Day Sixty-Two

Scene from National Geographic's The Human Family Tree

Friday, December 9, 2011

moodle.nwesd.org

English/Social Studies 8
Blocks 1 and 2
Announcements and Attendance

CBA 2 - Rotation continues (last day)
CBA - Classroom Based Assessment aka state test prep
Do CBA 2 - in alphabetical rotation
Blk 1 - Roberts, White and Zeine
Blk 2 - Svedahl, Wilson
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Notebooks
BLK 1 - Jones, Kinata and Li
BLK 2 - McGarry, Middlebrook(last call) and Neil
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DOL
41

“Hey, Jesse, look at that,” giggled William Waggish, pleased with their poetic efforts and their effect on the teachers.  “These teachers are eerie!  Maybe my friends and I are wrong and this year will be fun after all.”

Sam Sagacious just made a further notation in his pocket notebook.

eerie approximately equal to strange

42 M
jesse jocose queried with a grin as they stepped into the room of the slightly smoking teacher i wonder what makes them do that.  just then they spied felicia fey in her newly purpled hair

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Read Aloud/Read Along
No Promises in the Wind
by Irene Hunt
Blk 1 Chapter 4
Blk 2 - Chapter 4
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Break
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Blk 1 - West Side Story - 1:09:13
Blk 2 - The Music Man - 1:49:19
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Review and Discuss Background to American History
AHoon
Chapter 2
“Check Your Progresses”
Questions
All except Number 6 - page 41
All - page 48
All - page 52
All - page 57

Chapter 3
All - page 70
All - page 76
All - page 81
All - page 89
All - page 93


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SS6
Moodle - My World History Quiz 5

My World History -
Unit 2 “The Ancient Near East”
Chapter 3 - “The Fertile Cresent”
Review section 2 assessment
Read section 4 - “The Phoenicians” page 132
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History of the World  in 100 Objects
“The Standard of Ur”

Human Family Tree - How DNA studies show ancient human movement across the earth (38:29 minutes done)

Group Project - Family/Community Citizenship papers due