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Bell work Week of July 27-31st 2015
Monday: Grammar
1. This year writing will be a major focus, its’ important to understand grammer rules, without them
your’re writing is difficult to understand.
2. Once a week well begin class with one of these sets of M.U.G. sentences, M.U.G. by the way is an
abbreviation of “mechanics, usage and grammer”
Tuesday: Literary term Theme
Lit. Term – #1
Fill in the following based on notes from the board
Theme: An insight about human life that's revealed in a literary work.
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Wednesday: SAT word of the day
LAMENT (luh MINT) v.to express sorrow or regret; to mourn
Link: CEMENT
“We LAMENT that Joe got buried in CEMENT.”
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he song, “Cowboy’s LAMENT,” is a ballad about the lonely life of those who drive cattle for a living.
The nation LAMENTS the passing of thePresident while at the same time celebrating hisachieve-ments
while in office.
It is LAMENTABLE that Roscoe quit college in his sophomore year; his professors considered him the
brightest engineering student in his class.
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Thursday: Root List
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Latin Root
“…to harbor, to gate…”
Pick 3 words from the list on the board and write a sentence. Then highlight each word with port.
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Friday: SSR
Title of book: ____________________________________________________________________________________
Author: _____________________________________________
Pages read TODAY: ___________________
Summarize what you read in 3 sentences:
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