February 25 – March 1, 2002

READING: Read a minimum of 20 minutes each night including weekends. The assignment for The Outsiders is a mural. Please remember that one of the themes is "growing-up". February’s log is due 2/28/02. Read "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and read a book of your choice.

VOCABULARY AND SPELLING: Unit 25. Basic: produce, production, consume, consumption, reduce, reduction, retain, retention, detain, detention, introduce, introduction, resume, resumption, induce, induction, abstain, abstention, presume, presumption. Review: revise, revision, grateful, gratitude. Challenge: atrocious, atrocity, ferocious, ferocity. Do pp. 156-161 except "Write a Personal Budget." Test Friday. OR: write a definition and sentence for each word. OR: write analogies, similes, and metaphors for each word. Test Friday.

Current events: Due __________________________.

SOCIAL STUDIES: Family Feud preparation.

SOCIAL STUDIES: Chapter 5 Mind maps due with the test on ______________.

PROBLEM SOLUTION LETTER: Choose a person in authority to whom you wish to write a problem solution letter. I will send this letter when it is perfect, which means you will probably do several edited drafts. It is due before the end of the quarter, but begin your organization and thought collection now.

POETRY PROJECT: We will begin to write and collect poems for a project.

SUGGESTED HOMEWORK TIMES:

 I will accept homework assignments by e-mail on the due date. My e-mail address is: katherinsterling@hotmail.com I do not accept late work unless you have been absent. Further information may be obtained from my web page: http://www.mrssterling.org There will be current copies of daily Class Work and Homework Helps posted there as well as work samples, project instructions, attendance, and grades. If you have been absent, please refer to this rather than request work from the office.