Today in 6A & 6B
RELIGION: Students wrote their chapter 12 quiz today.
ENGLISH: Continuing our work with our research essays, our class time was focused on developing a strong pre-writing phase. In this work we are writing out our plan on how we intend to write our essays. We begin by turning our best research question into a strong thesis/claim statement. This sentence will be what we set out to prove or reveal. All of our evidence needs to support this so we then design the order in which we will talk about these things. After setting the order we plug our evidence into this order. We then write 3-4 sentences for EACH of the pieces of evidence that explains how this evidence supports our claim. This analysis will be the most important part of our essay, and the most difficult step in the pre-writing process. From here we will be ready to draft. Students whould be ready to begin drafting for our Monday class. Students will write their Unit 14 vocabulary quiz on Monday morning and begin drafting with the remainder of class time.
SOCIAL STUDIES: Shortly after taking up the homework from yesterday, we examined a new lesson which discussed trade and expansion of Greece. For different City-States the pressures and responses were different, and therefore yielded a different result. Homework for this section is on page 379 #1, 2, 4
MATH (8:00 class) pg 325 11-23 (9:00 class) pg 394 1-31
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Today in 6A & 6B
ENGLISH: Students continued with their research from yesterday. Our time was filled with seeking answers to the questions we created yesterday. With this information students will begin pre-writing tomorrow.
RELIGION: After reviewing the key concepts from this week's lesson we worked on a "Love Chain" craft, which will be completed after students write their quiz tomorrow morning.
SOCIAL STUDIES: After reviewing the homework of our students, we conducted a new lesson that explored the details of daily life for most Greeks. This detailed the social structure of Greek city-states, the division of labor between men and women, the expectations of young boys and girls when it comes to their education, as well as the role of slaves within Greek society. Homework for this lesson is on page 373 #1, 2, 4, 5
MATH (8:00 class) pgs 324-325 1-10 (9:00 class) Accelerated Math
SCIENCE Study for chp 7 Test Tomorrow
ENGLISH: Students continued with their research from yesterday. Our time was filled with seeking answers to the questions we created yesterday. With this information students will begin pre-writing tomorrow.
RELIGION: After reviewing the key concepts from this week's lesson we worked on a "Love Chain" craft, which will be completed after students write their quiz tomorrow morning.
SOCIAL STUDIES: After reviewing the homework of our students, we conducted a new lesson that explored the details of daily life for most Greeks. This detailed the social structure of Greek city-states, the division of labor between men and women, the expectations of young boys and girls when it comes to their education, as well as the role of slaves within Greek society. Homework for this lesson is on page 373 #1, 2, 4, 5
MATH (8:00 class) pgs 324-325 1-10 (9:00 class) Accelerated Math
SCIENCE Study for chp 7 Test Tomorrow
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Today in 6A & 6B
ENGLISH: After reviewing our flash cards for unit 14 vocabulary, students were instructed on how to conduct research for their Social Studies research essays. In our research it is important to start by narrowing our topic and we do that by asking questions. This begins with simple questions to determine scope, but our core is determined by questions that lead us in the direction of more questions. This is the basis of good research. A decent research question is one that someone cannot satisfy with a simple Google search, but one that requires thorough analysis of different sources to piece together information. Each student is researching a different topic so there is no cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all way to ask correct questions, but the part that unites all is the line of questioning, the questions that lead to more questions. From here students cast a wide net gathering all they can and keeping what answers their questions.
LITERATURE: On Monday our students began reading "A Long Walk To Water," a touching story that follows two parallel plot lines about life in Sub-Saharan West Africa. Today we continued with this read. Students were given the discussion questions that will guide the Socratic Seminar which will serve as their assessment of learning for this read. The book reads quickly and I anticipate that this will be completed prior to Spring Break.
RELIGION: Our lesson picks up from yesterday's review of the 10 commandments and we examined how each shows our respect for God and his wishes. Similarly, we talked about names, nick-names and how God calls each and every one of us by name, specifically.
SOCIAL STUDIES: After correcting the homework from our last lesson, we pressed on for a new one. Today we examined what a City-State was and how certain features of the Greek history have lead us to where we are today. Homework for this section is on page 368 #1, 2, 4
MATH (8:00 class) Ws 6-5 (9:00 class) pgs 376-378 1-45 Chp 7 Test Tomorrow
SCIENCE Chp 7 Test Thursday
ENGLISH: After reviewing our flash cards for unit 14 vocabulary, students were instructed on how to conduct research for their Social Studies research essays. In our research it is important to start by narrowing our topic and we do that by asking questions. This begins with simple questions to determine scope, but our core is determined by questions that lead us in the direction of more questions. This is the basis of good research. A decent research question is one that someone cannot satisfy with a simple Google search, but one that requires thorough analysis of different sources to piece together information. Each student is researching a different topic so there is no cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all way to ask correct questions, but the part that unites all is the line of questioning, the questions that lead to more questions. From here students cast a wide net gathering all they can and keeping what answers their questions.
LITERATURE: On Monday our students began reading "A Long Walk To Water," a touching story that follows two parallel plot lines about life in Sub-Saharan West Africa. Today we continued with this read. Students were given the discussion questions that will guide the Socratic Seminar which will serve as their assessment of learning for this read. The book reads quickly and I anticipate that this will be completed prior to Spring Break.
RELIGION: Our lesson picks up from yesterday's review of the 10 commandments and we examined how each shows our respect for God and his wishes. Similarly, we talked about names, nick-names and how God calls each and every one of us by name, specifically.
SOCIAL STUDIES: After correcting the homework from our last lesson, we pressed on for a new one. Today we examined what a City-State was and how certain features of the Greek history have lead us to where we are today. Homework for this section is on page 368 #1, 2, 4
MATH (8:00 class) Ws 6-5 (9:00 class) pgs 376-378 1-45 Chp 7 Test Tomorrow
SCIENCE Chp 7 Test Thursday
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