5th Bimester SPELLING review, Exam date 2013-06-19

5^th Bimester Spelling review, Exam date: 2013-06-19

Study words from lesson 21 through lesson 26.

Visit "Spelling city" and test yourself on the  S-test section.

Print or e-mail your results and bring them in tomorrow.

I.- Instructions: write the plural of the following words, be careful to spell them correctly.

1.- address                                          11.-radio

2.- army                                               12.- half

3.- calf                                                  13.- hoof

4.- country                                            14.- knife

5.- leaf                                                  15.- tax

6.- bus                                                  16.- tomato

7.- video                                              17.- opportunity

8.- echo                                               18.-volcano

9.- shelf                                               19.- stitch

10.- studio                                           20.- wolf

II.- Instructions: circle with red the silent letters in the following words.

1.	assign
2.	autumn
3.	column
4.	crumb
5.	debris
6.	delight
7.	design
8.	glisten
9.	hasten
10.	knead
11.	knowledge
12.	lightning
13.	resign
14.	rhyme
15.	solemn
16.	thorough
17.	scenery
18.	whirl
19.	wreath
20.	wrestled

Good luck.

5th Bimester Reading review, Exam date: 2013-06-19

Paraphrase- a restatement of a text or work giving the meaning in

another form or, paraphrasing myself: restating something in your own words.

i.e. "Eating sugary drinks and a lot of sweet bread is a sure fire way to become obese in today's fast food culture."   can be paraphrased as : " If you eat too much sugar and bread you'll become obese"

Instructions: Choose the option which best paraphrases the given sentence:

1.- The children of 5th grade thought it was cruel and unusual for their English teacher to assign so much homework, specially since it was a Friday!

a.- The English teacher was happy and laughed a lot when he gave sooooo much homework to the kids!
b.- The kids didn´t think it was fair that, being a Friday, the teacher had left them so much work.
c.- The kids thought that they'd finish quickly all the work they had assigned for the weekend.

2.- One should always avoid eating naturally frozen water which has a yellowish colour added, probably by some animal or human.

a.- Never eat yellow snow.
b.- Vanilla ice cream is to be avoided.
c.- The sun shines on the snow and it looks yellow.

Summarizing:
Write a summary of the following paragraph:

tA Tornado is a powerful, twisting windstorm.  It begins high in the air, among the winds of a giant storm cloud.  People who have watched a tornado’s howling winds reach down from the sky have said it’s the most frightening thing they have ever seen.  In some parts of the United States, these windstorms are called twisters or cyclones.


Now summarize it into one sentence.

Author's  perspective:

Instructions: read the following passage and answer the question.

 The average school day for kindergarteners is getting longer, and it's paying off in improved reading skills.  Public schoolchildren who attended kindergarten for a full day showed more improvement than those enrolled in half-day programs.  This improvement will be carried on in elementary school and even high school.  These children will be able to get better jobs when they are adults.

What is the author's perspective on full day kindergarten?

Imagery: HW due 07/06/2013

Instructions: Write to which of the five senses each of the following sentences or paragraphs appeals to.
 •_______The shadows crisscrossed the rug while my cat stretched languidly in one of the patches of sun. 

•_______"....Which has its sounds, familiar, like the roar Of trees and crack of branches, common things, But nothing so like beating on a box" (From 'An Old Mans Winter Night' by Robert Frost)

 •_______"At the next table a woman stuck her nose in a novel; a college kid pecked at a laptop. Overlaying all this, a soundtrack: choo-k-choo-k-choo-k-choo-k-choo-k--the metronomic rhythm of an Amtrak train rolling down the line to California, a sound that called to mind an old camera reel moving frames of images along a linear track, telling a story." (excerpt from 'Riding the Rails')

 •_______The crimson liquid spilled from the neck of the white dove, staining and matting its pure, white feathers.

 •_______"I was awakened by the strong smell of a freshly brewed coffee."

 •_______"Tumbling through the ocean water after being overtaken by the monstrous wave, Mark unintentionally took a gulp of the briny, bitter mass, causing him to cough and gag."

 •_______'The bed linens might just as well be ice and the clothes snow.' From Robert Frost's "The Witch of Coos"

 •_______"When the others went swimming my son said he was going in, too. He pulled his dripping trunks from the line where they had hung all through the shower and wrung them out. Languidly, and with no thought of going in, I watched him, his hard little body, skinny and bare, saw him wince slightly as he pulled up around his vitals the small, soggy, icy garment. As he buckled the swollen belt, suddenly my groin felt the chill of death." From E.B.White's, 'One More To The Lake'

 •_______"Gerardo's socks, still soaked with sweat from Tuesday's P.E. class, filled the classroom with an aroma akin to that of salty, week-old, rotting fish"

 •_______"I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast. Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold" (From the poem "This Is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams)

 •_______"I lay still and took another minute to smell: I smelled the warm, sweet, all-pervasive smell of silage, as well as the sour dirty laundry spilling over the basket in the hall. I could pick out the acrid smell of Claire's drenched diaper, her sweaty feet, and her hair crusted with sand. The heat compounded the smells, doubled the fragrance."(excerpt from "A Map of the World", Random House)

Oaxaca HW

Have a terrific time!!! See you soon, when you'll be able to catch up. :)

How to make a speaker!

HW due May 20th 2013

On a separate piece of paper or your Grammar notebook please,
Repeat the following verbs in ALL their forms 5 times:
1.-make
2.-throw
3.-buy
4.-write
5.-catch
6.-eat
7.-steal
8.-lose
9.-loose
10.-give

Grammar HW due 10/05/2013

On a separate piece of paper or your Grammar notebook please,
Repeat the following verbs in ALL their forms 5 times:
1.-wear
2.-drink
3.-ride
4.-write
5.-sing
6.-eat
7.-draw
8.-think
9.-tell
10.-steal