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Classroom Daily Activities
Monday, November 16, 2009 - Friday, November 20, 2009
Language Arts
| Monday |
 | Students learned the difference between a legend and a
fable and discussed the meaning of theme. Next, we read the
fable, Two Ways to Count to Ten. |
| Students added the following terms to their notebook:
legend, fable, theme and universal theme. |
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| Tuesday |
| Students worked on alternatives for dead word list and
described the winter season in a free write activity. |
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| Wednesday |
| Students read the fable, The Race Between Toad &
Donkey, and focused on finding the theme. |
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| Thursday |
| The class discussed the universal theme of the two
fables read this week, as well as other common themes found
in fables. |
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| Friday |
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Social Studies
| Monday |
| Students wrote out vocabulary terms and definitions for
Chapter 7. Students brainstormed and discussed what they
know about Islam and started reading Chapter 7 - The
Geography of the Arabian Peninsula. |
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| Tuesday |
| The class watched a film on Cairo, Egypt and shared
their Medieval Manuscripts. |
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| Wednesday |
| Students worked on a Geography Challenge on the Arabian
Peninsula during Medieval Times. |
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| Thursday |
| Students took the Arabian Peninsula map test and read
about the desert and oasis environments. Students also
discussed the various adaptations people made in order to
survive in these types of environments. |
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| Friday |
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Archived Classroom Daily Activities
Monday, November 9, 2009 - Friday, November 13, 2009
Language Arts
| Monday |
| Students worked on part 1 of this week's vocabulary and
read the story, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
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| Tuesday |
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Students
continued to read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
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| Wednesday |
| No School |
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| Thursday |
| The class read
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
out loud and discussed the qualities of chivalry. |
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| Friday |
| Students listened to me read the story of Sir Lancelot
and the Knights of the Round Table, and made predictions and
inferences about the story. |
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Social Studies
| Monday |
| Students were introduced to the Medieval Manuscript and
worked in study groups to prepare for the Ch. 5 & 6 test. |
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| Tuesday |
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Students
were tested on Chapters 5 & 6 |
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| Wednesday |
| No School |
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| Thursday |
| Students worked on the Medieval Manuscripts |
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| Friday |
| The class watched a video on Ancient Cities of the Arab
World with a focus on Bukhara, Uzbekistan. The class had
their Medieval Manuscript Shaping Sheet checked. |
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Monday, November 2, 2009 - Friday, November 6, 2009
Language Arts
| Monday |
| Students worked on part 1 of this week's vocabulary and
reviewed the literary terms and reading strategies
introduced in unit 1. |
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| Tuesday |
| Students read Ch. 6 and started working on Reading Notes
questions. |
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| Wednesday |
| The class started Ch. 6 outline. |
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| Thursday |
| Students worked on the Ch. 6 outline and a map of the
Arabian Peninsula. |
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| Friday |
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Social Studies
| Monday |
| Students reviewed the historical background of the Magna
Carta. |
| The class started reading Ch. 6 and watched a film on The
Byzantine Empire. |
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| Tuesday |
| Students read Young Arthur by Robert D. San Souci
and Who Was King Arthur? by Jerry Dunn. |
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| Wednesday |
| Students
read the magazine articles
Like Black Smoke: The Black Death’s Journey by Diane
Childress and A World Turned Upside Down: How the Black
Death Affected Europe by Mary Morton Cowan and responded
to questions from the textbook.
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| Thursday |
| Students presented their Quote Speeches. |
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| Friday |
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Monday, October 26, 2009 - Friday, October 30, 2009
Language Arts
| Monday |
| Students completed Monsters are Due on Maple Street
questions #1, 2, 3, 6 & 8 on page 149. The class also
worked on part I of the weekly vocabulary assignment.
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| Tuesday |
| The class reviewed vocabulary terms from Monsters are
Due on Maple Street and wrote an extended response
paragraph in class based on the play. |
| Students met in small groups to share the "books" they
produced for the book report project. |
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| Wednesday |
| The class started reading the play, Monsters are
Due on Maple Street, out loud. |
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| Thursday |
| Students read, Monsters are
Due on Maple Street, and were tested on the play. |
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| Friday |
| The class watched various episodes for the Twilight Zone
including Monsters are Due on Maple Street. |
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Social Studies
| Monday |
| Students watched a film on The Black Death. |
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| Tuesday |
| Students started a vocabulary half sheet for Chapter 5 &
6. They wrote the definitions for each vocabulary term. |
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| Wednesday |
| The class wrote about three life changing events that
happened in their life and compared the events to the Middle
Ages and the Decline of Feudalism. |
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| Thursday |
| Students read Ch. 5 and started to work on a Three
Column Outline for the chapter. |
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| Friday |
| Group 4 presented their current events. |
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Monday, October 19, 2009 - Friday, October 23, 2009
Language Arts
| Monday |
| Students discussed the definition of a "dead" word and
generated a list of dead words that should be avoided in
writing. |
| The class worked on part I of the vocabulary. |
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| Tuesday |
| In effort to gain background knowledge on the play,
Monsters on Maple Street, and the author Rod Serling,
the class and discussed what America was like during the
Cold War era. |
| In grammar, students reviewed adverbs and sentence
diagramming. |
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| Wednesday |
| Students were introduced to the Elements of Drama and
took notes in their reading notebook. |
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| Thursday |
| Today, students read the play, Monsters are Due on
Maple Street, and created a T-Chart, recording the plays
main events on one side and the characters reaction to each
event on the other. |
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| Friday |
| Students reviewed vocabulary words from the play,
Monsters are Due on Maple Street and analyzed the
conflict. |
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Social Studies
| Monday |
| Students started reading Ch. 4 and were assigned a group
project that involves creating a dramatization from a
particular section of Ch. 4 |
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| Tuesday |
| The class worked in groups to prepare for the
dramatization. |
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| Wednesday |
| The class worked in groups to prepare for the
dramatization. |
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| Thursday |
| The class worked in groups to prepare for the
dramatization and watch a film on traders during the Middle
Ages. |
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| Friday |
| Groups presented their plays from Ch. 4 |
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Monday, October 12, 2009 - Friday, October 16, 2009
Language Arts
| Monday |
| Students were given their vocabulary words for the week
and worked on Part I. The quotation speech was
assigned and we corrected the vocabulary test from last
week. |
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| Tuesday |
| Students were tested on the story,
Exploring the
Titanic. |
| In grammar, the class worked on identifying adverbs and
diagramming sentences. |
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| Wednesday |
| Students read about speech preparation and wrote a
practice speech about their favorite hobby or sport. The
speech will be presented in small groups. |
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| Thursday |
| The class corrected the adverb grammar assignment and
practiced delivering personal subject speeches in a small
group setting. |
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| Friday |
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Social Studies
| Monday |
| Students read Ch. 3.5 - 3.8 and answered questions. Ms.
Martin, BLMS Librarian, did a presentation on illuminated
manuscripts. |
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| Tuesday |
| Students started writing an acrostic poem about The
Church during medieval times. |
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| Wednesday |
| The class took the Ch. 3 Vocabulary test and worked on
their acrostic Church poems. |
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| Thursday |
| We started watching a film on the Dark Ages. |
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| Friday |
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Monday, October 5, 2009 - Friday, October 9, 2009
Language Arts
| Monday |
| Students were given their vocabulary words for the week
and worked on Part I. Students were also given a list
of commonly used transitions and linking words. |
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| Tuesday |
| The class reviewed subjects, verbs and adjectives in
grammar. |
| In literature, students learned about narrative
non-fiction and source materials. They started the story,
Exploring the Titanic. |
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| Wednesday |
| In literature, students took a quiz on the story,
Exploring the Titanic, and was assigned an extended
response question. |
| In grammar, the class reviewed subjects, verbs, nouns,
adjectives and sentence diagramming for tomorrow's test. |
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| Thursday |
| Students took the grammar test and reviewed the writing
terms and format for tomorrow's writing terms test. |
| Students turned in the extended response paragraph for
the Titanic. |
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| Friday |
| In writing, students were tested on the writing terms
and formats for paragraph writing. |
| In literature, students reviewed the vocabulary from the
story, Exploring the Titanic and used a literary
analysis chart to record examples of literary elements and
source material from the story. |
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Social Studies
| Monday |
| Students took the Chapter 2 test and read their medieval
letters out loud in class. |
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| Tuesday |
| The class started reading Chapter 3 |
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| Wednesday |
| Students worked on the Chapter 3 vocabulary assignment
and corrected the population/latitude and longitude
worksheet. |
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| Thursday |
| Students read and completed questions for sections
3.2-3.4. Next, the class watched and took notes on "The
Church" video. |
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| Friday |
| Current Events Group #1 presented their articles |
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Monday, September 28, 2009 - Friday, October
2, 2009
Language Arts
| Monday |
| Students were given their vocabulary words for the week
and worked on Part I. |
| The class discussed conflict and the difference between
internal and external conflict using real life examples. |
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| Tuesday |
| Today, students read sections 2.6 and 2.7. They also
reviewed sections 2.2 - 2.5 and completed a Reading Notes
worksheet. |
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| Wednesday |
| The class reviewed the comprehension format for
paragraph writing and discussed the story,
Rikki-tikki-tavi. |
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| Thursday |
| Students learned about an author's use of suspense and
foreshadowing and applied their understanding to the story
Rikki-tikki-tavi. Students wrote down clues and hints of
foreshadowing from the story. The class also wrote a
comprehension paragraph based on a question from the story. |
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| Friday |
| The class was tested on the story, Rikki-tikki-tavi,
by Rudyard Kipling and Lesson 3 and 4 Vocabulary. Students
turned in their final comprehension response paragraphs. |
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Social Studies
| Monday |
| Students finished watching a film on Castles in the
Middle Ages. |
| The class worked on 2.5 of the Chapter 2 outline and
went over the answers for the Chapter 1 test. |
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| Tuesday |
| Students were introduced to the Writing Terms and
Paragraph Formats we will use throughout the year. Students
will practice their new learning by responding to
Comprehension questions #1 and 2 in the the story,
Rikki-tikki-tavi. |
| In grammar, the class reviewed the definition of an
adjective, subject and verb, and applied their understanding
to the grammar worksheet assignment. |
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| Wednesday |
| Students were assigned roles from feudal times and wrote
a letter about their life to a future generation family
member. |
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| Thursday |
| The class graded the Europe map exercise and worked on
the Ch. 2 outline and medieval times letter. |
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| Friday |
| Students were introduced to the Current Event
assignment. |
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Monday, September 21, 2009 - Friday, September 25, 2009
Language Arts
| Monday |
| Students were given their vocabulary words for the week
and worked on Part I. |
| The class was introduced to the Cardinal Rules of
Writing. Students took notes in their Reading Notebook and
will be tested on the rules this Thursday. |
| Students were tested on the story,
Seventh Grade. |
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| Tuesday |
| Today, students reviewed the basic sentence and
identified nouns in a sentence. Students also applied the
Cardinal Rules in a writing exercise on the story,
Seventh Grade. |
| The class was tested on the 23 Helping Verbs. |
| Students reviewed the definitions for the vocabulary
words this week. |
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| Wednesday |
| Students logged onto the Classzone website and
registered to access the on-line literature book. Students
read the story, Thank you M'am, by Langston Hughes
on-line and were given a literary analysis worksheet to
complete. |
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| Thursday |
| Students took the Cardinal Rules test and corrected the
grammar homework. |
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| Friday |
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Social Studies
| Monday |
| The class started reading Ch. 2 and discussed the
definition of feudalism and what it means to be "loyal".
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| Students worked on their Europe maps in class. |
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| Tuesday |
| Students created "half" sheets for the vocabulary words
found in Ch. 2 and worked on the Europe map activity. |
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| Wednesday |
| Students learned how to create an outline in class and
started to write the outline for Ch. 2. |
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| Thursday |
| Students worked on Ch. 2 outline for 2.3 and 2.4 |
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Monday, September 14, 2009 - Friday, September
18, 2009
Language Arts
| Monday |
| Students were given their vocabulary words for the week
and worked on Part I. |
| The class learned about the various forms of fiction and
the four elements of fiction. Students took notes in their
Reading Notebook. |
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| Tuesday |
| Today, students reviewed verbs and helping verbs, and
located them in sentences. |
| The class learned about the five stages of plot and
began reading the short story, Seventh Grade, by Gary
Soto. |
| The class reviewed the vocabulary definitions for the
week. |
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| Wednesday |
| Students applied their knowledge on the stages of plot
with the story, Seventh Grade, and made connections
from the story to their own life. |
| Students were introduced to the Realistic Fiction book
report. |
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| Thursday |
| The class visited the school library and was given the
opportunity to check out a realistic fiction novel. Students
also took notes on realistic fiction. |
| Students corrected and turned in their grammar
assignment on verbs. |
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| Friday |
| Students were tested on the roots man and manu, and
reviewed the story, Seventh Grade. |
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Social Studies
| Monday |
| The class finished reading Ch. 1 and worked on
completing the Ch. 1 Outline. Students created a vocabulary
terms "half" sheet for each vocabulary term in Ch. 1. |
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| Tuesday |
| Students reviewed latitude and longitude, and identified
new geographical terms. |
| The class correct the outline for Ch. 1. |
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| Wednesday |
| Students were given a Ch. 1 quiz for review and were
assigned two to three response questions on the chapter. |
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| Thursday |
| The class review Ch. 1 and prepared for tomorrow's test. |
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| Friday |
| Students were tested on Ch. 1 and were given a Europe
Map assignment. |
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009 - Friday, September 11, 2009
Language Arts
| Monday |
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| Tuesday |
| Students were assigned a Literature textbook and
were introduced to the weekly vocabulary assignments and
procedures. Students were also given instructions on how to
complete the weekly reading log. |
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| Wednesday |
| Students were given instruction on how to complete Part
II of the vocabulary and review the vocabulary definitions. |
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| Thursday |
| The class was given a reading notebook and discussed how
the notebook would be used in language arts. We also went
over the rubric for the notebook and my expectations for
note taking. |
| Students were given three page protectors, one page
protector for each subject. |
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| Friday |
| Students were introduced to the five reading strategies
and took notes on the strategies in their reading notebooks.
The class turned in their vocabulary packets. |
| Humanities students were tested on vocabulary terms.
Humanities Plus will be tested on terms next Friday. |
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Social Studies
| Monday |
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| Tuesday |
| Students were assigned a History Alive textbook. |
| Students were assessed on their knowledge about the
world and geography themes such as regions, location,
parallels and meridians, compass rose and directions. |
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| Wednesday |
| Students corrected the world map assignment and were
given a geography challenge worksheet focusing on medieval
Europe. |
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| Thursday |
| The class corrected the geography challenge assignment
and was introduced to the outline format for note taking.
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| Students began reading Ch. 1 and completing the Ch. 1
outline. |
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| Friday |
| Students read Ch. 1.3 and 1.4 and completed part III and
IV of the Ch. 1 outline. |
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009 - Friday, September 4, 2009
Language Arts
| Monday |
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| Tuesday |
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| Wednesday |
| Students were assigned lockers and received a parent
letter to take home and read. The two "yellow forms" must be
completed and turned in by Tuesday. |
| The class completed a student survey and were introduced
to the classroom behavior and work expectations. |
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| Thursday |
| The class complete a student inventory and interest
sheet and read through the school planner. I also went over
my classroom rules and procedures. |
| Students were given a grammar assessment. |
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| Friday |
| Students presented their Artifact Nametag Collage |
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Social Studies
| Monday |
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| Tuesday |
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| Wednesday |
| Students were assigned lockers and received a parent
letter to take home and read. The two "yellow forms" must be
completed and turned in by Tuesday. |
| The class completed a student survey and were introduced
to the classroom behavior and work expectations. |
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| Thursday |
| The class complete a student inventory and interest
sheet and read through the school planner. I also went over
my classroom rules and procedures. |
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| Friday |
| Students presented their Artifact Nametag Collage |
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