Spelling and Phonics Add –able (if the base word ends without a vowel) or –ible (if the base...

Spelling and Phonics

Add –able (if the base word ends without a vowel) or –ible (if the base word ends with a vowel or has not base word).

1. depend

2. Response

3. Observe

4. Admire

5. Comfort

Grammar and UsageDirect Object (DO) = receives the action of an action verb. Answers– what or whom? Circle the DO.

1. Rebecca tied a bow in her sister’s hair.

2. We sang tunes during the long car ride.

3. Ursula drove a boat for the first time.

4. They give stickers to everyone who comes.

Spelling (/ē/ /Ə/)Show syllables and accents.

1. Niece

2. Neither

3. Steer

4. Machinery

5. Thief

6. Proceed

Geography

1. What is the center on the Artic region polar projection map?

2. On a polar projection, the latitude lines appear as ____.

Prefixes/Suffixes/Roots

Root: flex = to bend. Underline the

root, give its def.

1. Deflect

2. Flexed

3. Flexible

4. reflection

5. Inflection

6. Reflex

Vocab

Fill in the missing leters: O, B, L, C, E, A, I to make a word that is a synonym of fiesta.

__ E__ __ __ R __ T __ __ N

* Name activities associated with fiestas:

Writer’s Secret

Find and rewrite a sentence with a Direct Object. D.O. receive the action of an action verb. It answers the question what? Or whom? Richard dumped water in the hole.

Commonly Confused WordsBeside (prep)- next to, by the side of

Besides (prep)- in addition to

Besides (adv)- moreover, as well

Write 1 sentence for each word.

Poetry Write a poem about being in a beautiful, full garden. Talk about the things you can eat, smell, see, and touch. It can be magical.

Andrew Marvell- “The Garden”

What wondrous life is this I lead!

Ripe apples drop about my head;

The luscious clusters of the vine

Upon my mouth do crush their wine;

The nectarine and curious peach

Into my hands themselves do reach;

Stumbling on melons, as I pass,

Ensnared with flower, I fall on grass.

Spelling and Grammar

Write the past tense of these irregular verbs:

1. Dive

2. Draw

3. Freeze

4. Shake

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Add –able or –ible.

1. understand

2. Predict

3. Flex

4. Avail

5. love

Grammar and UsageCircle the DO.

1. My mothers likes fresh flowers in a vase.

2. We traced pictures in the sand.

3. Mrs. B. sells sandglass by the seashore.

4. Miguel races cars for a living.

5. I stuck the note to the side of the refrigerator.


1. Medicine

2. Grief

3. Received

4. Brief

5. Agreement

Geography

1. Which continents are included in the Artic region?

2. Which special line of latitude runs through northern Asia, northern Europe, and northern North America?

Prefixes/Suffixes/RootsDeflect, flexed, flexible, inflection, genuflect, reflection

1. It is said that Narcissus stared at his ____ in a pool of water.

2. The body builder ___ the muscles in her arms.

3. The slight ___ in the teacher’s voice revealed his southern roots.

4. The firefighter tried to ___ attention away from the victim.

Vocab

Add related words or phrases to the word web.

Customary ______

traditional

_________ _______

* Antonym of traditional:

D E R M N O

Writer's Secret Commonly Confused Words

Poetry Think about a poem or poet. Write a poem that is all ?’s, asking the poet how she/he came to write. Ask him/her ?’s as you had wondered about writing poetry.

James Weldon Johnson

How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

How, in your darkness, did you come to know

The power and beauty of the minstrel’s lyre?

Who first from midst his bonds lifted his eyes?

Who first from out the still watch, lone, and long,

Feeling the ancient faith of prophets rise

Within his dark-kept soul, burst into song?


Write the past participles (has, have, had) of the irregular verbs

1. Freeze

2. Grow

3. Become

3. Do

4. Know

5. Eat



Add –able or –ible.

1. terror

2. Divide

3. Accept

4. Collect

5. Fashion

6. break.

Grammar and UsageCircle the DO.

1. We planted tomatoes, cucumbers, and radishes in our garden.

2. The doctor checked my throat for spots.

3. My uncles tell funny stories.

4. The crickets made noises all night long.


1. Squeeze

2. Needless

3. Speech

4. Weekly

5. Convince

Geography

1. Name at least 4 labeled seas that are located with the Arctic Circle.

2. Name at least 4 labeled countries that are located in the Artic region.


Chron, ject, pac, voc, chrom, ven

1. Con _ _ _tion – a meeting

2. _ _ _ _ _atics – the branch of science that deals with color

3. inter_ _ _ _ion – a word or remark thrown in between others.

4. _ _ _ifier- an object given to a baby to keep it peaceful

VocabAssociated with the word heritage.

customs, weather, family photographs, holidays, traditions, a person’s last name,

video games, computers, telephone calls

Writer's Secret

Find and rewrite 2-3 sentences with a Direct Object.

Commonly Confused WordsBoar (n)- a male or wild pig

Boor (n)- a crude person, or clumsy person

1. You know, you are a complete (boar, boor) when you start with your ethnic jokes.

2. Tom was recovering from the wound inflicted on him by a wild (boar, boor).

3. Morgan’s sharp put-downs gave her the reputation of a (boar, boor).

5. Syn _ _ _ _ _ize- to set at the same time

6. _ _ _ation- a person’s calling

Poetry imagine the scene

Write a poem about something that is usually very busy that you have seen in a calm state- a city, supermarket, playground restaurant… Try to capture the moment of quietness. Write about how the experience affected you.William Wordsworth “Upon Westminster Bridge September 3, 1802”, London.

Earth has not anything to show more fair:

Dull would he be soul who could pass by

A sight so touching in it majesty:

This City now dot, like a garment, wear

The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,

Ships, towers, domes, theaters, and temples lie

Open unto the fields, and to the sky;

All bright and glittering in the smokeless air….


Complete the principal parts

PRESENT PAST PAST PARTICIPLE

rode

saw

shook

shrank

spoke

swam

threw

wrote

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Spelling and PhonicsChose the correct spelling.

1. miserable, miserible

2. reversable, reversible

3. reasonable, reasonible

4. divisable, divisible

5. comfortable, comfortible

6. flexable, flexible

Grammar and UsageIndirect Objects (IO) = names the person for whom or to whom something is done. Circle the action verbs, underline the IO.

1. The librarian informed us of the fee for the overdue books.

2. The doctor gave Cindy medicine.

3. Leo showed us the waltz.

4. He told the crowd a funny joke.


1. Peer

2. Pier

3. Nieces

4. Thieves

5. Creeping

Geography1. A polar projection map is an equidistant projection. Do equidistant projections show distance and direction, or size and shape correctly?

2. Which continent is located at 30°E longitude, and which continent is located at 150°W longitude?

Commonly Confused Words


Scrib, nov, derm, fid, mort, mit, soph

1. Re_ _ _tance- sent back

2. _ _ _ _istry- wise-sounding, but misleading reasoning.

3. epi_ _ _ _is- the outer layer of the skin

4. _ _ _ _ _ble- to write marks that don’t mean anything

5. re_ _ _ate- to make new

VocabChoose the best word to complete the sentence.

On Memorial Day, we _____ soldiers who died in wars.

a. celebrate

b. Ignore

c. Commemorate

d. Disregard

* Name other words that have the root: -mem-.

Writer's Secret

Find a passage and sort 3-4 direct objects and identify the nouns it modifies.

Bore (v)- to make a hole in, drilling

Bore (v) to tire with dullness

Bore (n) someone who bores ↓

1. The termites (boar, boor, bore) holes in the wooden foundations of the house.

2. Students were never (boared, boored, bored) in Mr. M’s biology class.

3. Jill plans to (boar, boor, bore) 3 holes in the cabinet.

4. Ron (boar, boor, bore) the criticism of his art quite well.

6. _ _ _ _ification- humiliation so great you wish you were dead

7. Con _ _ _ant- a person you can trust with your secrets

Poetry a fantastical made-up place

Imagine your own pleasure-dome or fantastical place with another shape or landscape. Write a poem about it. Include contrasting ideas (sunny and icy)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

A stately pleasure-dome decree:

Where Alph, the sacred river, ran

Through caverns measureless to man

Down to a sunless sea.

So twice five miles of fertile ground

With walls and towers were girdled round:

And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills…


Spelling and PhonicsChose the correct spelling.

1. unacceptable, unacceptible

2. visable, visible

3. breakable, breakible

4. available, availible

5. predictable, predictible

6. responsable, responsible

7. dependable, dependible

Grammar and UsageIdentify the S and V, circle the DO, underline the IO.

1.The neighbors left Jane a pig.

2. Cameron brought us the scooter.

3. Sydney told me a secret.

4. My cousin set me a postcard.

5. The man wrote his friend a postcard.


1. Machine

2. Procedure

3. Briefly

4. Speeches

5. Convincing

Geography

1. Which country includes this address: 75°N, 120°W?

2. What is the latitude of the northernmost point of the USA?

Prefixes/Suffixes/ Roots

Meter, avi, man, mort

1. _ _ _uscript- something written by hand

2. Sphygmomano _ _ _ _ _- an instrument used by a doctor to measure blood pressure

3. _ _ _ _ician- an undertaker

4. _ _ _ary- a place where birds are kept

Vocab

Match the word on the left with what it commemorates.

Bicentennial

25th anniversary

50th anniversary

100th anniversary

200th anniversary

Centennial

Writer's Secret

Write your own sentence (s) using Direct Objects and identify the nouns it modifies.

Commonly Confused WordsBorn (adj)- brought forth by birth

Borne (past participle of to bear)- carried, supported, endured

1. (Born, Borne) on July 4, Ben celebrated his birthday along with the birth of the nation.

2. The entire weight of the two boys was (born, borne) by the hose.

3. Gloria, a (born, borne) actress, won a full scholarship to NYU.

Poetry

Repetition can make poem sound more like music.

Try to write a 6-line poem in which at least 3 lines are the same or almost the same (repeating the same line each 3 times). Write about a journey.

Spelling and GrammarSimple subject (SS)- contains 1 noun/pronoun. Compound subject (CS)- contains more than 1 noun/pronoun.

Write each of these types of sentences.

4. In a huge basket, the eight puppies were (born, borne) to the animals shelter for adoption.


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ExtensionsVocabulary• Plan a school celebration

in commemoration on a holiday. Prepare a poster that announces the celebration and tells the time, place, and activities planned.– Veteran’s Day, President’s Day,

MLK Day, Thanksgiving Day, Cinco de Mayo, Memorial Day, Flag Day, Independence Day, New Year’s Day

Geography

1) Arctic Circle

2) Arctic region

3) Cartographer

4) Equidistant projection

5) Polar projection

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