Kingdom SchoolsBoys’ Intermediate

English Department

(Dec. 08th-12th, 2012)

Name: ____________________________________

P.S. to get your soft copy of the weekly booklet, please visit: http://marsermir.pbworks.com Teacher: Mohamed Al Shamaly

Dear parents,Please make sure that your son follows this weekly plan and completes all the homework activities for the week. This plan is aguide for what your son is going to study and do for the week. Please do not hesitate to contact me(malshamaly@kingdomschools.edu.sa) if you have any queries.

WEEKLY PLAN + HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS

Day Classroom Activities Homework

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from Still Me / Speech Connect to your life: KWL Literary Analysis: Point of View

Active Reading: Text Organization

Vocabulary: Words To Know (context clues)

Reading: from Still Me / Speech (P:376)

Do P:1 in Week 13 Booklet Read P: 376-377

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from Still Me / Speech Reading: Check the homework P: 1 + listen to

the selection P: 376-379 Grammar: Participles Spelling: Prepositional Prefixes

Do P: 2 in Week 13 Booklet

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from Still Me / Speech Check the Homework: Spelling / Grammar Reading: Check Questions on P: 383 Vocabulary: Word Meaning: P: 384 Writing: Summary Report P: 384

Do P: 3 in Week 13 Booklet

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AY from Still Me / Speech

Spelling: Conduct the spelling test. ACT/SAT: Practice worksheet Reading Comprehension: SOCRATIVE

Spelling Words: Prepositional Prefixes

1. intermission 2. interview 3. interstate 4. interpreter 5. perennial

6. percolate 7. perforated 8. perpetual 9. perseverance 10. abdicate

11. absence 12. destruction 13. deprived 14. paramedic 15. paraphrase

Kingdom Schools – Boys’ IntermediateEnglish Department

Grade 8 International ProgramWeekly Parent Information Letter

Term: First Week: 13 Date: Dec. 8th- 12th, 2012

Selection: from Still Me / Speechby Christopher Reeve

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Words to Know SkillBuilder

Words to Knowaccess affliction logistics rehabilitation sever

A. Fill in the blank in each sentence with the correct word from the word list.

1. The facilities were outdated, lacking even a site forwater therapy.

2. The reporters were denied to the star’s suite andcould not interview him.

3. Despite the , which was a source of constant pain, hefulfilled many of his goals.

4. To the spinal cord is to cause lasting damage.

5. Some people might have been discouraged by the of organizing such a huge number of participants.

B. For each phrase in the left column, find the phrase in the right column that isclosest in meaning. Write the letter of that phrase in the blank.

1. organizing details A. rehabilitation room

2. real suffering B. swiftly sever

3. allowing entry C. actual affliction

4. therapy space D. figuring out logistics

5. quickly cut E. giving access

C. Tell a friend what you learned from Christopher Reeve’s speech. Use at least threeWords to Know.

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Grammar SkillBuilder: ParticiplesKey Concept: Participles and participial phrases modify nouns and pronouns in away that enlivens the sentence.

ParticiplesA participle is a verb form that functions as an adjective. There are two kinds ofparticiples. Present participles end in -ing. Past participles usually end in -ed, butsome have irregular endings, such as -n, -t, or -en.

Present Participles starving, sleepingPast Participles baked, worn, bent, fallen

A participial phrase must be placed as close as possible to the word it modifies.When it is placed too far from the word it modifies, it becomes a misplaced modifier.

Misplaced Modifier: , the ballroom exploded with sound when theaudience spotted Christopher Reeve.

Correct: The ballroom exploded with sound when the audience spotted ChristopherReeve .

ActivityCorrect the misplaced modifiers in each sentence by rearranging or adding words andrewriting the sentence.

1. Christopher Reeve narrated the story of his English teacher pausing frequently.

2. He thanked everyone overwhelmed by the response.

3. Tired, the nurses prepared the medication for the patient.

4. Carrying a camera in one hand, Reeve greeted a photographer.

5. Craning their necks to see, the security guards hurried him past crowds of people.

6. The Creative Coalition held a fund-raising dinner founded in 1989.

7. Having been active all his life, the psychological adjustment was particularlygrueling for him.

8. Frozen with tension, the massage took a while to relax his muscles.

9. Christopher Reeve has inspired many people speaking from a personalperspective.

10. Worried, he reassured his wife that he was fine.

crossing the stage

Crossing the stage

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Prepositional prefixes Teaching

intermission perennial abdicate paramedicinterview percolate absence parallelinterstate perforated destruction paraphraseinterpreter perpetual deprivedinterception perseverance depletedinterruptinternational

Lesson Generalization: A preposition is a word that is positionedbefore its object to show the relationship between the object and anotherword in the sentence: between, through, beside, from. Prefixes often havethe meaning of prepositions.

pre (before) + position = preposition

A. Complete the following exercises.

1. The prefix inter means “between.” Write the words from the word list that begin with inter.

_______________________ _______________________ _______________________

_______________________ _______________________ _______________________

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2. The prefix per means “through.” Write the words that begin with per.

_______________________ _______________________ _______________________

_______________________ _______________________

3. The prefixes ab and de mean “from.” Write the words from the word list that begin with theseprefixes.

_______________________ _______________________ _______________________

_______________________ _______________________

4. The prefix para means “beside.” Write the words that begin with para.

_______________________ _______________________ _______________________

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B. On a separate sheet of paper, write a short story that includes at least 12words from the spelling list. Share your story with a partner or small group ofclassmates. (OPTIONAL)

Prepositional prefixes More Practice

1. intermission 6. interrupt 11. perennial 16. abdicate

2. interview 7. international 12. percolate 17. absence

3. interstate 8. paramedic 13. perforated 18. destruction

4. interpreter 9. parallel 14. perpetual 19. deprived

5. interception 10. paraphrase 15. perseverance 20. depleted

A. Write the spelling word that matches each definition. Underline the word inthe definition that gives the meaning of the prefix of the spelling word.

1. a time of being away _______________________

2. between states _______________________

3. continued effort through difficulty _______________________

4. to have had things taken away from _______________________

5. time in between _______________________

6. reword the original _______________________

7. a coming between to stop _______________________

8. boil a liquid through _______________________

9. punched through _______________________

10. to rudely break in between _______________________

11. translator between languages _______________________

12. a tearing down _______________________

13. lasting throughout time _______________________

14. a conversation between people _______________________

15. step down from a high office _______________________

B. First cross out one letter in each syllable. Then join the remaining letters toform a spelling word.

1. part + call + gel 4. rin + terp + nai + tpion + alt

_________________________ _________________________

2. cab + dice + mate 5. pair + ac + metd + yic

_________________________ _________________________

3. perk + len + nic + alt 6. deep + lent + red

_________________________ _________________________

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Active Reading SkillBuilder

Determining Text OrganizationWhen you read nonfiction articles, determining text organization may help youunderstand the author’s ideas. For example, writers use chronological order toshow the order in which events happened. This order helps you recognize thebeginnings and development of trends, for example. Writers use cause-and-effectorganization to help readers see why things happened or why someone behaved acertain way. Compare-and-contrast is used to present similarities and differencesbetween people, places, things, or events. Proposition and support is used topresent a proposal, support it with evidence, and respond to counterarguments. Asyou read, look for examples of each type of organization, and jot down notes aboutthese examples in the chart below.

Follow-up: Compare and contrast the patterns of organization used by the articleand the speech. Does one use one type of organization more than the other? What isthe overall pattern in each?

Name Date

Text Organization Still Me “Speech”

Chronological order

Cause and effect

Compare and contrast

Proposition and support

the description of the van ride,

arrival at the hotel, and being

taken to his suite

the anecdote about Gregory

Patterson’s injury

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How to SummarizeSummarizing means rephrasing in fewer words, capturing the ideas.Follow these guidelines:

• Write the main idea in as few words as possible.• Select the most important details that support the main idea.• Rewrite key ideas, using simpler language and combining points.• Make your summary about one-third as long as the original.• Revise your summary, making sure that you’ve included only the

passage’s key ideas. Check that your summary contains your ownwords, and that you haven’t changed the tone of the original.

Read the examples below. Summarize Original Source II on the lines provided.

Original SourceExperts carefully studied the photos taken by all the Mariners. They did notsee any sign of growing plants. Nor could they find any trace of animals.they decided there is probably no life on Mars. Furthermore, they discoveredthat Mars is being bombarded by cosmic rays and ultraviolet rays. These raysare deadly. They would kill most forms of life that we know about.

—from p. 29 of Discovering Mars, by Melvin Berger

SummaryEvidence from the Mariners not only suggested that no life existson Mars. It also showed why life cannot exist: because of thepresence of deadly cosmic and ultraviolet rays.

Original Source IITerraforming was originally a word from science fiction. It means changing aplanet to make it more like Earth. At first, all the ideas for terraforming Marscame from science fiction. One wild scheme was to start a nuclear reaction inPhobos or Deimos. The reaction would make the moon of Mars into a tiny sun.Its heat would pour down on the frozen planet and melt the water frozen inthe permafrost. The result would be flowing streams and ponds of fresh water.

—from p. 50 of Discovering Mars, by Melvin Berger

Summary

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