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Weekend

• Read your non-fiction book. Oral reports being the week after next.
• Math test on statistics next week.

Thursday Evening

• Math: pg 447: 1-11 all; 13, 15, 17
• Math Grizzlies: take-home test sheet
• Study for vocab test tomorrow
• English: Answer these questions on a separate page to turn in tomorrow. The story is on page 589 of the lit book.
  

1. Why is the Salton Sea worth saving?
2. Make a T-Chart of the positives and negatives of the Salton Sea (compare and contrast)
3. What does the author accomplish by showing the positives and negatives of the Salton Sea?
4. What are the similarities between the environmental problems of the wild turkeys and the Salton Sea?
5. Why would it be more difficult to save the wildlife at the Salton Sea than the wild turkeys?
6. Who wrote the article, who did he work for, and where did the article first appear?

Wednesday Evening

• Math: Take-home test
• Math: finish pie chart of ice cream flavors (hmm, sounds like dessert to me)
• English: read 1/2 hour your non-fiction book

Tuesday Evening

Math pg 441: 5-35 odds

Answer these questions from the story Turkeys (pg 580) in the Lit book:

1. What does an ornithologist study?
2. What does the word “demise” mean?
3. How can  you tell the difference between a wild turkey and a domestic (barnyard) turkey
4. What threatens the wild turkeys?
5. What event brought the author and the turkeys together?
6. What disease does the author have, and why is it important to the story?

Monday Evening

• Math: pg436ff: 9-18 all; 19-31 odds
• Read 1/2 hour your non-fiction book or biography
• Study vocabulary list for Friday test

Weekend

• Math: pg 425: 3,4,7,10
• Math: pg 429ff: 4-19 all; 21-27 all
• Read 1/2 hour your non-fiction or biography

Wednesday Evening

Math: 3 pie graphs from classroom data

English: Read 1/2 hour non-fiction book

Be ready to give oral report

Monday Evening

• Math pg 412: 7-35 odds
• Be ready to give your oral book report on your March award-winning book!

Holiday Break

Have a great vacation break everyone!

Here’s all you have to do for my class:

• Read 1/2 hour every day: non-fiction for April
• Fill out your reading logs and return the March log when we come back
• Be ready to do your oral report when we return (on the March award-winning book)
• Catch up on any late work you didn’t turn in!

Thursday Evening

• Math pg. 406ff: 7-41 odds
• Math take-home test is due tomorrow! We are grading it in class.
• English: Reading logs will be due when you return. Pick up a new one tomorrow for April.
• English: Have a non-fiction book to read in April.
• English: Oral report on your March book when you return from vacation.

Wednesday Evening

• Math pg 399: 13-16; 26-32; 37-44
• Math Take-Home test through 45. It is due on Friday when we grade it!
• English: Read your award winning book at least 1/2 hour.

Monday Evening

• Math: pg. 381: 9-33 odds
• The Take-Home Test is due on Friday when we grade it. Start tonight!
• Read your award winning book. Early oral reports start this week.

Weekend

• Read your classic or award winning book.
• If you are ready to give your oral report early plan for Wed. or Thurs. because Fri will be a minimum day.

Thursday Evening

• Math Core: pg. 377: 7-27 odd
• Math Challenge: pg. 377: 17-35

English: Read the persuasive essay on page 341.

• Find each persuasive argument in the essay.

1. Write down what the argument is.
2. Write down what kind of argument it is (logic, emotional (which emotion), endorsement)
3. Tell if you think the argument was effective.
4. Tell why or why note the argument persuaded you.

• Repeat for each argument you find.

Tuesday Evening

• Math page 368: all problems
• Math quiz on Wednesday (tomorrow)
• Read 1/2 hour

Monday Evening

• Math pg. 372 ff: Percent of change. Do core or challenge as assigned in class.
• English: Worksheet on Main Point due tomorrow.
• Read 1/2 hour. Oral report in April on your march award-winning book.

Weekend

• Read your award winning story. We will be doing oral reports at the beginning of April.

Wednesday Evening

• Math pg 363-364: 1-23 odds
• Read 1/2 hour
• Titanic quiz tomorrow

Tuesday Evening

• No math tonight.
• Vocabulary builder due tomorrow.
• Pumas: Read Titanic pg 381 ff
• Answer all questions in the margins. Answer the 5 questions at the end of the story.
• Read 1/2 hour as usual!

Monday Evening

• Math pg 357: 7,9; pg 358: 10, 13, 16, 19  (everybody)
• Math pg 358 ff: Core 11-37 odds; 38-46 all
• Math pg 358 ff: Challenge 32-66 odds
• Grizzlies: Read Titanic in lit book and answer the questions in the margins and at the end of the story.

Note: Starting Friday, I will be checking all homework with the classroom police. For people who don’t do their work, there will be a fine plus detention at lunch to get it finished.

Weekend

• February mini book report due on Monday
• Vocabulary Builder due on Wednesday.
• Read 1/2 hour every day.

Thursday Evening

• Math pg 353ff: Core 9-43 odds
• Challenge 18-43 all
• Quiz on All American Slurp tomorrow

Wednesday Evening

• Page 346 ff: 8,11,14,17,20,23; 37-69 odds
• Study Great American Slurp for test

Tuesday Evening

• Math pg 597 ff: 1-31 all except #25.

Monday Evening

• Read The Great American Slurp beginning on pg 496 of the Lit book
• Answer the questions on pg 504: 1-6 all  parts
• What is the theme?

Weekend

• Math pg 574: 2-14 evens;  pg 575-576: 17-37 odds
• Math pg 580-582: 2-12 evens; 13-35 odds
• Read 1/2 hour every day.
• Reading logs are due on Monday.

Thursday Evening

• No math
• Persuasion essay due tomorrow. 5 paragraphs, blue or black in, turn in to the InBox. (Click on the Downloads link if you need a copy of the rubric.)
• Vocabulary test on List 8.

Wednesday Evening

• Math pg 591-92: 23-37 all
• Finish persuasion essay. Be ready to read paragraph 5, Conclusion, in class tomorrow.
• Vocab test on Friday. Study now.
• Read 1/2 hour.

Tuesday Evening

• Math pg 569 : 1-22 all
• Persuasion essay paragraphs 1-3
• Study for vocab test on Friday
• Read 1/2 hour

Monday Evening

• Grizzlies: Write 2 paragraphs for the persuasion essay, following the rubric for the introduction and first body paragraph. Use the PRO arguments and CON argument from your group brainstorming session.
• Everybody: Study for the Friday vocabulary and spelling test.
• Read 1/2 hour.
• No math.

WE DID IT! Adelante is a California Distinguished School!

Thursday Evening

Grizzlies: Math pg 586: 1-33 odds

Wednesday Evening

• Math pages 544-545: 13-31 all problems
• English: Write one paragraph to persuade me to put better food in the school cafeteria. I will collect these tomorrow.
• Read 1/2 hour. Any book at your level.

Monday Evening

• Be sure to give your dance tickets that you received today to your parents.
• Math: pg 531: all problems
• The rewrite of your biography report is due tomorrow.

Weekend

• No math. We’ll have extra next week.
• Grizzlies have a quiz on geometry basics on Monday.
• Please bring in a magazine for our unit on persuasive writing.

Tuesday & Wednesday Evening

• Check the white board in class for assignments from Mrs. Deal and copy the homework down to your planner / agenda. I will be back from my workshop on Thursday.
• The biography book report is due on Friday. Don’t wait until the last minute!

Monday Evening

• No math
• Work on your biography book report. Due on Friday, in blue or black ink. I suggest doing a draft copy first! Stay within the boxes.
• Read 1/2 hour a book at your reading level.