Ms. Dozier's DNStarship: Climb Aboard!

It is in vain, sir, to extentuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace–but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

signing-abcs

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Yo Momma Vocabulary Word Builder

1.  Luddite

2.  Philistine

3.  Brobdingnagian

4. granacious*  (credulous, incredulous)

5.  portmanteau

6.  sesquipedalian

7.  ineffable

8. unctuous

Prepare to use speech delivery skills:  memorized text versus reading from text from the sample of Patrick Henry’s Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

Practice your ABC’s in sign language.  Click on the Signing ABCs link above.

7th grade Spanish:  Hurricane Georges proyecto 2 due Thursday, Jan 15th.  Complete pp. 23-24 in your Guia de Repaso tonight. 

8th grade Spanish:  Complete Guia de Repaso packet, due January 15th.

6th grade Latin:  Study for Latin Everyday Quiz and practice writing sentences using nouns and verbs (principal parts, cases, et cetera)

Latin Everyday Phrases You Should Know:

caveat emptor, circa, cogito ergo sum, confer, cornucopia, corpus delicti, credo, cui bono, cum grano salis, cum laude, curriculam vitae, de facto, de jure, de gustibus non est disputandum, de minimis non curat lex, de mortuis nil nisi bonum, de novo, deus ex machina, docendo discitur, dramatis personae

Latin Everyday Phrases You Should Learn (by February 13, 2009):

United States Mottoes:

e pluribus unum – out of more, one; out of many, one

annuit coeptis – God has nodded at/favored our undertakings

novus ordo seclorum – new order of ages; new world order

North Carolina State Motto:

esse quam videri – to be rather than to seem

University Mottoes:

Duke University – eruditio et religio – learning and religion

University of Chicago – crescat scientia, vita excolatur – let knowledge grow, let life be perfected

Princeton University – Dei sub numine viget – under the providence of God it flourishes

7th grade Spanish:  Come up with two phrases you would like to add to our Classroom Immersion Survivors list. 

8th grade Spanish:  Study vocabulary for 15-20 minutes.

6th grade Latin:  Study paradigms for nouns and verbs discussed in class.

Compare the map of the route of Hurricane Georges to the one provided to you in class in order to name three other countries that were hit by Hurricane Georges.  Make a chart in Spanish showing the three countries, the dates of the storm, and the category of the hurricane at the time it hit.

Due Thursday, January 22, 2009.

Research another major hurricane that has hit Puerto Rico in the past century.  Draw a map showing the trajectory of the hurricane.  Then write a paragraph describing the storm.

Due Thursday, January 15, 2009.

7th Grade Spanish- pp. 12-20 in Guia de Repaso, Capitulo 1, because for the second day in a row, many students had missing or incomplete assignments.  Moreover, I  am expecting a redo of the Hurricane Georges proyecto matematicas el viernes, el 9 de enero antes de 8:30, from Raejhan, Jordan Sanders and Schuler, Torian, Brendan, Kylon, and Elmer! I appreciate your humility and newfound standard of excellence, guys.

7th Grade Heritage Learners- NO HOMEWORK

8th Grade Spanish- NO HOMEWORK

6th Grade Latin- NO HOMEWORK

Happy Wednesday!

7th grade  Spanish – Finish page 10 and complete page 11 in Guia del Repaso Capitulo 1

7th grade Heritage Learners – page IX-X in Build Your English Word Power with Latin Numbers

8th grade Spanish – Complete pages 131-134 in Guia del Repaso Capitulo 4

6th grade Latin – Everyday, Everywhere Crossword given to you in class

EVERYONE – LEARN THE LAST PARAGRAPH OF PATRICK HENRY’S SPEECH! YOU SHOULD ALL HAVE WRITTEN IT OUT BY HAND AND PLACED IT IN YOUR NOTEBOOKS.

¡Bienvenidos, estudiantes del séptimo grado!

La tarea de esta noche es…

7 grado- Draw a map showing where Hurricane Georges touched down on posterboard.  Include the calculations of the time it took for the storm to move from Humacao to Mayaguez and the conversion from kilometers to miles on your poster. Be creative.

7 grado- Heritage Learners:  Complete page VII in Build Your English Word Power with Latin Numbers booklet.  You will need a dictionary and knowledge of your roman numerals from I-10 (unus-decem).

8 grado- La tarea de esta noche es para completar las siguientes paginas del guia del capitulo 4:  125-127. Recuerda: Packet 1 consist of odd pages only; Packet 2 consists of even pages only

6TH GRADE- Complete page 19 of Latin Everywhere, Latin Everyday

The Caribbean island of Puerto Rico is located in an area prone to hurricanes. The word hurricane comes from the Taino word hurakan, which was used by the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the island to describe these storms.  Hurricanes draw energy from the surface of warm tropical waters and from moisture in the air.  The extreme winds of 74 miles per  hour or more can create storm surges–domes of water up to 20 feet high and 100 miles wide-and can spawn tornadoes, torrential rain, and floods.  Students will research and write about severe weather conditions as they integrate the knowledge of natural science and Spanish.

Proyecto 1:  Las matemáticas Due: 6 de enero

Hurricane Georges passed over Puerto Rico at a speed of about 24 kilometers per hour (kilómetros por hora).  Find the distance from Humacao to Mayagüez in kilometers and calculate the time it took for the storm to move from one city to the other.