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.

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).

 

 

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.

We started reading and listening to the Week 24 articles so we can finish highlighting and completing the back page.  Assessment is Wednesday.

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. 

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).

 

 

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.

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.

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.

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.