Social Studies Assignments
- Instructor
- Mr. Brian Anderson
- Term
- 2024-2025 School Year
- Department
- 5th Grade
Upcoming Assignments
No upcoming assignments.
Past Assignments
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Week 25 Contributions and Outcomes (independent work/assessment)
Classwork/Homework
This week students will work independently to complete the reading, highlighting, and back page activities of Week 25 for Social Studies. We will review the weekly together on Wednesday and take class notes to be sure students have read and understand the articles, main ideas, and vocabulary. They have the option to take the assessment on Thursday or Friday (and retakes are allowed). Our goal is to try and complete at least one more week of the curriculum, after this week.
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President/First Lady Reports (final report due tomorrow)
Classwork/Homework
We are completing all pages 1-6 of our President and First Lady reports tonight, most students are just about finished and are encouraged to complete the project at home tonight to be turned in first thing in the morning. Tomorrow, we will transfer the most important facts about our President and First Lady from our reports to presentation slides we will project on the screen for the Oratorical Fair on May 28th. Report template is attached for printing at home (and students are given hard copies in class).
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Week 24 Assessment
Classwork
We reviewed Week 24 today and graded the back page. We then worked with our Podmates to share the main ideas of the different articles.
Homework
Week 24 Assessment on our iPads.
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Week 24 Impact on Families (read, highlight, back page)
Classwork/Homework
We started reading and listening to the Week 24 articles so we can finish highlighting and completing the back page. Assessment is Wednesday.
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President and First Lady Research (Oratorical Fair project)
Classwork/Homework
We are beginning phase one of our Oratorical Fair (President and First Lady research project) preparation. Today we received an information card on our President, and we were able to use our iPads to gather evidence/research in the following key areas:
- Early life and education
- Life before presidency
- Key events during time in office
- Post- presidency life
- 5 interesting facts
We are gathering this research in our notebooks by going to the following websites at home and in class: biography.com, history.com, whitehousehistory.org, and britannica.com.
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Week 23 Turning Points Assessment
Classwork
We took notes today on Week 23 focusing on pre-Revolutionary events and the early major battles of the war.
Homework
We are studying and preparing for the Week 23 Assessment, which we did not take before Easter break. Some of us will take it tomorrow, and the rest of us will take it Wednesday (if we are not ready).
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Week 23 Reading and Back page activities
Classwork/Homework
We are listening to the articles on our iPads and reading the articles at home to be ready for our notes tomorrow in class. Students may work on the back page activities as well. Assessment is Wednesday.
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Week 22 Back page and Think and Review questions
Classwork
We did a round of Board Notes today for the front page and main inside article, while students fielded questions and took notes.
Homework
Tonight we finishing the remaining smaller articles, highlighting, and completing the back page activities and Think and Review questions on separate loose leaf paper.
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Week 22 Differing Points of View (read, highlight, and take notes)
Classwork/Homework
Students were given class time to read the front page and some of the inside articles of Week 22 while taking notes in their notebook. In particular, we are comparing and contrasting George Washington and John Adams in our notes. Week 22 Assessment is Thursday.
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Week 21 Assessment
Classwork/Homework
We reviewed and graded the weekly today (and the back page) and took notes on the articles and the Declaration of Independence (3 sections). We have our assessment tomorrow so students are reviewing their notes tonight and they can access the articles and prep via online from home.
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Week 21 Back page and Think and Review questions
Homework
We are completing the crossword and other back page activities, as well as the Think and Review questions on loose leaf paper to be turned in tomorrow.
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Week 20 Assessment
Homework
Tonight we are studying for our Week 20 Assessment tomorrow on our iPads.
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Week 20 Back page and Think and Review questions
Homework
Back page crossword puzzle, Bunker Hill Mapping activity, and the Think and Review questions (on a separate piece of paper) are due in the morning.
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Week 20 Back page activities
Homework
Students are working on the crossword puzzle and the Bunker Hill/Breed's Hill Activity on the back page of their weekly.
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Week 20 The People Unite (read and highlight)
Homework
To prepare for our class notes tomorrow, students are reading and highlighting the Week 20 USA Weekly, or they may access the articles from home online and take notes in their notebook.
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Week 19 Back page, Think and Review questions, Assessment
Homework
After a brief review in the morning, we will take our Week 19 Assessment tomorrow on our iPads. Tonight we are finishing the back page and completing the Think and Review questions on loose leaf paper to be turned in after our test.
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Week 18 Assessment
Classwork
We finished our notes today on Week 18 and students had time to reread the articles (or listen to them) and collect virtual coins on their iPads.
Homework
Students are studying the weekly and their notes for tomorrow's assessment, as well as completing the Think and Review questions on loose leaf paper (located on the back page).
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Week 18 Back page
Homework
Tonight we are reading and highlighting the rest of the articles for this week and completing the back page activities (not the Think and Review).
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Week 18 Early Democratic Ideas
Classwork
We started reading Week 18 today, highlighting and taking notes as we read. We also wrote down this week's vocabulary words: Aleut, Bering Straight, burgesses, council, free market economy, meetinghouses, town halls, town meetings, viceroy, The Virginia Company of England, The Virginia Company of London, and Virginia's General Assembly.
Homework
Tonight we are reading and highlighting the main inside articles for Week 18.
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Black History Month presentations
Classwork/Homework
We finished our slide presentations and today we completed our flash cards to help us remember content. We start presenting tomorrow!
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Black History Month presentations
Homework
We are studying our slides tonight as we prepare to present them tomorrow.
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Week 17 Early Democracies read and highlight
Classwork
We started to read and take notes on Week 17 Early Democracies, by defining and discussing democracy, dictatorships, oligarchy, and monarchy.
Homework
We are reading and highlighting the entire weekly by Thursday.
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Week 16 Assessment and Think and Review questions
Homework
Tonight we are prepping for tomorrow's assessment on our iPads, and we are completing the Think and Review questions on loose leaf paper to be collected after the test.
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Week 16 Back page
Homework
We are completing the inside question activity and the back page except for the Think and Review questions (due Thursday).
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Week 16 Slavery in the Colonies
Classwork
We began taking notes today for Week 16, wrote the vocabulary words in our notebook, and began reading the main articles.
Homework
Read, highlight, and take notes on the main inside article for Week 16.
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Black History Month research
Homework
Students are finishing their research on their historical African American assigned to them.
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Week 15 Assessment
Homework
Tomorrow we will finish our notes for Week 15 and correct the back page before students are allowed to start taking the Week 15 Assessment (Thurs or Friday).
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Week 15 Back page crossword and mapping activity
Homework
Tonight we are completing the back page crossword and the Mapping/Charting activity.
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Week 15 Southern Colonies - read and highlight
Homework
We are reading and highlighting Week 15, highlighting and taking notes (names, dates, events, and significance).
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Week 14 Assessment
Homework
Students who are reading to take the Week 14 assessment tomorrow will take it, or students may take it over the weekend from home.
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Week 14 Read, highlight, and back page
Classwork
We began taking class notes today on the New York and New Jersey colonies.
Homework
We are reading, highlighting all the articles in the weekly and finishing the back page crossword and expository writing activity.
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Week 13 Think and Review questions
Homework
We are answering the Think and Review questions for Week 13 on the worksheet provided (or on loose leaf paper) in complete sentences, preferably compound sentences. Assessment is Thursday.
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Week 13 back page
Homework
We are completing all of the back page except for the Think and Review questions (we will do them tomorrow night).
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Week 13 Back page activities
Homework
Tonight we are completing the back page crossword and mapping activity for Week 13.
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Week 13 New England Colonies
Classwork
We started on notes today for week 13, reviewing some of the earlier colonies and the important leaders of the New England Colonies.
Homework
Tonight we are reading and highlighting the main inside article, "The New England Colonies," in advance of taking notes tomorrow in class.
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Week 12 Early Colonization and Trade
Classwork/Homework
We started reading and highlighting the front page, and tonight we will finish reading the inside articles and highlighting.
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Week 11 Three Flags Over Florida
Homework
Today we distributed the next set of USA Weeklies (Week 11-15) so students may begin reading and highlighting the Week 11 articles (front and inside) for our first day of notes tomorrow.
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Week 10 Think and Review / Assessment
Classwork
We reviewed the back page activities and finished our notes for Week 10. Students had time to collect virtual coins on their iPads for the articles in Week 10.
Homework
On loose leaf paper, we are answering the Think and Review questions in complete, compound sentences. Due to be collected after tomorrow's test.
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Week 10 Back page and take notes in notebook
Homework
Tonight students are writing the rest of their notes for Week 10 into their notebooks and finishing the back page of their weekly.
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Week 9 Assessment
Homework
We have finished our notes on Week 9 and today we reviewed the back page mapping activity which shows where England, France, Spain, and Portugal claimed land in the Americas. Tonight we are studying our notes and the weekly to prepare for tomorrow's assessment on their iPads.
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Week 9 Back page activities
Classwork
We continued taking notes on the inside articles of the Week 9 weekly.
Homework
Students are completing the entire back page tonight to be graded in the morning.
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Week 9 Where Old and New Meet (Assessment is Friday)
Classwork
We have finished our Explorer research projects and today students began to share them with each other in class. We will complete Week 9 over the next three days with our assessment on Friday this week, not Thursday.
Homework
Students are reading and highlighting the articles tonight so we can take notes tomorrow and begin to work on the back page. Week 9 Assessment is Friday.
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Week 8 Assessment
Classwork
Today we completed our review for tomorrow's test by completing a map page of the expeditions from early English and French explorers as well as the Think and Review questions. Both may be used for tomorrow's test on the iPads.
Homework
Students are accessing articles from home, reviewing their highlighted weeklies, and reviewing their notes and worksheets for tomorrow's test.
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Explorer Project - Main Events page (paragraph draft)
Classwork
Today in class we worked on writing a rough draft paragraph using the research facts we found online about our Explorers. Students are practicing how to take a fact and create a compound sentences using their own words. We also learned how to use editing/correction symbols today and we practice peer editing. This will become common practice for us in class -- writing drafts and peer editing.
Homework
Students are rewriting their first drafts tonight using today's peer edits and suggestions. Their rewrite is due in the morning; I will edit their next draft before we write our final drafts on the project paper sheet (or type at home).
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Explorer Project -- Biographical page / Week 7 Assessment Friday
Classwork
Today we spent time reading and listening to the articles in Week 7 of our USA Weekly which covers Early Explorers from the 13th and 14th centuries. Tomorrow we will take notes and discuss the various explorers and expeditions in more detail. Our test on Week 7 will be Friday.
Homework
We collected the Portrait page of the project (page 1) for safe keeping, and tonight students are finishing the second page, the biographical information and the flag of sponsorship for their expeditions. Students are neatly writing the biographical information at the top, and then drawing a flag of the sponsorship country below. Due in the morning. All the project pages are attached.
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Explorer Research Project - Portrait page
Classwork
We refined our research and worked on narrowing down our 5 facts to use in our paragraph/biography page. We will start to write our first drafts tomorrow in class.
Homework
Students are completing their Explorer portrait page tonight.
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Week 6 Assessment - Early European Explorers
Classwork/Homework
Most of us took our Week 6 Assessment today on our iPads (a few students will take the assessment . Tomorrow we are assigned our Explorers to research for our Explorers' Projects.
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Week 6 Back page and Think and Review
Classwork
We continued our notes and discussion on early European explorers.
Homework
Complete the back page of the weekly and finish the Think and Review handout given in class (two sided).
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Week 5 Back page activities
Classwork
Students spent more time reading the articles and collecting coins for Week 5 on their iPads. We will finish our class notes tomorrow and take our assessment on Thursday this week.
Homework
Students are working on the back page activities for Week 5.
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Week 5 Woodland Indians
Classwork
We used our iPads to read articles and we took notes (and collected virtual coins) for each article.
Homework
Finish reading and taking notes on all the articles for Week 5. Students may log on to the USA Weekly at home.
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Week 4 Assessment
Homework
Students are studying their weekly and think and review questions in preparation for our test tomorrow on our iPads.
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Week 4 Back page and Think and Review questions
Classwork
We did a basic review of this week's Great Plains Indian tribes with more notes coming tomorrow.
Homework
We are finishing our reading and highlighting, and then completing the back page exercises as well the four Think and Review questions on loose leaf paper (complete sentences).
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Week 4 Great Plains Indians
Homework
We are reading and highlighting all the articles in Week 4 in preparation for our notes tomorrow.
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Week 3 Assessment and Pre-Columbian Indians worksheet
Homework
Students are prepping and studying for their Week 3 Assessment on their iPads. To help with their prep, they are also completing both sides of the Pre-Columbian Indian worksheet. Due tomorrow.
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Week 3 Back page activities
Homework
Complete the back page crossword and totem pole activity.
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Week 3 Read articles and highlight
Classwork
We started reading the articles in Week 3 which is about the native American tribes of the Pacific Northwest. We also reviewed the vocabulary terms for this week's issue.
Homework
Students are to finish reading all the articles, highlighting and taking notes for each article in their notebook.
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Week 2 Assessment
Assessment is tomorrow on our iPads for Week 2.
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Week 2 Back page
Classwork/Homework
Students were given time to begin working on the back page activities of Week 2 (except for Think and Review and Let's Write). We are also working on defining the vocabulary words for this week (see attached worksheet).
Assessment is Friday.
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Week 2 Ancient America to Westward Expansion
Classwork
We started reading the main articles of our Week 2 USA Weekly. We also identified the Vocabulary terms we will learn for this week.
Homework
Students are finishing reading and highlighting the inside articles for Week 2. Assessment is Friday.