March 2-6

7^th Grade---Review Quiz will be next Monday.

Heard, Quiet, Recede, Personal, Absence, Beneficial, Possession, Necessarily, Especially, Measure, Technique, Prevalence, Fatal, Practicality, Secede, Similar, Privileged

Vocabulary: Look up the definition and make note cards to study!

Engross, Commodity, Intolerable, Lore, Opaque, Detract Paraphernalia, Petition, Rehabilitate, Subsistence, Alliance, Bouillon, Honorary, Inherit, Prestigious, Resilient, Verbal, Vicinity            

8^th Grade—list 19

Spelling Words Accurate, vacuum, villain, technique, celestial, foreigners, attitude, exaggerate, appearance, calendar, hindrance, accomplish, environment,

Vocabulary:  Look up the definitions and write them out.

Gaunt, Sheathe, Grasping, Caustic, Emancipate, Shoal, Voracious, Precarious

RESEARCH PAPERS WILL BE DUE ON TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2026.

• I have extended the due date for the research paper outline.  We will complete those on Monday in class.  Below you will find the examples of the reference page and the in-text citations that match them.  Use this example as you are working on yours.

• There will be a grammar test for all classes. 
• 7th Grade test will be March 5
•  9th & 10th grades will be Wednesday, March 4 - possibly the 5th
• 8th and 12th grades will be Wednesday, March 4 - possibly the 5th 
• 8-12 will have a spelling test on Friday, March 6
• 8th Grade:  List 20  
• 9th and 10th Grade: 23
• 11th and 12th:  List 7 
• Spelling:  Peaceable, genealogy, occasion, incidentally, captain, efficient, and quizzes
• Vocabulary:  Know all of them
• Roots/Prefixes/Suffixes:  CLAM, CLAIM, PHYSI, eu-, ante- , -ly

Please do your best to help with the Calendar Fundraiser.  We sent the information home on 2/27.

 

Research Paper Information

 While working on your research paper, please use the resources I have listed in the page link above (Research Paper).  This is a schedule for the due dates of the paper. 

Homecoming is Here!

 Monday will be a fun day!  Don't forget to wear your homecoming shirt.  

See the post below for Homecoming Details!

Spelling Lists for the Classes this Week:

7th Grade:  List 21     (Below are the words for those of you who were out of class today)

Spelling:  abdomen, apologize, delegate, easiness, forest, hasten, indicate, language, millennia, quarantine, February, & interfere

Vocabulary:  beguile, concur, genealogy, optimal, stringent, volatile, prolong-to extend; & adjoining-continuous

8th Grade:  List 18

9 & 10 Grade:  List 22

11 & 12 Grade: List 7

*ALL TESTS WILL BE FRIDAY, 2/20/26

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Homecoming Events - Monday, February 16, 2026

 

 

Full Week of School?

 Welcome back!  I feel like we are getting back from Christmas vacation.  I did enjoy the snow and cold weather, though, and I hope you did too!  Nevertheless, I was glad to reurtn today! So, let's jump right in to things.

• If you have not turned in your snow packets or your young writer's story, you must do that first thing on Tuesday morning.  Do not wait until your class time, bring this work to me ASAP.  
• If you were absent on Monday, get with a friend and make sure you have your spelling and vocab works for the week. 
• The Spelling/Vocabulary Tests will be Friday, February 13 (for all grades)

We are continuing Spirit Days this week!  Friday, February 13 has been turned to "Valentine's Day".  Wear pink, or red and show some LOVE!  Thank you for cooperating.

We will wear our Homecoming Shirts on Monday, February 16.  Thanks!

Spelling Vocab Lists:

7th   List 20

8th   List 17

9/10 - Review List 21  

 9/10 Vocabulary Words to Know:    

Credential- authentication for a claim or ability

2.    Dejected-low in spirit; sad

3.    Evoke-to bring to mind; to draw forth

4.    Firmament-the infinite heavens

5.   Gratify-to please or satisfy

6.    Impregnable-too strong to be captured

7.   Impulsive- without previous thought; based on a sudden urge

8.   Legitimate-reasonable or authentic

9.   Quiescent-still and inactive

10 Rupture-the bursting or breaking of something

11 Improvise- to do something with little or no preparation

1   Consign- to entrust to the care of another

13 Amiable- pleased to be around; friendly

14Broadcast-to communicate over a wide area

15 Culprit-one accused of a crime or wrongdoing

nt  Contemplative-thoughtful; meditative

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