Revealing Character

Nuanced Character....

Narrative Writing - Time Shift (Past Perfect)Sentences

Use these exercises to practice creating 'time shift' sentences in narrative writing.
Who said 'time travel' was impossible?

http://www.english-zone.com/verbs/pstperf1.html
http://odl.vwv.at/english/odlres/res8/Grammar/grammar_exercises/tenses/past_perfect/pastperf3.htm
http://odl.vwv.at/english/odlres/res8/Grammar/grammar_exercises/tenses/past_perfect/pastperf1.htm
http://www.learnenglish.de/Games/Tenses/PastPerfectTest.htm
http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/llonline/grammar/tense/3.1.xml
http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/140.html

This is a 'challenge' exercise that only a few of you will understand. +2 if you can do these questions!!!
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs11.htm

Prime Factorization: Game

Factors and Multiples: Games

Do Math review w/sheets.

Final Math Test is tomorrow

No writing H/W tonight.

Ladder to Laughter Reward

Make sure you begin to look at the tenses exercises from last week.

There is NO Week at a Glance this week

Highlights to watch out for:
Monday - H/W will be to finished your nuanced paragraph on your famous person
Tuesday - Unit 12 Math test + Next book club meeting
Wednesday - Play Day and Visit to Middle School
Thursday - Tenses Test + Ladder to Laughter Party

Next Monday - End of Year Learning Reflection
Next Tuesday &; Wednesday - End of year Math Test ( This is a test on all the math from the year)
Next Wednesday: Middle School tour 11:10am
Next Thursday - Water park visit
Next Friday - Class tidying and fun day!

Write down your choice for the Ladder to Laughter Reward... at AnswerGarden.ch.

Homework

You must read Thor's lit essay. What makes it so good?

Study link 12.7

Tenses Booklet
p.8, p.9, p.10

Your last grammar test will be next Thursday. You should begin spending 15mins each night working through the different exercises from this link.

Study Link 12.6

Make sure everybody has contributed to the Book Club google doc. You should all demonstrate your thinking AND also have a topic or skill that you would like to talk about for tomorrow's session.

What do you need to do to earn that last step? If you don't earn it soon - there will not be enough time to organize the reward!

Social Studies Research

You must just read your Social Studies book and collect x8 facts related to either...why the person was famous OR the person's struggles and challenges. You must also collect x2 topics of content that you will do further research on. e.g. Say you read about the Battle of Bunker Hill - you would send 5 mins finding about that topic. Or say you read 'excise officer' - you would research this profession

Study link 12.5



Mr. Buxton