Reminders:
1. Please check Mr. Woods’ blog for information about new school hours, Catholic School Week, Report Card distribution, Parent/Teacher Conferences and other announcements.
2. Fifth grade need to wear gym uniforms every Wednesday.
3. All students need to be in full school uniforms on Tuesday, 1/31 (no gym uniforms). Pictures will be taken for the school website, and anyone not in uniform will not be allowed to be in any of the pictures.
4. Please check the blog and Google Classroom for updated homework assignments or announcements.
5. 12:00 dismissal on Friday, 2/3 due to Parent/Teacher conferences from 3:00 PM-8:00 PM.
Remember that homework and classwork count as a grade!
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Week of January 30, 2017- Module 3 Week 1
HOMEWORK GRADE 5
For Module 3, the fifth grade will be reading Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America by Sharon Robinson. (Scholastic, 2004) $13.50 You can purchase or order the book yourself. We will be starting Module 3 next week. If I ordered the book for you, the money is due ASAP.
Start reading your book as soon as you get it! I will list pages as soon as all the books are given out this week.
Achieve 3000 is assigned each week to help improve the children’s vocabulary and comprehension skills. The children should complete any assignments (activities or thought questions) that are not completed during class. They can also get extra review by completing the stretch activities for the story that they have worked on in class. The Activity and Thought Question must be completed every week because they are counted as a grade!
Write all new vocabulary on index cards. Words will not be accepted if they are not in a bag! Please keep Module 1 and 2 index cards in a safe place so you will have them for the Final Exam. You can keep them at home until we start to review. You will need a new Ziploc bag and index cards for Module 3.
SOCIAL STUDIES:
Please check daily for Homework in Social Studies.
Monday: Define the words below using the glossary in the back of the back or within the chapter. Write them in the Social Studies. Due Wednesday, 2/1.
Tuesday: Read pages 154-159 in textbook. On page 158, answer questions 1, 2, 3, 4 on loose-leaf. Remember to write a full heading on the loose-leaf and restate the question in the answer. Due Thursday,2/2.
Wednesday:
New Vocabulary:
raw material, stock, cash crop, profit, indentured servant, legislature, represent, royal colony
Map of Canada will be due on Wednesday, February 15.
Start working on your topic for African American Heritage Month. More information will be added to the blog and to Google Classroom during the week.
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HOMEWORK GRADE 6
For Module 3, the sixth grade will be reading two books- World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky, Frank Stockton (Illustrator), $11 and Flush by Carl Hiaasen, $7.50. You can purchase or order the book yourself. We will be starting Module 3 next week. If I ordered the book for you, the money is due ASAP.
Start reading your book as soon as you get it! I will list pages as soon as all the books are given out this week.
Achieve 3000 is assigned each week to help improve the children’s vocabulary and comprehension skills. The children should complete any assignments (activities or thought questions) that are not completed during class. They can also get extra review by completing the stretch activities for the story that they have worked on in class. The Activity and Thought Question must be completed every week because they are counted as a grade!
Write all new vocabulary on index cards. Words will not be accepted if they are not in a bag! Please keep Module 1 and 2 index cards in a safe place so you will have them for the Final Exam. You can keep them at home until we start to review. You will need a new Ziploc bag and index cards for Module 3.
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HOMEWORK GRADE 7
For Module 3, the seventh grade will be reading Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass $6.50. You can purchase or order the book yourself. We will be starting Module 3 next week. If I ordered the book for you, the money is due ASAP.
Start reading your book as soon as you get it! I will list pages as soon as all the books are given out this week.
Achieve 3000 is assigned each week to help improve the children’s vocabulary and comprehension skills. The children should complete any assignments (activities or thought questions) that are not completed during class. They can also get extra review by completing the stretch activities for the story that they have worked on in class. The Activity and Thought Question must be completed every week because they are counted as a grade!
Write all new vocabulary on index cards. Words will not be accepted if they are not in a bag! Please keep Module 1 and 2 index cards in a safe place so you will have them for the Final Exam. You can keep them at home until we start to review. You will need a new Ziploc bag and index cards for Module 3.
SOCIAL STUDIES-
American Revolution begins 1774-1783
Monday- Define the words below using the glossary in the back of the back or within the chapter. Write them in the vocabulary notebook. Due Thursday, 2/2.
Tuesday- Read pages 118-125 in the textbook. On page 121, answer questions 1b, 2a, 2b, 3b on loose-leaf. Remember to write a full heading on the loose-leaf and restate the question in the answer. Due Friday,2/3.
New Vocabulary:
Common Sense, Thomas Paine, Declaration of Independence,
Thomas Jefferson, Loyalists
Copy into notebook:
1. anonymously- without giving a name
2. Enlightenment-movement during the 1700s that emphasized the use of reason.
3. ideal- guiding standard or principle
4. social contract- agreement between the people and the government
5. tyranny- abuse of government power
6. unalienable- impossible to take away
Map of the Great Lakes will be due on Wednesday, February 15.
Start working on your topic for African American Heritage Month. More information will be added to the blog and to Google Classroom during the week.
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HOMEWORK GRADE 8
Start reading your book as soon as you get it! I will list pages as soon as all the books are given out this week.
Achieve 3000 is assigned each week to help improve the children’s vocabulary and comprehension skills. The children should complete any assignments (activities or thought questions) that are not completed during class. They can also get extra review by completing the stretch activities for the story that they have worked on in class. The Activity and Thought Question must be completed every week because they are counted as a grade!
Write all new vocabulary on index cards. Words will not be accepted if they are not in a bag! Please keep Module 1 and 2 index cards in a safe place, so you will have them for the Final Exam. You can keep them at home until we start to review. You will need a new Ziploc bag and index cards for Module 3.
SOCIAL STUDIES
The Progressive Spirit of Reform 1868-1920
Monday- Define the words below using the glossary in the back of the back or within the chapter. Write them in the vocabulary notebook. Due Thursday, 2/2.
Tuesday- Read pages 656-667 in the textbook. On page 667, answer questions 1b, 2a, 2b, 3a on loose-leaf. Remember to write a full heading on the loose-leaf and restate the question in the answer. Due Friday, 2/3.
New Vocabulary:
political machines, Progressives, muckrakers, Seventeenth Amendment, recall, initiative, referendum, Robert M. La Follette
Copy into notebook:
1. motive- a reason for doing something
Map of the Great Lakes will be due on Wednesday, February 15.
Start working on your topic for African American Heritage Month. More information will be added to the blog and to Google Classroom during the week.
Have a great week!
