Week of: March 7, 2016 from the desk of Mrs. DuBois
English Interventions
Monday
Reading Test Success Main idea with Ligers and Tiglons and Zonkeys, Oh MY p. 55-57 AimsWeb Maze and high frequency reading |
Tuesday
hybrids |
Wednesday
Reading Test Success Story Elements (plot, character, setting, etc) p. 59-63 RUNNING FROM THE SUN Questions are on p. 64-65 |
Thursday
Reading Test Success Continue working with story elements.... ROCK CLIMBING p.66-69 |
Friday
Reading Test Success Vocabulary 9. 71-73 Take students to library to work on study ladder homophones interactive site https://www.studyladder.com/games/activity/homophones-vocabulary-builder-18961 |
U.S. History 8 9:10-10:00 and 10:05-11:00
Monday
Focus Question: What scientific achievements did Americans contributed during the 1820-1860s? Finish Chapter 14 When done, Read pages 474-478 take notes on this section and you may use them on the test Play I spy with my eye...Utilizing the people to meet section, break into nine groups. Each group comes up with a couple of attributes about the person and their contribution and writes it down. Teacher collects sheets and randomly chooses one to read. See which group can get the most correct. |
Tuesday
Focus question: What were the educational reforms that improved the current system of education? What reform did Horace Mann advocate? Was the reform successful? Defend your answer. Share yesterday's independent assignment and see if the class can guess who the individual is that is being described. Read 480-483 Work on answering higher level thinking questions by assigning five teams. Each team starts at a different question, but all questions must be finished |
Wednesday
Focus Question: What was the most important social change that occurred at the beginning of the 19th century? Defend your answer Quiz 15-2 Read pages 484-487 social and cultural changes. Choose one of the topics and create a poster or write an ad that informs and convinces the public to change their thoughts. Give credit to the person that is the head of the movement. ( House of Refuge-prison system, temperance movement, mental hospitals, prohibition, socialism and second great awakening, Horace Mann) Fill out vocab sheet |
Thursday
Focus Question: Work day on poster project |
Friday
Focus question: Why did the Underground Railroad come into existence? Who road it? Read and discuss the Antislavery Movement p. 488-492 With iPads and teacher's desktop, have students experience the Scholastic interactive site http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/ |
Geography 7 11:00-11:50 and 11:55-12:45
Warm up
yourchildlearns Africa Start on page 426 under The Horn of Africa and finish section 2. Students have been taught how to take notes, so may use them on test. Finish true/false sheet. Take a grade on this assignment Read and discuss Time Perspectives 429-432. Show section 2 glencoe.com video |
Tuesday
Warm Up: yourchildlearns Read and discuss pages 434-438. Fill out study guide as we read. Assignment: vocab Team up to play pictionary with vocab words |
Wednesday
Warm Up: Yourchildlearns Africa Review page 439 Complete p. 440-441 # 1-13 On-line quiz chapter 15 glencoe.com support video |
Thursday
Warm Up: yourchildlearns Chapter 15 TEST student generated notes may be used |
Friday
Warm up yourchildlearns http://www.yourchildlearns.com/mappuzzle/india-states-capitals-map-puzzle.html Read and discuss page 444-453 ipad educational activity |
Current Events 1:20 - 2:10
Monday
Play I am a Bronco... Students are placed in groups. Each group gets a difference country. Research your country and use your notes to give a clue. Have students start vague and get more specific. Clues need to include natural resources, what is exported, type of country, capital, interesting fact. Start by saying, " I am a Bronco trotting through this country. On my way I have seen ____. The next student in the group repeats the first clue and adds a second one, etc. After four clues other groups may guess. The group with the most countries guessed correctly, gets candy or drink from the fountain. |
Tuesday
iPad activity: Refugees in Africa |
Wednesday
Junior Scholastic If extra time, play review game for tomorrow's social studies test |
Thursday
BrainPop Jane Goodall https://www.brainpop.com/science/famousscientists/janegoodall/ flextime when done |
Friday
Junior Scholastic iPad activity: study ladder Rain forests of Equatorial Africa https://www.studyladder.com/learn/study-pod/178/reading-comprehension/22616/the-rainforests-of-equatorial-africa-the-congo-basin- flextime for homework |