American Syllabus (SY 2016-2017)
International Jubilee Private School
Second TERM
English H.W List: 1
Grade/Section: 5A and B
Date Jan 15, 2017
WEEK1
Note: All students should provide their homework by Sunday and also please make use of the Rubric given
below to write your tasks and plus research the internet about: Make sure you bring a printed copy of the
rubric.
Your Homework will be graded according to the H.W rubric
Competency and Value:
Critical Thinking and Care
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
–Frederick Douglas
Assessment Announcement: Lesson 15 weekly assessment will be held on Tuesday 17th Jan 2017
Vocabulary: Prefixes il, im,ir, in. Reading : Compare and Contrast ( Story We were there too Page377)
Grammar: Easily confused Verbs: Decoding: Stressed and unstressed syllable.
Read the story by opening this link for journey’s student practice book Use Mozilla Firefox to open the link.
https://wwwk6.thinkcentral.com/content/hsp/reading/journeys/na/gr5/ese_9780547360201_/launch.html#
Map Test Practice: Open the link below and practice for the upcoming International Exam
http://warmup.nwea.org/sample_tests/map_reading_educator.html
CSS Reading Comprehension Practice:
Open the given link and read various passages given then answer the questions by using the information
you get while reading the passage.
https://www.readtheory.org/
A: Reading: Compare and Contrast: Critical thinking questions:
Open your levelled story for lesson 15 and read it thoroughly, then think over the different parts of your story
its theme, setting, characters, plot etc and create at-least 10 Wh questions about the different aspects of your
story.
B: Vocabulary. Prefixes Im, Il, Ir, In:
Get ready for Spelling Quiz for the following Vocabulary words you will also make sentences of your Spelling
words.
Mimic, mocking, efficient, Personally, Lacked, Rural, Tedious, Organize Summon, Peal.
Write the meaning of the following prefixes and create atleast 10 sets of words form each ( Im, In, il, Ir)
Spelling bee Quiz every Wednesday for spelling improvement. It will also be graded as the regular
spelling quiz for the following words.
honest honor hostage housekeeping however hundredth hunter hygiene ignorance illustration
Grammar: Active and Passive voice: Open the given link and practice the given worksheets.
Journeys student practice book page 163 and 164
https://wwwk6.thinkcentral.com/content/hsp/reading/journeys/na/gr5/Online_Journeys_practice_book_SE_97805473549
89_/launch.html
D: Writing: Short Story: Narrative:
We all stare at our phones, laptops and televisions more than we probably should. But what happens when
the screens have made us go blind? Describe a morning where you’ve lost your sight and are forced to find
your way to work without your eyesight. Don’t forget: everyone else is blind, too!
Or
One morning a child looks out the window and discovers that a huge castle has appeared overnight. The
child rushes outside to the castle and hears strange sounds coming from it. Someone is living in the castle!
The castle door creaks open. The child goes in. Write a story about who the child meets and what happens
inside the castle. Write at-least 4 paragraphs. Make sure you follow the Rubric (Focus and setting) and you
indent your paragraphs.
English Drama: Open the given link and print the following script for your drama lesson
http://freedrama.net/polka.html
English Social: Create a poster using pictures of Various traditional cuisines in UAE.
Just focus and concentrate in your studies…. Intelligence plus good Attitude is equal to SUCCESS