Monday
The Week long school book fair began in the library.
Language Arts/ Interdisciplinary: Students turned in typed feature articles and have the Word files available on personal or class flash drive for further editing.
Mathematics: Students took the District Math Post-Test.
HW: 25 mins. Zearn; Advanced students should do Mission 6.
Social Studies: The Boston Tea Party, Stamp Act, and the French and Indian War readings - as an introduction to the "Road to Revolutionary War" unit.
Tuesday
Language Arts/ Social Studies: Feature articles/ focus on Narrative and "Hook/Grabber" introductions. Students compared their introductions with other students and began re-writing another version of their own. We will make a series of hand-written additions and deletions to our essays over several meetings, then students will type their edits and additions into a final essay copy next week.
Review of articles on National Parks as part of the constitution in Namibia (National Geographic)
and North Korea's race for nuclear arms (New York Times).
Mathematics: We began Unit/Mission 5: Finding Volume of Rectangular Prisms. HW Lesson 1. Students were set into Zearn Mission 5 to support the learning.
Wednesday
Read Aloud: Milkweed. A difficult section of the novel's text. Warsaw Ghetto residents are dying from starvation in large numbers and deportation to the concentration camps began.
Mathematics Lesson 2
Homework: Lesson 1, part 2
Language Arts/Social Studies: Road to Revolution.
Students were given a 10 page handout, pages 30-39. Today pages 31-33 were assigned for independent classwork. The article on the French and Indian War was supported by a
Brainpop video and a
digital -chronological map of the European Colonies shifting territories
HOMEWORK: Using the provided reading, p. 31, complete as best you can, pages 31-33 in the handout if not already completed in class.
Friday
We finished Milkweed today.
Math Lesson 4
History: The French and Indian War and the Proclamation of 1763: videos and readings.
