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This year seventh graders will have fun expanding their vocabularies to include words like unscathed,
culminated, disputatious and insubordinate, and I promise it won't be grueling.
We will also become expert sentence stretchers adding colorful details. Here's an example: I went shopping.
becomes Yesterday, my 14-year-old sister and I spent four hours at the Jensen Beach mall, where we purchased pink tennis
shoes and $40 bikinis.
Students will improve their writing skills in many ways. To prepare for the Florida Writing Assessment,
they will be trained as expert essay scorers and practice scoring 5-paragraph essays.
Important Deadlines
Updated 2/22/05
Don't forget, Scholastic Book Club orders and money are due on or before Wed., March 9.
Please complete the form correctly, including the totals at the bottom, and you're name at the top. Payment must be exact
in the form of check or cash, and be placed in an envelope with the book club coupon.
(Mrs. Hall is not a banker,
and will not have change nor take the time to make change from another student's order. :))
Unit 6 in the Vocabulary Workshop is not due until April 3 (instead of March 31) due to Spring Break.
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Meet the Challenge!
Weekly Brain Teaser
Slang expressions are colorful, exaggerated ways of saying ordinary things. How well can
you sling slang? Match the definition to the slang expression below:
A. Not playing with a full deck. 1. Troublesome situation.
B. Chill out. 2.
Entirely mistaken.
C. Pull the wool over one's eyes. 3. To admit defeat.
D. Spill the beans. 4.
To deceive.
E. Up a creek wihout a paddle. 5. Absent-minded.
F. Throw in towel. 6.
Relax.
G. Out in left field. 7.
To reveal the secret.
Can you think of any more slang expressions? Write them down and bring them to class.
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Congratulations!
You're the Class of 2010!
Because two-thirds of the FCAT Reading selections are non-fiction, we will learn new strategies for
staying focused while we read this boring material that lacks plot, conflict and characters.
This week we
will read Weather Records and Oddities, and learn about hail, waterspouts, tornadoes, hurricanes
and lightning. Do you know which tornado was the deadliest on record? Or do you know how big hail can get? And how
are these weather oddities formed?
We'll find these answers but as we do, we'll come up with new questions? We'll look for the answers to these in the media
center on Friday. (Why IS Florida the "Lightning Capital of the World?" and Why DOES lightning strike
men four times more often than women?)
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