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This Week in Room 20   Week #25   March 9-13, 2009

Language Arts

Social Studies

Continue Literature Units

Period 3 -- Local News and Baseball in April
Local News OR Baseball in April
Local News-Google  Preview
Baseball In April - Google Preview
Period 4 -- Esperanza Rising
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Web Resources
Period 6 -- Maniac MaGee
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Web Resources

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 Friday March 13th.

Revised Final done on  MS Word or PowerPoint and then uploaded to Google Docs by Friday, March 20th.

Review Ch 6
Ch 6 Test (online IN CLASS)

Launch Unit 3:
Greece and Rome

Ch 7.1: The Early Greeks
Pages 336-343 NTG 103-110

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Outline (MSWord .doc)
Outline (html)
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Written Report Template (.doc)

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




Day/Date
Class Sequence
Language Arts Social Studies
Monday March 9th
HR-5-6-1-2-3-4
Spelling Unit 25 Pretest
Continue Literature Unit
Start How To essay
HW: Spelling Packet
Review Ch 6
Ch 6 Test (online IN CLASS)
Tuesday March 10th
HR - 4-5-6-1-2-3
Continue Literature Unit
  Work on: How To essay
HW: Spelling Packet / Essay
Launch Unit 3: Greece and Rome
Table Groups get names of Greek City-States
Ch 7.1: The Early Greeks
Pages 336-338
Wednesday March 11th
HR - 3-4-5-6-1-2
Continue Literature Unit
  Work on: How To essay
HW: Spelling Packet / Essay
Pages 339-340
Thursday March 12th
2-3-4-5-6-1
Continue Literature Unit
  Work on: How To essay
HW:  Study for Spelling Test / Essay
Pages 341-343
Section Review
Friday March 13th
HR-1-2-3-4-5-6

Guest Speaker
Essay Rough Draft due
Wrap up Literature Unit
Spellin Unit 25 Post Test
Section Test
Make Shield Symbol for your City-State