Week of February 21 - 24, 2012 - LA and SS

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

LANGUAGE ARTS

Upcoming Due Dates:

1. Read!!!  Read daily for 30 minutes/15 pages in your personal chapter book.  AR test/Reading logs for the second half of the quarter are due on Friday, 3/9 (new date).
2. Make-up Expository/Research Test - Thursday, 2/23 at 8:00 a.m.
3. See individual days for HW assignments.

Week at a Glance:

• Monday, 2/20 - President's Day - Student/Teacher holiday
• Tuesday, 2/21 - Warm-up - Corrections to C.A.R.S Lesson 2.  Analyze your answers.  On a separate sheet of paper, write your original answer with a one sentence explanation of why it was wrong, and then write the correct answer including an explanation of your reasoning.  All students will participate regardless of grade.  Finished?  Complete notes/exercises from Grammar for Writing pages 125-133 on Adjectives & read/write a paragraph summary from the Scholastic magazine.  The article is your choice.  The Outsiders - Welcome to the 60s! Music, commercials, movie clips, slang.  Discuss the 1950s and 1960s to set the stage for our novel.
• Wednesday, 2/22 - Warm-up -  Finish Grammar for Writing notes & exercises - Adjectives chapter.  Complete for HW.  Writer's Notebook: Download Writing Prompt - Day 1  Share responses.  The Outsiders anticipation guides - whole group activity.  Begin reading chapter 1.
• Thursday 2/23 - Turn in Adjective notes/exercises. Writer's NB - "Conformity."  Clean out writing folders & create an Outsiders folder. Read and respond.  Download Characterization Packet - The Outsiders  .    Read Chapter 1 and begin characterization notes on the characters.  Use the grid graphic organizer. 
• Friday, 2/24 - Read and finish Chapter 1 & 2 - character notes on the graphic organizer.  Assign groups & character for analysis activity.   Begin analyzing Ch 1 & 2 for textual evidence for your assigned character.  Use the packet (see Thursday, 2/23).  MiniLesson on collecting evidence from the text.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Upcoming Due Dates:

1. Physical Map Quiz - Friday, 2/24.   View this photo
2. Research Project - PowerPoints/Speaker cards due on 2/28
3. Research Project Presentations - begin on 3/1

Week at a Glance

• Monday, 2/20 - holiday
• Tuesday, 2/21 - Warm-up - CRCT pages 133-137.  Map - Think/pair/share - Respond in Writing.  How do the unique geographical features of South and Southest Asia contribute to population density, the development of culture, and impact the environment?  Analyze maps on textbook pages 191-196 and answer the Map Skills questions on each page.  Begin reading chapter 7, section 1.  Create a foldable graphic organizer for notes.
• Wednesday - 2/22 Continue taking notes on Chapter 7, Section 1 & 2.  Answer Section 1 & 2 questions #s 1 - 6.  HW:  Finish Section 1 notes/questions & take notes on Section 2.  You will have 20 minutes in class tomorrow.
• Thursday - 2/23 - Finish Ch 7 Sec 2 notes & questions 1 -6. (20 minutes).  Video clip - Physical Geography (~ 5 minutes). Common Formative - page 224-225.  Finished?  Answer question #7 - Ch 7 Sec 1 - in paragraph form.  HW - Study for Physical Map Quiz & finish paragraph.  Due tomorrow?  Graphic Organizer notes/end of section ?s/Ch 7 Sec 1 ?#7.
• Friday - 2/24 - Physical Map Quiz - Asia.  Begin Environmental Issues Stations activity.  Download Debriefingnotes   Download Posterchecklist[1]   Download Missionnotes     Download Fieldagentsletters