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6TH GRADE: LATIN – STUDY YOUR LATIN MOTTOES AND EVERYDAY PHRASES! QUIZ COMING SOON!

7TH GRADE: SPANISH – CAPITULO 2A-3 PRACTICE DUE TOMORROW!

8TH GRADE: SPANISH – CAPITULO 5B-3 & 5B-5 PRACTICE DUE TOMORROW!

HOMEWORK:  Complete pg. 61 in First Latin Book. 

Completan la pagina 38 (Capitulo 2A-8). Es un crucigrama. Por, viernes, el veintisiete de marzo

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Latin Derivative Word Trees

1st place:  Leeshawn & Anthony

2nd place: Kevin, Amario & Emmanuel

3rd place: Jose, Brandon & Christopher

Everyone is a winner! The work you have done is tremendous! What a competition, discipuli!!!

Mottoes & Latin Everyday Phrase Quizzes will be returned and sent home on Tuesday, March 24, 2009. Please note your mistakes, make corrections and prepare for the next quiz accordingly!

Completa El Verbo Exacto de Capítulo 2A, la pagina 36.

Dear 7th graders:

Now that you have survived the navigation of an all-Spanish website, you may complete Aplicácion #2 on Capítulo 2B.  You will need to convert Euros to pesetas and to dollars or vice versa and show the prices for the store items in all three currencies.   Remember: We are using Spanish pesetas, but are well aware of Spain’s recent currency change to the euro.

For students who attend the family friendly concert, Tap Your Feet to a Brassy Beat! you will receive 10pts extra credit on an arts exploration assignment of your choice. The show will take place:

March 22, 2009 3:00pm

PSI Theater, Durham Arts Council

120 Morris Street, Durham NC

Ticket Cost: $5 (See Ms. Dozier for flyers and other information!)

In preparation for our Spanish Learning Contracts, students will complete two research projects over the course of three class periods:

7th Grade – Internet Link Activity 2A: Colegio Abraham Lincoln

Objective:  Students will compare the differences and similarities of public schools here in Durham, NC, with one in Bogotá, Colombia.

8th Grade – Internet Link Activity 5A:  Quince años de Jeanny

Objective: Students will explore the significance of a young lady’s coming-of-age celebration and compare it to similar traditions in the United States.

8th Grade – Internet Link Activity 5B: Josué y familia

Objective: Students will learn that although soccer is the most popular sport in the Spanish-speaking world, in the countries of the Caribbean there is another sport that rivals soccer in popularity. Sammy Sosa and Jose Valentin are from the Caribbean and play this sport–¡béisbol!

Students will be completing a project by Monday, March 30 regarding the following composers and their accomplishments:

Antonin Dvorak – Czech Republic

Slavonic Dances Op. 46, No. 8, Op. 72 Nos. 1, 3, & 7

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Austria

Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K. 425, “Linz”

Piotr Tchaikovsky – Russia

Waltz from the opera Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky is also known for Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and 1812 Overture)

Claude Debussy – France

La Mer, Mvt. III: Dialogue du vent et de La Mer “Dialogue of the wind and sea”

Manuel de Falla – Spain

Jota from the ballet, El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat)

Sam Ward – United States of America (New Jersey)

America, the Beautiful Note: Words for America, the Beautiful were written by Katherine Lee Bates, an English teacher who published the poem in a church magazine, The Congregationalist on July 4, 1895.

George Gershwin – United States of America (Brooklyn, New York)

An American in Paris Suite

Thanks, Justin Heimburg, et al. for helping my students learn these helpful SAT words with your funny Yo Momma jokes!

Yo momma’s so homely, when she went to the beautician, it took 12 hours for a quote!

adj: unattractive, plain; unpretentious

Yo momma’s so antediluvian, she knew Cap’n Crunch while he was still a private!

adj: from the time before the Biblical flood; old, outdated

Yo momma’s so timorous, she called 911 during Scary Movie!

adj: unconfident, fearful; showing a lack of confidence or displaying fearfulness

Yo momma’s so prone to hyperbole, we hired her to write these jokes!

n. a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect

Yo momma’s so senescent, somebody told her to act her age, and she died!

adj. growing old; aging

Yo momma is so laconic.

(Get it?) adj. describing a person , piece of writing, etc. that conveys much by saying little

Yo momma is so succulent, she creates her own au jus when she sleeps!

adj. juicy and tender

Yo momma’s voice is so melliflous, she opens her mouth and wars stop!

adj. pleasing to the ear, flowing with sweetness