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Social Studies/Language Arts Core


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Berryessa Union School District  --   San Jose, CA
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Trimester 2 Syllabus
Trimester 3 Syllabus
Bell Schedule

Mr. Curry teaches 2 double period core classes of Language Arts & Social Studies (Lasses A and B) plus a single period of Language Arts for one other group (Class C).
Regular Schedule     
Homeroom    7:55-8:05
1st Period      8:08-9:01
2nd Period    9:04-9:57
Break           9:57-10:10
3rd Period   10:13-11:06
4th Period    11:09-12:02
     1st Lunch   12:02-12:33
5th Period    12:05- 1:29
    2nd Lunch   12:58-1:29
6th Period     1:32- 2:26


Minimum Day Schedule (Every Thursday)
Homeroom    None
1st Period      7:55-8:36
2nd Period    8:39-9:20
Break            9:20-9:33
3rd Period   9:36-10:17
4th Period    10:20-11:01
     1st Lunch   11:01-11:32
5th Period    11:04-12:16
     2nd Lunch   11:45-12:16
6th Period     12:19-1:00


Class A-Periods 1& 2: Language Arts/Social Studies Core
Class B-Periods 3&4: Language Arts/Social Studies Core
Class C-Period   6:     Language Arts
Teacher Prep-Period 5

Piedmont uses a rotating schedule.

First Trimester at a Glance

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Mon Aug 27th - First Day of Classes
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Mon Sept 3rd - Labor Day Holiday
Tue Sept 11th - Heroes' Day 9/11 Commemoration

October Calendar
October 5th: Midway mark of Trimester 1
 Oct 31 Halloween


  Mon Nov 12
                                  Veteran's Day Holiday
Fri Nov 16                          End of Trimester #1
Sat Nov 17- Sun Nov 25          Thanksgiving Break
Checkout Mr. Curry's class' 
Web-Based Projects
  • Usable Monitors for 2 computers
  • Parent  Participation in
Piedmont Boosters
  • More Summer Vacation
Please check the list of student supplies!
  • 2 pencils
  • 2 pens
  • tracker book
  • folders

6th Grade California Content Standards

Lang Arts/Reading    6
Social St./History    6
   contact us
rdcurry@sjteach.org

Mr. R. Curry
Mr. Curry's Class Homepage

Meet Your Teacher
mr curry at mtvernon


Mr. Curry is now starting his 18th year of teaching (8th year in the Berryessa Union School District), and his third at Piedmont Middle. 



Literature & Language Arts   
        Social Studies
Aug27 - Oct 8

Chapters 1-2                          
Week #1
Aug 27-31
Spell Lesson1: Pretest/Packet/Post Test
Spelling WS Puzzle   | Crossword
Holt Literature
Pages 2-5
Pages 6-16 Just Once
Questions/Summary/QuizLab
Holt HB (HH) ❑ Diagnostic Review pp. 2-4
                       ❑ pages 4-6 Sentence or Fragment
                       ❑ quiz

Pages 122-131
Note-Taking Guide 1.1
Section 1 Test
View Video "Otzi-Iceman of the Alps"
1.1 Quiz
Week #2
Sept 4-7

Spell Lesson2: Pretest/Packet/Post Test
Spelling WS Puzzle   | Crossword
Chapter 1  (4 days) Pages17-31
All Summer In A Day
(17-27)
Questions/Summary/QuizLab
(HH) ❑ The Parts of a Sentence, cont.
❑ Subject and Predicate pp. 7–16, 17–18
Chapter 1: Early Civilizations -
Lesson 2: Mesopotamia 132-141
Ch 1 -Lesson 2 Study Packet
Chapter 1 -Lesson 2  Test QuizLab
  Finish video  Otzi - Iceman of the Alps

Great  Links
Early Man    |  Mesopotamia
Week #3
Sept 10-14
Spell Lesson3: Pretest/Packet/Post Test
Puzzles: Word SearchCrossword
Writing Workshop 1: Write a Short Story
District Assesment Test (3 days)
District Writing Assessment
Pages 28-31  Suit Helps...
Page 31 Quest/Test practice p 31
What Will Our Towns Look... 32-36
Reading Check/Test Practice p 36
Solar System Bodies: Venus(37-41)
Questions/Test Practice p 40
Standards Review 42-47
Test Practice pages 43/45
Chapter 1 TestQuizLab

Chapter 1:  Section 3
Later Empires
Read 142-144   Do Geography Questions p. 144
Read 145-147 Do p. 147 Quest # 1-7
Do Chapter 1 Section 3 Quiz
Chapter 1 Chapter Review
Read 148   Make Cave Drawings

Chapter 1 Test
Week #4
Sept 17-21
Workshop 1 Narration: Writing a Short Story      pages 500-510
Writing  Brainstorm for short story
Spell Lesson 4
Pretest/Packet/PostTest
  Word Search    |    Crossword

Grammar : Holt Handbook
Chapter 2: Parts of Speech Overview
❑ Diagnostic Preview p. 24
❑ The Noun pp. 25–30
❑ The Pronoun pp. 30–37
❑ The Adjective pp. 38–44
Chapter 2: Section 1

pages 152-164
Do Studyguide Packet 
Quizlab test 2.1

Week #5
Sept 24-28
Pages 54-62 Ta-Na-E-Ka
Questions/Summary/QuizLab
Page 63 Vocabulary / Grammar
Tutorial for this week's story, Ta-Na-E-Ka

Spell Lesson 6

Pretest/Packet/PostTest
  Word Search    |    Crossword

Grammar : Holt Handbook
Chapter 2: Parts of Speech Overview
❑ Diagnostic Preview pp. 49-50
❑ Read and Do pages 51-57

Chapter 2 Section 2: Egypts Old Kingdom
Read 165-176 and "Inside A Pyramid"
Do Note Taking guide
Section Review p. 176
Quizlab test  2.2

Week 5 Jeopardy

Launch Ancient Artifact Project

Week #6
Oct 1-5


Spell Lesson 6
Pretest/Packet/PostTest
  Word Search    |    Crossword

Spelling Lesson  6 Word List:
 
 busy     dough     although    
young     though     building     enough     eighth     boulder   
 rough     biscuit    
sleigh     system     among     courage     straight
Novel Units

Grammar : Holt Handbook
Chapter 2: Parts of Speech Overview
❑ Adverbs pages 59-66
❑ Read and Do pages 59-66



Chapter 2 Section 3: Egyptian Empire
Read 178-186
Do Note Taking guide
Section Review p. 186
Quiz on Ch 2.3

Week #7
Oct 8-12
Novel Units
Holt Literature

Chapter 2: Characters

Pages 54-62 Ta-Na-E-Ka
Questions/Summary/QuizLab
Page 63 Vocabulary / Grammar

Chapter 2 Section 4: Kingdom of Kush
Read 187-191
Do  p 189 Using Geopgraphy Skills
Do p 194 Section review
Do Note Taking guide

Review for Ch 2 Test  pp. 194-195
Chapter 2 Test



Oct- 15 - Nov 18 Second Half of Trimester #1
Ancient Artifact Project
Week #8
Oct 15-19


No spelling This Week
Novel Units:   Nothing But The Truth (Class A)
                      Maniac Magee (Class B)

Ancient Egypt Project
Watch God Grew Tired of Us

Week #9

Oct 22-26

Spelling Unit 8 Compound Words
barefoot
bodyguard
cupboard
fairytales
fireworks
fun-loving
greenhouse
homework

hummingbirds
mean-spirited
middle-class
New Year

seashore
sisters-in-law
so-called
teenager
thunderstorm
Word Search    Crossword

Story: The Bracelet

Study Guide for The Bracelet
Primary document: San Francisco News April 28, 1942
YouTube Video on Internment Camps at Tanforan

Egypt Project

Egypt Kush Map Assignment

On a map, trace the route of the Nile River and label the following:

Nile Delta
Nile River
1st and 2nd Cataract
Lower Egypt
Upper Egypt
Thebes
Memphis
Kush
Napata
Meroe
Meditteranean Sea
Red Sea
Sahara
Modern Nations of:
Sudan
Saudi Arabia
Central African Republic

Week #10

Oct 29-
Nov 2



Reading- Farewll to Manzanar

Spelling Unit 9 Sound Alike Words

creak
creek
groan
grown

guessed
guest
soar
sore

stake
steak
steal
steel

weak
weather
week
whether

Word Search             Crossword


Week #11
Nov 5-9

Blanca Flor
Class Tutorial for Blanca Flor
Read pages 90-106 as Reader's Theater.
Do p. 98 #1-4 and p. 106 #1-6
Read a much different bilingual version of Blanca Flor


Spelling Unit 11 Easily Confused Words

later
latter
except
accept

angle
angel
costume
custom

affect
effect
adopt
adapt

device
devise
decent
descent

Word Search             Crossword
Chapter 3 Test:
   Ancient Israel
View a Chapter Overview and the Ch 3 Resource Materials (.pdf file)
Chapter 3 Crossword (All Test Terms Included) (.pdf format)
Part 1  |   Part 2

Week #12
Veteran's Holiday Mon 11/12
Nov 12-16

Thanksgiving Poem on a single Power Point slide due Nov 16th
Chapter 2 Literature Test

Spell Unit 12
Spelling Unit 12 "From y to i"

cities
mummies
supplies
families

varied
centuries
colonies
applies

occupied
identified
enemies
activities

denied
allied
industries
qualified

Word Search             Crossword
Unit 1 Review
We are currently finishing Unit 1, which covered Early Man, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Kush, Ancient Israel. 


The test this week will be based on the Unit 1 Overview.  Click HERE to View! (.pdf file)

Need to redo some of last week's work? View a Chapter 3 Overview and the Ch 3 Resource Materials (.pdf file)

Also, replay the fun with an easy to view web .pdf version of our Class Jeopardy Games for Egypt/Kush and
Israel full .ppt version or compact .pdf version at  Israel
Week of
Nov 17-25

Thanksgiving Week Break

Week #13

Nov 26-20

See Trimester 2 Syllabus

End of Trimester 1



The spelling words for each week are found on the Weekly Assignment web page

Trimester 2

Dates
Literature & Language Arts Grammar
Social Studies
Week #13
Nov 26-30
Begin Chapter 3   

Begin Unit 2 / Chapter 4          
Week #14
Dec 3-7

                       


Week #15
Dec 10-14


 
Winter Break
Dec 22-Jan 6



Week #16
Jan 7-11



Week #17
Jan 14-18



Week #18
Jan 22-25

1/21 MLKing Holiday




Week #19
Jan 28-Feb 1



Week #20
Feb 4-8



Week #21
Feb 11-15



President's Week
Vacation
Feb 18- 22



Week #22
Feb 25 - Feb 29
Leap Day 2/29



Week #23
Mar 3-7



Week #24
Mar 10-14



Week #25
Mar 17-21



Spring Break March 21-30


 

  • Please make sure your child is in their seat by the bell!
  • Please monitor student homework by signing the weekly assignment sheet we send home every Monday!

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