Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Today, students took their first reading and math AZ merit test. We finished writing on Monday. (Thank goodness!) We will have MAP testing on Friday afternoon and the last day of AZMerit on Tuesday of next week.


Spelling words: gather, generally, grateful, heir, inherit, hoarse, icicle, identification, identified, identify 

Roots:

• Laboro, laboratum (L) work 
• Derivatives to use: 

• Labor, laboratory, elaborate, collaborate, laborious, Labor Day  

• Ergon (G) work 
• Derivatives to use: 

• Energy, ergometer, ergonomics, allergy, surgery  

• Durus (L) hard to the touch, strong, difficult 
• Derivatives to use: 

• Endure, endurance, endurable, durable, duress, obdurate, durum, during 

• Bellum (L) war, combat, fight 
• Derivatives to use: 

• Belligerent, bellicose, antebellum, casus belli
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