| Date | Homework |
| 12/10/07 | Happy Birthday to Misa! First day of the 2nd Trimester. Welcome new students; new seating chart; issue books Warm up Issue Visions books literature: "Tuck Triumphant" Intro: pp. 118-120; Story 121-127; Follow-up pp 128-131 adoption, halfheartedly, tottering, corrugated, embarrassed, Constellation, Customs and Immigration, jabbering, koala, orphan, suspenders, crew-cut, dabbing, bewildered, inquisitive, flawless, disbelief, breathless, concrete-block, shock Skills: genre: realistic fiction, drawing conclusions, first-person, suffix -less, adjectives, Writing realistic stories. Homework: Reread "Tuck Triumphant". Write new vocabulary in your VN. Grammar pp. 24-27 Activity pp. 65-66 |
| 12/11/07 | Warm up: Paragraph
completion First person vs. Third person, Adjectives Review "Tuck" vocabulary Correct homework; Q & A from p. 128 Do packet pp. 67-70 TCI ch. 8: The Prophet Muhammad: Islam, prophet, Muslims, polytheist, monotheism, Madinah, caliph, Umayyad dynasty "Time for Kids": A Chance to Learn; persuasive writing |
| 12/12/07 | TCI ch. 8: The
Prophet Muhammad: Islam, prophet, Muslims,
polytheist, monotheism, Madinah, caliph, Umayyad
dynasty Correct Visions packet pp. 67-70 Visions p. 131: Write a Realistic story. See packet p. 71 for writer's checklist. |
| 12/13/07 | Latin and Greek prefixes: mono-, uni-, bi-, di-, tri-, quadri-, tetra-, TCI ch. 8, continued HOMEWORK: Read Ch. 8.3 to 8.6. Take notes of key ideas. Do the "bi-" "di-" page. |
| 12/14/07 | Ch. 8, cont. Complete study notes. Correct Latin/Greek packet for uni-, bi-, di-. Do tri-, quadra-, tetra-. |