READING: Read a minimum of 20 minutes each night including weekends. Animal Farm - Double entry journal - again. Due 10/14/02. Take special note of the gradual changes in the government and the causes of the changes. Question: Were the animals better off before they got their own government or at the end of the book? Begin to read a book of your choice approved by your teacher.

VOCABULARY AND SPELLING:
Periods 1-2. Choose words from the book you are currently reading. Define them according to the context of your book, and copy the sentence in which it appears. Prepare for a spelling test Friday. For a grade of "C" the standard is 10 words written correctly; "B" is 13 words; "A" 15 words. Completed homework is half the grade.
Periods 4-5: Do Unit 3 due Friday 9/21/01. There will be a test. Hand in the homework with the test. Words for this week: Basic: transportation, subway, transit, submerge, suburban, substance, translate, transplant, submarine, transform, transfusion, subdivide, sublet, subscription, transparent, subtotal, transaction, subtitle, subside, transition. Review: subscribe, transcribe, arrival, depot, vehicle. Challenge: subterranean, transient, subsequent, subculture, subconscious. Do not due p. 27 or 29. Do write a sentence with each Basic spelling word.

Current events: Due ______________________________.

EXECUTIVE PACKET: Highlight right column. Answer the questions. Test 10/17/02.

JUDICIAL PACKET: What happens when the judicial system does not do its job?

COMMUNITY SERVICE: Each eighth grade student at Windsor Middle School is required to do 5 hours of community service as a part of the social studies curriculum. Some of you may have already done it; many opportunities will avail themselves soon. Be on the lookout for these opportunities. If you cannot find something suitable, see your teacher before winter break. It is due with a report the second week of January 2003.

FOUND POEM: Instructions on separate paper. Follow the internet link.

 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/school/index.html
There will be current copies of daily Class Work and Homework Helps posted there as well as work samples, project instructions, and grades. If you have been absent, please refer to this rather than request work from the office.