Reminders:
A. All work must be completed in blue or black ink (other colors
will not be accepted) and pencil is not allowed.
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 are unacceptable).
C. The students are given 20 vocabulary words
per week. They will have to copy the words and definitions on Monday for
Homework and it will be checked on Tuesday by the Homeroom Teacher. If your
child does not have internet access at home, he/she will be able to stay in the
Afterschool Program on Mondays from 3:00-3:30 in order to copy the words into
the Vocabulary NBs.
D. 5th Grade will have GYM on
Monday this week, so remember to wear Gym clothes.
E. April Calendar will be sent home today.
F. Quarter 4 begins today.
Remember
that homework and classwork count as a grade!
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HOMEWORK AND CLASSWORK FOR THIS WEEK
Vocabulary for the Week: Check
Mrs. Ramsey’s blog
5th Grade Reading- 4/16/12
You are responsible for all of the following work, whether or
not you have class. Make sure anything done on looseleaf is given to Mr.
Marcial before Friday afternoon. Any missing assignments will be given a zero.
Notebooks will be checked when I return.
Lesson Plans:
Classwork & Homework: Unit 4
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh- Make
sure that you finished reading the whole book.
1. Monday- In the front of your Reading Notebook,
define the following words using the glossary in the back of the
book. This work can be started in class and finished for homework.
It is up to you to get as much done as possible during class, so there is not
too much to complete for homework.
Vocabulary for City Birds:
veering, species, metropolitan, predator,
boom, descendant, spiraling, aerial, navigating, coincidence
**Remember to copy the vocabulary for the week into your
Vocabulary NB tonight if there are any new words given.
2. Tuesday- Read the story The Dolphins
Led Me Home in class.
Complete (in the Practice book) page. 165 (Write out whole
paragraph- only Part A 1-10) on looseleaf.
Remember to put a complete heading on the looseleaf.
3. Wednesday- On
looseleaf, complete pg. 166 (Part A 1-7). Write copy the whole story map
and fill it in using your textbook. (Practice book)
4. Thursday- Word Study Book pg. 36 1-18. Do this in the middle
section of your Reading NB (skills section). Write out all sentences.
5. Friday-
Word Study Book pg. 42 1-12. Do this in the middle section of your Reading NB
(skills section). Write out all sentences.
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6th Grade Reading- 4/16/12- You are responsible for all of
the following work, whether or not you have class. Make sure anything done on
looseleaf is given to Mr. Marcial before Friday afternoon. Any missing
assignments will be given a zero. Notebooks will be checked when I return.
Good
Luck on the ELA exam. Do your best!
Lesson Plans:
Classwork & Homework: Unit 4
1. Monday- In the front of your Reading Notebook,
define the following words using the glossary in the back of the
book. It is up to you to get as much done as possible during class,
so there is not too much to complete for homework.
Vocabulary for Four Against the Sea:
wary, sullen, subsided, starboard, latitude,
leering, coward
2. Tuesday- Friday. Read Miss Faberge’s Last Daze in the text.
In the Practice Book, complete pg. 157 1-8 on looseleaf, and pg. 158 (copy the
story map on looseleaf and fill it in using the textbook. Make sure you give
this assignment to Mr. Marcial by Friday.
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7th Grade Reading 4/16/12
You are responsible for all of the following work, whether or
not you have class. Make sure anything done on looseleaf is given to Mr.
Marcial before Friday afternoon. Any missing assignments will be given a zero.
Notebooks will be checked when I return.
Lesson Plans:
Classwork & Homework: Unit 4
1. Monday- In the front of your Reading Notebook,
define the words below using the Skills Practice Book. It is up to you to
get as much done as possible during class, so there is not too much to complete
for homework.
Vocabulary for Airy-Go-Round:
Write all words and definitions on pgs. 135 & 136 (skills
practice)
Vocabulary for Through Skies Never Sailed:
Write all words and definitions on pgs. 141 & 142
2. Tuesday- Read
the story Daedalus and Icarus in the textbook. In the Practice Book, complete pg.118 (1-12-write
everything out on looseleaf, and skip lines). Also
complete pg. 119 1-11 (write everything out and skip lines).
3. Wednesday- Work on Social Studies during Reading.
4.
Thursday- In the Word Study Book, complete pg. 37 (1-10). Do this
in the middle section of your Reading NB (skills section) and label as Vowel
Sounds. .Write the question and answer. Complete pg. 39 (1-12), write the
name of the picture and the correct answer.
5. Friday- Word Study Book- complete pg. 40 (1-14 question and
answer) and pg. 42 (1-18 question and answer). Do this in the middle section of
your Reading NB (skills section) and label as Vowel Sounds.
7th Grade Social Studies
Lesson Plans:
This work can be started in class and finished for
homework. It is up to you to get as much done as possible during class, so
there is not too much to complete for homework.
Classwork & Homework: Unit 4 (Chapter 9- The Federalist
Period- 1789-1800)
Please
make sure that you completed the work assigned for the week of 3/26/12. This
work concerned The Federalist Period, pgs. 260-279 in the textbook. If you did
not hand in any assignments, please give them to Mr. Marcial.
Monday, 4/16- On looseleaf, define the following vocabulary words:
1. strict interpretation
2. loose interpretation
3. Judiciary Act of 1789
4. political party
5. Whiskey Rebellion
6. caucus
7. nominate
8. Neutrality Proclamation
9. Pinckney’s Treaty
10. XYZ Affair
Tuesday, 4/17- On looseleaf, define the
following vocabulary words:
1. mint
2. patent
3. consensus
4. Alien
and Sedition Acts
5. Jay’s
treaty
6. impressed
7. political
party
8. Federalist
party
9. Democratic-
Republican Party
10. cabinet
Wednesday, 4/18- - On looseleaf, complete on pg. 279 complete
question 6 Thinking Critically. There are two parts to this question.
Thursday, 4/19- On looseleaf, complete the chart on pg. 276- The
First Political Parties in the United States.
Friday, 4/20 on looseleaf, answer question 7 (Think Critcally)
on pg. 279.
There are three parts to this question!
Make sure that you have copied all of the vocabulary for
Chapters 8 and 9 into your SS notebook.
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8th Grade Reading 4/16/12
You are responsible for all of the following work, whether or
not you have class. Make sure anything done on looseleaf is given to Mr.
Marcial before Friday afternoon. Any missing assignments will be given a zero.
Notebooks will be checked when I return.
Good
Luck on the ELA exam. Do your best!
Lesson Plans:
Classwork & Homework: Unit 4
1. Monday- In the front of your
Reading Notebook, define the words below using the Skills Practice
Book. It is up to you to get as much done as possible during class, so
there is not too much to complete for homework.
Vocabulary for Playing for Keeps:
Write all words and definitions on pgs. 136, 137
Vocabulary for The Night the Martians Landed:
Write all words and definitions on pgs. 142, 143
2. Tuesday- Friday – In the textbook read Pegasus
and Bellerophon. Complete pgs. 117, 118 ans. only; and pg.119 1-15 write everything out on looseleaf. Make sure
this is handed to Mr. Marcial by Friday!
8th Grade Social Studies
Lesson Plans:
This work can be started in class and finished for homework. It
is up to you to get as much done as possible during class, so there is not too
much to complete for homework.
Classwork & Homework: Unit 4 (Chapter 9- The Great
Depression and The New Deal 1929-1938)
Please
make sure that you completed the work assigned for the week of 3/26/12. This
work was from Chapter 9 pgs. 304-327 in the textbook. If you did not hand in
any assignments, please give them to Mr. Marcial.
Monday, 4/16- On looseleaf, define the following vocabulary words:
1. stock market
2. speculation
3. inventory
4. New Deal
5. bank holiday
6. fireside chat
7. Social Security Act
8. collective bargaining
9. Bono’s army
10. Congress of Industrial Organizations
Tuesday, 4/17- On looseleaf, define the
following vocabulary words:
1. assembly line
2. consumer
goods
3. consumer
credit
4. “horseless
carriage”
5. Red
Scare
6. radical
7. quota
8. prohibition
9. Harlem
Renaissance
Wednesday, 4/18- - On looseleaf, complete on pg. 303 complete
question 7 Thinking Critically.
Thursday, 4/19- On looseleaf, copy the timeline on pg. 283- Events
in Our Country.
Friday, 4/20 On looseleaf, complete on pg. 303 complete question
8 Thinking Critically.
There are two parts to this question!
Make sure that you have copied all of the vocabulary for
Chapters 8 and 9 into your SS notebook.
Have a great week!
