March 11 – March 15, 2002

READING: Read a minimum of 20 minutes each night including weekends. March’s log is due 3/29/02. Read a book of your choice.

VOCABULARY AND SPELLING: Unit 26. Basic: structure, complexity, reconstruct, complication, sensible, obstruct, imply, pliers, sentry, sensation, accomplice, destruction, resent, sentimental, applicable, sensor, perplex, multiplication, instructor, sensitivity. Review: application, duplicate, architecture, column, design. Challenge: replica, consensus, explicit, implicit, pliable. Do pp. 162-167, except "Write a Letter to the Editor." 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: Chapter 9. Mind maps due with the test on 3/14. Mind maps Chapter 10 – begin.

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.

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.