Week+21+~+January+23+-+27,+2012

**__ January 23 - 27, 2012 __**
 * __ This Week’s Agenda __**

__** Vocabulary Words: **__ //** delegation ****, precedent, **** expedition, perspective, specimen, flora, fauna, sovereignty, quintessential, prudence **//
 * __ Essential Question: __**** Is patriotism an old-fashioned idea or a timeless concept? **
 * __ Reading Instructional Focus: __** ** Information Text **
 * __ This Week's Selection: __**** Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose **


 * __ Objectives: __**
 * 1) Understand text features and how they aid comprehension **
 * 2) Identify poetic elements (rhythm, rhyme, mood, stanzas, symbolism) **
 * 3) Differentiate between fact and opinion **
 * 4) Determine the correct meaning of words with multiple meanings in context **
 * __ Word of the Week: __** ** Indolence – passive laziness **
 * __ Quote of the Week: __** ** “Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.” Jules Renard **** . **

=__Unit 16 Spelling List__= __ Monday: __ __ Warm Up __ : Story C1 1) Copy Unit 16 Spelling List  2) Review Paul Revere’s Ride 3) Review Vocabulary and Unit 15 Spelling Words 4) Reading Skill Builder and Analysis Skill Builder pp. 4&5 __ Homework __ : Reading Log Day 1 Spelling:
 * ** mere ** ||  || ** exhausted ** ||   || ** arouse ** ||   || ** debate ** ||
 * ** century ** ||  || ** extinct ** ||   || ** organized ** ||   || ** refused ** ||
 * ** horizon ** ||  || ** endure ** ||   || ** discuss ** ||   || ** meantime ** ||
 * ** attorney ** ||  || ** sympathy ** ||   || ** threat ** ||   || ** considerable ** ||
 * ** decline ** ||  || ** fate ** ||   || ** appeal ** ||   || ** official ** ||
 * 1) Write these words in a list: __attorney__, __official__, __sympathy__, __debate__, __century__. Opposite each word write its plural form.
 * 2) Write __appeal__ and __threat__. Underline the __ea__ in each word. What sound has each __ea__?
 * 3) One word is a compound word. Write it.

__ WARMUP –: __ Story C2 1) Spelling Test Unit 15  2) Unit 16 Spelling Words and Vocabulary for this week 3) Map of Paul Revere’s Ride p.31 Homework:  1) Reading Log Day 2 2) Spelling
 * __ Tuesday __**
 * 1) Your list of words contains two one-syllable words ending in silent __e__. Write them.
 * 2) Write the New Word containing the word __consider__.
 * 3) Find and write the meaning of __horizon__. Write a sentence using __horizon__.

2) Paul Revere's Ride Comprehension

 * __Homework__: **

2) Spelling

 * 1) Write __organized__, __refused__, and __exhausted__. From what root word was each formed?
 * 2) Write __decline__, __arouse__, and endure. Drop the __e__ from each word and add the suffixes __ed__ and __ing__.
 * 3) Write __discuss__. Make new words by adding the suffixes __es__, __ed__, and __ing__.
 * 4) Write the words that rhyme with __conceal__, __secure__, and __recline__

__ WARM UP __ – Story D2 1) Author’s Purpose - Battle of Mannassas  2) Reading Skill Builder – From Undaunted Courage pp. 7 __Homework__ 1) Reading Log Day 3 2) Spelling: Study for Unit 16 Spelling test
 * __ Thursday __**

__ Friday __ __ Warm up __ : Story E1 1) Spelling Unit 16 Test

2) Mini BAT – Bluecoat Reveille
3) Mini BAT – Turncoat: The story of a Traitor __Homework__  1) Reading Log Day 4 1) Completed Reading Log Due on Monday January 30. 2) Florida Achieves activities close on January 31. Please complete your assignments. This is for a grade.
 * __ Reminders! __**