Week of June 2, 2014

Reminders:
1. These are a few reminders concerning homework and classwork:
              
A. All work must be completed in blue or black ink (other colors will not be accepted).  

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 is unacceptable).
   
C. Homework must be handed in on the day due, unless I receive a not from a parent explaining why you did not complete your HW. This will only be accepted if there is an emergency at home (not because you were too tired or that you had too much other HW). 

D. Homework and classwork must be neat. Work that is sloppy or illegible will not be accepted.

E. Friday, June 6 12:00 Dismissal- Faculty Meeting

F.June calendar will be sent home today.

G. Review Sheets for Final Exams will be distributed by Mr. Woods on Wednesday 6/4.

Remember that homework and classwork count as a grade!
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HOMEWORK: For the Week of June 2- Unit 6 Week 6

Grade 5 is reading Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech for Unit 6.

Lesson Plans

Homework:

Monday- Read Chapters 32-37 in Walk Two Moons.

Tuesday- Reading Vocabulary and Questions for last week is due tomorrow (Tuesday).
Vocabulary and Questions for this week will be due next Tuesday, 6/10.

Reading Vocabulary

Reading Question

Unit 6 Project on an American Indian tribe, a famous Native American Indian, or a famous American Pioneer is due on June 9.
You will be presenting this as a lesson, just as the last project. You can do a Powerpoint or Prezi.
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Grade 6 is reading Dragonwings by Laurence Yep for Unit 6.

Lesson Plans:

Homework:

Monday- Read Chapters 11 and 12 in Dragonwings.

Tuesday- Reading Vocabulary and Questions for last week is due tomorrow (Tuesday).

Vocabulary and Questions for this week will be due next Tuesday, 6/10.

Reading Vocabulary

Reading Questions

Unit 6 Project on “Flying” is due on June 9.
You will be presenting this as a lesson that you are teaching the class, so a PowerPoint or Prezi is required.

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Grade 7 is reading The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper for Unit 6.

Lesson Plans:

Homework:

Monday- Read Part Three: The King of Fire and Water and The Hunt Rides (pgs. 236-277) in The Dark is Rising.

Tuesday- Reading Vocabulary and Questions for last week is due tomorrow (Tuesday).
Vocabulary and Questions for this week will be due next Tuesday, 6/10.

Reading Vocabulary

Reading Questions


7th Grade Social Studies-

Lesson Plans

Homework: Chapter 10 The Jacksonian Era (1824-1840)

For Tuesday 6/3- Read pgs. 358-369. On page 362, answer questions 2, 3 and on page 369 answer questions 1, 4.

For Friday 6/6- Read pages 476-490. On looseleaf:
On page 481, answer questions 1 and 2
Page 486, answer question 4
Page 490, answer question 4

Vocabulary for the week
Force Bill  depression  spoils system  political democracy  Trail of Tears  suffrage  women’s rights  49th parallel  mountain men  manifest destiny  forty niner  Compromise of 1850  Fugitive Slave Law  Underground Railroad

Unit 6 Project for Reading/Social Studies due June 9. PowerPoint, Prezi, documentaries, and websites are acceptable as methods of presentation.
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Grade 8 is reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton for Unit 6.

Lesson Plans:

Homework:

Monday- Read Chapters 11 and the interview with S.E. Hinton in The Outsiders.

Tuesday- - Reading Vocabulary and Questions for last week is due tomorrow (Tuesday).
Vocabulary and Questions for this week will be due next Tuesday, 6/10.

Reading Vocabulary

Reading Questions


8th Grade Social Studies

Lesson Plans:

Homework: The Reagan Years (1981-1988)

Chapter 14 Review

Vocabulary Review 1-10. Write each statement. If it is true, write true. If it is false, write false and rewrite the statement correctly on looseleaf.

Chapter Checkup Questions 3 and 4

Due Friday, June 6.

Vocabulary for the week
pesticide   ecology    urban designer    keynote speaker  inflation     nonviolent resistance     exile      trade deficit     terrorism  

Unit 6 Project for Reading/Social Studies due June 9.
PowerPoint, Prezi, documentary, and websites are acceptable as methods of presentation.


                                 Have a great week!