Weekly Reminders:
GRADE 4-HOMEROOM
A. Gym uniforms must be worn by 4th graders
on Wednesdays for gym unless students are told differently.
B.
We will be collecting canned food during November for the Outreach Program of
the St. Patrick’s Nursing Home. Please be as generous as possible. The last day
that cans will be collected will be Tuesday, November 20.
C.
Friday, November 16- Grades 4-8 Native American Heritage Music
Presentations at 9:00 AM. Parents are welcome to attend.
1:30
PM- Report Card distribution by
Fr. Cruz and Honors Assembly.
D. Make sure to read Mr. Woods blog
for other important information.
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GRADES 5, 6, 7, 8
A. All classwork/homework must be
completed in blue or black ink (other colors will not be accepted
and no pencil).
B. Remember homework counts as part of
the total grade!
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HOMEWORK: For the Week of November 12,2018:
Grades 5, 6,7,8
Social Studies Homework for
Grade 5
Unit 2 Cultures Meet/ Chapter 3: The
Age of Exploration
Tuesday,11/13: Define each
word below in your Social Studies Vocabulary NB. Please use the glossary in the
back of the SS text and write the entire definition. If it isn’t in the book,
you can search for it online. Just make sure the definition goes with what we
are discussing. Due Thursday, 11/15
Wednesday,11/14: Read pages 118-125 in the
Social Studies textbook. On loose-leaf, answer the following questions. You may restate the
question in the answer. All answers can be found on the pages you are reading
this week in your textbook. Due Friday, 11/16
Questions:
1. What was the aim of King Henry VII
when he paid for John Cabot’s expedition?
2. How did Vespucci’s voyage change how
the world was seen?
3. What caused Balboa to travel across
the Isthmus of Panama?
4. What did Magellan’s expedition
accomplish?
5.
Which explorer sailed across the Pacific Ocean?
Vocabulary for the Week:
isthmus, treaty
Remember to be
working on your Native American Heritage Project. See Google Classroom.
Grade 5 Lesson Plans for Social Studies
Grade 5 Lesson Plans for Social Studies
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The
6th grade will be reading Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan.
Please
read Chapters 6 and 7 by Monday, 11/19
ELA/Reading Homework for Grade 6
This week we will continue to read the
Declaration of the Rights of the Child created by the United Nations.
My Perspectives (Pearson)- Please
review (in your textbook or online at Pearson Realize) the story, vocabulary,
and concepts (word study and conventions) that we are working on in class.
Wednesday 11/14 Voyages
Practice Book- page 17 #s 1-23 (even numbers). Please complete in your
notebook with the date, name of the book and page #, and the Aim. Due on Friday, 11/16.
Grade 6 Lesson Plans for ELA/Reading and Grammar
Grade 6 Lesson Plans for ELA/Reading and Grammar
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The
7th and 8th grades will be reading The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.
Please
read Chapters 4 and 5 by Monday, 11/19
ELA/Reading Homework for Grades 7
and 8
This week we will be reading A Simple
Act and from An Invisible Thread. We will also continue to review nouns and
pronouns. We will start discussing writing an explanatory essay.
My Perspectives (Pearson)- Please
review (in your textbook or online at Pearson Realize) the story, vocabulary,
and concepts (word study and conventions) that we are working on in class.
Wednesday 11/14 Voyages Text Book-
study pages 1-15 on nouns. Homework will be assigned during class on Tuesday and Thursday from pages 14 and 15 in the textbook. There will be a test on Monday, 11/19.
Grades 7 and 8 Lesson Plans for ELA/Reading, Grammar, and Social Studies _________________________________________________________________
Grades 7 and 8 Lesson Plans for ELA/Reading, Grammar, and Social Studies _________________________________________________________________
Social Studies Homework for
Grade 7
Unit 1 Our Colonial Heritage
(Beginnings-1783)/ Chapter 3: The English Colonies (1605-1774)
Tuesday,11/13: Define each
word below in your Social Studies Vocabulary NB. Please use the glossary in the
back of the SS text and write the entire definition. If it isn’t in the book,
you can search for it online. Just make sure the definition goes with what we
are discussing. Due Thursday 11/15.
Wednesday,11/7: Read pages 78-84
in the Social Studies textbook. On loose-leaf, answer the
questions on page 84. Due Friday, 11/16
Questions: 1a, 1b, 2a, 3a, 4a
(Restate)
Vocabulary for the Week:
bicameral,
congregation, covenant, dissenters, Protestant Reformation, radical, Puritans,
Pilgrims, immigrants, Mayflower Compact, Squanto, John Winthrop, Anne
Hutchinson
*** Remember to be working on your
Native American Heritage Project. See Google Classroom.
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Social Studies Homework for
Grade 8
Unit 6 A Growing America (1850-1914)/
Chapter 18: Americans Move West (1850-1890)
Tuesday,11/13: Define each word
below in your Social Studies Vocabulary NB. Please use the glossary in the back
of the SS text and write the entire definition. If it isn’t in the book, you
can search for it online. Just make sure the definition goes with what we are
discussing. Due Thursday, 11/15
Wednesday,11/14: Read pages 600-605 in the
textbook. Answer the questions below on loose-leaf.
Due Friday, 11/16
Questions:
Page 605: Questions 1a, 1b, 2a, 3a, 3b
There will be a Test on Chapter 18 sometime next week.
Vocabulary for the Week:
facilitate,
Homestead Act, Morrill Act, Exodusters, sodbusters, dry farming, Annie Bidwell,
National Grange, deflation, William Jennings Bryan, Populist Party
*** Remember to be working on your
Native American Heritage Project. See Google Classroom.
Have a wonderful week!
