Monday, May 24, 2010

Classwork/Homework for the week of May 24th

Ellis Island Simulation Wed May 26th (periods 1/2/3)
Please continue to plan your costume for your immigrant profile.
Requirements for Processing:
- Immigrant name
- Name card
- "Memorize" identity information
- Wealth card
- Immigrant checklist
- Costume

LANGUAGE ARTS


Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen
Mon May 24th - Forward, Map, Ch. 1
Tue May 25th - Ch. 2
Wed May 26th - Ch. 3
Thu May 27th - Ch. 4; Quiz#1 Forward/Map/Ch. 1
Fri May 28th - Ch. 5

Time Travel Story

You are going to write an imaginative story about traveling back in time to change an important historical event. You may select any significant event in US or world history. However, you must choose a specific event that is well known to others, and you must include the actual date and place of the event in your story. You will need to research the event so that you can write realistically. A trip to the library or a web site search should provide you with needed information. You must also include the details about how you built/found the time machine that allows you to travel back to change the selected historic event.

Examples of previously chosen time travel events include: preventing the assassination of John F. Kennedy or Martin Luther King, Jr.; saving the Titanic from sinking; assisting Harriet Tubman on the Underground Railroad; and preventing Hitler from ever coming to power. You cannot use violence to change an event; instead, you must find creative ways to attempt to change history for the better. You get to decide whether you are successful or not in changing the event. In either case, you should let your readers know how your intervention impacted future events and how it changed your life. Did you make it back to today? Do you remember the adventure? Will you make further attempts to change history in the future?


You will have some time in class to write this story, but you should expect to spend more time outside of class to complete this project. Your rough draft is due on Wednesday, June 2. The final draft is due on Friday, June 4th.


Journal Prompt: Travel

Vocab: Section 12b, definitions due 5/27, quiz 5/28
nauseate
negate
pivotal
recipient
ruse
teem
tenet
tractable
ungainly
voracious

Autobiographies, Outsiders essays, and biography reports are past due. If you have not finished yours, visit C-4 during lunch, resource or after school, to edit and neatly type your final copy. Final pieces must have a centered, specific title that refers to something about you, a centered byline, and it must be typeset in double-spaced, 12 point text. Biography reports have additional formatting requirements - check your guideline sheet or check with Ms. Barnes. We are continuing to hold biography presentations - prepare and practice yours if you have not yet presented.

SOCIAL STUDIES
We are currently studying the following subjects via the text, lectures, PowerPoint presentations, and other resources:
The Nation Breaking Apart
- Wilmot Proviso, 1846
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
- "Bleeding Kansas" 1855
- Caning of Sumner 1856
- Dred Scott vs. Sandford, 1857
- Attack on Harper's Ferry, 1859
- Election of 1860

Monday, May 17, 2010

Classwork/Homework for the Week of May 17th

Ellis Island Reminder: Please continue to plan your costume for your immigrant profile. Students will be given their specific profiles and background this week.

LANGUAGE ARTS

Autobiographies, Outsiders essays, and biography reports are past due. If you have not finished yours, visit C-4 during lunch, resource or after school, to edit and neatly type your final copy. Final pieces must have a centered, specific title that refers to something about you, a centered byline, and it must be typeset in double-spaced, 12 point text. Biography reports have additional formatting requirements - check your guideline sheet or check with Ms. Barnes. We are continuing to hold biography presentations - prepare and practice yours if you have not yet presented.

Western Novels:
Students should be finished reading their western novels.

Vocab: section 12a
definitions due 5/18, sentences due 5/19, quiz 5/21
abdicate
bestow
capacious
caustic
crusade
deface
embargo
fallacy
levity
mendicant

* Also on May 21st there will be a Vocabulary Bee against Ms. Smart's class so study the definitions for the following words from the last three units (11a, 11b, 12a):
abdicate bestow capacious caustic crusade deface embargo fallacy levity mendicant
mediate milieu outlandish overbearing pert quirk regale shiftless taint appease belated
calamitous cite conventional decoy delve ensue gallantry impart

SOCIAL STUDIES
We are continuing to study Westward Migration via the text, lectures, PowerPoint presentations, and other resources. 

Crossword - due Monday, May 17th

Quiz - Westward Movement - Monday, May 17th

Unit test and quote collage - due Tuesday, May 18th

Social Studies Vocab:
Manifest Destiny
Louisiana Purchase
Sectionalism
Polk
interest
bias
Tecumseh
Santa Anna
Matamoros
Austin
Lone Star
Guadalupe Hidalgo

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Classwork/Homework for the Week of May 10th

REMINDER: No School Friday, May 14th
"Friday School" for those students specially assigned by teachers will be held in the cafeteria from 9am-12pm. Students who have not completed western novel reading and response sheets, autobiographies, and Outsiders essays by Thursday, May 13th, will be assigned to "Friday School."

Ellis Island Reminder: Please continue to plan your costume for your immigrant profile.

LANGUAGE ARTS

Autobiographies, Outsiders essays, and biography reports are past due. If you have not finished yours, visit C-4 during lunch, resource or after school, to edit and neatly type your final copy. Final pieces must have a centered, specific title that refers to something about you, a centered byline, and it must be typeset in double-spaced, 12 point text. Biography reports have additional formatting requirements - check your guideline sheet or check with Ms. Barnes. We are continuing to hold biography presentations - prepare and practice yours if you have not yet presented.

Western Novels:
Students should be finished reading their western novels by the end of this week, Thursday, May 13th.

Vocab: section 11b
definitions due 5/12; sentences due and quiz 5/13
judicious
mediate
milieu
outlandish
overbearing
pert
quirk
regale
shiftless
taint

SOCIAL STUDIES
We are continuing to study Westward Migration via the text, lectures, PowerPoint presentations, and other resources. This week students took notes on The Mexican-American War and did reflection work on one of President Tyler's speeches. Students were assigned to read pg. 579-584 in the textbook and answer the odd-numbered questions.

Crossword - due Monday, May 17th

Quiz - Westward Movement - Monday, May 17th

Unit test and quote collage - due Tuesday, May 18th

Social Studies Vocab:
Manifest Destiny
Louisiana Purchase
Sectionalism
Polk
interest
bias
Tecumseh
Santa Anna
Matamoros
Austin
Lone Star
Guadalupe Hidalgo

Monday, May 3, 2010

Classwork/Homework for the Week of May 3rd

LANGUAGE ARTS
Autobiographies are past due. If you have not finished yours, visit C-4 during lunch, resource or after school, to edit and neatly type your final copy. It must have a centered, specific title that refers to something about you, a centered byline, and it must be typeset in double-spaced, 12 point text.

Continue reading western novels:
Mon: pages 71-80
Tue: pages 81-90
Wed: pages 91-100
Thu: pages 101-110
Fri: pages 111-120

Journal prompts - Texas sayings
Comparing Texts (p.178)
Read pages 178-182
After reading, complete comparison chart and ALL the activities on page 183.

Vocab: section 11A
appease
belated
calamitous
cite
conventional
decoy
delve
ensue
gallantry
impart

SOCIAL STUDIES
We are continuing to study Westward Migration via the text, lectures, PowerPoint presentations, and other resources.