Day Sixty

William Penn

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

moodle.nwesd.org

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

CBA 2 - Rotation continues

Notebooks
BLK 1 - Griswold, Hall(last call)and Haywood
BLK 2 - Lewis-Sandal (last call), Magney and Maltbie

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Since, like William’s other friends, they were headed for English class, they composed an appropriate poem and entitled it “Awful Teacher” even though they had not yet encountered the teacher.


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Standing at her door, their new English teacher, Ms. Grammar Grouch, heard the limerick.  Her eyes fluttered, and she stuck out her tongue while curls of smoke wisped from her proboscis and rose to the ceiling.

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Read Aloud/Read Along
No Promises in the Wind
by Irene Hunt
Blk 1 Chapter 1 page 16
Blk 2 - Chapter 2
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Break
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2nd Hour

CBA - Classroom Based Assessment aka state test prep
Do CBA 2 - in alphabetical rotation
Blk 1 - Li, MacDonald, Mathew, Michel, Muzzy and Parker
Blk 2 - Middlebrook, Moreno, Neil, Nelson, Read and Schwoerer
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AHOON
In the notebook and clearly labelled
Blk 1 & 2- Do the “Test Yourself” for chapter 1 on page 31 - all questions
Read Chapter 2 section 1
In Notebook -
Do “Check Your Progress” page 41
questions 1, 2, 3, and 4 and 5
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Read “Life at the Time” pages 42 and 43
Read Chapter 2 sections 2 and 3
In Notebook -
Do “Check Your Progress” questions for each section (2 & 3)
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Chapter 2 continues with section 4 - Read
In Notebook -
Do section 4 “Check Your Progress” questions 1-6
label your sets of questions with the page on which the questions appear (if you have not done so, go back and do so)
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AHOON
“Colonies Take Root”
Start reading on page 62
Proceed through sections 1 and 2
In the notebook
Do “Check Your Progress” for Chapter 3 section 1 page 70 and section 3 page 76
Read Section 3 “The Middle Colonies”
In the notebook -
Do “Check Your Progress” for Chapter 3 section 3 page 81

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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 3 - “The Assyrian and Persian Empires” page 124

Human Family Tree - How DNA studies show ancient human movement across the earth (22:39 minutes done)

Group Project - Family/Community Citizenship papers due