Assignments

Have a wonderful summer! For 6th graders starting in Fall 2009, the reading list is here and the forms are here.

For last year's sixth graders who want to publish their wonderful I-search stories, a list of places to submit your stories is at http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/basic/yngwrite.html

This Summer's Word

etymology (noun) :

1. The study of the history of words and language, and of how words and language change over time.
2. The origin and development of a word over time.

Etymology: from Greek etymologia, from etymon "true sense" + logos "word."

Click here to listen to Dr. Turner reading the poem "Rhyme" by Robert Pinsky.