Miss Serewko's Blog: April 2015

Monday, April 27, 2015

8th Grade week of April 27

Weekly Lesson Plans
ELA

ELA

1. screenplay: the scenario or script of a motion picture.

2. film noir: a kind of film, made especially during the 1940s and 1950s, that depicted a negative, cynical view of life, often focusing on crime and vice in cities.

3. monologue: a long speech, poem, series of stories, or the like delivered by a single speaker.

4. flashback: a past event that interrupts the forward action of a play, movie, novel, or the like.

5. script: the written text of a dialogue, play, movie, or the like.

6. stage: a raised platform; scaffold.

7.dialogue: talk between two or more people or between characters in a play, film, novel, or the like.

8. drama: a theatrical work, especially one that is serious rather than primarily comedic in nature; play.

9. staging: the act or process of preparing or putting on a theatrical production.

Monday: Weekly vocabulary words.
Tuesday- No Homework
Wednesday-No Homework
Thursday- Finish Hamlet graph started during class for homework.
Friday

Weekly Lesson Plans
ELA

ELA

1. clause: in grammar, a sequence of words having a subject and a verb and forming one part of a compound or complex sentence, or all of a simple sentence.
2.future: time that is yet to come.
3. time: a nonspatial system in which events appear to happen in irreversible succession; arrangement of events into past, present, and future.
4. fantasy: imagination or something imagined, especially if fanciful, exaggerated, or bizarre.
5. informative: providing information, or adding to one's knowledge or understanding.
6. outer space: space beyond the defined boundaries of a celestial body, especially the earth.
7. science fiction: fiction in which scientific findings, capabilities, or speculations provide an essential basis for the imagined events.
8.DNA: abbreviation of deoxyribonucleic acid; any of several acids occurring mainly in cellular nuclei and involved in the transmission of hereditary traits and the formation of proteins..
9. travel: to journey from place to place.
10.phrase: in grammar, a group of words that has meaning and grammatical order but does not have both a subject and a predicate.

Monday Weekly Vocabulary words
Tuesday- no homework
Wednesday Read the Short Story " There Will come Soft Rain" answer the questions in your ELA classwork Notebook.
1. What happens in the story
2. What technology is talked about in the story that we use today?
3. What technology is talked about that we do not have?
4. What do you think the author is trying to teach the readers, use text evidence to support your answer.

Thursday
Friday

6th Grade week of April 27

Weekly Lesson Plans
ELA
Religion

ELA

1. investigate: to systematically examine or search into.
2. inference: a conclusion derived from inferring.
3.sleuth: to do detective work.
4. suspect: to believe the guilt of (someone) without knowing all the facts.
5. alibi: the legal defense of establishing one's location away from the scene of a crime during its commission.
6.enigma: a puzzling, seemingly contradictory, or mysterious phenomenon, statement, drawing, or the like.
7.mystery: an unknown, unexplainable, or secret matter.
8.sleuth: a detective.
9.evidence: the basis for belief; that which constitutes proof of something.
10. investigator: a person who makes a careful search for information usually in order to answer a question.

Monday Weekly vocabulary words.
Tuesday- direct and indirect objects
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday

Relgion

Miracle
gosple
beatitudes
Kingdom of God
The Lords Prayer
Sermon on the Mount

Monday- No Homework
Tuesday Weekly vocabulary words
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday- Due Tuesday chapter 1-5 vocabulary words on index cards one side has the word and he other side has the word defined.

5th Grade week of April 27

Weekly Lesson Plans
ELA
Religion

ELA

1. rhyme or reason: apparent sense or logic.
2.symbolism: the practice of expressing things, as in art or literature, by means of symbols.
3. scheme: a devious plan; plot.
4. ballad: a narrative poem or song.
5. metaphor: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used to describe one thing in terms of another in a non-literal way, such as "drowning in work".
6. conflict: to be in strong opposition or disagreement; differ.
7. simile : a figure of speech in which two dissimilar things are likened, often linked by "like" or "as," as in, "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb". (Cf. metaphor.)
8. rhyme: a word that ends with the same vowel sound or vowel and consonant combination as another word beginning with a different sound or cluster of sounds.
9. meter: the rhythmic arrangement of measured units or feet of poetry, or a particular rhythmic arrangement.
10. characterization: a representation or portrayal of a person's unique qualities.

Monday- weekly voc
Tuesday- Rhyme scheme worksheet
Wednesday- No Homework
Thursday- If in class graphic organizer is not finished it must be finished for homework.
Friday

Relgion

Weekly vocabulary
virtue
faith
hope
love
beatitudes
martyrs

Monday Weekly vocabulary words
Tuesday- no homework
Wednesday- No Homework
Thursday- Religion Workbook pg 49-50 answers only on L.L.
Friday- Religion Paper due May 4, 2015 TWO PAGE TYPES PAPER SIZE 12 FONT TIMES NEW ROMAN . You will have to write about a martyr who's life story inspires you.

The paper must include:
Your personal understanding of what it means to be a martyr.
Where this martyr comes from?
Why was it so hard for your martyr to keep there faith, what was going on during the time that they were being prosecuted, what was going on during that time that the catholic faith was not being accepted?
What they did that made them a martyr?
What has this martyr taught you about your own faith?
How can you live out those traits that you admire from your martyr?

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

8th Grade week of April 13

Weekly Lessons
ELA

ELA 2015 State test will be Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Be sure to get plenty of sleep.

ELA

Monday - No Homework
Tuesday- Review Sheet
Wednesday-
Thursday _
Friday

7th Grade week of April 13

Weekly Lessons
ELA

ELA 2015 State test will be Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Be sure to get plenty of sleep.

ELA

Monday - No Homework
Tuesday- Work started in class must be finished for homework if it was no completed.
Wednesday-
Thursday _
Friday

6th grade week of April 13

Weekly Lessons
ELA
Religion

ELA 2015 State test will be Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Be sure to get plenty of sleep.

ELA

Monday - No Homework
Tuesday- Review Sheet
Wednesday-
Thursday _
Friday

Religion

Monday- No homework
Tuesday- No Homework

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