Weekly Assignments

Week of
Feb 9-13

Week 23 -- February 23-27, 2009

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Week of
March 1-6

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This week we have groups work on group prsentations on early Meso-America

Students will continue working on their country report.

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Outline (MSWord .doc)
Outline (html)

Written Report Template (.doc)

You can also use the free web-based Google Documents to do the report.

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6.1 First Americans Text 312-316 NTG 95-98

6.2 The Mayan People Text 317-321 NTG 99-102

Since Mesoamerica is a 7th grade and not a 6th grade standard, we will only spend a week on this chapter so that students do get a basic understanding of the early peoples of the Americas which will be studied in-depth in 7th grade.

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Literature

Literature: Literature Circles

Class A - Period 3

Group Reading of short stories in Local News
OR Baseball in April

Local News-Google Preview
Baseball In April - Google Preview

Limited class set of
Baseball in April is provided by donors at Donors Choose

Class B - Period 4

Whole Class Novel-

esperanza

Esperanza Rising

Google Books Preview

Web Resources

Class C- Period 6

Whole Class Novel-

Maniac Magee

Google Books Preview

Class set of
Maniac Magee is provided by donors at Donors Choose

Writing: Expository Essay
Students will write a 500-700 "How To" expository essay in which they write about how to make something. GATE students are especially challenged to make a multimedia or other project to accompany the essay (such as a cooking video if the essay is how to make brownies).
Rough Draft due Friday, Feb 27th.
Final copy due March 10th done on computer uploaded to PBWiki.

Expository

"How To" Model

Class Projects

Spelling: Unit 22

-ant / -ent
Word Search | Crossword

absent, important,current, president, elephant, confident, instant, element, servant, excellent, opponent, permanent, assistant, innocent, significant,sufficient, moment, patient, impatient, frequent


Monday Feb 23 hr-3-4-5-6-1-2	❑ Chapter 6 Jigsaw ❑ HW Country Report	❑Spelling Pre test ❑Group Hatchet Projects ❑Expository How To Essay HW: Spelling Packet
Tuesday Feb 24 hr-2-3-4-5-6-1	❑ Chapter 6 Jigsaw ❑ HW Country Report	❑ ❑Group Hatchet Projects ❑Expository How To Essay HW: Spelling Packet/ Essay
Wednesday Feb 25 hr-1-2-3-4-5-6	❑ Chapter 6 Jigsaw ❑ HW Country Report	❑ ❑Group Hatchet Projects ❑Expository How To Essay HW: Essay
Thursday Feb 26 6-1-2-3-4-5	❑ Chapter 6 Jigsaw Presentations ❑ HW Country Report	❑Group Lit Circles ❑Expository How To Essay HW: Spelling Packet
Friday Feb 27 hr-5-6-1-2-3-4 Last School Day of Feb.	❑ Chapter 6 Test ❑ HW Country Report	❑Spelling Post test ❑Expository How To Essay ROUGH DRAFT DUE ❑Group Lit Circles HW: Read the book