Updates on Assignment Due Dates

After conversations with students and parents, and careful consideration, timelines for the realistic fiction writing assignment have been changed. New due dates: Rough Draft: Due Monday, May 3, 2010 Final Copy: Due Wednesday, May 12, 2010 State Report Project is still due on Thursday, May 6, 2010 Young Authors projects are also due on Thursday, May 6, 2010. Thanks!

Homework: April 26 - April 30

Vocabulary List #27 Categorize words by parts of speech. All nouns must be used in a complete sentence that highlights the meaning of the word. All verbs must be defined. For each adjective, list a synonym and an antonym. accumulate apprehensive boisterous collaborate composure conspicuous deluge discretion exaggerate futile Idiom Jovial monotonous Negotiate optimist predicament retaliate treacherous Puzzle of the Week: Use the state you are studying for your state report. Imagine that a wonderful aunt comes to visit for a week. She loves to see everything and has never been to your state before. Use the map scale to figure out how many different places you can visit in one week if you travel a maximum of 500 miles a day, beginning from the capital city. Use a linear measure from location to location; don't worry about curves in the road. Be sure to allow time to explore some the places you visit. I would like to see you create a table that includes miles traveled, and time allotted in each location. There is an example table on your homework handout.

Homework for April 5-April 9

Welcome back! I hope everyone had a fantastic Spring Break! Homework for this week is vocabulary and puzzle of the week. Please remember to not only complete the vocabulary assignment, but also study for your test on Friday. This week's test will on spelling, meaning, and using words correctly in sentences. Homework requires students to alphabetize the word list first, then find synonyms for all odd numbered words, and antonyms for all even numbered words. Additionally, students need to identify the part of speech for all words. Vocabulary list: 1. tamper 2. impatience 3. annual 4. combat 5.occasional 6. dignity 7. magical 8. severe 9. illegal 10.counterfeit 11. nuisance 12. reliable 13. vacate 14. deceive 15. yearn 16. anniversary 17. opponent 18. humid 19. vicinity 20. rampage 21. estimate 22.amateur Puzzle of the Week: Please remember to not only complete the math, but also answer the guideline questions for the puzzle of the week. This week's puzzle requires you to work backward to find the answer to the following mystery. Please include each step, and not just the final answer. Late one night a burglar somehow got into one of the vaults in Fort Knox and started out with a big sack of gold coins. No one really knows how much he stole. At any rate, on his way out, he was stopped by one of the guards, who caught him "holding the bag" so to speak. Fortunately for him, the burglar was able to talk his way out of trouble by offering the guard half of the money he had taken with a bonus of $2,000 thrown in. Just as he was walking away, praising his good luck at having gotten free, he was stopped by a second guard. It took the same bribe, half of all the money he had left, with $2,000 thrown in, to get by the second guard. Just as he was about to leave, you guessed it, he was stopped by yet a third guard who let him go only after receiving half of all the burglar had left, with $2,000 thrown in. By the time the burglar left the front gate of Fort Knox, he had mixed emotions. After all, he did leave with $9,000 more than he had when he arrived and he escaped a free man. (he had nothing when he arrived) But as he thought of all the money he had left behind with the guards, he wept. Oh, by the way, you now know enough to calculate how much he had taken in the first place.