vocabulary.com (MegaWords 26 - 2 rounds 80% and 90%); visual drill (o combinations), Cameron demonstrated mastery of all sounds made by ow, ou, oa, oi, and oy today. Auditory drill: /ou/ - correctly identified all 3 sounds, correctly spelled all 3 sounds within a word. This is great! We have 3 more supplemental pages in MegaWords 26 to cement the o vowel combinations before we move on to the next skill. He is very close to mastering all words on vocabulary.com for this as well. Kilpatrick drill N2 #7 6/10 correct; MegaWords 26 pg. 15; reading fluency - No Man is an Island by John Donne

Economic indicators important for a business person to know were introduced and shown on FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data site of the St. Louis Fed).

4-3 Solving Systems of Equations by Elimination – We learned that elimination is an alternate method for solving systems of equations when it is not easy to use substitution. We multiplied one or both equations by a constant to get like coefficients that are opposite integers to use elimination.
Assignment: For homework complete assigned problems.

The Old World refers to Europe, Africa, and Asia. The New World, Mundus Novus in Latin, refers to the Americas. The Age of Discovery, which led to the New World, was in many ways caused by men looking for silks, spices, and new crops. Another reason was the expansion of the Catholic faith in an effort to save souls. Of course, many men, such as Prince Henry the Navigator, were looking for adventure. The Europeans were able to conquer many societies in the New World through the introduction of disease and weapons such as guns and gun powder. This technology, which came from China, changed the face of the globe. Having used it against each other, Europeans were more than willing to turn it on the unsuspecting inhabitants of the New World. Before long, the native inhabitants would also take up these weapons. However, not in time to save the Aztecs, the Incas and the other early victims of the Age of Exploration.

A Long Way Gone chapter 18 (read/discuss/comprehension questions); Lesson on sentence construction - developing sentences by expanding them through literal/figurative imagery.

Reading fluency: O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman; Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost; Invictus by William Ernest Henley - discussed meaning of each poem, symbolism/imagery/mood; vocabulary.com schwa word spelling practice (100% accuracy, completed); and MegaWords 26 vocabulary practice (20% accuracy).

In today's class, we continued our discussion on cell structure and function, including learning about heterotrophs, autotrophs, ingestion, digestion, cyclosis, excretion, and the four characteristics that make up all living organisms. We also reviewed prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.

As we move to discuss how business fits into the economy, we discussed scarcity of resources and how the U.S., as a mostly capitalist economy, decides what to produce with those resources.

He took a test on Lessons 4-1 Solving Systems of Equations by Graphing and 4-2 Solving Systems of Equations by Substitution.

A Long Way Gone chapter 17 (read/discuss/comprehension questions); mini-lesson: imagery/revision- expanding sentences to include imagery/strong description-