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
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!
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!
