This week students are continuing to focus on verbs and sentence combining.  However, now students are facing the more difficult task of learning the meaning of root words.  For example, this week we learned that if "incredible" means "not able to be believed," then "credible" means "able to be believed" and "cred" means "to believe".  These root word tasks are essential to making high schools on the ACT and are part of new English Standards handed down from the TN State Dept of Education.

After adjusting placement of students during the first week of school, our next two weeks will focus on Unit 13 - Invent It.  St.  udents will receive a new vocabulary list of 15 words each Monday (tentatively) and will have spelling and/or grammar tests each Friday (once again tentatively depending on school schedule).

Students will also be studying nominative and objective pronouns, regular and progressive verb tenses, prefixes, idioms, attributes, subjects and predicates, main ideas, transition words, contractions, sentence diagramming, and syllable stresses, all in Unit 13.