Thursday, March 3, 2011

LITERATURE: Week of March 7-11


Dear 4th Graders,

I am posting this blog early since I am going to be out of town from Sunday through Wednesday. You will have Mrs. Castleberry as your substitute teacher, and I know you'll have fun!

You will be finishing Adam of the Road by Wednesday of this week, and your project is due on Thursday. That means that you will need to plan ahead—you will need to read each night AND make sure that your set design, costume design, and script are ready for presentation on Thursday, March 10!

Mrs. Castleberry will be here to help you Monday-Wednesday, and you can always work on this project at home.

For MONDAY, MARCH 7: Read Chapters 18, 19, and 20 and fill out your charts—remember, if you don’t know a word, write it down!

For TUESDAY, MARCH 8: Read Chapters 21 (Adam’s Song) and 22(Adam Helps a Plowman) for discussion tomorrow. Fill out your “Following the Story” charts as you read.

For WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9: Finish Adam of the Road! Read Chapter 23 (Loud Sing Cuckoo!) for discussion on Wednesday. Fill out your “Following the Story” charts as you read.

For THURSDAY, MARCH 10: Book Project Presentations! You can’t be late with any part of this book report because tomorrow, we don’t have literature (11:45 dismissal) and then, we have a week off!

SPELLING TEST for Friday, February 11 (at 9:30)

1. obligingly = to perform a service for someone out of gratitude
2. cavalcade = a procession of riders or horse-drawn carriages
3. chaffed = teased
4. lolling = standing around in a droopy way
5. poultice = a soft, warmed and medicated mass applied on cloth to a wound
6. indignantly = acting with anger that has been aroused by an injustice
7. reeve = the name of an ancient English officer of justice
8. postern = a back gate or side entrance

NO HOMEWORK DURING SPRING BREAK!