Week at a glance Feb 7 -11, 2011

Curriculum focus: organizing and planning a written piece (11.7.1.3), composes persuasive writing (11.7.2.1c), adapts writing by identifying, analyzing, and understanding audience (11.7.2.2), writes using one or more text structures when appropriate to a achieve a specific purpose or to address a specific audience: problem/solution (11.7.2.4d), and develops clear and purposeful ideas with sufficient evidence and/or relevant detail to satisfy purpose using sufficient evidence, examples, anecdotes, quotations, expert opinions, and/or statistics (11.7.2.1d)

Root words for this week (root - definition - examples):

1. chrom - color - chromosome, monochromatic, chromograph
   
2. -cracy - rule by - democracy, aristocracy, bureaucrat
   
3. esth/aesth - sensation or feeling - aesthetic, anesthesiology, kinesthetic
   
4. flor - flower - flour, floral, Florida, fleur de lis
   
5. plas/plast - to form - plasma, plastic, protoplasm
   

After a brief hiccup with snow days, this week we'll come back to the root words unit and wrap up the Career Project. By now students should have completed their research. This week students will put together their presentations either in poster or PowerPoint form. We will have our last day in the computer lab on Wednesday. Students will do oral presentations of their projects on Thursday and Friday.

• Mon: New root words. Begin assembling the Career Project poster/PowerPoint
• Tues: Continue assembling the Career Project poster/PowerPoint
• Wed: Finish Career Project poster/PowerPoint
  
• Thurs: Career Project due. Begin presentations.
  
• Fri: Root words quiz. Career Project presentations.