Week of January 23 - 27, 2012 - LA & SS

Plans are subject to change based on student mastery.  Please check back throughout the week for uploaded resources and homework assignments.

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---------------------------------               Language Arts              ----------------------------------

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Upcoming Due Dates:

1. READ everyday - 30 minutes and/or 15 pages in your own PERSONAL chapter book.
2. READING DUE DATES:  Reading Log & AR test due by: FRIDAY, February 3, 2012. Goal: 420 pages. 
3. See individual days below for HW assignments.
4. QUIZ - Friday 1/27

Agenda for the Week:  "How can I recognize and use expository text organizational structures?"

• Monday - 1/23 - Warm Up - "Grammar Guru" - Download Grammar Guru 1.Mann directions  Continue with Expository Text Structure Activity.  We modeled the first article on Friday and responded with answers on our graphic organizer -  Download Frayer Model - Text Structure Analysis.  Today, we partnered and read "The Irresistible Urban Myth" page 188 of the Reality Central text.
• Tuesday - 1/24 - Finish Expository Text Structure Activity.  Read the following articles from your Literature book:  "The Black Smoke," beginning on page 896 & "How the Black Death Affected Europe", page 902.  See "Language Arts Resources" for a link to the online text. Using your graphic organizer (see Monday for copy), analyze the text structure organization of each article and record your answers on the graphic organizer.  HW:  Finish your article analysis.  Due tomorrow for a grade.  "How the Black Death Affected Europe" Article is in PDF form here:  Download Page_902  Download Page_903  Download Page_904  Download Page_905
• Wednesday - 1/25 -   Examine compare and contrast text organization methods:  point by point & block.  Download Compare.Contrast.Methods.Tacos vs. Pizza.  Anaylze:   Download Tacos or Pizza Para
• Thursday 1/26-  Pre-write, draft, revise, edit and publish a compare and contrast paragraph on candy.  Prewrite using a Venn diagram, 3-column Venn, or a CRISS strategy graphic organizer.  Download Comparison Para outline graphic org.OPEN  Download CompareContrast.para.rubric.cklst  Example generated in class today:  Download Cheetos&PotatoChipsExample  HW:  Finish pre-writes and rough draft.
•  Friday 1/27 -    Quiz - Text Structure Organization - What do I study?  My Frayer Model/CRISS strategy notes from The Reader's Journey page 244.  My notes from the Taco & Pizza compare & contrast ppt.  Review the articles that you analyzed in our Literature book earlier this week.  Finished?  Write your final draft on your candy compare/contrast paragraph.  Complete your assigned reading strategy lesson.  All students have been assessed for areas of weakness in the following areas:  main idea, inferencing, and/or context clues.  You received two lessons in your area of weakness.  If you don't finish in class, it is homework & due on Monday.  HW:  Finish Reading lessons & choose your top 3 choices for your research project.  Download People in various fields who have shown perseverance


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-----------------------------------------              Social Studies              ----------------------------------------

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Upcoming Due Dates: 

1. See individual days below for HW assignments.
2. Central/East Africa MAP quiz on 1/25 - Practice maps distributed on 1/13.
3. Africa Vocab Packet - due Friday 1/27.   
4. South Africa MAP quiz on 1/31.
5. Africa Unit II TEST - Thursday 2/2. Study Guides will be distributed on 1/25.

Map quizzes.  Study your large Africa map, the practice map, and the interactive map websites located under "Social Studies Resources."

Agenda for the Week:

• Monday - 1/23 - Turn in Health Activity Stations packets on HIV/AIDs, Malaria, and TB.  Present health speeches.   Copies of the Health Stations activity can be found on Mrs. Nix's blog:  Health Stations
• Tuesday 1/24 - Finish health speeches. Begin Government/Economy.  Classwork/HW:  CRCT Test Prep - Review Government p38-41 (hint - these terms are on the Vocab packet due 1/27); Africa Gov'ts page 42-43; Literacy Rate p 36, 37, 44 & 45.  STUDY FOR YOUR MAP QUIZ!!!!  Download Africa Vocab Graphic Organizer HW:  Write a paragraph that answers:  Explain some of the issues that affect human health in Sub-Saharan Africa?
• Wednesday - 1/25 - EAST/CENTRAL Africa Map QUIZ  HW:  CRCT Prep - Economy pages 49 - 59
• Thursday 1/26  - 
•  Friday 1/27 - VOCAB PACKET DUE.  Warm-Up:  Download Africa literacy rate table QUESTIONS     Download Africa Literacy Rate  Whiteboard activity on government/economy concepts.