Reminders to parents

1.       If homework is not handed in the day it is due it cannot be made up and the students is given dentition.

2.       Tests are not to be taken in pencil. If a student wants to use pencil to do homework, and take class notes that is acceptable.

3.       When children are given a research paper, if they copy and paste their work from a web site they will receive a 0 for their paper. Plagiarism is not acceptable.

4.       If a student wants extra help, I am always willing to help. They must take it upon themselves to come to me and ask.

5.       It is the students’ job to copy down their homework and test. Students are never given TEST without ample time to study. If they do not write it down when they are told about it, it is their own fault.

6.       If a student is absent the day before a test that does not excuse them from the test. 
7. If students are absent the day a project is due it is to be handed in the day they return to school. 

Weekly Vocabulary March 28- April 1

1.Preposition: A preposition is a word governing, and usually coming in front of, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element, as in:

• She left before breakfast.

2. Superlatice adjective: A superlative adjective expresses the extreme or highest degree of a quality. We use a superlative adjective to describe the extreme quality of one thing in a group of things.
In the example , "biggest" is the superlative form of the adjective "big".

3. Conjunctions: A conjunction is a word that "joins". A conjunction joins two parts of a sentence.
Here are some example conjunctions: and, but, or, nor, for, yet, so FANBOYS

4. Active voice: The active voice is the "normal" voice. This is the voice that we use most of the time. You are probably already familiar with the active voice. In the active voice, the object receives the action of the verb:

active

subject

verb

object

 

Cats

eat

fish.

5. Passive voice:  The passive voice is less usual. In the passive voice, the subject receives the action of the verb

passive	subject	verb	object
	Fish	are eaten	by cats

8th grade March 28- April 1

Lesson

ELA

Weekly assignments

Due 3/28 Students two page paper on a place to visit they would like to visit. This paper must talk about the things to do when at this country, city, vacation spot. they must also create a brochure.


Weekly test:
Test on dangling and misplaced modifiers 3/30

7th Grade March 28 - April 1

Lessons

ELA

Weekly assignments
Final three groups will be conducting their interviews  the Bio on each person they interviewed is due: Monday April 4.
Students must write 2 simple, compound, and complex sentences. Due 3/30

Weekly Test:

6th grade March 28 - April 1

Lessons

ELA
Religion

Weekly assignments:
Short story graphic organizer due 4/1

Pg 9 in ELA test practice A 4-10 questions and answers. Due 3/30

Religion: Sketch a picture of a layperson write a caption describing the way laypeople carry out Christ's mission. Due 3/30


Weekly test:
grammar quiz on parts of a sentence.

5th Grade Lessons March 28- April 1

Lessons

ELA
Religion

Weekly assigiments:
ELA: Worksheet review on adverb and adjective caluses due Tuesday 3/29

Religion: students are to finish the stained glass window classwork. They must write what bishops, priests, and deacons all do. due 3/30

Weekly test:
Religion test Wednesday in chapter 24 Holy Orders
ELA test Thursday adverb & adjective clauses.

Weekly Vocabulary March 21-25

organizational patterns: The pattern in which the writer chooses to organize his writing.  Examples:  spatial, order of importance, chronological order, comparison-and-contrast, cause-and-effect, problem-and-solution.

paraphrase: A restatement in one’s own words that stays true to the ideas, tone, and general length of the original passage.

footnotes: A note of reference, explanation, or comment, usually placed below the text on a printed page.

secondary source: A written composition based on a primary source, but containing second-hand information.  Common secondary sources:  textbooks, encyclopedias, news programs.

thesis statement:A statement in one of two sentences that represents the controlling idea or focus of an essay; also called purpose or position.

8th March 21-25

Lesson

ELA

Weekly test:
ELA test Thursday


Weekly assignments:

7th grade March 21-15

Lesson

ELA


* Students will be starting their interviews on Monday.
Groups that will be going:
Honorable Karen V. Murphy Justice of the Supreme Court
Patrick O’Connor, retired Chief of Detectives, Nassau County Police Department
Katheyn Foppiano, Account, Turner Construction.

Weekly test:
ELA test Thursday


Weekly assignments

6th Grade March 21 -25

Lessons

ELA
Religion

weekly test:
ELA test Friday
Religion test Tuesday

weekly assignments:

5th Grade March 21-15

Lessons

ELA
Religion

Weekly Test
Tuesday students will have religion test.
Thursday ELA test

Weekly assignments:
Due Thursday Religion project on 7 sacraments.

Weekly Vocabulary March 14-18

concrete language: Writing that is literal and descriptive.  Used to state ideas in vivid, imaginative ways.

figurative language: Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally and is used to state ideas in vivid and imaginative ways.  Examples:  metaphor, personification, simile.

summary: A brief statement of the main ideas and significant supporting details presented in a piece of writing

transition: A connecting word or phrase that clarifies relationship between details, sentences, or paragraphs.

citation: A quoting of a passage from a text for substantiation or support of a thesis.  Within a paper it may be a footnote, an endnote, or a parenthetical documentation.

8th grade 14-18

Lessons

ELA

Weekly test
Grammar test Wednesday 3/16
Spelling test unit 11 Friday 3/18
Weekly  assignments
Pg 74. proofread practice in notebooks

Due 3/16 ELA text p20 1-3 in notebooks

7th grade March 14-18

Lessons

ELA

Weekly test


Weekly  assignments:
pg 75 proofread, rewrite the paragraph cross out misspelled words and replace it with correctly spelled words.

6th Grade March 14-18

Lessons
ELA
Religion


Weekly test


Weekly assignments:
Religion: 6 Questions in notebook. Students can use page 222-223 to answer the questions.

Due 3/16: Spelling text pa 74 proofread in notebook.

5th grade March 14-18

Lessons

ELA
Religion

Weekly test
ELA test Adverb and adverb phrases. 3/17


Weekly assignments
Monday: Due 3/15 spelling pg 74 numbers  15-25 questions and answers.  in notebook

Due 3/16 ELA text pg 345 Practice B 15-19 question and answers in notebook.

Religion: two questions in notebook.

Reminders to parents

1. If homework is not handed in when it is due students will receive a zero and detention.

2. If a student does not submit their writing assignments on the due date it is a zero. If for any reason they do not have it ready for class (needs to print the paper) it can be handed in after lunch, or at the end of the day. If it is not in during that time span, and the child is in school, it is a zero NO EXCUSES.

Weekly Vocabulary March 7-11

1.pattern of organization: How the paper is organized

2.content: The information in the piece of writing

3.parallel structure: Making sure list of things in sentences are all the same grammatically

4.link ideas:  Connect two ideas in a piece of writing to the reader can follow the ideas

5.transition: Moving from one thing to the next

8th grade March 7-11

Lessons
ELA


Weekly test:
Unit 10 Spelling test Thursday 3/10

Weekly assignments

7th grade March 7-11

Lessons
ELA

Weekly test:
Unit 10 spelling words 3/10

Weekly assignments:
Students must have research in for their group projects. DUE 3/10 

6th grade March 7-11

Lessons

ELA
Religion

weekly test:
Direct and Indirect objects test on 3/9


Weekly assignments:
Take home quiz pg. 182 on L.L. due 3/10

5th grade March 7-11

Lessons

ELA
Religion

Weekly test
Spelling test 3/10 unit 10 words.


Weekly assignments: