Adding a suffix that begins with a vowel to a word that ends with a silent e / Proper nouns: places; organizations, religions, languages, nationalities; regions
Titles of works / Periods: with initials
Commas: in addresses; with quotations; with introductory material; with appositives; with interrupters
Apostrophes: with possessives
Underlining: of titles
Quotation marks: with direct quotations; for titles
Hyphens: with compound numbers
Semicolons: in compound sentences / Plurals: irregular plurals; nouns ending in f or fe
Verb tense: irregular past tense
Sentence fragments
Run-on sentences
Comparison: irregular comparison
Articles: a vs. an
Demonstrative adjectives
Commonly confused verbs
Verb forms: helping verbs with participles
Week 1: Orphan Trains
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my friend les and i can learn you about this trains
in 1853 the children’s aid society of new york seed thousands of homeless children
charles l brace the founder maked a unusual proposel
the childrens aid society shipped thousands of childs to the midwest and west
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a ad appeared in the daily record our newspaper before the orphan trains arrival
in dowagiac michigan forty seven children found new homes in a single week
les said some of the children led normal pleasent lifes with their new families
other children however were mistreated some were overworked others were even beaten
SPELLING / CAPITALIZATION / PUNCTUATION / GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Adding a suffix that begins with a consonant to a word that ends with a
silent e / Proper nouns: people; places; months; titles of people; family relations
The pronoun I
First words: in sentences; in quotations
Proper adjectives / Periods: with abbreviated titles
Commas: in dates; in addresses; for items in a series; with quotations; with introductory material; in direct address; with interrupters; with appositives
Apostrophes: with possessives
Underlining: of titles
Quotation marks: with questions and exclamations / Pronoun case: of subjects; of objects of prepositions; before nouns; who vs. whom
Agreement: of subjects and verbs; with compound subjects
Articles: the vs. a or an; a vs. an
Adverbs: good vs. well
Week 2: Isabella Stewart Gardner
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mrs jack i said was the nickname of isabella stewart gardner an unusual and lovly woman
after her husbands death mrs gardner assembled a pricless collection of paintings statues and other works of art
i said we can see these next june at the Isabella stewart gardner museum in bostonmassachusetts
my teacher told we students mrs gardner opened her museum to the public on January 1 1903
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mrs gardner loved Italian art and fenway court her museum look like a venetian palace
because of a statement in her will nothing in the museum can be changed or moved
i has heard many stories about isabella stewart gardner said adamma my friend
well she was certainly a unconventional and completly charming person me said to she
SPELLING / CAPITALIZATION / PUNCTUATION / GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Adding the suffix –ion to words that end with -ate / Proper nouns: places; titles of people
Titles of works
The pronoun I
First words: in sentences; in quotations
Proper adjectives
Initials / End marks: with declaratives; with interrogatives; with indirect questions
Periods: with abbreviated titles
Commas: in items in a series; with quotations; with appositives; with first, second, third, etc.
Quotation marks: for titles; with divided quotations; within quotations
Colons: to introduce lists
Semicolons: in compound sentences; for items in a series / Pronoun case: of subjects; of objects of prepositions; before nouns; who vs. whom
Agreement: of subjects and verbs; with compound subjects
Articles: the vs. a or an; a vs. an
Adverbs: good vs. well
Week 3: Arab Americans
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more than 185 million people speak arabic said ms west and mot of them are muslims
later i said the arab world is comprised of many different nations
i know arab americans whose ancestors came from five nations algeriabahrainomansyria and the united arab emirates
among 1880 and 1924 the united states receive the first major wave of arab immigrateion
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i once readed a narrateion about a syrian peddler it was the laugh peddler by alice e christgau
then ms west said to me the author called the man a jolly lovable peddler
name the most faousest arab american entertainer living or dead
who shall i name three people immedietely come to mind first jamie farr second f murray abraham third danny thomas
SPELLING / CAPITALIZATION / PUNCTUATION / GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Prefixes and base words / Proper nouns: names of people; places; days and holidays; titles of people
First words: in sentences
Proper adjectives
The pronoun I
Abbreviations: A.M. and P.M. / End marks: with exclamations
Periods: with abbreviated titles
Commas: with quotations; with introductory material; in direct address; with coordinatingconjunctions
Apostrophes: with possessives
Quotation marks: with questions and exclamations
Colons: between hours and minutes
Hyphens: with compound numbers
Semicolons: with conjunctive adverbs / Plurals: irregular plurals
Pronoun case: of direct objects
Sentence fragments and run-ons
Agreement: of subjects and verbs; with subjects in unusual positions
Verb tense: past tense
Comparison: comparative; superlative
Articles: the vs. a or an
Verb forms: helping verbs with participles
Week 4: The Amazon River
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mr wong wants them to watch the special television show at 800 p m next thursday
the amazon river the second long river in the world carry one fifth of the worlds river water
each second the amazon discharjes more than six million cubic feets of water into the atlantic ocean said karl
the nile river is longer than the amazon but the amazon is wide than the mississippi river perclaimed meira
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is it possible mr wong that in prehistoric times africa and south america may have been joined asked karl
mr wong said well the rivers in the two continents did contain similar fish millions of years ago
meira told we a spanish explorer francisco orellana visit the river in 1541 and named it
he thinked the local warriors were like an amazons in ancient greek myths she added
SPELLING / CAPITALIZATION / PUNCTUATION / GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Prefixes and roots / Proper nouns: places; titles of people
First words: in quotations; of lines of poetry
Proper adjectives
The pronoun I / Commas: for items in a series; with quotations; with introductory material; with coordinating conjunctions; with appositives; with interrupters
Quotation marks: with direct quotations; with questions and exclamations; with divided quotations
Semicolons: with conjunctive adverbs / Pronoun case: subjects; objects of prepositions
Pronouns: order of; possessives vs contractions
Run-on sentences
Verb tense: irregular past tense
Articles: the vs a or an; a vs. an
Verb forms: helping verbs with past participles
Demonstrative adjectives: with kind and sort
Week 5: Daedalus and Icarus
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she said daedalus a inventor was resourceful consequently he was not dajected
both of they were imprisoned on an island and they could not escape by land or sea
daedalus said nothing however will prahibit an escape through the air
daedalus said i will make two pairs of wings for me and you
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daedalus gived his son a wings and said now i must disuade you from reckless flight
if you fly to high he said the sun will ruin youre wings
then me said icarus loved flying and he felt inspird to fly high than his father
yes the sun melted the wax on his wings and him fell into the sea and drowned
SPELLING / CAPITALIZATION / PUNCTUATION / GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Compound words / Proper nouns: names of people; places; months; organizations, religions, languages, nationalities; family relations; ships, trains, aircraft, automobiles
Proper adjectives
The pronoun I
Initials
Abbreviations: A.M. and P.M. / Commas: in dates; in addresses; with appositives
Quotation marks: with questions and exclamations; with colons and semicolons
Colons: between hours and minutes
Hyphens: with compound numbers
Semicolons: in compound sentences / Plurals: regular plurals; mouns ending in s, x, sh, or ch
Pronoun case: of subjects
Pronouns: order of; possessives vs contractions
Sentence fragments and run-ons
Verb tense: irregular past tense
Articles:a vs. an
Adverb formation: using –ly
Week 6: Boston’s Molasses Flood
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uri and me quick learned some back ground information about a unusual flood in bostonmassachusetts
the purity distilling corporation stored millions of gallon of molasses in a huge tank on the boston water front
on january 14 the milero a american ship added 600000 gallons to the tank of molasses
suddenly exploded with a noise like the sound of a thousand machine guns my newspaper gave a similar description
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days later the boston fire department was still pumping molasses out of homes
just imagine wheat a video tape of that would have looked like uncle sol said
last august uncle sol said i and irma goed to boston for two or three days
aunt irma added on very hot days i was told any one on certain beachs can still smell molasses
SPELLING / CAPITALIZATION / PUNCTUATION / GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Hyphenated compound words / Proper nouns: names of people; places; days and holidays; months; titles of people; family relations; regions; historical events, documents, periods of time
The pronoun I
First words: in sentences; in quotations / End marks: with declaratives
Periods: with abbreviated titles
Commas: in dates; in addresses; with introductory material; with appositives; with coordinating conjunctions; with interrupters
Colons: to introduce lists / Pronoun case: of direct objects
Pronouns: possessives vs. contractions
Sentence fragments and run-ons
Agreement: with intervening propositional phrases
Verb tenses: regular and irregular past tense
Articles: the vs. a or an
Verb forms: helping verbs with past participle
Demonstrative adjectives
Commonly confused verbs
Week 7: Japanese Americans
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both of theyre families she said moved from nagoya japan to honoluluhawaii one february
then i said at the turn of this century the japanese maked up thirtynine percent of the population of hawaii
mrs ito said yes grandfather yamasaki learned me to play the game of go at that time
during world war ii many japanese american families were forced to live in detention camps in the west
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in 1988 president ronald reagan formally apologize to a japanese americans for their unfair detention during world war ii
on october 9 1990 rev eto received his formal apology and a check for $20000
holly said last friday evening takao learned a friend and i how to eat with chopsticks
then she laughed and said it was hard though because im a lefthanded person and takao is not
SPELLING / CAPITALIZATION / PUNCTUATION / GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Contractions / Proper nouns: names of people; titles of people; family relations
First words: in quotations
Proper adjectives / Periods: with abbreviated titles
Commas: for items in a series; with quotations; with introductory material; in direct address
Quotation marks: with direct quotations; with questions and exclamations; with divided quotations
Colons: to introduce lists
Semicolons: in compounds sentences / Pronoun case: of subjects; of direction objects; before nouns
Run-on sentences
Agreement: with intervening prepositional phrases
Verb tense: irregular past tense
Demonstrative adjectives; with kind and sort
Prepositions: between vs. among
Adverb formation: using –ly
Week 8: Heat
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then ms houde continued molecules in motion creates heat and temperature is a measure of the heat
wont heat travel from hot things to cooler ones asked ramon
yes it travels in one of three ways by conduction by convection or by radiation i said
then heidi asked whats the difference among good conductors of heat and poor conductors
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ms houde said the heat from this here fire ramon isnt reaching we campers through conduction
youre feeling radiant heat her says late last saturday night
yes im the one whos got an old steam radiator said aun ida
then she added these kind of things heat we through convection not through radiation
SPELLING / CAPITALIZATION / PUNCTUATION / GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Silent letters / Proper nouns: places; titles of people; family relations
The pronoun I
First words: in quotations / Periods: with initials
Commas: for items in a series; with introductory material; with appositives; with coordinating conjunctions
Apostrophes: in contractions; with possessives
Quotation marks: with questions and exclamations
Semicolons: in compounds sentences / Plurals: irregular plurals; nouns ending in o
Pronoun case: of subjects; of direction objects; before nouns
Run-on sentences
Agreement: of subjects and verbs; of pronouns and antecedents
Articles: the vs. a or an
Verb forms: irregular past participles
Week 9: Gutzon Borglum, Sculptor of Mt.Rushmore
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she added yes mount rushmore would be less interesting without his carvings
borglum began carving president washington president jefferson president t roosevelt and president lincoln in the summer of 1924
then i asked didn’t he calmly work from a chair suspended from the top of the cliff
my daughter jess said certainly borglums style is strong not subtle each face on mt rushmore is sixty feet high
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lajos asked i didn’t eleanor roosevelt want susan b anthonys face carved on mt rushmore
peoples have also campained for other heros including john f kennedy john wayne and elvis presley
some people condemned borglum them thought he should leave the mountains alone
neither harold ickes secretary of the interior nor newton drury director of the national park service liked a carving
SPELLING / CAPITALIZATION / PUNCTUATION / GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Adding suffixes to words ending with y preceded by a vowel / Proper nouns: places; days and holidays; months; titles of people
Titles of works
The pronoun I
First words: in sentences; in quotations / Periods: with initials
Commas: for items in a series; with introductory material; with appositives; with coordinating conjunctions
Apostrophes: in contractions; with possessives
Quotation marks: with questions and exclamations
Semicolons: in compounds sentences / Plurals: irregular plurals; nouns ending in o
Pronoun case: of subjects; of direction objects; before nouns
Run-on sentences
Agreement: of subjects and verbs; of pronouns and antecedents
Articles: the vs. a or an
Verb forms: irregular past participles
Week 10: Tides
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now i know one difference among a neap tide and a spring tide a spring tide is higher
i said to mr pitts some students wondered if tides were related to the swayng of earth in space
he said no tides mainly results from the moons gravitational pull on earth
during our last too summer holidays i and my sister took a trip to nova scotiacanada
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last tuesday mr pitts explain that at low tide water retreats uncovering many fascinating sights
he said you can see crabs starfish urchins clams and many varieties of seaweed
a hermit crab for example employes an empty shell as its home mr pitts added
whom wants to visit old orchard beach this weekend i have a chart that tells exactly when too expect low tide
SPELLING / CAPITALIZATION / PUNCTUATION / GRAMMAR AND USAGE
Adding suffixes to words ending with y preceded by a consonant / Proper nouns: places; organizations, religions, languages, nationalities; months; historical events, documents, periods of time
First words: in sentences; in quotations / Periods: with initials; with declaratives
Commas: in dates; in addresses; for items in a series; with introductory material; in direct address, with coordinating conjunctions; with appositives
Apostrophes: in contractions; with possessives
Quotation marks: with questions and exclamations
Hyphens: with compound numbers / Plurals: irregular plurals; nouns ending in o
Pronoun case: of subjects; of direction objects; before nouns
Run-on sentences
Agreement: of subjects and verbs; of pronouns and antecedents
Articles: the vs. a or an
Verb forms: irregular past participles
Week 11: Marie Curie
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she worked with Pierre curie her husband together them won the nobel prize in physics for their work with radioactivity
lucia asked didn’t the curies work result in the use of radiation therapys to treat cancer
yes lucia peoples later learn that radium could kill diseased cells
m curie founded the radium institute in parisfrance too study possible uses of radium
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curie helped make known the benefits of radiation but she died on july 4 1934 from radiation sickness
she did not no way fully understand radiums dangers or she wouldve certain modified some of her laboratory prodedures
like scientists everywhere curie record her theorys processes and findings in notebooks
more than seventy five years later them notebooks are still to dangerous to be handled