Reminders:
1. Please check Mr. Woods’ blog for information concerning tuition, Progress Reports, 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. All students need to wear full uniforms on Friday. No dress down due to a visit from Fr. McWeeney of the Regional Board.
Remember that homework and classwork count as a grade!
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Week of March 6, 2017- Module 3 Week 6
HOMEWORK GRADE 5
For Module 3, the fifth grade is reading Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America by Sharon Robinson.
Please read pages 50-57 by Monday, March 13.
Achieve 3000 and iReady – Remember to complete any Activities, Thought
Question, or Lesson assigned during the week.
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 (check reading folder).
SOCIAL STUDIES:
Monday: Define and review the vocabulary words listed below in your Social Studies notebook. Due Thursday, March 9.
Vocabulary for the Week:
demand, supply, ally, proprietary colony
Tuesday: reread pages 170-177 in the Social Studies textbook. Answer questions 1-4 on page 177. Due Thursday, March 9.
Map of the Month (Flags) is due on Wednesday, March 22.
Women (Catholic) 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 8 and 9 by Monday, March 13. Please bring the Flush book to school because we will start reading it this week. If you have free time or finished the other book, please start reading this one.
Achieve 3000 and iReady- Remember to complete any Activities, Thought
Question, or Lesson assigned during the week.
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 (check reading folder).
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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. Please finish reading the Narrative of Frederick Douglass by Monday, March 13.
Achieve 3000 and iReady-Remember to complete any Activities, Thought
Question, or Lesson assigned during the week.
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 (check reading folder).
Forming a Government 1777-1791
Monday: Define and review the vocabulary words listed below. Due Thursday, March 9.
Vocabulary for the Week:
tariff, interstate commerce, inflation, depression, Daniel Shays, Shay’s Rebellion
Copy the following definitions into your SS Vocabulary NB:
creditors-people who lend money
debtors-people who owe money
inflation- a rise in prices combined with the reduced value of money
Tuesday: Read pages 158-162 in the Social Studies textbook. Answer questions, 1a, 2a, 3a, 4a on page 162. Due Thursday, March 9.
A new map will be handed out this week.
Women (Catholic) in History Project will be discussed 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 9 and 10 by Monday, March 13.
In How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration read Chapters 3 and 4.
Achieve 3000 and iReady Remember to complete any Activities, Thought
Question, or Lesson assigned during the week.
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 (check reading folder).
SOCIAL STUDIES
America as a World Power 1867-1920
Monday: Define and review the vocabulary words listed below. Due Thursday, March 9.
Vocabulary for the Week:
yellow journalism, Teller Amendment, Emilio Aguinaldo, Anti-Imperialist League, Platt Amendment
Copy the following definitions into your SS Vocabulary NB:
resolution- something that is resolved; a solution
commodore- a navy captain of a squadron
precedent- an action or decision that later serves as an example
Tuesday: Read pages 697-703 in the Social Studies textbook. Answer questions, 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b on page 702. Due Thursday, March 9.
Map of the Month (South America) is due on Wednesday, March 22.
Women (Catholic) in History Project will be discussed this week.
Have a great week!
