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Week of 15-19: Monday: Middle School Field Day Tuesday:regular day Wednesday: Science Innovation Day Thursday: regular day Friday: Industrialization & Urbanization in America Project Due (partners)
Social Studies: Industrialization and Urbanization in America unit: the industrial giant (Andrew Carnegie), railroads (after Civil War and industrial growth), resources, people, and capital, inventive people (Bell & Edison), growing business enterprises (Carnegie & Rockefeller), Monopolies, trusts, and pools (government limits), the world of the worker (working conditions), workers organize (labor unions), the urbanization of America (architecture, transportation, cities), and growing pains (growing cities & political machines).
Reading: The Prince and the Pauper: vocabulary, cause and effect, and character descriptions.
Writing: Cause and Effect paragraphs.
Grammar: Commas. Generalization: after an introductory word or phrase, to set off a noun of direct address, after a dependent clause at the beginning of a sentence, before and/or after an appositive, before and after interrupting words or phrases, between a day of the week and a month and between a date and a year, and between the street address and the city and between the city and the state in an address.
Spelling: Word endings -ice, -ise, and -ize.Generalization: the sound /iz/ can be spelled ize or ise (memorize, advertise). The sound /is/ can be spelled ice or ise (sacrifice, paradise). The sound /is/ can be spelled ice (service). Every Friday (not this week though), there will be a pretest of grade level spelling words for the following week. Any student who scores 90% or greater will be exempted from that list and will be given a vocabulary list instead.