 21. Make sure you are up on your lessons and ASK ME if there is anything you don't understand. We are about to start a new concept in 2 weeks so it is essential you really get what we've done so far. We start work on the genitive case in two weeks.

That's it. Please email or call if you have questions.

Mrs. M.

Last week before Spring Break

2009-03-16T15:06:00.000-07:00

Just keep working on your lessons! There will be Latin quizzes the Wednesday/Thursday after break, but there is no other homework. All students know what lessons they are working on. Feel free to email me at ninjagran@gmail.com over the break if you have any questions. There are no history assignments due the week after break. Even Western Civ (6th grade) presentations (poster board) on the Enlightenment will be due the week after that ... second week in April.

Have fun and get well rested!

Mrs. M.

Back again

2009-03-09T13:33:00.000-07:00

Well ... I would have posted over the last two weeks, but I thought the blogs were broken again. It turns out I was entering the wrong password! I'm all better now, thank you.

Here is the homework for the next couple of weeks--that is, until Spring Break.

Latin

Intermediate 1A: We are working on Minimus. Please complete your Minimus packets. Quiz no. 9 will be on Thursday, March 12. Quiz no. 10 will be after the break.

Intermediate 1B: Work on Minimus packets. You have already done some of the pages. Quiz 18 is on March 12. Quiz 19 will be after the break. Students who are newer are on their own schedules; check with me to see which lesson you are working on. Your worksheets should be completed before you take the test on a lesson.

Intermediate 2: Test 6 will be on Thursday, March 19. Work on your Minimus packet, too.

MS 1A: Newer students, check with me if you are not sure which lesson you are on. Work on your Minimus packets. There will be a quiz on Wednesday, March 18 on your most recently completed lesson.

MS1B: Work on Minimus packet. Quiz 19 & 20 are on Wednesday, March 18.

MS 2 & 3: Test 6 will be on Wednesday, March 18. Work on Minimus packet. Lessons 39-42 should be completed.

HISTORY

6th: Western Civ: The Enlightenment! Papers and presentations are all due April 6 unless other arrangements are made. Test on April 8 unless other arrangements are made.

7th: Economic Themes: Test on World War I on Thursday, March 12. We will begin The 1920s and The Depression. Please turn in COMPLETED World War One packets on Thursday, March 12. The test on the next unit will be in April, along with the Depression Lock-In.

8th: Middle East: Your test will be on Wednesday, March 18. We will begin our study of India and Southeast Asia immediately after Spring Break.

Work hard this next week and a half and enjoy your break!

Mrs. M.

Week of Feb. 9-13

2009-02-09T15:23:00.000-08:00

Latin homework for this week:

Latin 1A, Intermediate: Complete your flash cards for word lists 1-7. Study Word List 8. Complete Worksheet 8. Then do flash cards for Word List 8. No quiz this week. Quiz 8 will be next week, on Tuesday, Feb. 17.

Latin 1B, Intermediate: Study Word List 15 for Quiz 15 on Thursday, Feb. 12. Begin your flash cards for lists 1-16. These are due in two weeks.

Latin 2, Intermediate: Begin flash cards for Word Lists 1-10. Study WOrd Lists 8-10 and Lessons 32-37 for Test on Thursday, Feb. 12

Latin 1, MS: Make flash cards for all word lists you have studied. Your quizzes will be given as you finish each lesson. You are all on your own pace, so make sure you check with me when you are ready for a quiz.

Latin 2 & 3, MS: Test on Lessons 32-37, Word Lists 8-10, on Wednesday, Feb. 11. Begin making flash cards for word lists 1-10.

History Assignments

Check the board for long term assignments. You have a project or presentation for each unit and a book report for the semester. Due dates will appear on the blog in a permanent sidebar as soon as I figure out how to do that.

Western Civ: Continue working on presentations and read your Greece & Rome chapters.

Economic Themes: For this week, do the lessons on the sinking of the Lusitania and on the German U-Boats. Prepare for next week by reading about the First Battle of the Marne. You do not need to do the written part of the Battle of the Marne yet.

Middle East: Finish your timelines. You will have a quiz on Monday covering Mesopotamia. After that, we will begin studying the modern Middle East. Continue reading Three Cups of Tea.

Have fun!

Mrs. M.

It's February!

2009-02-04T15:18:00.000-08:00

...and the blogs are back!

Assignments for this week in Latin:

Latin 1A (Intermediates) is finishing up flash cards for lessons 1-7. We will begin Lesson 8 next week.
Latin 1B (Intermediates) Quiz 13 tomorrow. Next week we will do 14 and 15. There is no quiz 14 so we will have quiz 15 on Tuesday the 17th.
Latin 2 (Intermediate) complete lessons 35-37. Test will be on Thursday the 12th, on word lists 8-10 and lessons 32-37.
MS Latin 1A: Finish flash cards, work on lessons 6 and 7. Quiz 6 will be on Wednesday the 11th.
MS Latin 1B: Begin Lesson 16. Quiz 16 on Wednesday the 11th.
MS Latin 2: Same as Intermediate Latin 2, but test is on the 11th.
MS Latin 3: Lessons through 36, test on the 11th. Word lists 8-10, lessons 31-36.

History:

Western Civ: Students have the dates for their presentations. We will be working on these through February. Please check the board in my room for your particular due dates. Our test on the Greece and Rome unit will be March 4.

Economic Themes: We are studying World War I. Students have Keynote/Power Point presentations due Feb. 24. Our test will be Feb. 26.

Middle East: This unit will continue until March 16. Students have short writing assignments due for each class! Projects (paper or Power Point) are due March 16. Test is March 18. Book report on "Three Cups of Tea" is due March 11.

Please e-mail or call if you have questions. You can expect a posting each Monday.

Mrs. M

New class for fifth grade

2009-02-03T22:55:00.001-08:00

Beginning Wednesday, December 3, the fifth graders will be studying Literature with Mrs. Martin. This change should help us differentiate for the different age levels in the Intermediate section. We will begin by completing the study of The Prince and the Pauper. Then, our next project will be Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Students will read the play and present an excerpt from it for our Shakespeare Festival! Later projects will include Little Women, The Secret Garden, selected poems and short stories, and more adventures in literature.
Mrs. M.