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Week 26
3/28 to 4/1

skirt
purpose
earn
certain
dirty
service
furnish
early
thirteen
perfect
permit
firm
hurt
furniture
learning
heard
perfume
third
pearl
personal

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Week 25
3/21 to 3/25

score
quarrel
court
adore
roar
shore
before
reward
course
board
wore
warn
tore
export
toward
perform
fortunate
orchard
import
important

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Week 24
3/15 to 3/18

Kentucky
Frankfort
Tennessee

Nashville
Alabama
Montgomery
Florida
Tallahassee
Georgia
Atlanta
South Carolina
Columbia
North Carolina
Raleigh
Virginia
Richmond
West Virginia
Charleston
Delaware
Dover

Don't forget, they are ALL proper nouns, meaning they need to be capitalized!

Interesting News!

Two Spaces After a Period--The Old Way
Here's the deal: Most typewriter fonts are what are called monospaced fonts. That means every character takes up the same amount of space. An "i" takes up as much space as an "m," for example. When using a monospaced font, where everything is the same width, it makes sense to type two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence to create a visual break. For that reason, people who learned to type on a typewriter were taught to put two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence.

One Space After a Period--The New Way
But when you're typing on a computer, most fonts are proportional fonts, which means that characters are different widths. An "i" is more narrow than an "m," for example, and putting extra space between sentences doesn't do anything to improve readability.
Notice how in this example, the "i's" and "t" take up much less space in the proportional font than they do in the monospaced font.

Although how many spaces you use is ultimately a style choice, using one space is by far the most widely accepted and logical style.
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spaces-period-end-of-sentence.aspx


With the introduction of proportional fonts in computers, double sentence spacing became obsolete. These proportional fonts now assign appropriate horizontal space to each character (including punctuation marks), and can modify kerning values to adjust spaces following terminal punctuation, so there is less need to manually increase spacing between sentences. From around 1950, single sentence spacing became standard in books, magazines and newspapers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing

Hope this helps when you are typing your persuasive essays at home!

Parent Note

Hi Parents,
I have attached the note I sent home on Tuesday, March 8th. It has the signature paper for the persuasive paper. If your child looses it, please print off a new signature slip!
Thanks,
Mrs. Dietz

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Week 23
3/7 to 3/11

cycling
track
soccer
football
professional
basketball
skin diving
skiing
Olympics
champion
volleyball
bowling
skating
golf
baseball
amateur
swimming
tennis
hockey
competition

Don't forget, Olympics is the name of a world wide sports competition so it is capitalized!