Reminders:
1. Please check Mr. Woods’ blog for information concerning tuition, the NY State Exams, 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. 12:00 Dismissal today(Monday) due to a Faculty Meeting.
5. Green Day on Thursday in honor of St. Patrick. We will also be attending the 10:00 AM to watch some students being baptized.
6. No school Friday- St. Patrick’s Day
Remember that homework and classwork count as a grade!
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Week of March 13,2017- Module 3 Week 7
HOMEWORK GRADE 5
For Module 3, the fifth grade is reading Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America by Sharon Robinson.
Please finish Jackie Robinson if you have not already done so.
Achieve 3000 and iReady – Remember to complete any Activities, Thought
Question, or Lesson assigned during the week.
Write all new vocabulary on index cards.
******On Monday, copy the vocabulary from the link below into your Reading NB by Wednesday. Then copy them onto index cards by Monday, 3/20. Both will be checked on Monday.
Grade 5 Vocabulary for Module 3
Grade 5 Vocabulary for Module 3
Finish classwork if not finished during class (check reading folder or Ready New York).
SOCIAL STUDIES:
Monday: Define and review the vocabulary words listed below in your Social Studies notebook. Due Wednesday, March 15.
Vocabulary for the Week:
Samuel de Champlain, Peter Minuit, Jacques Marquette, Louis Joliet,
Sieur de la Salle
Tuesday: Answer questions 1-4 on page 182. Write the letter and answer. Page 183, answer questions 7,8,12 (restate the answers) and 13, 14, 15 (write the letter and answer) Due Thursday, March 16.
Map of the Month (Flags) is due on Wednesday, March 22.
Famous Catholic Women in History Project will be posted in Google Classroom this week.
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HOMEWORK GRADE 6
For Module 3, the sixth grade is be reading two books-a World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky and Flush by Carl Hiaasen.
Read Chapters 10 and 11 in a World Without Fish by Monday, March 20. You should be reading Flush in your free time. There is plenty of time in school. You should have read at least Chapters 1-10 by now.
Achieve 3000 and iReady- Remember to complete any Activities, Thought
Question, or Lesson assigned during the week.
Write all new vocabulary on index cards.
On Wednesday, copy the vocabulary from the link below into your Reading NB. Then copy them onto index cards by Monday, 3/20. Both will be checked on Monday.
Grade 6 Module 3 Vocabulary
Grade 6 Module 3 Vocabulary
Finish classwork if not finished during class (check reading folder or Ready New York Book).
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HOMEWORK GRADE 7
For Module 3, the seventh grade is reading Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass. Make sure that you have finished reading the Narrative of Frederick Douglass by Monday, March 20.
Achieve 3000 and iReady-Remember to complete any Activities, Thought Question, or Lesson assigned during the week.
Write all new vocabulary on index cards.
******On Wednesday, copy the vocabulary from the link below into your Reading NB. Then copy them onto index cards by Monday, 3/20. Both will be checked on Monday.
Grade 7 Vocabulary for Module 3
Grade 7 Vocabulary for Module 3
Finish classwork if not finished during class (check reading folder or Ready New York).
Forming a Government 1777-1791
Monday: Define and review the vocabulary words listed below. Due Wednesday, March 15.
Vocabulary for the Week:
Constitutional Convention, Virginia Plan, New Jersey Plan, Great Compromise, Three-Fifths Compromise, popular sovereignty, federalism, executive branch, legislative branch, judicial branch, checks and balances, James Madison
Copy the following definitions into your SS Vocabulary NB:
bicameral- made up of two houses
federalism-the sharing of power between a central government and its states
sovereignty-supreme power
unicameral- made up of one house
Tuesday: Read pages 163-169 in the Social Studies textbook. Answer questions, 1a, 2a, 3a, 4a on page 168. Due Thursday, March 16.
Map of the Month (South America) is due on Wednesday, March 22.
Famous Catholic Women in History Project will be posted in Google Classroom this week.
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HOMEWORK GRADE 8
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 11,12 and 13 in A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High by Monday, March 20.
In How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration, please finish the book.
Achieve 3000 and iReady Remember to complete any Activities, Thought
Question, or Lesson assigned during the week.
Write all new vocabulary on index cards.
****On Wednesday, copy the vocabulary from the link below into your Reading NB. Then copy them onto index cards by Monday, 3/20. Both will be checked on Monday.
Grade 8 Module 3 Vocabulary
Grade 8 Module 3 Vocabulary
Finish classwork if not finished during class (check reading folder or Ready New York).
SOCIAL STUDIES
America as a World Power 1867-1920
Monday: Define and review the vocabulary words listed below. Due Wednesday, March 15.
Vocabulary for the Week:
Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary, dollar diplomacy, Mexican Revolution, John J. Pershing, Francisco “Pancho” Villa
Copy the following definitions into your SS Vocabulary NB:
role- assigned behavior
Tuesday: Read pages 704-709 in the Social Studies textbook. Answer questions, 1a, 2a, 2b, 3b on page 711. Due Thursday, March 16.
Map of the Month (South America) is due on Wednesday, March 22.
Famous Catholic Women in History Project will be posted in Google Classroom this week.
Have a great week!
