Sunday, November 28, 2010

November 29-December 3

**Reminder: Dec. 16 is the last day for students to test on books for their reading goal (4 books) for the 2nd grading period.**

Reading:
Main Text: "The Great Serum Race" (pgs. 222-235)
Strategy: Summarize
Skill: Sequence of events
Vocabulary: pedestrians, outskirts, unbearable, rendezvous, intercept, quarantine, epidemic, plight
Next week: TEST ON TUESDAY, DEC. 7. Students will have a study guide.

Language:
Focus: Possessive nouns and appositives
Writing Focus: Haiku
DLR TEST ON FRIDAY, NOV. 19
Next week: TEST ON TUESDAY, DEC. 7 on noun unit (singular, plural, common, proper, possessives).

Spanish:
We will finish our art project, "Ojos de Dios" and then begin learning about the verb gustar.