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Weekly Assignments for Week #17 January 5-9, 2009

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Favorite Holiday Essays
As we prepared for the holidays, students were assigned to write a paragraph or more about what their favorite Holiday was.  Here are the essays as Power Point slides, displayed using the Google Docs flash player.



Story:  The Gold Cadillac
Literature

- Before You Read p. 174
- The Gold Cadillac pp. 174–188 - Focus On: questions and activities&nbsssp;;;; pp. 187 #1-6    QuizLab for The Gold Cadillac
- Vocabulary: Synonyms and Antonyms and Wooooorrds with Multiple Meanings p. 188

Informational Material
  -Separate but Never Equal pp. 189–;19999922
  -Reading Informational Materials p. 189<<   -Focus On: questions and activity p. 1922		 This story is the realistic novella of a  preteen's experience of racism during the beginning of the Civil Rights era.
A novella is a fictional story that is longer than a short story but not long enough to be a book or full-length novel.
 
Holt Graphic Organizer
Summary:  From www.Learner.org

Countdown to the Inauguration:
From Civil Rights to Barack Obama photoessay
Write 1-2 paragraphs on how the civil rights movements has progressed since the era when this story took place.

  Vocabulary
evident
rural
heedful
ignorance
Classroom Test to Qualify for the Piedmont Middle Spelling Bee



Class Test this Tuesday.  School-wide Bee on January 14th.
Piedmont Middle School Coordinator is Mr. Curry.
Grammar:  Holt Handbook pages 48-52

Next Week we start our Class Novel -- Hatchet

Ancient India 4.3
pages 259-267


6.5 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the early civilizations of India.
6.5.6 Describe the growth of the Maurya empire and the political and moral achievements of the emperor Asoka.
6.5.7 Discuss important aesthetic and intellectual traditions (e.g., Sanskrit literature, including the Bhagavad Gita; medicine; metallurgy; and mathematics, including Hindu-Arabic numerals and the zero).
We are currently studying Ancient India, Section 3, Later Empires.  View: 4.3 Study Guide

Chapter 4 Review web (.pdf)   |   


Mon Jan 5
hr-2-3-4-5-6-1
 -Spelling: None this week
Literature
❑  Before You Read p. 174
❑ Read The Gold Cadillac pp. 174–188
HW: Finish reading The Gold Cadillac
Chapter  4 Lesson 3
"The Mauryan Empire"
259-262
NTG pp 74-76
Tues Jan 6

hr-1-2-3-4-5-6
  ❑ Finish: The Gold Cadillac pp. 174–188
❑ In Class Spelling Bee Test
❑ Start Focus On: questions and activities  pp. 187 #1-6  
❑  Quiz for The Gold Cadillac
- HW: work on Focus Questions
 Chapter  4 Lesson 3
"The Gupta Empire"
p 264
NTG 76-77
Wed Jan 7
hr-6-1-2-3-4-5
  ❑ Vocabulary: Synonyms and Antonyms and Words with Multiple Meanings p. 188
❑  Write 1-2 paragraphs on how the civil rights movements has progressed since the era when this story took place.
❑  Quiz for The Gold Cadillac
HW: Finish Essay
 		Chapter  4 Lesson 3
"Indian Literature and Science" 
p. 265-267
Section Wrap up
NTG 77-78
HW: Ch 3 Puzzles
Thur Jan 8

5-6-1-2-3-4		 Informational Material
  ❑ -Separate but Never Equal pp. 189–192
  ❑ Focus On: questions and activity p. 192 		Chapter 4.3 Review
Studyguide
Fri Jan 9

hr-5-6-1-2-3-4
 ❑ Start class novel, Hatchet
 Chapter 4.3 Test