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Week 24 --  March 2-6, 2009

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Week of
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This week we have groups finish prsentations on early Meso-America

Students will continue working on their country report.

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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

Student Cooperative Learning Groups finish work on their Mesoamerica Multimedia projects this week. The finished projects will be featured in our PBWiki.
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

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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-

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Esperanza Rising

Google Books Preview

Web Resources

Class C- Period 6

Whole Class Novel-

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Maniac Magee

Google Books Preview

Web Resources

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 are due Monday, March 9th.

Revised Final done on or uploaded to Google Docs due Wednesday, March 18th.

Unit 24 VCV Patterns      Word Search | Crossword

CLIMATE, GOPHER, PALACE, PROFIT,
TALENT, WEAPON, COMIC, LINEN,
PLEASANT, SIREN, TOKEN, FRIGID,
NOVEL, PRISON, SPIRAL, TREASON
 

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Monday
March 2
hr-4-5-6-1-2-3

❑ Chapter 6 Jigsaw
HW Country Report
 
❑Spelling Pre test
❑Group Lit Circles
❑Expository How To Essay Rough Draft
HW: Spelling Packet
Tuesday
March 3
hr-3-4-5-6-1-2
District Writing Assessment in Homeroom.
❑ Chapter 6 Jigsaw
HW Country Report
 

Class Novel
❑Expository How To Essay Revisions
HW: Spelling Packet/ Essay
Wednesday
March 4
hr-2-3-4-5-6-1
❑ Chapter 6 Jigsaw Presentations
HW Country Report
 
❑Group Hatchet Projects
❑Expository How To Essay Rough Draft
HW: Essay

Thursday
March 5

1-2-3-4-5-6
❑ Unit 2 Review
HW Country Report
 

❑Group Lit Circles-Finish the book
❑Expository How To Essay Rough Draft
HW: Spelling Packet

Friday
March 6
hr-6-1-2-3-4-5

Guest Teacher as Mr. Curry is at a Conference for Social Studies teachers in Ontario, CA

❑ Unit 2 Test
HW Country Report
 


❑Spelling Post test
❑ District Language Arts Assessment