Important Upcoming Dates:
February 14 - Valentine's Day, party 2:00 - 3:00
February 20 - No School, Presidents' Day

Centerstage Young Playwrights' Festival - Deadline is February 10, 2012
Submit your play to Centerstage 

Pyle Registration Forms due 2/17

Full CCES Calendar

*Please send in $2 to pay for the "Time for Kids" subscription. Cash or checks made payable to Haiyan Wang.   

* "Soup-er Bowl" Canned food drive January 30-February 3.  Donate cans in bins labeled with teams represented in the Super Bowl.  See which team is the favorite here at CCES & donate to a good cause! 

Homework
Monday, January 30
-Read 20-30 minutes
-Spelling/ Vocabulary - Poetry Words 2 (see below), 3 assignments due 2/3
-Sci-Fi Novel Study, week 1 assignments due 2/1

Tuesday, January 31
-Read 20-30 minutes
-Spelling/ Vocabulary - Poetry Words 2, 3 assignments due 2/3
-Sci-Fi Novel Study, week 1 assignments due 2/1

Wednesday, February 1
-Read 20-30 minutes
-Spelling/ Vocabulary - Poetry Words 2, 3 assignments due 2/3
-Sci-Fi Novel Study, week 2 assignments due 2/8

Thursday, February 2
-Read 20-30 minutes
-Spelling/ Vocabulary - Poetry Words 2, 3 assignments due 2/3
-Sci-Fi Novel Study, week 2 assignments due 2/8

Friday, February 3
-Read 45 minutes
-Spelling/ Vocabulary - Poetry Words 2, 3 assignments due 2/3
-Sci-Fi Novel Study, week 2 assignments due 2/8
-Friday folder

Have a great weekend!

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Spelling -

Poetry Words 2 - couplet, ambiguous, allusion, syntax, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, irony, foreshadowing, mood, pathetic fallacy, synecdoche (sin ek duh kee)
week of 1/24, due 2/3

Classical Roots lesson 7
week of 1/9, due 1/20

Poetry Words 1: alliteration, connotation, denotation, assonance,  free verse, haiku, imagery, hyperbole, metaphor, personification, terse, simile
week of 12/19, due 1/6

Classical Roots Lesson 6 + polysyllabic: a word containing more than one syllable AND magniloquent: speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful.
week of 12/12, due 12/16

Survival Words 2 - arduous, bereft, consternation, superfluous, vertigo, acrid, erratic,  harbinger, mesmerized, genial, undulates,
week of 12/5, due 12/9

Classical Roots Lesson 5
week of 11/28 - due 12/2

Survival Words 1
week of 11/14, due 11/18
precipitously, frenetically, careened, entity, dubious, oblique, plummeting, roiling, uncanny, doleful, procure, veldt, novice

Classical Roots Lesson 4
week of 11/7  due 11/11

Classical Roots Lesson 3
week of 10/24, due 10/28

Hero Words #2
week of 10/10, 3 assignments due 10/17
contention, convulsed, dismally, hoisted, inevitable, involuntarily, recuperate, volition, chastised, seethe, perpetrators, denouncing, fateful

Classical Roots Lesson 2
week of 9/26, due 10/7

Hero Words #1
Week of 9/19, due 9/23
bade, jostled, maiming, tyrant, graze, fatigue, resolution, indignantly, clambered, diplomatically, station, valiant, yowling

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You may order online or send your payment to school. 
Online Ordering Information
-Web address: scholastic.com/bookclubs
-Register for your own user name and password. When prompted, enter the one-time Class Activation Code: GX26N
Orders Due:
Books are delivered to school about 2 weeks later