REMINDERS

• Country report was assigned January 5th and is due February 22nd. The rough draft bibliography is due Friday, January 2oth. Full rough draft due Monday, February 6th.
• No Book report in February
• Remember to bring your flash drives to computer class every Thursday.
• Are you helping to support our compassion child? Please bring offering each Wednesday.
• If you would like to meet with me, I hold office hours on Tuesday mornings from 7:30-8:00, and Thursday afternoons from 3:15-3:45. Please email me at salemgr6@hotmail.com or phone me at 818-243-8264 X221 to make an appointment.

Honor Roll Requirements: Every Quarter Counts!

Gold: Cumulative GPA of 3.75 and above.

Silver: Cumulative GPA of 3.5-3.74.

Citizenship impacts honor roll.

Citizenship Grading Scale:

O (outstanding) = 0 instances, V (very good) = 1 instance, S (satisfactory)= 2 instances, N (needs improvement) = 3 instances, U (unsatisfactory) = 4 instances.

 Homework for February 2, 2012

*Math- A.) Pg. 365, A-19; B.) 318, 1-25. On Monday you will be tested on recognizing the foolowing shapes: trapezium, trapezoid, parallelogram, rectangle, square. Study your class notes.

*Writing- Re-write one of the paragraphs you wrote in class today.

*Spelling- Lesson due Friday. This is a "Spelling & Writing" lesson.

*Person of the Week: Alexander the Great

*Country report rough draft due Monday, Feb. 6th. *Spanish- Write two sentences about the seasons and two sentences about the weather. Be sure to use two vocab words in each sentence.

Absent People (1-30-12)...*Project Citizen- Vocabulary. Define each word and draw a picture that shows the definition. 1. burden (n)    2. allocate or allot (v)    3. acre (n)     4. implement (v)     5. welfare (n.)     6. composed (adj)      7. enable (v)     8. dispute (n) 9. embody (v)      10. bureaucracy (n)

*Country report research

Sample Bibliography:

Bibliography

Book

Brooks, Bruce. The Moves Make the Man. New York: Harper and Row Publishers, Inc., 1984.

Cooper, Susan. Over Sea. Under Stone. New York: MacMillan Publishing Group, 1965.

Cowlishaw, Guy, and Robin Dunbar. Primate Conservation Biology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Dahl, Roald. The BFG. New York: Penguin Books, 1982.

Doniger, Wendy. Splitting the Difference. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Internet

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, "Gardener," Colonial Williamsburg, http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/trades/tradegardener.cfm, (accessed January 5, 2012).