Reminders:
1. Please check Mr. Woods’ blog for information about testing, Title I Summer Program and other announcements.
2. The fifth graders need to wear gym uniforms every Wednesday and Friday from now on.
3. Please check the blog and Google Classroom for updated homework assignments or announcements.
4. Please make sure that you have Rosary Beads for the May Procession this Wednesday, May 31.
5. 12:00 Dismissal on Friday, 6/2- Faculty Meeting
Remember that homework and classwork count as a grade!
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Week of May 29, 2017 Module 4 Week 6
READING:
Module 4: the fifth graders are reading Eight Days: A Story of Haiti by Edwidge Danticat. Please make sure that you have completed reading your book.
Achieve 3000 and i-Ready: Please continue to work on both programs. If you have an action plan, your work will be checked every Monday (28 lessons are due Tuesday,5/30).
There is a Common Lit assignment due Friday, 6/2 (The Princess and the Pea). Please log on and complete the assignment carefully.
SOCIAL STUDIES:
The Southern Colonies
Monday: Define and review the vocabulary words listed below- Due Thursday, June 1.
Vocabulary for the Week:
planter, overseer, indigo, interdependence, broker, Eliza Lucas Pinckney
Tuesday: Read pages 262-273. Answer the following questions on loose-leaf with a full heading. Due on Thursday, June 1.
Questions:
1. How did enslaved people resist slavery?
2. How did most colonists living in the Southern Colonies make their living?
3. Who were the Black Seminoles?
4. What cash crops were grown in the Southern Colonies?
5. Why were forests an important resource of the Southern Colonies?
The map of New Jersey is due on June 7.
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READING:
Module 4: the sixth graders are reading Frightful’s Mountain by Jean Craighead George.
You should have to read up to page 250 by Friday, 6/2.
Achieve 3000 and i-Ready: Please continue to work on both programs. If you have an action plan, your work will be checked every Tuesday (28 lessons are due Tuesday,5/30).
There is a Common Lit assignment due Friday, 6/2 (The Princes and the Pea).
READING
Module 4: the seventh graders are reading The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water by Charles Fishman.
You have read up to page 250 by Friday, 6/2.
Achieve 3000 and i-Ready: Please continue to work on both programs. If you have an action plan, your work will be checked every Monday (28 lessons are due Tuesday,6/2).
There is a Common Lit assignment due Friday, 6/2 (Emmett Till). Please log on and complete the assignment carefully.
SOCIAL STUDIES-
Launching the New Nation 1789-1800
Monday: Define and review the vocabulary words listed below- Due Thursday, June 1.
Vocabulary for the Week:
French Revolution, Neutrality Proclamation, privateers, Jay’s Treaty, Pinckney’s Treaty, Little Turtle, Battle of Fallen Timbers, Treaty of Greenville, Whiskey Rebellion
Copy the following definitions into your SS Vocabulary NB
neutral- unbiased, not favoring either side in a conflict
Tuesday: Read 243-249. On page 249, answer questions 1a, 3a, 3b, 4a (restate). Due Thursday, June 1.
The map of New Jersey is due June 7.
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READING
For Module 4, the eighth graders are reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat, Young Readers Edition by Michael Pollan.
You have read up to page 250 by Friday, 6/2.
Achieve 3000 and i-Ready: Please continue to work on both programs. If you have an action plan, your work will be checked every Monday (28 lessons are due Tuesday, 6/2).
There is a Common Lit assignment due Friday, 6/2 (Emmett Till). Please log on and complete the assignment carefully.
SOCIAL STUDIES
World War II 1938-1945
Monday: Define and review the vocabulary words listed below- Due Thursday, June 1.
Vocabulary for the Week:
totalitarianism, Benito Mussolini, fascism, Adolf Hitler, Nazis, Joseph Stalin, Axis Powers, appeasement, Winston Churchill, Allied Powers, Lend-Lease Act, Pearl Harbor
Copy the following definitions into your SS Vocabulary NB
intellectual- a person with a highly-developed capacity for rational or intelligent thought
scapegoat- a person or thing bearing the blame for others
Tuesday: Read pages 815-819. On page 819, answer questions 1a, 2a, 2b, 3a. Due Thursday, June 1.
The map of New Jersey is due on June 7.
Have a wonderful week!
