Reminders:
1. Please check Mr. Woods’ blog for information concerning Report Cards, 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. NYS ELA exam will be administered starting next Tuesday, 3/28. Please make sure that your child is working on iReady and Achieve 3000.
Remember that homework and classwork count as a grade!
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Week of March 20,2017- Module 3 Week 8
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. If you have finished, please read any book of your choice (but I want to see something!).
Achieve 3000 and iReady – Remember to complete any Activities, Thought
Question, or Lessons assigned during the week.
Mr. Woods has assigned one lesson in iReady every night from 3/20 until 3/30 (11 lessons should be logged into iReady when Mr. Woods checks the folders).
Write all new vocabulary on index cards.
Make sure that you have copied the vocabulary from the link on last week’s blog into your Reading NB. Then copy them onto index cards by Monday, 3/20. Both will be checked on Monday.
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 22.
Vocabulary for the Week:
charter, dissent, expel, consent, sedition, frontier
Tuesday: Read pages 198-204.Answer questions 1, 2, 3, and 5 on page 204. Restate the question in the answer. Draw the map on the back of your loose-leaf or you can use a new piece of paper. Due Thursday, March 23.
Map of the Month (Flags) is due on this Wednesday, March 22.
Famous Catholic Women in History Project has been posted in Google Classroom 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.
Make sure that you have finished a World Without Fish. Please read Chapters 11, 12, 13 in Flush by Monday, 3/27.
Achieve 3000 and iReady- Remember to complete any Activities, Thought
Question, or Lessons assigned during the week.
Mr. Woods has assigned one lesson in iReady every night from 3/20 until 3/30 (11 lessons should be logged into iReady when Mr. Woods checks the folders).
Write all new vocabulary on index cards.
Make sure that you have copied the vocabulary from the link on last week’s blog into your Reading NB. Then copy them onto index cards by Monday, 3/20. Both will be checked on Monday.
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. If you have finished reading the book, please read a book of your choice (and I want to see it!)
Achieve 3000 and iReady-Remember to complete any Activities, Thought
Question, or Lessons assigned during the week.
Mr. Woods has assigned one lesson in iReady every night from 3/20 until 3/30 (11 lessons should be logged into iReady when Mr. Woods checks the folders).
Write all new vocabulary on index cards.
Make sure that you have copied the vocabulary from the link on last week’s blog into your Reading NB. Then copy them onto index cards by Monday, 3/20. Both will be checked on Monday.
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:
Magna Carta, constitution, Articles of Confederation, inflation, depression
Copy the following definitions into your SS Vocabulary NB:
advocate- to plead in favor of
Tuesday: Please draw/copy the charts on pages 165 and 168 into your notebook (notes). Both charts need to be colored and filled in just like the text. Use a ruler! Due Thursday, March 23.
Map of the Month (South America) is due on Wednesday, March 22.
Famous Catholic Women in History Project has been 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 complete A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High by Thursday, March 30.
In How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration, please finish the book, if you have not already done so.
Achieve 3000 and iReady Remember to complete any Activities, Thought
Question, or Lessons assigned during the week.
Mr. Woods has assigned one lesson in iReady every night from 3/20 until 3/30 (11 lessons should be logged into iReady when Mr. Woods checks the folders).
Write all new vocabulary on index cards.
Make sure that you have copied the vocabulary from the link on last week’s blog into your Reading NB. Then copy them onto index cards by Monday, 3/20. Both will be checked on Monday.
Finish classwork if not finished during class (check reading folder or Ready New York).
SOCIAL STUDIES
World War I 1914-1920
Monday: Define and review the vocabulary words listed below. Due Wednesday, March 22.
Vocabulary for the Week:
militarism, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, mobilize, Central Powers, Allied Powers, trench warfare, stalemate, U-boats
Copy the following definitions into your SS Vocabulary NB:
neutral- unbiased, not favoring either side in a conflict
Tuesday: Read pages 720-724 in the Social Studies textbook. Answer questions, 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b on page 724. Due Thursday, March 23.
Map of the Month (South America) is due on Wednesday, March 22.
Famous Catholic Women in History Project has been posted in Google Classroom this week.
Have a great week!
