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Language
Arts/Literature
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History/Social
Science
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25
March 10-14
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- District Reading
Assessment
- "Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down"
Write a Movie Review of "A Cry in the Wild" (movie version of Hatchet)
Compare and Contrast the novel and the movie version
- Spelling: Unit 24 VCV
Patterns Word Search
| Crossword
| CLIMATE |
COMIC |
FRIGID |
| GOPHER |
LINEN |
NOVEL |
| PALACE |
PLEASANT |
PRISON |
| PROFIT |
SIREN |
SPIRAL |
| TALENT |
TOKEN |
TREASON |
| WEAPON |
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Chapter 7 Section 3:
Persia
Attacks the
Greeks
 Section 3
Review/ Test Prep
Previous Week's Lessons:
Section Reviews |
26
March 17-20
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Start reading The Cay
Spelling: Unit 25 VCV
Patterns Word Search
| Crossword
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allies
banner
chaos
platform
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clever
crystal
display
empty
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fatal
funnel
gather
habit
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hotel
orphan
oval
suspense
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Chapter 7 Section 4:
The Age of Pericles
Read
358-367 NTG 121-126
Section 4
Review/ Test Prep
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March
21-March 30
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Spring
Break No School
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27
March 31-
April 4
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Finish
novel, The
Cay
Read
Chapters 11-17
Answer Chapter
Questions & Take section
tests
Plan a poster
report, presentation or video DUE April 11
Study Unit
Our main discussion guide for
the book, created by another innovative teacher.
Spelling: Unit 26 Irregular Plurals Word Scramble
| Crossword
 nuclei
species
salmon goldfish
trout moose
cactus media
fungi bacteria
stimuli hippopotami
orangutan
brothers-in-law
sisters-in-law stimulus
larvae radius
nucleus hippopotamus
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Overview
of Chapter 7
Chapter 7
Review and Test
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28
April 7-11
Spelling: Unit 27 Adjectives with
Suffixes -ive and -ous
Scramble
| Crossword
assertive
attractive
creative
delicious
effective
enormous
executive
fabulous
tremendous
humorous
humungous
legislative
mysterious
negative
positive
positive
sensitive
various
|
 by
Gary Paulsen
 Read and listen to
an interview
with Gary Paulsen
about his autobiography, Woodsong,
from
which the selection Storm
was taken.
Literature
❑ Storm pp. 244–253
❑ Before You
Read p.
244
❑ Focus On:
questions and activities p. 252 (Scaffolded response guide)
❑ Vocabulary:
Prefixes p. 253
❑ Grammar :
Using
Good and Well Correctly p. 253 Adjective Review
❑ Interactive
Reading p. 188
Chapter 6 Project
coming
soon--due April 30th
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6.4
Students analyze the
geographic, political, economic, religious, and social
structures of the early
civilizations of Ancient Greece.
Chapter
8 Section 1: The Culture of Ancient Greece
Read
376-385 NTG Review 127-133
Chapter 8 Section 1
Review
Chapter 8.1
Review/ Test Prep
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29
April 14-18
Spelling:
Unit 28
Word
Scramble
|Crossword
disagreeable
disagreement
unsuccessful
reaction
reconstruction
renewal
repayment
replacement
reproduction
uncomfortable
unusually
unemployment
unexpectedly
unfortunately
unlikely
unpredictable
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YouTube video
with Dr.
Angelou reciting her poem, "And Still I Rise"
Alternate
version of "And Still I Rise" video
Read and
listen to an interview
with Maya Angelou.
Literature
❑ Before You
Read p. 262
❑ Brother pp.
262–268
❑ Focus On:
questions and activities p. 267 (response scaffolded guide)
❑ Vocabulary:
Antonyms and Finding Synonyms p. 268
Informational
Material
❑ Connecting and Clarifying Main Ideas: Brother and The Brother I Never
Had pp. 269–273
❑ Reading Informational Materials pp. 269–270
❑ Focus On: questions p. 272
❑ Grammar Link: Modifiers p. 273
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Chapter
8 Section 2: Greek
Philosophy & History
Read
392-397 NTG Review 134-138
Chapter 8
Section 2
Review
Country
Report Project
Students will finish planning and researching their Country
Report. See the Country
Report Link for
more information.
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30
April 21-26
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 The author wries an autobiographical
account about his childhood experiences in Viet Nam and retells the
story of a couple in love.
Literature
❑ from The
Land I Lost pp. 274–285
❑ Before You
Read
pp. 274–275
❑ Focus On:
questions and activities p. 284 (scaffolded response guide)
❑ Vocabulary:
Context Clues p. 285
Watch
a music video of a Vietnamese-Belgian woman
whose parents grew up in Viet Nam and how she wants to learn about Viet
Nam.
Writing
Prompt: Ask an older relative about their childhood and
write a 3-5 paragraph essay about it...you may make it a
compare/contrast essay with your experiences growing up.
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31
April 28- May 2
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32
May 5-9
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33
May 12-16
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34
May 19-23
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35
May 27-30
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36
June 2-6
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37
June 9-13
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