Hello! I hope everyone had an wonderful and relaxing weekend. I also hope everyone who came out to the Talent Show on Friday night enjoyed it. I had a blast and was so pleased to see so many of you all having fun too! 4th grade was definitely in the house and our own Dylan Sheppard and Alissa Munguia won 2nd and 3rd place, respectively. Congrats! (and if anyone took pictures, would you please send some to me????) Another big thanks to all who helped, performed and/or cheered on! A special shout-out to Mr. Al Batten and friends for a rousing bluegrass show!
This week we begin our unit on Heroes and the Revolutionary War. The heroes theme will be a continuation of Black History as we learned about many American heroes during that unit. Students enjoyed watching the movie "Ruby Bridges" on Friday, it is a very moving film and brings to light one of our youngest heroes. I know we were all moved by her family's bravery and sacrifice to help integrate schools. At the end of the movie, one of my (white) students in 4A was so moved he spontaneously hugged one of his (black) classmates! It was pretty awesome. Anyways, we will continue to write persuasively, compare and contrast and work on begin set our sights on the upcoming (in May) EOG's by reviewing and consolidating the information we have learned this year. I will also give a standardized assessment this week, to see where we need to focus to be prepared for the EOG.
Vocab test this week! (what, you aren't all cheering? :) Reminder: students will be expected to write compound sentences for words on the test Friday. A compound sentences features the word in one part, a connector word and then a definition in the other part of the sentence. Example: "Colonists engaged in a revolution, thereby becoming Americans after defeating the British." We will do some work in class this week and it is a very good practice to use vocab in nightly reading summaries. No reading homework Thursday night, just come prepared for the test on Friday!
Vocabulary 4A
Week of 3/18/13
1. revolution -the overthrow of a ruler or political system
2. monopoly-a situation in which one company controls an
industry or is the only provider of a product or service
3. colonial-relating to the 13 original British colonies in
North America before their independence in 1776
4. constitution-document or statement containing basic laws
5. liberty-freedom or right to choose
6. abolish-outlaw something
7. tolerant- accepting of views or ideas different than your
own
8. pursue-to go after something you want
9. dissolve -to break up or disappear
10. consent- to give permission to someone or something:
agree
11. self-evident-obvious with explanation or proof,
12. enlighten- free somebody from ignorance by giving them
information
13. theory- idea or belief about something based on studying
it
14. establish- to begin something new
Roots: serv: to
help, to serve vari: different or changing
15. deserve-
16. variety-
17. servant-
Vocabulary 4B and 4C
Week of 3/18/13
1. revolution-the overthrow of a ruler or political system
2. monopoly-a situation in which one company controls an
industry or is the only provider of a product or service
3. colonial-relating to the 13 original British colonies in
North America before their independence in 1776
4. constitution- document or statement containing basic laws
5. liberty-freedom or right to choose
6. abolish-outlaw something
7. tolerance-accepting of views or ideas different than your
own
8. pursuit- to go after something you want
9. dissolve-to break up or disappear
10. consent- to give permission to someone or something:
agree
11. self-evident- obvious with explanation or proof
12. enlightenment- to free somebody from ignorance by giving
them information
13. theory- idea or belief about something based on studying
it
14. establish- to begin something new
Roots: serv: to
help, to serve vari: different or changing
15. disservice-
16. invariably-
17. servitude-
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