Day Forty Eight

Mayan Maize God

 

Monday, November 14, 2011

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

Notebooks
BLK 1 - Muzzy, Parker(last call) and Patterson
BLK 2 - Moreno(last call), Neil and Nelson

DOL

28.
He told the students, too, that he would tolerate no shenanigans, and then he confiscated a headset from Quincy Querulous, a student in the back of the room who made faces as his headset was taken, opened his mouth as if to argue, and then thought better of it.
“Hey, Pauline, that’s the teacher who stuck out his tongue,” articulated Felicia Fey to her puerile friend who was silently crying.
29.

William Waggish, worried about Pauline, whispered another of his inimitable limericks, this one about a malevolent math teacher entitled “Wrathful Math.” Faint curls of smoke wisped from Mr. Math Martinet’s ears, and his eyelids fluttered, too.

Analogy
parenthesis:parentheses::cactus:cacti

Read Aloud/Read Along
JT - Chapter 11 section 2 Disk 7  Trk 8 1:42
Rated Discussion - all reading strategies - questioning, visualizing, inferring, connecting with self, world or another book

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 1 - JA’s visit to the French Court as a special envoy from the new United States of America. JA will try to get French Naval assistance 31:15  
Blk 2 - start JA’s French connection
In notebook - describe the impression John Adams made on the French court court = the ruling nobility of France



Group Presentation -
Blk 1 = Group 3 “The DogHouse Group” Jared, Cameron, Caleb and Kerensa
Blk 2 = Group 3 “Cool Clan, Inc.” Katherine, Dansy, Kevin


Social Studies 6

Monday, November 14, 2011

Check family tree progress - Due on Friday

Moodle - My World History Quiz 3

My World History - chapter 1 review and assessment

History of the World in 100 Objects -  Finish “Maya Maize God Statue”

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
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, Alex, Elli and Shaylynn, Turner
Group 6 = Mitchel,Hannah and Anthony