Week of February 1, 2016

Reminders:

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 note 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. Students in the 5th grade will have extended day classes each Monday from 3:00-5:00 for Math. 

F. Gym uniforms must be worn by 5th graders on Wednesdays for gym.

G. Students in the 5th grade will have extended day classes each Tuesday from 3:00-5:00 for Math. 

H. Open House- Tuesday,2/2 @ 9:00 AM-11:00 AM

I. Wednesday- Blessing of Throats 2:00 PM in the church

J. Friday,2/5 12:00 dismissal. Report Card distribution and Parent Teacher Conferences 1:00 PM – 7:00 PM. If your child doesn't receive his/her Report Card in school and your tuition is up to date, please come and pick up the Report Card between 1:00 PM – 7:00 PM.

Remember that homework and classwork count as a grade!
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HOMEWORK: For the Week of January 25- Module 3b Week 2

Homework for Grade 5:

The 5th Grade will be reading The Inuit Thought of It: Amazing Arctic Innovations by Alootook Ipellie and David MacDonald. Some students still have not purchased the book, and will therefore fall behind in the reading.

Reading Vocabulary for the week will be listed and defined in the Reading Vocabulary notebook under Module 3. All vocabulary words should be written on index cards and will be checked each Monday. The vocabulary word should be written on the front of the card with Module 3b written in the lower right corner. The definition from the notebook should be written neatly on the back of the card. Each Module’s vocabulary words should be kept in a separate Ziploc bag so the index cards do not get lost. The words should be reviewed every night because surprise quizzes will be given during the week. Remember these cards count as a grade!

***Please check the folder every day for Reading HW worksheets that will be distributed during the week. It is your responsibility to remember if papers are handed out during class!

Read pages 6-9 in The Inuit Thought of It: Amazing Arctic Innovations

African American History Month Project: due Monday, 2/22.
Create a powerpoint presentation about the famous African American person that you chose to research. Your presentation should contain 8-10 slides. You may add a video if you know how.Below is an outline of what your presentation should look like.

Slide 1: Title Page- Should include the name of your person, a picture of him/her, your name, grade, and date.

Slide 2: Introduction- Give a brief introduction about your person.

Slide 3: Birth and Childhood- Discuss where and when your person was born; Who were his parents? Did he/she have any siblings (brothers or sisters?Where did he /she go to school?

Slide 4: Teen years and Early adulthood- Did your person complete high school? college? What was his/her life like as a teenager? What was his/her occupation? 

Slide 5: Marriage/children- Did your person get married? have children?
Any other important details about family can be added here.

Slide 6: Later life/death- What did your person do when he/she got older? Where/ when did he/she die?

Slide 7: Why was your person considered important to African American History?- Discuss your person's contributions, problems/difficulties, and anything else that you feel that added to his/her importance.

Slides 8 and 9: Extras- Any other information that you may want to add, or if you need more than one slide for any of the categories.

Slide 10: Bibliography- What sources did you use? You can add a video, but it is optional.

There be no more that two sentences on each slide. Each slide should contain a picture or chart/graph, and your notes to discuss each slide can be either on index cards or looseleaf. You are to teach the class about your person, so it is important that you practice beforehand. Know your material because your classmates might want to ask you questions! If you need help or have a question, please see me before the project is due. There will be no extensions given. All projects are due on 2/22.


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Homework for Grade 6

The 6th Grade will be reading a World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky and Flush by Carl Hiassen.

Reading Vocabulary for the week will be listed and defined in the Reading Vocabulary notebook. All vocabulary words should be written on index cards and will be checked each Monday. The vocabulary word should be written on the front of the card with Module 3b written in the lower right corner. The definition from the notebook should be written neatly on the back of the card. Each Module’s vocabulary words should be kept in a separate Ziploc bag so the index cards do not get lost. The words should be reviewed every night because surprise quizzes will be given during the week. Remember these cards count as a grade!

***Please check the folder every day for Reading HW worksheets that will be distributed during the week. It is your responsibility to remember if papers are handed out during class!

Please follow the reading dates on the paper that was handed out last week. The foreword, prologue, and Chapters one and two should be read in A World Without Fish and Chapters 1 and 2  in Flush should be read by Monday, 2/8.

African American History Month Project: due Monday, 2/22.
Create a powerpoint presentation about the famous African American person that you chose to research. Your presentation should contain 8-10 slides. You may add a video if you know how.Below is an outline of what your presentation should look like.

Slide 1: Title Page- Should include the name of your person, a picture of him/her, your name, grade, and date.

Slide 2: Introduction- Give a brief introduction about your person.

Slide 3: Birth and Childhood- Discuss where and when your person was born; Who were his parents? Did he/she have any siblings (brothers or sisters?Where did he /she go to school?

Slide 4: Teen years and Early adulthood- Did your person complete high school? college? What was his/her life like as a teenager? What was his/her occupation? 

Slide 5: Marriage/children- Did your person get married? have children?
Any other important details about family can be added here.

Slide 6: Later life/death- What did your person do when he/she got older? Where/ when did he/she die?

Slide 7: Why was your person considered important to African American History?- Discuss your person's contributions, problems/difficulties, and anything else that you feel that added to his/her importance.

Slides 8 and 9: Extras- Any other information that you may want to add, or if you need more than one slide for any of the categories.

Slide 10: Bibliography- What sources did you use? You can add a video, but it is optional.

There be no more that two sentences on each slide. Each slide should contain a picture or chart/graph, and your notes to discuss each slide can be either on index cards or looseleaf. You are to teach the class about your person, so it is important that you practice beforehand. Know your material because your classmates might want to ask you questions! If you need help or have a question, please see me before the project is due. There will be no extensions given. All projects are due on 2/22.


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Homework for Grade 7

Reading:

The 7th grade will be reading articles for this Module. Please keep up with the readings that you are given to read at home.

Reading Vocabulary for the week will be listed and defined in the Reading Vocabulary notebook. All vocabulary words should be written on index cards and will be checked each Monday. The vocabulary word should be written on the front of the card with Module 3b written in the lower right corner. The definition from the notebook should be written neatly on the back of the card. Each Module’s vocabulary words should be kept in a separate Ziploc bag so the index cards do not get lost. The words should be reviewed every night because surprise quizzes will be given during the week. Remember these cards count as a grade!

***Please check the folder every day for Reading HW worksheets that will be distributed during the week. It is your responsibility to remember if papers are handed out during class!

African American History Month Project: due Monday, 2/22.
Create a powerpoint presentation about the famous African American person that you chose to research. Your presentation should contain 8-10 slides. You may add a video if you know how.Below is an outline of what your presentation should look like.

Slide 1: Title Page- Should include the name of your person, a picture of him/her, your name, grade, and date.

Slide 2: Introduction- Give a brief introduction about your person.

Slide 3: Birth and Childhood- Discuss where and when your person was born; Who were his parents? Did he/she have any siblings (brothers or sisters?Where did he /she go to school?

Slide 4: Teen years and Early adulthood- Did your person complete high school? college? What was his/her life like as a teenager? What was his/her occupation? 

Slide 5: Marriage/children- Did your person get married? have children?
Any other important details about family can be added here.

Slide 6: Later life/death- What did your person do when he/she got older? Where/ when did he/she die?

Slide 7: Why was your person considered important to African American History?- Discuss your person's contributions, problems/difficulties, and anything else that you feel that added to his/her importance.

Slides 8 and 9: Extras- Any other information that you may want to add, or if you need more than one slide for any of the categories.

Slide 10: Bibliography- What sources did you use? You can add a video, but it is optional.

There be no more that two sentences on each slide. Each slide should contain a picture or chart/graph, and your notes to discuss each slide can be either on index cards or looseleaf. You are to teach the class about your person, so it is important that you practice beforehand. Know your material because your classmates might want to ask you questions! If you need help or have a question, please see me before the project is due. There will be no extensions given. All projects are due on 2/22.

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7th Grade Social Studies

Module 3: The American Revolution-Independence

Homework:

Monday,2/1- Write all vocabulary for the week and their definitions into your Social Studies Vocabulary Notebook. Due Wednesday, 2/3.

Vocabulary for the Week:
Francis Marion, Comte de Rochambeau, Battle of Yorktown, Treaty of Paris 1783, brigade, devastation, guerilla warfare, negotiations, pitted

Tuesday,2/2- Read pages 135-139 (carefully) in your textbook. Complete questions 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3a on page 139. Complete on looseleaf with a full heading. There should be no crossing out!!!!!! Due Thursday, 2/4.

New Map of the Month is due February 25.
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Homework for Grade 8:

Reading:

The 8th Grade will be reading A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School by Carlotta Walls La Nier and Lisa Frazier Page and the Little Rock Girl 1957: How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration by Shelley Tougas. Many students have still not purchased the books, and will therefore fall behind in their reading.

Reading Vocabulary for the week will be listed and defined in the Reading Vocabulary notebook. All vocabulary words should be written on index cards and will be checked each Monday. The vocabulary word should be written on the front of the card with Module 3b written in the lower right corner. The definition from the notebook should be written neatly on the back of the card. Each Module’s vocabulary words should be kept in a separate Ziploc bag so the index cards do not get lost. The words should be reviewed every night because surprise quizzes will be given during the week. Remember these cards count as a grade!


***Please check the folder every day for Reading HW worksheets that will be distributed during the week. It is your responsibility to remember if papers are handed out during class!

Please follow the reading dates on the paper that was handed out last week. Chapter 1 and 2 should be read in A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School and Chapter 1 should be read in the Little Rock Girl 1957: How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration.

African American History Month Project: due Monday, 2/22.
Create a powerpoint presentation about the famous African American person that you chose to research. Your presentation should contain 8-10 slides. You may add a video if you know how.Below is an outline of what your presentation should look like.

Slide 1: Title Page- Should include the name of your person, a picture of him/her, your name, grade, and date.

Slide 2: Introduction- Give a brief introduction about your person.

Slide 3: Birth and Childhood- Discuss where and when your person was born; Who were his parents? Did he/she have any siblings (brothers or sisters?Where did he /she go to school?

Slide 4: Teen years and Early adulthood- Did your person complete high school? college? What was his/her life like as a teenager? What was his/her occupation? 

Slide 5: Marriage/children- Did your person get married? have children?
Any other important details about family can be added here.

Slide 6: Later life/death- What did your person do when he/she got older? Where/ when did he/she die?

Slide 7: Why was your person considered important to African American History?- Discuss your person's contributions, problems/difficulties, and anything else that you feel that added to his/her importance.

Slides 8 and 9: Extras- Any other information that you may want to add, or if you need more than one slide for any of the categories.

Slide 10: Bibliography- What sources did you use? You can add a video, but it is optional.

There be no more that two sentences on each slide. Each slide should contain a picture or chart/graph, and your notes to discuss each slide can be either on index cards or looseleaf. You are to teach the class about your person, so it is important that you practice beforehand. Know your material because your classmates might want to ask you questions! If you need help or have a question, please see me before the project is due. There will be no extensions given. All projects are due on 2/22.

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8th Grade Social Studies  

Module 3: America as a World Power- World War I (1867-1920)

Homework:

Monday,2/1- Write all vocabulary for the week and their definitions into your Social Studies Vocabulary Notebook. Due Wednesday, 2/3

Vocabulary for the Week:
resolution, commodore, precedent, casualty,

Tuesday,2/2- Read pages 697-702 in your textbook. Complete questions 1a, 1b, 1c, 2a, 2b on page 702. Complete on looseleaf with a full heading. There should be no crossing out!!!! Due Thursday, 2/4.

New Map of the Month is due February 25.                            
                                

                               Have a great week!