Week of June 18, 2012


Reminders:

A. All work will be returned this week.

B. Everyone should bring bags to clean out their desks this week. All textbooks and workbooks will be collected, so make sure they are brought to class.

C. Wednesday is the last day of the After School Program.

D. Thursday is the End of Year Mass. All students should be in full uniform.

E. Friday is the End of Year Assembly at 11:00. Report Card and Awards will be distributed. Students will be dismissed immediately following the ceremony.

F. Summer School Registration is Monday and Tuesday (25th&26th) from 8:00-2:00.
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Dear Parents,

After having a long conversation with Mr. Woods, we have decided that due to my absence for the last quarter, the students failing Reading in Grades 5, 6, 7, 8 will only be recommended to attend Summer School, rather than required to attend. The same will hold true for students in Grades 7 & 8 grade who are failing Social Studies.

This is not to say that I do not feel that your child will not benefit from attending Summer School, because in order to fail a subject for the year, the student must have been failing most of the year. But I will leave the decision up to you, their parents. This week, I will be returning all of the work that the children have completed this last quarter. I will also be sending home their exams, and work from the first three quarters.  If I recommend your child for Summer School in either Reading or Social Studies and you would like to speak to me concerning this, I will be at school on Monday, 6/25  from 8:00- 12:00, which is Summer School registration. 

I wish all of you a safe and enjoyable summer! Make sure that you encourage your child (ren) to read, because reading is the foundation of all other subjects.

Sincerely,
Donna Toscano Larios

Week of June 11, 2012


Reminders:

A. ALL WORK MUST BE DONE IN BLUE OR BLACK PEN. NO OTHER COLOR WILL BE ACCEPTED. WORK DONE IN PENCIL WILL ALSO NOT BE ACCEPTED.  ONLY ONE OR THE OTHER; NOT A MIXTURE OF BOTH.

B. If the assignment states that looseleaf is to be used, no other types of paper will be accepted (paper ripped out of notebooks or legal pads are unacceptable).

C. Friday, June 15 – No school.

D. Review Sheets   for the Reading Final Exam is posted.
Social Studies outline for review is listed below.
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*** Important: Past homework and classwork assignments will no longer be accepted.

Schedule of Final Exams:
Monday, 6/11- ELA
Tuesday, 6/12- Social Studies
Wednesday, 6/13- Math
Thursday, 6/14- Reading

HOMEWORK AND CLASSWORK FOR THIS WEEK

5th Grade Reading- 6/11/12

Classwork & Homework

1. Monday- Review for exams or read any story that you want to in your Reading text. You may bring a book from home to read silently during Reading if you would like to instead of Reading from your textbook.

2. Tuesday- Ring Ceremony

3. Wednesday- Review the vocabulary for the Reading Exam.

4. Thursday- Reading Exam

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6th Grade Reading- 6/11/12- 

 Classwork & Homework:

1. MondayReview for exams or read any story that you want to in your Reading text. You may bring a book from home to read silently during Reading if you would like to instead of Reading from your textbook.

2. Tuesday- Review for exams or read something silently.

3. Wednesday- Review vocabulary for the Reading Exam

4. Thursday- Reading Exam
                                               
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7th Grade Reading 6/11/12

Classwork & Homework:  

You may bring a book from home to read silently during Reading if you would like to do so after reviewing for exams.

1. Monday- ELA exam

2. Tuesday-Review for Social Studies Exam, especially the definitions and identifications.

3. Wednesday- Math Exam

4. Thursday- Reading Exam


7th Grade Social Studies

1. Continue to review Chapters 8-11 to make sure you are familiar with the material presented in each chapter.

2. Study all essay questions below and make sure that they are written in your SS notebook.

3. Know all of the vocabulary and identifications. Make sure you also have them written in your SS notebook.


Review for Social Studies Final Exam:

1. Make sure that you copied the 5 essay questions and answers below into your notebook. This was supposed to be done last week. I reposted them below in case you did not write them. These questions will be asked on the Final exam.

2. The following words are taken from Chapters 8-11 in your Social Studies textbook. Many of them are in your notebook already. Look for them and star them. Some are definitions and some are identifications. If there are any that you do not have, look for them in the glossary of the textbook or within the Chapters. You can look in the index to find out in what chapter them might be. Write these words down with their definitions, so you have everything in one place to review.


Final Exam Review for Grade 7 Social Studies:

Words to be identified or defined:
1. confederation
2. Articles of Confederation
3. Shay’s Rebellion
4. Northwest Ordinance
5. amendment
6. Virginia Plan
7. New Jersey Plan
8. Great Compromise
9. legislative branch
10. executive branch
11. judicial branch
12. Three-Fifths Compromise
13. ratify
14. federal government
15. Federalist
16. Anti- Federalist
17. Federalist Papers
18. Bill of Rights
19. revolution
20. elector
21. federal republic
22. inauguration
23. tariff
24. Cabinet
25. Judiciary Act of 1789
26. loose-interpretation
27. strict interpretation
28. Bank of the United States
29. political party
30. Federalist Party
31. Democratic-Republican Party
32. Whiskey Rebellion
33. nominate
34. caucus
35. Neutrality Proclamation
36. impress
37. Jay’s Treaty
38. Pinckney’s Treaty
39. XYZ Affair
40. White House
41. mint
42. patent
43. census
44. Alien and Sedition Acts
45. Wilderness Trail
46. township
47. Battle of Fallen Timbers
48. Treaty of Greenville
49. frontier
50. cede
51. Louisiana Purchase
52. Lewis and Clark expedition
53. Old Northwest
54. Old Southwest
55. Sacajawea
56. Zebulon Pike
57. Barbary States
58. neutral rights
59. Embargo Act
60. War hawks
61. national anthem
62. Treaty of Ghent
63. Hartford Convention
64. The Leopard
65. The Chesapeake
66. Tecumseh
67. Francis Scott Key
68. Virginia Dynasty
69. revenue
70. protective tariff
71. nationalism
72. Era of Good Feeling
73. Adams- Onis Treaty
74. Monroe Doctrine
75. Missouri Compromise
76. slave state
77. free state
78. favorite son
79. sectionalism
80. nullify
81. secession
82. depression
83. spoils system


Essay Questions:
1. Why did President Washington issue the Neutrality Proclamation?
Answer: President Washington issued a Proclamation of Neutrality because he knew that the United States was too weak to get involved in another war so soon after the War for Independence. This meant that the United States would not take sides in the war between France and Great Britain.

2a.Why did Tecumseh want the Indian tribes to organize?
2b.How was the Treaty of Greenville typical of the agreements signed by the American government and Indian tribes?
Answer: 2a. Tecumseh was the Chief of the Shawnee Tribe. He wanted to organize a great Indian alliance. He wanted to unite the Indians to prevent invasion of the western lands by white settlers.
2b. The Treaty of Greenville was typical of the agreement signed by the US government and Indian tribes because after a time it was broken by the settlers who invaded the Indian lands.

3. What were the main points of the Monroe Doctrine?
Answer: James Monroe issued a warning to the countries of Europe. This Monroe Doctrine has been called the American “declaration of independence from Europe”.  It promised European nations that they could keep whatever possessions they had in the western hemisphere as of 1823. They could not claim additional territory in this hemisphere. The United States would oppose any effort to extend the European system of rule by kings and queens to the western hemisphere. The United States, in return, promised not to interfere in events in any European country.

4a. How did John Quincy Adams become President?
4b. Why was his administration generally unsuccessful?
Answer: 4a.  In the Election of 1824, no one of the four candidates had a majority of the electoral votes. The Constitution stated that the House of Representatives should choose the President from the three leading candidates. Henry Clay was fourth and had to drop out. He supported Adams and Adams became President.
4b. Adams’ administration was generally unsuccessful because he entered office with corrupt-bargain charges. He lacked political skill. He raised tariffs and increased the price of public lands to raise money for internal improvements.

5a. How did the tariff issue turn into a nullification controversy in 1832?
5b.What was the result of the nullification controversy between South Carolina and the national government?
Answer: 5a. A higher tariff meant that southerners had to pay more for manufactured products. The South Carolina legislature protested this action by Congress. John C. Calhoun said that a state could nullify (cancel, veto) a national law within its own boundaries. The belief that a state could do this was called the nullification doctrine.
5b. The nullification controversy between South Carolina and the national government resulted in a compromise. The Compromise of 1833 was passed, tariff rates were lowered over a ten year period, and South Carolina accepted the Compromise of 1833.

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8th Grade Reading 6/11/12

You may bring a book from home to read silently during Reading if you would like to do so after reviewing for exams.

Classwork & Homework:

1.  Monday- ELA Exam

2. Tuesday- Review for Reading and SS Exams

3. Wednesday- Math Exam

4. Thursday- Reading Exam


8th Grade Social Studies

1. Continue to review Chapters 8-11 to make sure you are familiar with the material presented in each chapter.

2. Study all essay questions below and make sure that they are written in your SS notebook.

3. Know all of the vocabulary and identifications. Make sure you also have them written in your SS notebook.

Review for Social Studies Final Exam:

1. Make sure that you copied the 5 essay questions and answers below into your notebook. This was supposed to be done last week. I reposted them below in case you did not write them. These questions will be asked on the Final exam.

2. The following words are taken from Chapters 8-11 in your Social Studies textbook. Many of them are in your notebook already. Look for them and star them. Some are definitions and some are identifications. If there are any that you do not have, look for them in the glossary of the textbook or within the Chapters. You can look in the index to find out in what chapter them might be. Write these words down with their definitions, so you have everything in one place to review.


Final Exam Review for Grade 8 Social Studies:

Words to be identified or defined:
1. assembly line
2. consumer goods
3. consumer credit
4. Henry Ford
5. Marcus Garvey
6. prohibition
7. Harlem Renaissance
8. Charles Lindbergh
9. Red Scare
10. Radicals
11. Eighteenth Amendment
12. Nineteenth Amendment
13. stock market
14. speculation
15. Bonus Army
16. New Deal
17. bank holiday
18. fireside chat
19. Social Security
20. collective bargaining
21. Dust Bowl
22. industrial union
23. Mary McLeod Bethune
24. Frances Perkins
25. totalitarian
26. dictator
27. demilitarize
28. Axis powers
29. Neutrality Acts
30. General William (Billy) Mitchell
31. Benito Mussolini
32. Adolf Hitler
33. Joseph Stalin
34. blitzkrieg
35. isolationist
36. lend-lease
37. Atlantic Charter
38. Pearl Harbor
39. pacifist
40. D-day
41. genocide
42. concentration camp
43. Holocaust
44. island-hopping
45. Dwight Eisenhower
46. General Douglas Mac Arthur
47. Harry Truman
48. Hiroshima
49. Manhattan Project
50. total war
51. relocation center
52. rationing
53. Margaret Mead
54. United Nations
55. iron curtain
56. cold war
57. Yalta
58. containment
59. Truman Doctrine
60. Marshall Plan
61. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
62. stalemate
63. coexistence
64. summit conference
65. Eisenhower Doctrine
66. Peace Corps
67. Alliance for Progress
68. exile
69. hot line
70. Spirit of Geneva
71. Peace Corps
72. GI Bill of Rights
73. Green Revolution


Essay Questions:
1. How did the mass production of inexpensive automobiles affect American life?
Answer: The mass production of inexpensive automobiles affected American life by the way people worked and played. People could live farther from their places of work. This speeded the growth of suburbs around large cities. People could shop in places far from their own neighborhoods and travel long distances to places of interest.

The automobile helped make the 1920s a decade of prosperity. Auto factories employed hundreds of thousands of workers. Hundreds of thousands more were needed to make materials that went into the making of cars and new businesses sprang up. Also, governments spent billions of dollars on roads.

2. What did it mean to say that Roosevelt’s New Deal programs dealt with Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
Answer: Roosevelt’s programs dealt with Relief, Recovery, and Reform because Relief meant for providing help for the millions in need. Recovery meant helping businesses, farmers and workers recover from the depression and get back to prosperity. Reform had to do with long-term change. The aim of reform was not only to prevent future depressions, but also to better the lives of all Americans.

3. How did economic conditions and increasing nationalism lead to the rise of dictatorships in Europe?
Answer:  Economic conditions help lead to the rise of dictatorships in Europe because after World War I there was depression and unemployment. The dictators promised jobs and prosperity to the people. Nationalism helped lead to the rise of dictatorships in Europe because some countries were left with weak governments after World War I. In Germany and Italy the people believed that they did not receive all that they should have from the peace treaty. Mussolini and Hitler gained power by playing on the nationalistic pride of the citizens of their countries.

4. Why did President Truman decide to drop the atomic bomb on Japan?
Answer: President Truman had to make one of the most historic decisions of the war and even of human history. This was the decision to drop an atomic bomb on Japan. After he warned Japan to surrender or face prompt and complete destruction and received no reply, one American bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, and the whole city was almost wiped out. Some of Truman’s advisers opposed this action because they were afraid that unleashing this force might have terrible consequences for mankind. Truman, however, made his decision on military grounds. Military leaders believed that in order to defeat Japan the allies would have to invade it, costing at least one-half million American casualties. The atomic bomb Truman decided would end the war quickly.

5. How did the rapid growth in population help create new job opportunities?
Answer: The country’s rapid growth in population contributed to new job opportunities and economic growth because city and state governments had to spend more for schools, roads, hospitals, and police and fire services. This meant more jobs for the people. More jobs meant more people could afford homes. This created a demand for and the sale of more consumer goods.


Have a great week!