READING: Read a minimum of 20 minutes each night including weekends. You will need to spend this time to finish the required literature books and books of your choice for book reports. Have your current book finished by May 30. Cheaper by the Dozen.

SPELLING: Unit 32. Basic: manufacture, factory, management, efficient, manual, profit, convenient, benefit, defect, inventive, effect, manipulate, factor, convention, eventually, maneuver, feat, sacrifice, manicure, preventive. Review: satisfactory, significant, manuscript, magnificent, machinery. Challenge: deficit, manifest, circumvent, facsimile, artifact. Do pp.198-203 except "Write a letter" p. 201.

CURRENT EVENTS: Due ______________________________. 

SOCIAL STUDIES: Mind maps of pp. 201-207, Chapter 8, Chapter 14. Take notes from your neighbor's lectures.

REPORT: Subject – Westward Movement. This report is on a topic of your choice within the larger topic "Westward Movement." It should contain all the traditional report conventions; footnotes and bibliography will be in MLA format. Rough draft due 6/1/01. Final draft due 6/7/01.

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