Week of January 14, 2019

Weekly Reminders:
GRADE 4-HOMEROOM

A. Gym uniforms must be worn by 4th graders on Wednesdays for gym unless students are told differently.

B. MAP Testing on Thursday in Language Arts and Friday in Reading

C. If you did not sign your child’s Progress Report, please sign and send it back tomorrow.

D. Monday, January 21- Holiday- Martin Luther King Jr. No school
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GRADES 5, 6, 7, 8  
A. All classwork/homework must be completed in blue or black ink (other colors will not be accepted and no pencil).  

B. Please make sure that you have loose-leaf. Paper cannot be ripped out of a notebook.

C. Remember homework counts as part of the total grade!

D. MAP Testing for Grades 6-8:
Tuesday, 1/15 Reading

E. Midterm Exams for Grades 6-8:
Wednesday, 1/16 Reading
Thursday, 1/17 Language Arts
Wednesday, 1/23 Social Studies
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HOMEWORK: For the Week of January 14, 2019: Grades 5, 6,7,8

Social Studies Homework for Grade 5

Unit 2 Cultures Meet/ Chapter 4: Building the First Colonies

Monday,1/14:  Write the vocabulary words and their definitions in your Social Studies notebook. Due Thursday, 1/17.

Tuesday,1/15: Read pages 147-153 in your textbook. Answer the questions below on loose-leaf (with a full heading) Due Friday, 1/18.

Vocabulary Words:
raw material, stock, cash crop, profit, indentured servants, legislature, represent, royal colony

Questions:
1. Why did England’s rulers want to start colonies in North America?
2. How did John Smith help save Jamestown?
3. What cash crop helped Virginia grow?
4. What was the job of the House of Burgesses?
5. Explain the difference between an indentured servant and an enslaved worker?

 Grade 5 Lesson Plans for Social Studies
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ELA/Reading Homework for Grade 6
This week we will be reading from Bad Boy and I was a Skinny Tomboy Kid. We will be reviewing adjectives, figurative language, and annotating text.

My Perspectives (Pearson)- Please review (in your textbook or online at Pearson Realize) the story, vocabulary, and concepts (word study and conventions) that we are working on in class.

REVIEW FOR MIDTERM EXAM:
Reading: Know the vocabulary and skills that we learned in Unit 1. Study the vocabulary in your notebook and skills that were done in the notebook such as: antonyms, central idea, root word -spec-, figurative language, the suffix- ness, theme, author’s style, author’s purpose, author’s point of view (1st and 3rd person)

Language Arts:
1. Nouns- All of Chapter 1
2. Pronouns- Chapter 2 (Personal, Agreement of pronouns and antecedents, reflexive and intensive)
3. Questions concerning Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters

 Grade 6 Lesson Plans for ELA/Reading and Grammar
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ELA/Reading Homework for Grades 7 and 8
This week we will be reading Mom & Me and Mom, Learning to Love My Mother, Mother-Daughter Drawings. We will also be working on characterization, the Latin prefix super-, compare and contrast essays, poems (rhythm and repetition, symbols, connotations, and denotations)

Perspectives (Pearson)- Please review (in your textbook or online at Pearson Realize) the story, vocabulary, and concepts (word study and conventions) that we are working on in class.

REVIEW FOR MIDTERM EXAM:
Reading: Know the vocabulary and skills that we learned in Unit 1. Study the vocabulary in your notebook and skills that were done in the notebook such as: character and point of view, Latin prefix in-, author’s point of view, multiple meaning words, narrative point of view, nonfiction vs. fiction, Latin suffix -ity, central ideas, conjunctions, suffix -ment, characterization, the Latin prefix super-, compare and contrast essays, poems (rhythm and repetition, symbols, connotations and denotations)

Language Arts:
1. Nouns- All of Chapter 1
2. Adjectives- Chapter 2 (Description and position adjectives; demonstrative, interrogative, and indefinite adjectives; comparative and superlative adjectives)
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Social Studies Homework for Grade 7

Unit 1 Our Colonial Heritage (Beginnings-1783)/ Chapter 4: The American Revolution (1774-1783)


REVIEW FOR MIDTERM EXAM:
All material that will be on the exam is starred in your notebook week, including the essay. It is up to you to study and to prepare the essay. The whole exam will be taken from your Social Studies notebook, but you may also want to use your notebook for the essay or to read over things that you do not understand.

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Social Studies Homework for Grade 8

Unit 6 A Growing America (1850-1914)/ Chapter 19: The Industrial Age (1876-1900)


REVIEW FOR MIDTERM EXAM:
All material that will be on the exam is starred in your notebook week, including the essay. It is up to you to study and to prepare the essay. The whole exam will be taken from your Social Studies notebook, but you may also want to use your notebook for the essay or to read over things that you do not understand.

       

                          Have a wonderful week!
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