Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Welcome Back! (4th Quarter)

Welcome back to school! It is so exciting (and bittersweet) to begin the last quarter of your student's experience at Archway!

This week:

ELA: We are prepping for AZ Merit (just two weeks away!)
Math: We are beginning the volume unit as well as doing some AZ Merit.
Literature: Continuing the Across Five Aprils unit.
Science: We will be taking some science time to prep for our upcoming standardized tests. We are beginning the unit on muscles as well!
History: Continuing the Civil War unit.

Spelling words:
city, necessary, apiece, approaches, attack, attorney, balance, calculate, central, ceremony

Roots: 
  • Specto, spectatum (L) to look at, see
  • Derivatives to use:
    • Inspect, spectator, spectacle, perspective, spectrum
  • Vox, vocis (L) voice
  • Derivatives to use:
    • Voice, vowel, vocal, vocation, advocate, vocabulary 
  • Loquor, locutus (L) speak
  • Derivatives to use:
o   loquacious, eloquent, colloquial, circumlocution, soliloquy, ventriloquist
  • Felix, felicis (L) happy
  • Derivatives to use:
    • Felicity, felicitations, felicitous, Felix, Felicia (names)

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