Tuesday, February 21

Welcome to Main Street Umoja Community School!

This week will be your first full week at Main Street Community School. Your school hours are now 8-1:30, daily.

Here is your TENTATIVE agenda. Tentative = subject to change, at Ms. S's will.

8-8:30 Electives. (You will be assigned your elective tomorrow since today was a meet and greet breakfast with Mr. Davis's class.)
8:30-9:30. Language Arts
9:30-9:45. Bathroom/Water break
9:45-11:15. Math
11:15-11:45. Lunch
11:45-12:30 Science
12:30-12:45 Bathroom/Water break
12:45-1:30 Social Studies

PLEASE NOTE - The breaks are dependent upon COMPLETION OF WORK. If you don't complete your work, you will not receive your break.

Other important notes:
- You may only use the bathroom during bathroom/water break scheduled times. If you have to go to the bathroom during class instruction, you will automatically owe me 15 minutes of cleaning at the end of the day.
- If you are more than 15 minutes late to school, you will owe me a MINIMUM of 15 minutes of detention/cleaning at the end of the day.
- On Fridays, we will go to the park, weather dependent. You may either stay with Mr. Davis's class to play football, soccer, etc. or participate in RUNNING CLUB! Either way, bring some PE appropriate attire/shoes on Fridays from now on.

For now, here are your assignments to complete.

1) Vocabulary - Your vocabulary words for Week 6 are:
Justify (verb)
Establish (verb)
Indicate (verb)
Method (noun)
In your blogs, you need to complete the following assignment.
Blog Title - Week 6 Vocabulary
Assignment -
- Find the definition of each vocabulary word.
- Copy the following sample sentences for each vocabulary word -
Justify (verb) - I justify eating ice cream every night because it tastes delicious.
Establish (verb) - The first rule established at Main Street Umoja Community School was that you can not wander the halls!
Indicate (verb) - A stop sign indicates to a driver to STOP.
Method (noun) - I always follow my grandmother's method when making mochi.

2) PLATO - English/Language Arts
Go to - Reading Comprehension
Assignment - Asking and Answering Questions about Information

3) Frankenstein Test
We will begin our Frankenstein test as a whole class. If you finish before we begin the test, make sure that you ask any questions that you may have, review the novel, etc.
The test will be open-note and open-book.
It is INDIVIDUAL and NO TALKING WILL BE ALLOWED.
If you have a question during the test, raise your hand.