Easter Recces Work For all Classes

All work is to be completed in the Ready New York Assessment book. This is the thin paperback book.

Follow these rules when completing  the work.......

1. All work must be on loose-leaf.

2. Short answers (short response) must be answered in the R.A.P Method we have been working on for the past 3 weeks....
R.... restate the question..... A... answer the question....... P.... prove your answer correct with at least 2 details from the text.

3. There must be a planning page completed before each essay. This is your time to plan out your essay, make sure you are answer each question, and supporting it with details... This can be a graphic organizer, bullet points, or a outline.

4. All Essays must be at least three paragraphs long....

Pages 

8th Grade  pg 39-49 and 86-96 

7th Grade    pg 37-47 and 86-96 

6th Grade   pg 37-47 and 84-92 

5th Grade   pg 34-45 and 83-93 

8th Grade Week of March 23

Weekly Lesson


1. scene:  the place where any event occurs.
2. screenplay:  the scenario or script of a motion picture.
3.flashback: a past event that interrupts the forward action of a play, movie, novel, or the like.
4.staging: the act or process of preparing or putting on a theatrical production.
5.script:  the written text of a dialogue, play, movie, or the like.
6.dialogue: talk between two or more people or between characters in a play, film, novel, or the like.
7.drama:  a theatrical work, especially one that is serious rather than primarily comedic in nature; play.
8.tone:the pitch, accent, or stress of a word, group of words, or speaking voice, especially as an expressive quality.
9.stage:  a platform upon which lectures, music, or theatrical productions are performed.
10.monologue:  a long speech, poem, series of stories, or the like delivered by a single speaker.
11.inflection:  a change in the pitch or tone of a voice; modulation.

7th Grade Week of March 23

Weekly Lesson


1.future:  time that is yet to come.
2.science fiction:  fiction in which scientific findings, capabilities, or speculations provide an essential basis for the imagined events.
3. fantasy: imagination or something imagined, especially if fanciful, exaggerated, or bizarre.
4.clone:  an organism or group of organisms produced asexually from a single ancestor and genetically replicating it.
5.outer space:  space beyond the defined boundaries of a celestial body, especially the earth.
6. 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..
7. timeline: a graphic presentation of a chronology of events and their dates, listed from left to right along a horizontal line or in a vertical column.

6th Grade week of March 23

Weekly Lesson Plans
ELA
Religion


ELA

1. inference: a conclusion derived from inferring.
2.suspect: to believe the guilt of (someone) without knowing all the facts.
3. sleuth:  a detective.
4.enigma: a puzzling, seemingly contradictory, or mysterious phenomenon, statement, drawing, or the like.
5.mystery: an obscure matter that arouses curiosity and eludes understanding, often a religious or spiritual truth.
6. evidence: the basis for belief; that which constitutes proof of something.
7. alibi: to provide an excuse in someone's defense.
8. investigate:  to systematically examine or search into.
9.investigator:  a person who makes a careful search for information usually in order to answer a question.



Religion
Lent
Fasting
Prayer
Almsgiving
Stations of the Cross
Triduum
Holy Thursday
Good Friday
Holy Saturday
Easter Sunday

5th Grade week of March 23

Weekly Lesson Plans
ELA
Religion






ELA

1. 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.
2.conflict: to be in strong opposition or disagreement; differ.
3.symbolism::  the practice of expressing things, as in art or literature, by means of symbols.
4.ballad:  a narrative poem or song.
5. meter:  the rhythmic arrangement of measured units or feet of poetry, or a particular rhythmic arrangement.
6.metaphor: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used to describe one thing in terms of another in a nonliteral way, such as "drowning in work".
7.characterization:  a representation or portrayal of a person's unique qualities.
8. 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.)
9. scheme: any organization of parts viewed as a whole.



Religion

Weekly Vocabulary words
Lent
passion Sunday
Triduum
Holy Thursday
Good Friday
Holy Saturday
Easter Sunday

8th Grade week of March 16

Lessons
ELA




ELA

Due Thursday: Finish work started in class for homework.  Must students should be finishing their essay.

7th Grade week of March 16

Lessons
ELA



ELA

Due Thursday: Finish work started in class for homework.  Must students should be finishing their essay.