week 4 - veritas nashville
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Week 4:
Please bring to class Thursday, September 10:
Homework Folder w/ Assignments
Bible Journal
Skinny Shurley Workbook
Large Shurley Workbook
Morning Snack, Water Bottle, Lunch, Afternoon Science Snack
IEW (Fables, Myths, Fairy Tales) Workbook
Abe Lincoln Book, Yellow Lit Folder
History Narration Journal
Maps Workbook
Critical Thinking Workbook
Science Notebooking Journal and Blue Science Folder
Supplies (If you did not leave in class last week)
Veritas Classical School
Assignment Sheet #4
September 10, 2020
Due: September 17, 2020
Mrs. Nicole Richardson
615-848-8123
Grammar:
❑ In your large Shurley workbook review Jingles 1-6. Practice singing the jingles
each day.
❑ Complete the Shurley Grammar Worksheet (Classifying Sentences).
❑ Complete Grammar Capitalization pages 453 and 455.
❑ You will complete a Shurley Grammar Test in class next week. Review the
jingles and study the practice tests we completed in class today (page 98
of your Shurley workbook) to prepare for the test.
Writing:
❑ Using the Key Word Outline we completed in class today (page 21 in your
workbook), rewrite the paragraph in your own words.
❑ Use the checklist in your homework folder as a guide.
❑ You may write or type your paragraph.
❑ We will go over the paragraphs in class next week.
Spelling: Spelling Workout D and E (3rd and 4th Grade)
❑ Parents, please administer a practice spelling test to your child. Include the first
10 spelling words from the list, a dictation sentence, and the optional
challenge words. Place this in your child’s homework folder.
❑ Complete Lesson 4, pages 17-19 in your spelling workbook.
❑ Optional: Complete page 20 in your spelling workbook.
❑ Challenge Words:
societies rebellion resistance
Vocabulary: Wordly Wise
❑ Complete exercises 2C and 2D in your workbook.
❑ Study your vocabulary words and be prepared for a test next week.
❑ Parents, the assignment sheet last week stated that we would have a
vocabulary test next week. We have a spelling test as well as a grammar
test to complete the same week. I have decided that the vocabulary test
will be “open book”. Students may refer to their workbook for this test. This
should help reduce any stress that the students are feeling. Please help your
child study even though the book can be referenced during the test.
Literature: God’s Leader for a Nation Abraham Lincoln
❑ Read Chapters 7 & 8.
❑ Complete the literature worksheet (occupations). Place this in your
literature folder.
History: Story of the World
❑ Read Chapter 5a “South Against North”
❑ OPTIONAL: Narrate and Illustrate Chapter 5a in your History Narration
Journal. (History Narration is Optional this week for both 3rd and 4th grade)
❑ Read the handout “The Underground Railroad,” and complete the Venn
diagram.
Handwriting/Copy Work:
3rd Grade:
❑ Complete the next 4 pages in your workbook. The pages cover letter i,
letter t, letter u, and letter w. My page numbers are pages 44-48. Some
students will have the same numbers, while others do not. Continue to go in
order in the book and double check that the letters correspond with the
above information. Please let me know if you have any questions.
❑ Place the completed pages in your homework folder.
4th Grade:
❑ Complete Lesson 4.
❑ Use any blank page from the back of the book to complete the Day Four
copy work.
❑ Place the completed pages in your homework folder.
Critical Thinking:
❑ 3rd Grade – Primary Analogies – pages 7-8
❑ 4th Grade –Think Analogies – pages 7-8
❑ 4th Grade – Creative Thinking Puzzles – page 4
Artists/Composers:
❑ With a parent, visit https://www.classicsforkids.com .
❑ Follow the listed steps to access Show 1:
1. Click on the Composers tab
2. Click on Mozart from the alphabetical list of composers
3. Scroll down to Shows about Mozart.
4. Choose Show 1: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: About Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart (5:58)
❑ After listening to Show 1, write at least 3 facts about Mozart that you
learned from this recording.
Geography: Maps, Charts, and Graphs
❑ Complete Lesson 4 in your workbook.
I have checked all of my child’s work and he/she has all of the assignments
completed for this week. Thank you!
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Parent Signature
I have completed all of my assignments for this week.
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Student Signature
Grammar Worksheet: Week 4 Name:______________________
Classify the following sentences.
1. The timid little girl sat alone.
2. A large fish swam briskly away.
3. The full moon shines brightly tonight.
The following is what we say as we classify each sentence. It is the Question & Answer Flow.
Classify means labeling the part of speech.
Question and Answer Flow for Sentence 1:
Who sat alone? Girl- SN
What is being said about girl? Girl sat- V
Sat how? Alone- Adv
What kind of girl? Little- Adj
What kind of girl? Timid- Adj
The- A (Article Adjective)
Question and Answer Flow for Sentence 2:
What swam briskly away? Fish- SN
What is being said about fish? Fish swam- V
Swam how? Briskly- Adv
Swam where? Away-Adv
What kind of fish? Large- Adj
A-A (Article Adjective)
Question and Answer Flow for Sentence 3:
What shines brightly tonight? Moon-SN
What is being said about moon? Moon shines- V
Shines how? Brightly-Adv
Shines when? Tonight- Adv
What kind of moon? Full-Adj
The- A (Article Adjective)
Article Adjectives
The 3 most commonly used adjectives.
(a, an, the)
Definite Article – the
Indefinite Articles – a, an
There are no questions for the Article Adjectives
The abbreviation for article adjective is A.
Name:_______________________________________
Literature Assignment Week 4:
PART 1: Abraham Lincoln held a variety of occupations in Chapters 7 & 8. Choose one of
the occupations. With a parent, research the one you chose. On the chart below list the
occupation and three details/duties that the occupation required.
Occupation: _________________________________________________
Duty:
Duty:
Duty:
PART 2: Yesterday and Today
How is this occupation different today? Are the duties the same?
(Example: Does the postmaster use the same mode of transportation today as in the 1800’s?)
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Using your Key Word Outline on page 21, rewrite the paragraph in your own
words. Use the following checklist as a guide.
IEW Paragraph Checklist Week 4:
o name and date in upper left-hand corner
o paragraph is double spaced
o title centered (you may use the title from the textbook)
o checklist attached to paragraph (staple or paperclip checklist to paragraph)
o capitalization
o end marks/punctuation
o complete sentences
o correct spelling
*This checklist is similar to the checklist in your textbook. The checklist will be
modified for our class assignments when needed. Please refer to this checklist
when completing your paragraph.