October 12-16, 2009

Reading:
Monday- Review last two weeks assignments for test tomorrow. No formal assignment. Emphasize "Concha" and "Do or Die"
Tuesday- Test 2
Wednesday- Reat "The Southpaw",pages 77-80. Do "Apply Your Skills for Use a chart, infer, indicate, analyze, interpret
Thursday- Pages 90-93 Read "Making It Up As We Go" Story telling vs oral tradition.
Friday- Apply Your Skills, Page 94

Language:
Monday- Review last two weeks assignments for test tomorrow. No formal assignment.
Tuesday- Test 2
Wednesday- Apply Skills page 72 & 73. Relative and Interrogative Pronouns.
Thursday- Page 58, Homophones, to, too, two, use of adjectives, interpret
Friday- Page 59, Describing with adjectives. Create a fable.


Geography:
Monday- Review last two weeks assignments for the test tomorrow.
Tuesday- Test 2
Wednesday- Region-Climates, Human/Environment interaction. Define vocab terms: permafrost, weather,climate, taiga, axis, timberline, temperature, hypothesis, revolution, equinox, hypothesis, smog, solstice, natural vegatation, oasis, mixed forest, deciduous, prairie.
Thursday- Read pages 63-65, population growth, distribution, industry, density
Friday- Read pages 66-68, regulation, tornado alley, subsistence farming, hurricane, tsunami

Math1:
Monday- Review skills and assignments of the last two weeks.
Tuesday- Test 2
Wednesday- Chapter 2 review
Thursday- Terms on page 101
Friday- Chapter 3, Lesson 1 Decimal Representation

Math 2:
Monday- Review skills and assignments of the last two weeks.
Tuesday- Test 2
Wednesday- Chapter 2, lesson 7 Ordering on a number line
Thursday- Define vocabulary terms9expression, base, common factor, GCF etc.
Friday- Chapter 3, Lesson 1 Common Multiples

October 14

Write the following terms and then explain them using your own words (you are welcome to use your textbook):

Weather
Climate
Axis
Temperature
Rotation
Equinox
Solstice
Natural Vegetation
Deciduous
Timberline
Permafrost
Smog

Sept 14
Reading- Do the three questions in the Reading Focus Section on page 81

October 14
Math, Book 1
Copy and define the following words in your own way:

Place value system, page 60
Base-Ten system, page 60
Expanded Notation, page 60
Regrouping, page 66
Perimeter, page 67
Product, page 72
Area, page 73
Numerical Expression, page 84
Evaluating, page 84
Grouping Symbols, page84
Order of Operations, p85
Variable, p89
Variable Expression, p89

October 14, 2009
Math Bk 2
Chapter 2 Lesson 8
Do problems 2,4,5,7,10,11,12,18

October 15
Reading
On your paper, copy the following terms. After we read “Making It Up as We Go” on pages 90-93 you will be expected to define the words your own way (complete sentences). Do not copy definitions out of the book. After you define the word, write another sentence which tells me how it relates to this story. :

Prehistoric
Permanent
Intriguing
Imagine
Epic

October 15
Page 73
Complete the grammar link section on page 73.

October 15
Copy and define the following terms in your own words:

Population
Distribution
Industry
Density
Population map