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Kingdom SchoolsBoys’ Intermediate
English Department
(Feb. 23rd-27th, 2013)
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([email protected]) if you have any queries.
WEEKLY PLAN + HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS
Day Classroom Activities Homework
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The Tell-Tale Heart Connect to your life: Creature Features
Literary Analysis: Suspense/Mood
Active Reading: Evaluate Narrator/Visualizing
Vocabulary: Words To Know (Suffixes)
Reading: The Tell-Tale Heart (P:625)
Do P:1 in Week 5 Booklet Read P: 625
SUN
DA
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The Tell-Tale Heart Reading: Check the homework P: 1 + listen to the
selection P: 626 Grammar: Participial Phrases Spelling: Prefixes com and in
Do P: 2 in Week 5 Booklet Read P: 627
MO
ND
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The Tell-Tale Heart Check the Homework: Spelling / Grammar Reading: Reading P: 628 Vocabulary Strategy: Word Meaning: P: 632 Writing: Story Ending P: 602
Do P: 3 in Week 4 Booklet Reread “The Tell-Tale Heart”
TUES
DA
Y The Tell-Tale Heart Check the Homework: Check CQ’s P: 601 Literary Analysis: Tone
Writing: Setting the Scene (P: 632)
Study for the Spelling Test.
Do P: 4 in Week 5 Booklet
WED
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The Tell-Tale Heart Spelling: Conduct the spelling test. Reading: Finish the selection Active Reading: Evaluate Narrator Library: Students read on their own (Students either
get their books or borrow ones from the library)
Dear student,Please do your best to read for half an hour during theweekend. This can be any interesting book you find.Thanks
Spelling Words: The Prefixes com and in
1. congressional 2. conservative 3. connotation 4. connotation 5. commute
6. commercial 7. competition 8. computer 9. compromise 10. combustion
11. intuition 12. insulation 13. innocent 14. immunity 15. immortality
16. immediately 17. impatient 18. impostor 19. impeached 20. imbedded
Kingdom Schools – Boys’ IntermediateEnglish Department
Grade 8 International ProgramWeekly Parent Information Letter
Term: Second Week: 05 Date: Feb. 23rd- 27th, 2013
Selection: The Tell-Tale Heartby Edgar Allan Poe
Name Date
Words to Know SkillBuilder
Words to Knowacute conceived derision stealthily vehementlyaudacity crevice hypocritical stifled vex
A. Fill in each blank with the correct word from the Words to Know list.
1. Your ability to be bold is your capacity for .
2. A goal must be imagined in the mind before it can be met; that is, it must beto be achieved.
3. A crook who ran for office using a “Get tough on crime” campaign slogan wouldbe both political and .
4. A bloodhound, which can follow a scent that’s ten days old, might be said tohave an amazingly snoot.
5. If you do something just to annoy a former sweetheart, you are trying toyour ex.
B. Fill in each set of blanks with the correct word from the word list. The boxed letterswill spell out what bothered the narrator about the old man.
1. In sneakers, you can move this way. ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
2. This could be a crack or a canyon. ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
3. A snicker is this kind of laugh. ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
4. Screams are uttered this way. ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
5. Scornful laughter expresses this. ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
C. Imagine that you are the District Attorney and you must summarize the narrator’scrime for the jury. Remember that you want the jury to find him guilty. Write aparagraph of your summation, using at least six of the Words to Know in yourspeech.
The Tell-Tale Heart
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vocabulary Study
STORy PREdICTIONS
Write your ideas on the lines.
1. My hearing is acute; I can hear sounds that no one else notices.
2. My plan is daring; its audacity is unequaled.
3. I conceived a terrible thought.
4. A shaft of light appeared through the crevice in the door.
5. The others seemed to mock me; I could not stand their derision.
6. I knew what they were really thinking behind their hypocritical smiles.
7. Stealthily, I crept through the house.
8. He tried not to make a sound but let out a stifled groan.
9. I had no concern whatsoever that anyone would vex me.
10. As I argued my point, I spoke more loudly and vehemently.
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A. Directions: Listen as your teacher reads each sentence about “The Tell–Tale Heart.” Together discuss what you know about the word or how it might be used.
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The
Tell
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Name Date Name Date
vocabulary Practice
A. Directions: Write the word from the box that correctly completes each sentence.
1. After Eli guessed the book’s ending, he ________________ denied having read ahead.
2. Most dogs don’t see well, but they do have an ________________ sense of smell.
3. The mountain climber’s camera fell into a deep ________________.
4. The boys crept ________________ around the old haunted house.
5. Dom was the object of his team’s ________________ after striking out to end the game.
6. Gina thinks it ________________ to chat with a friend and then talk behind her back.
7. Walter liked to ________________ his grandfather by hiding his reading glasses.
8. Linda was proud that she could ________________ the idea of writing an original play.
9. Being polite, John ________________ a yawn during the lecture.
10. Eva was shocked that some people had the ________________ to show up at her party without being invited.
b. Directions: For each word in the first column, find the word in the second column that is closest in meaning. Write the letter of that phrase in the blank.
acuteconceive
derisionstealthily
vehementlyaudacity
crevicehypocritical
stifledvex
____ 1. acute
____ 2. vex
____ 3. stifled
____ 4. derision
____ 5. audacity
a. smothered
b. ridicule
c. annoy
d. boldness
e. keen
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Key Concept: Writers use participial phrases to enliven their writing and createsentence variety.
, the old man sat quietly in the dark.
ActivityRewrite each sentence, adding a participial phrase to modify the underlined word.Remember to make sure all your participial phrases clearly refer to the words theymodify. To avoid confusion, place each phrase near the underlined noun or pronounit is modifying.
1. The crept into the old man’s room.
2. The old slept soundly.
3. awoke with a start.
4. The old felt an unknown presence in the room.
5. The sat quietly.
6. lunged suddenly at the figure in the bed.
7. The old was soon dead.
8. The began the task of hiding the body.
9. The planned to search the house.
10. The let the police in. narrator
police
narrator
man
He
narrator
man
He
man
narrator
Dreading the worst
Name Date
The Tell-Tale Heart
Grammar in Context: Participial Phrases
Participial PhrasesThe key element of a participial phrase is a participle—a verb form that acts as anadjective. Present participles end in -ing. Past participles end in -ed, -en, -n, and -t.Consider the following sentence.
Notice that the underlined participial phrase contains the participle dreading andmodifies the noun phrase the old man.
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The prefixes com and in Teaching
com + gressional = congressional in + tuition = intuition
com + servative = conservative in + sulation = insulation
com + notation = connotation in + nocent = innocent
com + mentator = commentator in + munity = immunity
com + mute = commute in + mortality = immortality
com + mercial = commercial in + mediately = immediately
com + petition = competition in + patient = impatient
com + puter = computer in + postor = impostor
com + promise = compromise in + peached = impeached
com + bustion = combustion in + bedded = imbedded
Say inmediately and immediately. Say conmute and commute.
A. Complete the following exercises.
1. The prefixes com and in are spelled with an m before roots or base words that begin with the
letters _______________________ , _______________________ , and _______________________ .
Write examples of this spelling pattern from the word list.
_______________________ _______________________ _______________________
_______________________ _______________________ _______________________
_______________________ _______________________ _______________________
_______________________ _______________________ _______________________
_______________________ _______________________
2. The prefixes com and in are spelled with an n before roots or base words beginning with mostother letters of the alphabet. Write examples of these words from the list.
_______________________ _______________________ _______________________
_______________________ _______________________ _______________________
Lesson Generalization: A prefix may be spelled in several different ways.The prefixes com and in follow the same spelling pattern. Both are spelled withan n before most letters of the alphabet. Both are spelled with an mbeforeroots or words that begin with the letters m, p, or b. They are spelled this wayto make more compatible combinations that are easier to pronounce.
Double consonants often result from joining prefixes and roots. Remember thatone consonant belongs to the prefix, and one belongs to the root.
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The prefixes com and in More Practice
1. congressional 6. commercial 11. intuition 16. immediately
2. conservative 7. competition 12. insulation 17. impatient
3. connotation 8. computer 13. innocent 18. impostor
4. commentator 9. compromise 14. immunity 19. impeached
5. commute 10. combustion 15. immortality 20. imbedded
1. sporimot _______________________ 11. camecomril _______________________
2. upcomret _______________________ 12. semporcomi _______________________
3. comumet _______________________ 13. talusinino _______________________
4. niotintiu _______________________ 14. saloniconserg _______________________
5. subcomnoti _______________________ 15. nutimimy _______________________
6. nnoincet _______________________ 16. notitepicom _______________________
7. verseconivat _______________________ 17. tapimniet _______________________
8. dddeimbe _______________________ 18. ononconitat _______________________
9. lateiymedim _______________________ 19. taromimlyit _______________________
10. cheapimde _______________________ 20. tentramcomo _______________________
B. Improve each sentence by leaving out the unnecessary words. Rewrite theimproved sentence and underline the spelling word in each.
1. What I mean is the computer is a valuable machine.
____________________________________________________________________________________
2. Carlo will be the commentator and the reason is because he is a clever speaker.
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3. War was avoided because of the fact that both countries agreed to compromise.
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4. What I think is that the senator should not be impeached.
____________________________________________________________________________________
5. The thing is, this vaccine provides immunity from polio.
____________________________________________________________________________________
6. What I went to the doctor for was to have this imbedded splinter removed.
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A. Unscramble each letter group and write the spelling word. First find and circlethe form of the prefix com or in, which is not scrambled.
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MoodMood is the feeling that a story conveys to its readers. Descriptive words and phrasescontribute to the mood of a work. Complete the chart below with examples from thetext that help create different moods. Look for descriptive words, interesting sentencestructures, details of setting, and intriguing plot twists. Identify the mood created byeach example.
Name Date
The Tell-Tale Heart
Literary Analysis
Example Mood Created
Description of old man’s eye — the eye of a vulture creepy, scary
