Monday, December 7, 2009

General Announcements:

• Tue., 12/8: Bring black performance wear to school and check it in with Grace before AM assembly. Then store in cubby. If these are still in your cubby from the last performance, you still need to check them in.
• Thurs., 12/10: Ancient Greece Museum Exhibits: 8:30-10:30 AM in 3rd Floor Classroom and Tech Lab (adjoining). Families welcome!
• Thurs., 12/10: The Il Teatro of the gods! 1:30 PM in the all school space.
• You must have an independent reading book every day. If you are getting close to the end of one, have the next one at school and ready to go.

Math: 7th & 8th Grade:

• Test this Wednesday, 12/9: Review past homestudy, text and notes to prepare for unit test.

Social Studies:

• Due Tue., 12/8: Project due. Consider orienting page horiztontally.
• Due Wed., 12/9: Final, edited, mounted text explaining your project (4 questions).
  • Title: 72 pt or larger
  • Section headings: 28 pt. bold
  • Body text: 22 pt, single spaced. Use page breaks for each new section.

Science:

• None assigned

Language Arts:

• Due Tue., 12/8:
  • Read for 20 minutes and complete a Reading Log entry.
  • Make sure lines for il Teatro sketch are memorized.

Spanish:

• 7th Grade:
  • Due Tue., 12/8: Make flashcards for the 10 given vocab words and study.

• 8th Grade:
  • Due Tue., 12/8:
    • Completed wordsearch
    • Completed Ch. 5 questions
    • 10 sentences about what you do on the weekend using the given 1st person plural (we) forms of verbs (ending in -mos)

Moment of Zen: Sure, we all know that the adjective to describe something catlike is feline (from the Latin word for cat, felis - almost the same as the Latin word for luck -felix - which is the possible source of the myths about the luck of cats), and that something doglike is canine (from the Latin canis), but did you ever wonder what adjective you might use to describe something armadillo-like? Or bat-like? Follow the link for an extensive (but by no means exhaustive) list of animal adjectives - almost all of which draw heavily from Latin or Greek roots.