February Guide

   

FEBRUARY STUDY GUIDES

My dearest students,

Please, study for your midterm exam the assigned topics from your book and notebook.students,

Book pages 

FIRST GRADE                   LITERATURE                       SECTION l

Unit 1 Mysteries

Unit 2 Favorite food

Unit 3 Cool jobs

Unit 4 Shipwrecks

First Grade                       Literature                             Section II and III

Second Grade                  Literature                             Section I

Unit 1

Theme: Amazing Animals

Readings: The Incredible Dolphin and Musical Elephants

Reading Skills: Understanding the Gist, Identifiying Main Ideas in Paragraphs

Vocabulary

Unit 2 

Theme:Travel and Adventure

Readings: The Trip of Lifetime, Adventure Island

Reading Skill: Understanding Maps, Finding Key Details

Vocabulary

Unit 3

Theme: The Power of Music

Readings: Hip-Hop Planet, A Musical Boost

Reading Skills: Classifying Information, Identifying Reasons

Vocabulary

Unit 4

Theme: Into Space

Readings: Life Beyond Earth, Living in Space

Reading Skills: Summarizing Using a Concept Map, Identifying Reasons

Vocabulary

Unit 5

Theme: Cycle Life

Readings: Global Cities,

Reading Skills: Understanding Charts and Graphs

Vocabulary 

Second Grade                Literature                           Section II and III

Third Grade                    Literature                           Section I

Unit 1

Theme: Food and Health 

Readings: Sweet Love, Food for the Future

Reading Skills: Skimming for the Main Idea of Paragraphs

Vocabulary

Unit 2

Theme: Our Bond with Animals

Readings: Song of the Humpback, Dogs in a Human World

Reading Skills: Understanding Pronoun Reference, Scanning Details

Vocabulary

Unit 3

Theme: History Detectives

Readings: Was King Tut Murdered?, Who Killed the Iceman?

Reading Skills: Creating a Timeline of Events, Distinguishing Facts from Theories

Vocabulary

Unit 4

Theme: Traditions and Rituals

Readings: Bride of the Sahara, The Changing Face of Kung Fu

Reading Skills: Dealing with Unfamiliar Vocabulary, Differentiating Between 

                         Main Ideas and Supporting Details

Vocabulary

Unit 5

Theme: Urban Underworlds

Readings: Under Paris

Reading Skills: Understanding the Functions of Prepositional Phrases

THIRD GRADE                     USE OF ENGLISH                     SECTION II and III

CONJUNCTIONS AND ADVERB CLAUSES

Conjunctions

9.1 Conjunctions : and,or, so, but

9.2 and + too, so, either and neither

Adverb Clauses : Cause and Contrast

9.3 Adverb Clause: Cause

9.4 Adverb Clause Contrast

Adverb Clause: Future Conditional

9.5 Adverb Clause: Future Conditional

9.6 Adverb Clause: If and When

Gerunds and Infinitives

Gerunds 

10.1 Gerunds as Subjects and Objects

10.2 Gerunds as the Object of a preposition

Infinitives, Infinitives and Gerunds

10.3 Verb + Infinitive

10.4 Verb +Object + Infinitive

10.5 Verb+ Gerund or Infinitive

More Uses of Infinitives

10.6 Infinitives of Purpose

10.7 Too+Infinitive

10.8 Enough + Infinitive 

Relative Clauses

Subject Relative Clauses

11.1 Subject Relative Clauses

11.2 Subject Relative Clauses: Verb Agreement

Object Relative Clause

11.3 Object Relative Clauses

11.4 Object Relative Clauses without Relative Pronouns

Relative Clauses with Prepositions and with Whose

11.5 Object Relative Clause with Prepositions 

11.6 Relative Clauses with Whose