Week of Feb. 20

Friday
Bookfair Preview.
Brain-stretching Exercises:
The Abandoned
A Waiter's Lot
The Train Driver
Homework:
Work on Stems List #5 - due Tuesday, 2/28
Spine Poems due Fri., 3/2


Thursday
Grammar editing Arizona/Grant Wood
Stems List #1-4 Quiz
Homework:
Work on Stems List #5 - due Tuesday, 2/28



Wednesday
We worked on prepositional phrases, prepositions, parts of speech, and grammar and turned in the Preposition Recall and Parts of Speech w/s.
Handout: Spine Poems - due 3/2
Homework:
Stems Test 1-4 tomorrow.
Work on Spie Poems


Tuesday
We worked on improving our sentences to make them more interesting and took notes in our notebooks.
Homework:
Study Stems List #5; create original sentences following the model of the others: Following the order in List #5, write the stem, a dash, an English word with the stem; on the next line, write a sentence with the word used correctly. Then skip a line and repeat the steps


Monday
No School - Presidents' Day