March 8-12

Grade 9

Book Report is due Next Monday. This assignment is to evaluate the reading portion of the term. As report cards come out early in April, this assignment must be in on time to receive grades for this report card.

Grammar: use of bring and take.
Bring towards one, and take away from one.
Example: Please bring your assignment up to the desk.
Did Ralph take his car to Saint John?

Root Words:
son: sound
Example: sonic: having to do with sound.
dissonance: discord, lack of harmony
consonant: any letter that is not a vowel, that makes sounds
resonant: echoing or resounding

spec, spect, spic
Example: spectator: an onlooker, observer
spectrum: band of colours like a rainbow
perspective: in drawing, the illusion of depth, from one’s point of view
conspicuous: easily seen, clearly visible

sta, atat, stit, sist: stand firm, steady, put in place
Example: stationary: immovable, having a fixed place
statute: formally, established law
desist: to stop doing something, to cease, to stay in place
subsist: to exist; to keep alive, but no more

struct, stru, stroy: to build, to pile up
Example: construct: to build, to put together
destroy: to ruin, to break into pieces
construe: to explain, to show the meaning of, interpret
structural: having to do with structure