Monday, September 19, 2011

September 19-23

This week, we will be finalizing our novel unit with Where the Red Fern Grows. Students will be answering "constructed responses" and reading stories that have connections with the novel. Spelling words are:

contrast
attorney
architect
culprit
ancestor
client
peasants
personification
descendant
comrade
foreshadowing
climax
miser
conflict
resolution
compare
theme
personnel
realtor
population

In Social Studies, students are learning about the Robinson Projection Map and they will finish the Northeastern states, by learning the states and capitals of the Mid-Atlantic States:

Albany, New York
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Trenton, New Jersey
Annapolis, Maryland
Dover, Delaware