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St. Anthony Indian School
INTERMEDIATE TEAM
PO Box 486, Zuni, NM 87327 505-782-4596
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St. Anthony 2005-2006
For Students and Parents
Weekly Bulletins Index
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1. Parent Signature on Weekly Bulletin
2. Parent Signature in Assignment Book by word of the week
3. Spelling: 10 times each. Bonus activities (word art, sentences, stories, WOW, etc.) available!
Grade 5: promise, cabinet, schedule, clothes, wondering
Grade 6: beginning, probably, roughly, separate, average
Grade 7: its, it's, there's, theirs, ours
Grade 8: luggage, umbrella, encore, tambourine, amateur
4. Vocabulary (WOW): nefarious
(1) Word (2) Definition (3) Etymology (4) POS (5) Picture (6) Sentence
5. Reading Logs: 60 minutes per week
6. Weekly Meditation:
(1) Copy the song/ scripture into meditation journal ; (2) Meditate on
the song/ scripture, and write what it means to you; (3) Illustrate
Blindman stood by the road and cried
He cried, "Ohhhh... show me the way!
Show me the way! Show me the way!
The way to go home!"
Jesus stood by the road and said,
"I am the way. I am the way. I am the way.
The way to go home."
Students have four choices for their final copy: (1) Spongebob story (2) Waffle Garden/ Laguna Feast Day (3) Narrative Descriptive Worksheet brainstorming (4) Free choice.
The story can be written in various formats: (a) comic format (b) short story format (c) picture book format (d) poem format.
Final copy must include:
(i) a beginning to the story
(ii) middle/problem to the story
(iii)end to the story
(iv) dialogue with direct quotations
(v) illustration
(vi) front cover with title, author, illustrator, picture/border
(vii) title page: title, author, illustrator
(viii) dedication: who are you dedicating this story to? why?
(ix) letter from the author: who are you? what inspired you to write this story? what is your background as a writer?
(x) appendix with all four pre-writing activities -- ND worksheet, Waffle Garden/ Laguna Feast Day brochure, Spongebob sloppy copy with picture, Spongebob comic panels
(xi) back cover with book blurb, picture/border: paragraph that grabs the reader's attention (see back cover of most novels)
(xii) peer edit/ review
