Reading and Writing

Bring 3 sources of information based on the following sites:

www.cnn.com

www.un.org

www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

You can also bring information from magazines, books, encyclopedias, newspapers.

Do not forget to have all your printed material (How to write a Position Paper, background paper from your committee, How to Cite)

Reading and Writing

Important dates for class (March)

Feb 28: How to write a Position Paper, How to cite

March 2: 3 sources of information

March 9: First Draft Topic A

March 16: Circulating library Quiz

March 23: Final Draft Topic A

March 30: Book report

Check your email constantly, I will be sending important information.

Reading and Writing

Study guide

Reading Comprehension Skills

-infer

-drawing conclusions

-summarizing

-main idea and supporting details

-reference

Stages of the plot

Character, setting, conflict

Theme (definition, identifying theme in a text, theme clues)

Authors seen in class

MUNEMA/position papers

GRAMMAR

REMEMBER YOU MUST ANSWER THE EXAM WITH RED INK PEN!!!!!

GRAMMAR STUDYING GUIDE

1st GRADE STUDYING GUIDE- GRAMMAR
FIND THE DEFINITION TO THE FOLLOWING VOCABULARY.
Fitness: ____________________________________________________________________________________________
Safety: _____________________________________________________________________________________________
Equipment: _________________________________________________________________________________________
Exploring: ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Aim: _______________________________________________________________________________________________
Attack: _____________________________________________________________________________________________
Haunted: ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Mysterious: _________________________________________________________________________________________
Odd: _______________________________________________________________________________________________
Panic : _____________________________________________________________________________________________
Terrified: ___________________________________________________________________________________________

WRITE THE NOUN TO THE FOLLOWING ADJECTIVES: (FOR MORE EXAMPLES, BOOK PAGE 155)
ABLE _______________ CONVINIENT _______________
PATIENT _______________ POPULAR _______________
SAFE _______________ TOUGH _______________
USEFUL _______________ WEAK _______________

STUDY FUTURE TENSES PAGE 43 AND FUTURE TIME CLAUSES PAGE 47

Reading & Writing

Poster Contest

for February 10

How does the world celebrate love and friendship?

As we explained in class, you have to make a poster sharing information on how love and friendship are celebrated in different countries.

Choose your country from these options

1B America and Europe

1C Africa and Asia

It counts as a partial, and gives you the right to present your bimonthly exam NEXT Friday, February 10.

Grammar Homeworks

I just want to remind you that next week is the last chance you will have to hand in all the missing home works. Remember this is part of the bimonthly evaluation.

The new spellodrome list is available. This is the 10% of you final evaluation.

Study for the exam. You need to study the content from unit 4 vocabulary and grammar and unit 5 vocabulary.