Week of February 27, 2017

Reminders:

1. Please check Mr. Woods’ blog for information concerning tuition, Progress Reports, Hippie Day, Doctor Seuss’ birthday, Ash Wednesday, and Stations of the Cross, and other announcements.

2. The fifth graders need to wear gym uniforms every Wednesday.

3. Please check the blog and Google Classroom for updated homework assignments or announcements.

4. Hippie Day (Tuesday) and Dr. Seuss’s birthday (Thursday) are coming up this week. All students may wear costumes on these days.

Remember that homework and classwork count as a grade!
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               HOMEWORK GRADE 5
READING:
For Module 3, the fifth grade is reading Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America by Sharon Robinson.

Please read pages 40-49 by Monday, March 6.

Achieve 3000 – Remember to complete any Activity and Thought question assigned during the 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!  You will need a new Ziploc bag and index cards for Module 3. Words will be collected each Monday. If they are no new vocabulary words for the week, then nothing needs to be written on index cards.

Finish classwork if not finished during class!

  
SOCIAL STUDIES:

Monday: Define and review the vocabulary words listed below in your Social Studies notebook. Due Wednesday, March 1.

Vocabulary for the Week:
majority rule, pilgrim, Samoset, Tisquantum, compact, William Branford, self-government


Tuesday: reread pages 162-167 in the Social Studies textbook. Answer questions listed below.  Due Thursday, March 2.

1. Why do you think the Virginia Company agreed to pay for the Pilgrims’ passage?

2. How is the Mayflower Compact an example of self-government?

3. Why did the Plymouth colonists want to buy furs from Native Americans?

4. What did the colonists trade for furs?

A new map will be handed out this week.

Women in History Project will be discussed this week.
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               HOMEWORK GRADE 6
READING
Lesson Plans

For Module 3, the sixth grade is be reading two books- World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky and Flush by Carl Hiaasen.
Read Chapters 6 and 7 by Monday, March 6. Please bring the Flush book o school because we will start reading it this week.

Achieve 3000 Remember to complete any Activity and Thought question assigned during the 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!  You will need a new Ziploc bag and index cards for Module 3. Words will be collected each Monday. If they are no new vocabulary words for the week, then nothing needs to be written on index cards.

Finish classwork if not finished during class!

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              HOMEWORK GRADE 7
READING
For Module 3, the seventh grade is reading Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass.

Read pages 62-75 in the Narrative of Frederick Douglass by Tuesday, February 28.


Achieve 3000 Remember to complete any Activity and Thought question assigned during the 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!  You will need a new Ziploc bag and index cards for Module 3. Words will be collected each Monday. If they are no new vocabulary words for the week, then nothing needs to be written on index cards.

Finish classwork if not finished during class!


SOCIAL STUDIES-
Forming a Government 1777-1791

Monday: Define and review the vocabulary words listed below. Due Wednesday, March 1.


Vocabulary for the Week:
Magna Carta, constitution, Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, suffrage, Articles of Confederation, ratification, Land Ordinance of 1785, Northwest Ordinance of 1787, Northwest Territory

Copy the following definitions into your SS Vocabulary NB:
controversial- subject to debate
ordinance- official law or rule

Tuesday: Read pages 152-157 in the Social Studies textbook. Answer questions, 1a, 2a, 2b, 3a on page 155. Due Thursday, March 2.

A new map will be handed out this week.

Women in History Project will be discussed this week.

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             HOMEWORK GRADE 8

READING
For Module 3, the eighth graders are reading two books- A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High by Carlotta Walls LaNier and Liza Frazier Page and Little Rock Girl 1957: How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration by Shelley Tougas.


Please read the Chapters 7 and 8 by Monday, March 6.
AND
In How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration read pages Chapters 1 and 2.

Achieve 3000 Remember to complete any Activity and Thought question assigned during the 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!  You will need a new Ziploc bag and index cards for Module 3.  Words will be collected each Monday. If they are no new vocabulary words for the week, then nothing needs to be written on index cards.

Finish classwork if not finished during class!

SOCIAL STUDIES
America as a World Power 1867-1920

Monday: Define and review the vocabulary words listed below. Due Wednesday, March 1.

Vocabulary for the Week:
imperialism, isolationism, William H. Seward, Liliuokalani, spheres of influence, Open Door Policy, Boxer Rebellion

Copy the following definitions into your SS Vocabulary NB:
process- a series of steps by which a task is accomplished

Tuesday: Read pages 692-696 in the Social Studies textbook. Answer questions, 1a, 2b, 3a, 3b on page 696. Due Thursday, March 2.


A new map will be handed out this week.

Women in History Project will be discussed this week.


                     Have a great week!

Week of February 20, 2017

Reminders:

1. Please check Mr. Woods’ blog for information about I Ready, Achieve 3000, MAP Testing results, African American Heritage presentations, and other announcements.

2. The fifth graders need to wear gym uniforms every Wednesday.

3. Please check the blog and Google Classroom for updated homework assignments or announcements.

4. Hippie Day and Dr. Seuss’s birthday are coming up next week. Get your outfits ready!

Remember that homework and classwork count as a grade!
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 Week of February 20, 2017- Module 3 Week 4

               HOMEWORK GRADE 5
READING:
Lesson Plans

For Module 3, the fifth grade is reading Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America by Sharon Robinson.

Please read pages 28-39 by Tuesday, February 28.

Achieve 3000 – Remember to complete any Activity and Thought question assigned during the 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!  You will need a new Ziploc bag and index cards for Module 3. Words will be collected each Monday. If they are no new vocabulary words for the week, then nothing needs to be written on index cards.

Quiz Friday, 2/24 on the Jackie Robinson book (pages read so far 1-27) and all vocabulary for Module 3. See class notebook for words and definitions.
Press the link below for the vocabulary words from Module 3 if you did not copy all of them.

5th Grade Vocabulary for Module 3

Please copy any missing words into your Reading Notebook and write them on index cards. If you have any questions, please ask me.

All index cards are due by this Friday,2/24.

SOCIAL STUDIES:

Tuesday: Study the notes from Module 3 (The Spanish Colonies and the Virginia Colony, 1-31) for the Social Studies Quiz this Thursday. Also, know the difference between enslaved workers and indentured servants. Be able to describe each.

Grade 5 Social Studies Notes for Module 3

A new map will be handed out this week.

Remember to complete your African American project in Google Classroom. You will be presenting tomorrow.
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               HOMEWORK GRADE 6
READING
Lesson Plans

For Module 3, the sixth grade is be reading two books-World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky and Flush by Carl Hiaasen.
Read Chapters 4 and 5 by Tuesday, February 28.

Achieve 3000 Remember to complete any Activity and Thought question assigned during the 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!  You will need a new Ziploc bag and index cards for Module 3. Words will be collected each Monday. If they are no new vocabulary words for the week, then nothing needs to be written on index cards.

Quiz Friday, 2/24 on the World Without Fish (Chapters 1-3) and all vocabulary for Module 3. See class notebook for words and definitions.

Press the link below for the vocabulary words from Module 3 if you did not copy all of them.

Grade 6 Vocabulary for Module 3

Please copy any missing words into your Reading Notebook and also write them on index cards. If you have any questions, please ask me.

All index cards are due by this Friday!
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              HOMEWORK GRADE 7
READING
Lesson Plans

For Module 3, the seventh grade is reading Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass.
Read pages 42-61 in the Narrative of Frederick Douglass by Tuesday, February 28.
Achieve 3000 Remember to complete any Activity and Thought question assigned during the 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!  You will need a new Ziploc bag and index cards for Module 3. Words will be collected each Monday. If they are no new vocabulary words for the week, then nothing needs to be written on index cards.

Quiz Friday, 2/24 on the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (pages read so far 1-41) and all vocabulary for Module 3. See class notebook for words and definitions.

All index cards are due by this Friday!

SOCIAL STUDIES-
American Revolution begins 1774-1783

Tuesday: Study the notes (59-64 Mod.2 and 1-19 Mod.3) for the Social Studies Quiz this Thursday. Also, study the questions on pages 121:1a,1b; 134:1b,3a; 139:1a,2a,2b,3a,3b.

A new map will be handed out this week.

Remember to complete your African American project in Google Classroom. You will be presenting tomorrow.

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             HOMEWORK GRADE 8

READING
Lesson Plans

For Module 3, the eighth graders are reading two books- A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High by Carlotta Walls LaNier and Liza Frazier Page and Little Rock Girl 1957: How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration by Shelley Tougas.
Please read the Chapters 5 and 6 by Tuesday, February 28.

Achieve 3000 Remember to complete any Activity and Thought question assigned during the 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!  You will need a new Ziploc bag and index cards for Module 3.  Words will be collected each Monday. If they are no new vocabulary words for the week, then nothing needs to be written on index cards.

Quiz Thursday, 2/23 on A Mighty Long Way (Chapters 1-4) and all vocabulary for Module 3. See class notebook for words and definitions.

All index cards are due by Friday, 2/24

SOCIAL STUDIES
The Progressive Spirit of Reform 1868-1920

Tuesday: Study the notes (59-113 Mod.2) for the Social Studies Quiz this Thursday. Also, study the questions on pages 667:1a,1b, 2a,2b, 3a; 674: 1a,1b, 2a; 679:1a,1b, 2a,2b.

A new map will be handed out this week.

Remember to complete your African American project in Google Classroom. You will be presenting tomorrow.

Quiz next Thursday, February 23.



                     Have a great week!

Week of February 13, 2017

Reminders:

1. Please check Mr. Woods’ blog for information about I Ready, MAP testing, and other announcements.

2. Fifth grade need to wear gym uniforms every Wednesday.

3. Please check the blog and Google Classroom for updated homework assignments or announcements.

4. No school Friday, 2/17 due to a Religion Conference Day for teachers at Good Shepherd.

5. No school Monday, 2/20 in honor of Presidents’ Day.

Remember that homework and classwork count as a grade!
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Week of February 13, 2017- Module 3 Week 3

               HOMEWORK GRADE 5
READING:
Lesson Plans

For Module 3, the fifth grade is reading Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America by Sharon Robinson.

Please read pages 17-27 by Tuesday, February 21.

Achieve 3000 – Remember to complete any Activity and Thought question assigned during the 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!  You will need a new Ziploc bag and index cards for Module 3. Words will be collected each Monday. If they are no new vocabulary words for the week, then nothing needs to be written on index cards.

Quiz next Friday, 2/24 on the book and all vocabulary for Module 3.


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, 2/15.

Tuesday: Read pages 170-177 in textbook. On pages 178 and 179, answer questions #s 6-8 (draw the timeline, fill in the missing information on the timeline, and then answer the questions), #s 9-12 (restate), and #s 13-15 (question and complete answer, not just the letter) on loose-leaf. Remember to write a full heading on the loose-leaf and restate the question in the answer. Due Thursday,2/16.

New Vocabulary:
demand, supply, ally, proprietary colony

Map of Canada will be due on Wednesday, February 15.

Start working on your topic for African American Heritage Month. See Google Classroom for the format. Due Tuesday, February 21.

Quiz next Thursday, February 23.
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               HOMEWORK GRADE 6
READING
Lesson Plans

For Module 3, the sixth grade is be reading two books- World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky and Flush by Carl Hiaasen.
Read Chapters 2 and 3 by Tuesday, February 21.

Achieve 3000 Remember to complete any Activity and Thought question assigned during the 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!  You will need a new Ziploc bag and index cards for Module 3. Words will be collected each Monday. If they are no new vocabulary words for the week, then nothing needs to be written on index cards.

Quiz next Friday, 2/24 on the book and all vocabulary for Module 3.

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              HOMEWORK GRADE 7
READING
Lesson Plans

For Module 3, the seventh grade is reading Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass.
Read pages 22-41 in the Narrative of Frederick Douglass by Tuesday, February 21.
Achieve 3000 Remember to complete any Activity and Thought question assigned during the 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!  You will need a new Ziploc bag and index cards for Module 3. Words will be collected each Monday. If they are no new vocabulary words for the week, then nothing needs to be written on index cards.

Quiz next Friday, 2/24 on the book and all vocabulary 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 Wednesday, 2/15.

Tuesday- Read pages 135-139 in the textbook. On page 139, answer questions 1a, 2a, 2b, 3a on loose-leaf. Remember to write a full heading on the loose-leaf and restate the question in the answer. Due Thursday,2/16.

New Vocabulary:
Francis Marion, Comte de Rochambeau, Battle of Yorktown, Treaty of Paris 1783

Copy into notebook:
1. brigade- military unit
2. devastation- severe or widespread damage
3. guerilla warfare- hit-and-run attacks
4. negotiations- talks held to reach an agreement or compromise
5. pitted- set against

Map of the Great Lakes will be due on Wednesday, February 15.

Start working on your topic for African American Heritage Month. See Google Classroom for the format. Presentations will be due on Tuesday, February 21.

Quiz next Thursday, February 23.

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             HOMEWORK GRADE 8

READING
Lesson Plans

For Module 3, the eighth graders are reading two books- A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High by Carlotta Walls LaNier and Liza Frazier Page and Little Rock Girl 1957: How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration by Shelley Tougas.
Please read the Chapters 3 and 4 by Tuesday, February 21.

Achieve 3000 Remember to complete any Activity and Thought question assigned during the 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!  You will need a new Ziploc bag and index cards for Module 3.  Words will be collected each Monday. If they are no new vocabulary words for the week, then nothing needs to be written on index cards.

Quiz next Friday, 2/24 on the book and all vocabulary 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 Wednesday, 2/15.

Tuesday- Read pages 680-683 in the textbook. On page 683, answer questions 1a,2a, 2b,2c on loose-leaf. Remember to write a full heading on the loose-leaf and restate the question in the answer. Due Thursday, 2/16.

New Vocabulary:
Theodore Roosevelt, Pure Food and Drug Act, conservation, William Howard Taft, Progressive Party, Woodrow Wilson, Sixteenth Amendment

Copy into notebook:
1. various- of many types

Map of the Great Lakes will be due on Wednesday, February 15.

Start working on your topic for African American Heritage Month. See Google Classroom for the format. Presentations are due on Tuesday, February 21.

Quiz next Thursday, February 23.



                        Have a great week!

Week of February 6, 2017

Reminders:

1. Please check Mr. Woods’ blog for information about I Ready, MAP testing, and other announcements.

2. Fifth grade need to wear gym uniforms every Wednesday.

3. Please check the blog and Google Classroom for updated homework assignments or announcements.

Remember that homework and classwork count as a grade!
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   Week of February 6, 2017- Module 3 Week 2

               HOMEWORK GRADE 5
READING:
Lesson Plans

For Module 3, the fifth grade is reading Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America by Sharon Robinson.

Please read pages 6-16 by Monday, February 13.

Reading Quiz next week

Achieve 3000 – Remember to complete any Activity and Thought question assigned during the 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!  You will need a new Ziploc bag and index cards for Module 3. Words will be collected each Monday. If they are no new vocabulary words for the week, then nothing needs to be written on index cards.


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, 2/8.

Tuesday: Read pages 162-167 in textbook. On page 167, 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,2/9.

New Vocabulary:
pilgrim, compact, self-government, majority rule

Social Studies Quiz next week

Map of Canada will be due on Wednesday, February 15.

Start working on your topic for African American Heritage Month. See Google Classroom for format. Due Tuesday, February 21.
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               HOMEWORK GRADE 6
READING
Lesson Plans

For Module 3, the sixth grade is be reading two books- World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky and Flush by Carl Hiaasen.

Read the Introduction and Chapter 1 by Monday, February 13.

Reading Quiz next week

Achieve 3000 Remember to complete any Activity and Thought question assigned during the 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!  You will need a new Ziploc bag and index cards for Module 3. Words will be collected each Monday. If they are no new vocabulary words for the week, then nothing needs to be written on index cards.
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              HOMEWORK GRADE 7

READING

Lesson Plans
For Module 3, the seventh grade is reading Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass.

Read pages 1-21 in the Narrative of Frederick Douglass by Monday, February 13.

Reading Quiz next week

Achieve 3000 Remember to complete any Activity and Thought question assigned during the 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!  You will need a new Ziploc bag and index cards for Module 3. Words will be collected each Monday. If they are no new vocabulary words for the week, then nothing needs to be written on index cards.

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, 2/9.

Tuesday- Read pages 126-134 in the textbook. On page 134, answer questions 1b, 2a, 3a, 4a on loose-leaf. Remember to write a full heading on the loose-leaf and restate the question in the answer. Due Friday,2/10.

New Vocabulary:
mercenaries, Battle of Trenton, Battle of Saratoga, Marquis de Lafayette, Baron Friedrich von Steuben, Bernardo de Galvez, John Paul Jones, George Rogers Clark

Copy into notebook:
1. strategy- a plan for fighting a battle or war

Social Studies Quiz next week

Map of the Great Lakes will be due on Wednesday, February 15.

Start working on your topic for African American Heritage Month. See Google Classroom for format. Presentations will be due on Tuesday, February 21.
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             HOMEWORK GRADE 8

READING
Lesson Plans
For Module 3, the eighth graders are reading two books- A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High by Carlotta Walls LaNier and Liza Frazier Page and Little Rock Girl 1957: How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration by Shelley Tougas.

Please read the Prologue, Chapters 1 and 2 by Monday, February 13.

Reading Quiz next week

Achieve 3000 Remember to complete any Activity and Thought question assigned during the 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!  You will need a new Ziploc bag and index cards for Module 3.  Words will be collected each Monday. If they are no new vocabulary words for the week, then nothing needs to be written on index cards.

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, 2/9.

Tuesday- Read pages 668-679 in the textbook. On page 674, answer questions 1b, 2a and on page 679 answer questions 2a, 3a on loose-leaf. Remember to write a full heading on the loose-leaf and restate the question in the answer. Due Friday, 2/10.

New Vocabulary:
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, worker’s compensation laws, capitalism, socialism, Eighteenth Amendment, Alice Paul, Nineteenth Amendment, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Copy into notebook:
1. temperance- the avoidance of alcohol
2. suffrage- the right to vote
3. regulations- laws
4. unconstitutional- against the laws of the Constitution of the US

Social Studies Quiz next week

Map of the Great Lakes will be due on Wednesday, February 15.

Start working on your topic for African American Heritage Month. See Google Classroom for format. Presentations are due on Tuesday, February 21.


                        Have a great week!