6th Grade Review Sheet for the Final Exam in Reading


Reading Final Exam is on Wednesday, June 15th 

Module 1:  Myths: Just Not Long Ago

Module Focus: Becoming a close reader and writing to learn 

Book (s) read for the Module: The Lightning Thief

Description: Students studied the purposes and elements of mythology.  The students read Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief with a focus on the archetypal hero’s journey and close reading of the many mythical allusions. They also read complex informational texts about the elements of mythology.

Vocabulary: All definitions can be found in the Reading Vocabulary Notebook

gist, prophecy, dread, fate, stunning, hallucinate, delinquents, inference, irritable, evidence, conjugate, solstice, dyslexic, resent, stalk, broad, deceit, immortal, solemnity, reflect

**Please make sure that you have done the required reading and any articles in your reading folder. Bring your reading folder and books for this Module with you for the Exam.
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Module 2: Voices of Adversity

Module Focus: Working with Evidence (Drama)

Book(s) read for the Module: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village

Description: Students explored the idea of adversity of people across time and place, and through multiple modes of writing. The students began the module with a research-based unit on the Middle Ages. Students then read literature: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, in order to identify the various adversities faced by this cast of characters and to examine the author’s craft. As a whole class, students closely read several articles about the Middle Ages, and then worked in small groups to conduct their own research on the Middle Ages.

Vocabulary:  All definitions can be found in the Reading Vocabulary Notebook

adversity, manor, lords, peasants, livestock, famine, plague, crusade, martyred, atone, perished, serf, landholding, fief, allegiance, alliance, feudal, peddler, descendants, tithe, scarce, gruel, self-sufficient, jousts, vestments

**Please make sure that you have done the required reading and any articles in your reading folder. Bring your reading folder and books for this Module with you for the Exam.
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Module 3:  Sustaining the Oceans

Module Focus: Understanding perspectives

Book (s) read for the Module: World Without Fish and Flush

Description: In this module, students studied how an author develops point of view and how an author’s perspective, based on his or her geographic location, is evident in his or her writing. Students looked at point of view as they learned about ocean conservation and the impact of human activities on life in the oceans. Through close reading, students will learn multiple strategies for acquiring and using academic vocabulary. The students read Mark Kurlansky’s World without Fish, a literary nonfiction text about fish depletion in the world’s oceans. They analyzed how point of view and perspective is conveyed in excerpts of the text and trace the idea of fish depletion in both the main text and the graphic novel at the end of each chapter to describe how the idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated on in the text. The students also read Carl Hiaasen’s Flush, a novel about a casino boat that is polluting the ocean and the effort of a family to stop it.

Vocabulary: All definitions can be found in the Reading Vocabulary Notebook

generation, considerate, evolution, unforeseen, elaborate, extinct, reproduce, unprecedented, decline, culprits, trawler, exposition, krill, grave, cataclysm, lucrative, misconception, myth, aquatic species, ecosystem

**Please make sure that you have done the required reading and any articles in your reading folder. Bring your reading folder and books for this Module with you for the Exam.
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Module 4: Insecticides: Costs vs. Benefits

Module Focus: Reading for research and writing an argument

Book(s) read for the Module: Frightful’s Mountain

Description:  In Module 4, the students explored the benefits and harmful consequences of the use of the controversial pesticide DDT. They began reading the novel Frightful’s Mountain by Jean Craighead George. Close reading was used in order to practice the skills of citing evidence and drawing inferences from the text as they thought about the interactions between people and the natural world. They also read some informational texts and watched videos to gather evidence and trace arguments about the uses, benefits, and harmful consequences of DDT, its effects on the environment, and its use in the battle against malaria.

Vocabulary:  All definitions can be found in the Reading Vocabulary Notebook

sequel, talons, perch, prey, jesses, predators, tiercel, interdependence, annotate, pesticide, DDT, brooded, preen, malaria, claim, residue, leukemia, parasites, toxic, tolerate, vaccine, plasmodium, pollution, conservation, synthetic

**Please make sure that you have done the required reading and any articles in your reading folder. Bring your reading folder and books for this Module with you for the Exam.


5th Grade Review Sheet for the Final Exam in Reading


Reading Final Exam is on Wednesday, June 15th

Module 1:  Stories of Human Rights

Module Focus: Becoming a close reader and writing to learn

Book (s) read for the Module: Esperanza Rising and the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (article located in the Reading Folder) 

Description: What are human rights, and how do real people and fictional characters respond when those rights are challenged? Students read the introduction and selected articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), paired with firsthand accounts of real people facing human rights challenges. They then read Esperanza Rising, and applied their new learning about human rights as one way to interpret character and theme.

Vocabulary: All definitions can be found in the Reading Vocabulary Notebook

human rights, dignity, preamble, entitled, introduction, vineyard, setting, slopes, gazing, resounding, character, historical fiction, premonition, stubborn, bandits, beacon, conscience, constitution, excluded, vicious

**Please make sure that you have done the required reading and any articles in your reading folder. Bring your reading folder and books for this Module with you for the Exam.
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Module 2: Inventions that Changed People’s Lives

Module Focus: Researching to build knowledge and teaching others

Book(s) read for the Module: Investigating the Scientific Method with Max Axiom, Super Scientist and The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth. Make sure that you review the lessons/articles in your reading folder.

Description: Students learned about new or improved technologies that have been developed to meet societal needs and how those inventions have changed people’s lives. Students read the graphic novel Investigating the Scientific Method with Max Axiom, Super Scientist as well as several informational articles about inventions in order to write a short opinion paragraph about which of the inventions they learned about has been most important to people and why. Students concluded the module by conducting research about an inventor of their choice.

Vocabulary:  All definitions can be found in the Reading Vocabulary Notebook
technology, engage, complex, graphic novel, random, genre, levee,  
procedure, scientific method, pollution, expert,  compare, contrast, struggled, transport, reliable, support, sequence, investigate, overwhelming

**Please make sure that you have done the required reading and any articles in your reading folder. Bring your reading folder and books for this Module with you for the Exam.
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Module 3:  Balancing Competing Needs in Canada

Module Focus: Considering Perspectives and Supporting Opinions

Book (s) read for the Module: The Inuit Thought of It: Amazing Arctic Innovations

Description: In this module, students explore how native Inuit and other people of Canada have used the natural resources available to meet their needs.    The students read The Inuit Thought of It: Amazing Arctic Innovations, by Alootook Ipellie with David MacDonald, and learned about how the native Inuit people of Canada used natural resources in the Arctic to adapt and meet the needs of their community hundreds of years ago.

Vocabulary: All definitions can be found in the Reading Vocabulary Notebook

adapt, needs, available, extinguished, insulation, scarce, artificial, store, effective, remedies, synonymous, variety, crafted, resources, complex, prevent, valuable, damage, Inuit, convey

**Please make sure that you have done the required reading and any articles in your reading folder. Bring your reading folder and books for this Module with you for the Exam.
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Module 4: Natural Disasters in the Western Hemisphere

Module Focus: Gathering Evidence and Speaking to Others

Book(s) read for the Module: Dark Water Rising
Make sure that you review the lessons/articles in your reading folder.

Description: The fourth module of engages students in a high-interest topic—natural disasters—with a literacy focus on point of view in literature, research, opinion writing, and public speaking. The module integrates science content (about extreme natural events) with a Social Studies focus on the Western Hemisphere and the role of multinational organizations. Students read about the science behind natural disasters, specifically earthquakes and hurricanes. They also read literature that is set during a natural disaster. They consider what they can learn from literature about natural disasters and their impact on the people who experience them.

Vocabulary:  All definitions can be found in the Reading Vocabulary Notebook

natural disaster, influence, chronological, inference, interior, condenses, inland, tropical cyclone, unstable, determine, reflect, converge, interpreted, distinguish, devastating, intensity, stamina, seismograph, earthquake, volcano


**Please make sure that you have done the required reading and any articles in your reading folder. Bring your reading folder and books for this Module with you for the Exam. 

Week of May 30, 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. Gym uniforms must be worn by 5th graders on Wednesdays for gym.

F. Tomorrow (Tuesday) is the May Procession. All students should be in uniform and have a set of Rosary Beads.

G. Thursday, 6/2 will be a 12:00 dismissal due to a Faculty Meeting.

H. There will be no school on Friday, 6/3.

Remember that homework and classwork count as a grade!
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HOMEWORK: For the Week of May 30, 2016

Homework for Grade 5:

****** Book for Module 4 (last book of the year) Dark Water Rising by Marian Hale. Please finish the book.

All new vocabulary words must be written on index cards. The word must be written on the front of the card and the definition written on the back. Module 4 must be written on the front of the card, bottom right side. The cards will be collected every Monday. Please bring your Reading folder to class every day!

******A review sheet will be posted on the blog for Reading by the end of the week. Please start reviewing for the Final Exam by next week. There is a lot of material to review.
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Homework for Grade 6

****** Book for Module 4 (last book of the year) Frightful’s Mountain by Jean Craighead George. Please finish the book.

All new vocabulary words must be written on index cards. The word must be written on the front of the card and the definition written on the back. Module 4 must be written on the front of the card, bottom right side. The cards will be collected every Monday. Please bring your Reading folder to class every day!

******A review sheet will be posted on the blog for Reading by the end of the week. Please start reviewing for the Final Exam by next week. There is a lot of material to review.
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Homework for Grade 7

Reading:
****** Book for Module 4 (last book of the year) The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water by Charles Fishman. Please finish the book.

All new vocabulary words must be written on index cards. The word must be written on the front of the card and the definition written on the back. Module 4 must be written on the front of the card, bottom right side. The cards will be collected every Monday. Please bring your Reading folder to class every day!

******A review sheet will be posted on the blog for Reading by the end of the week. Please start reviewing for the Final Exam by next week. There is a lot of material to review.
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7th Grade Social Studies

The New Republic (1800-1855)

Homework:

Map of the Month (New York) is due Wednesday, June 15.

Vocabulary for the Week:
circumstances, Rush-Bagot Agreement, Convention of 1818, James Monroe, Adams-Onis Treaty, Simon Bolivar, Monroe Doctrine, incentive, nationalism, Henry Clay, American System, Cumberland Road, Erie Canal, Era of Good Feelings, sectionalism, Missouri Compromise, John Quincy Adams

Monday- Copy all words into your Vocabulary Notebook. Due Thursday, 6/2

Tuesday- Read pages 298-305. Answer questions 1a,3a on page 301. Also, answer questions 2a,2b, and 2c on page 305. Complete on looseleaf. Restate the question in the answer. Due Monday, 6/6.

******A review sheet will be posted on the blog for Social Studies by the end of the week. Please start reviewing for the Final Exam by next week. There is a lot of material to review.
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Homework for Grade 8:

Reading:
Book for Module 4 (last book of the year) The Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat by Michael Pollan.  Please finish reading the rest of the book.
All new vocabulary words must be written on index cards. The word must be written on the front of the card and the definition written on the back. Module 4 must be written on the front of the card, bottom right side. The cards will be collected every Monday. Please bring your Reading folder to class every day!

******A review sheet will be posted on the blog for Reading by the end of the week. Please start reviewing for the Final Exam by next week. There is a lot of material to review.
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8th Grade Social Studies  

World War II (1938-1945)

Homework:

Map of the Month (New York) is due Wednesday, June 15.

Vocabulary for the Week:
intellectual, scapegoat, totalitarianism, Benito Mussolini, fascism, Adolf Hitler, Nazis, Joseph Stalin, Axis Powers, appeasement, Winston Churchill, Allied Powers, Lend-Lease Act, Pearl Harbor, rations, solidarity, Tuskegee Airmen, internment, zoot-suit riots, War Production Board, A. Philip Randolph, Benjamin O. Davis Jr.

Monday- Copy all words into your Vocabulary Notebook. Due Thursday, 6/2

Tuesday- Read pages 804-814. Answer questions 1a,2a, and 3a on page 809, and questions 1a and 3b on page 814. Complete on looseleaf. Restate the question in the answer. Due Monday, 6/5.

******A review sheet will be posted on the blog for Social Studies by the end of the week. Please start reviewing for the Final Exam by next week. There is a lot of material to review.


   

                                    Have a great week!

Week of May 23, 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. Gym uniforms must be worn by 5th graders on Wednesdays for gym.

F. Please sign and return the Progress Report by tomorrow.

G. No school Friday, 5/27 and Monday, 5/30 (Memorial Day).

H. Fifth Grade should be in full uniform on Tuesday, 5/31 for the May Procession. The children should also bring Rosary Beads.

Remember that homework and classwork count as a grade!
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HOMEWORK: For the Week of May 23, 2016

Homework for Grade 5:

****** Book for Module 4 (last book of the year) Dark Water Rising by Marian Hale. Please read Chapters 23-25 by next week.

All new vocabulary words must be written on index cards. The word must be written on the front of the card and the definition written on the back. Module 4 must be written on the front of the card, bottom right side. The cards will be collected every Monday. Please bring your Reading folder to class every day!
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Homework for Grade 6

****** Book for Module 4 (last book of the year) Frightful’s Mountain by Jean Craighead George. Please read pages 211-226 by next week.

All new vocabulary words must be written on index cards. The word must be written on the front of the card and the definition written on the back. Module 4 must be written on the front of the card, bottom right side. The cards will be collected every Monday. Please bring your Reading folder to class every day!

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Homework for Grade 7

Reading:
****** Book for Module 4 (last book of the year) The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water by Charles Fishman. Please read Chapter 9 by next week.

All new vocabulary words must be written on index cards. The word must be written on the front of the card and the definition written on the back. Module 4 must be written on the front of the card, bottom right side. The cards will be collected every Monday. Please bring your Reading folder to class every day!
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7th Grade Social Studies

The New Republic (1800-1855)

Homework:

Map of the Month (New York) is due Wednesday, June 15.

Vocabulary for the Week:
USS Constitution impressment, embargo, Embargo Act, Non-Intercourse Act, Tecumseh, Battle of Tippecanoe, War Hawks, James Madison, brazen, neutrality, Northwest Territory, petitions, repeal, consequences, Oliver Hazard Perry, Battle of Lake Erie, Andrew Jackson, Treaty of Fort Jackson, Battle of New Orleans, Hartford Convention, Treaty of Ghent

Monday- Copy all words into your Vocabulary Notebook. Due Thursday, 5/26

Tuesday- Read pages 278-289. Answer questions 1a and 2b on page 283. Also, answer questions 1a and 1b on page 287. Complete on looseleaf. Restate the question in the answer. Due Thursday, 5/26.

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Homework for Grade 8:

Reading:
Book for Module 4 (last book of the year) The Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat by Michael Pollan.  Please read pages 211-253 by next week.

All new vocabulary words must be written on index cards. The word must be written on the front of the card and the definition written on the back. Module 4 must be written on the front of the card, bottom right side. The cards will be collected every Monday. Please bring your Reading folder to class every day!
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8th Grade Social Studies  

The Great Depression (1929-1939)

Homework:

Map of the Month (New York) is due Wednesday, June 15.

Vocabulary for the Week:
Mortgage, Dust Bowl, Mary McLeod Bethune, John Steinbeck, Woody Guthrie,

Monday- Copy all words into your Vocabulary Notebook. Due Thursday, 5/26

Tuesday- Read pages 790- 799MC1 and 799MC2. Answer questions 1-4on page 797 (write questions and answers), and questions 6c, 7a, and 7c on page 798. Complete on looseleaf. Restate the question in the answer. Due Thursday, 5/26.

   

                                 Have a great week!

Week of May 16, 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. Gym uniforms must be worn by 5th graders on Wednesdays for gym.

F. Friday, May 20th there will be a 12:00 dismissal. Progress Reports will also be sent home with your child. Please sign and return on Monday.

Remember that homework and classwork count as a grade!
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HOMEWORK: For the Week of May 16, 2016

Homework for Grade 5:

****** Book for Module 4 (last book of the year) Dark Water Rising by Marian Hale. Please read Chapters 19-22 by next week.

All new vocabulary words must be written on index cards. The word must be written on the front of the card and the definition written on the back. Module 4 must be written on the front of the card-bottom right side. The cards will be collected every Monday. Please bring your Reading folder to class every day!
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Homework for Grade 6

****** Book for Module 4 (last book of the year) Frightful’s Mountain by Jean Craighead George. Please read pages 172-210 by next week.

All new vocabulary words must be written on index cards. The word must be written on the front of the card and the definition written on the back. Module 4 must be written on the front of the card-bottom right side. The cards will be collected every Monday. Please bring your Reading folder to class every day!

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Homework for Grade 7

Reading:
****** Book for Module 4 (last book of the year) The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water by Charles Fishman. Please read Chapter 8 by next week.

All new vocabulary words must be written on index cards. The word must be written on the front of the card and the definition written on the back. Module 4 must be written on the front of the card-bottom right side. The cards will be collected every Monday. Please bring your Reading folder to class every day!
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7th Grade Social Studies

The New Republic (1800-1855)

Homework:

Map of the Month (Europe) is due Wednesday, May 18.

Vocabulary for the Week:
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, judicial review, functions, Louisiana Purchase, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Lewis and Clark expedition, Sacagawea, Zebulon Pike, surveying, strict constructionist

Monday- Copy all words into your Vocabulary Notebook. Due Thursday, 5/19

Wednesday- Read pages 266-277. Answer questions 1a and 2a on page 270. Also, answer questions 2a and 2b on page 277. Complete on looseleaf. Restate the question in the answer. Due Friday, 5/20.
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Homework for Grade 8:

Reading:
Book for Module 4 (last book of the year) The Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat by Michael Pollan.  Please read pages 175-210 by next week.

All new vocabulary words must be written on index cards. The word must be written on the front of the card and the definition written on the back. Module 4 must be written on the front of the card- bottom right side. The cards will be collected every Monday. Please bring your Reading folder to class every day!
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8th Grade Social Studies  

The Great Depression (1929-1939)

Homework:

Map of the Month (Europe) is due Wednesday, May 18.

Vocabulary for the Week:
New Deal, fireside chats, Tennessee Valley Authority, Frances Perkins, Eleanor Roosevelt, Social Security Act, Congress of Industrial Organizations, sit-down strike, authority

Monday- Copy all words into your Vocabulary Notebook. Due Thursday, 5/19

Wednesday- Answer questions 1a,1b, and 3a on page 782, and questions 1b, 3b on page 789. Complete on looseleaf. Restate the question in the answer. Due Friday, 5/20

   

                                 Have a great week!