Day Fifty

The Friday Musical - The Music Man

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

English/Social Studies 8
Announcements and Attendance
Go online to http://pearsonsuccessnet.com
User name example - dbaker
password example - histbaker

Notebooks
BLK 1 - Saephan, Scriven and Skjelstad(last call all)
BLK 2 - Read, Schwoerer and Soto(last call all)

DOG
5 themes of geography
Location

Relative Location

Absolute Location

Place

Human Characteristics

Physical Characteristics

Human-Environmental Interactions

Humans adapt to the environment

Humans modify the environment

Humans depend on the environment

Movement

People

Goods

Ideas

Regions

Formal

Functional

Vernacular (perceptual)

DOG - location and place - Google Earth and Google Maps
Langley and Freeland are two towns on the south portion of Whidbey Island. Langley is situated on the water but Freeland not so much. What reasons can you think of for this difference? List two reasons in your notebook. (Compare to Coupeville?) Discuss in class. Record ideas. Continue later as group research and presentation project.

1) Fishing
2)Erosion
3)Flooding/Storms
4)Shipping
5)Indians
6)Trading access to the main land
7)Misunderstanding
8)A view

Read Aloud/Read Along
JT - Chapter 12 section 1 Disk 8  Trk 4 2:16
Rated Discussion - all reading strategies - summarizing, main idea, questioning, visualizing, inferring, connecting with self, world or another book

Quick Write
In notebook choose on of the three small towns of South Whidbey (Clinton, Freeland and Langley) and write two good things and two not so good things about that town nearest to your home.

AHOON - Chapter 1 - Roots of the American People section 3  Continue - Trade Networks of Asia and Africa - page 18 - “West African Trade Centers

John Adams documentary -  

Blk 2 - JA’s French Connection 17:25
In notebook - describe the impression John Adams made on the French court court = the ruling nobility of France



Group Presentation -
Blk 1 = Group 5 “The Art Group” Max, Ingrid, Isaac
Blk 2 = Group 4 “Red Eye Photo” Anthony, Cooper, June and Ruby

Social Studies 6

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Moodle - My World History Quiz 4

My World History - chapter 2

History of the World in 100 Objects -

Group Project -
2nd quarter
Personalize Core Concepts - family and community and the Core Concepts - History and Geography, Citizenship and Economics and Culture
Take examples from your own life to show understanding of Core Concepts - family history, neighborhood geography, family and community citizenship, personal economics (chores and allowance) and family culture (lifestyle)
Do a rough draft document for yourself and then combine into a slide show for group
diagram of family tree - you at the top
1 inch x 1 inch drawing of each person
a date for each person approx birthday
shoot for 4 generations or more
full names - first and last
Map of your neighborhood -
½ mile on a side
3 or 4 things in your neighborhood that mean something special to you
Other parts can be just sketched in
vegetation - all types of plants - colors or generic shapes
Use 250 to an inch as a approximate scale
Include key for all symbols
8 1/2 x 11 sheet - regular letter size
Landscape

Groups
Group 1 = Lexi, Ben, Alyssa, Bella
Group 2 = Josie, Hunter,  and Evan
Group 3 = Sierra, Domi, Adrian and Makeda
Group 4 = Julian, Bryanna, Kaitlyn,
Group 5 = Bailey, Elli and Shaylynn, Turner
Group 6 = Mitchel,Hannah and Anthony