| Date | Homework |
| 11/26/07 | Return Shadow Spinner
portfolios Continue work on essay. HOMEWORK: Begin typing your 5-paragraph essay. Due Thursday. |
| 11/27/07 | TCI Unit 2 Introduction:
The Rise of Islam, pp. 72-73 Geography Challenge 2 Per. 6: typing time if needed Essay due Thursday Homework: Grammar packet pp. 4-7: Past Tense Verbs |
| 11/28/07 | Per. 5: Computer Lab for
Reading Counts SRI and typing essay. Correct grammar packet pp. 4-7 Power Point for TCI Ch. 7 Essay due Thursday; Past Tense verb test Friday |
| 11/29/07 | Essay due today Ch. 7 "Geography of the Arabian Peninsula" pp. 75-81 Vocabulary: environment, adapt, adaptation, Arabian Peninsula, caravan, plateau, nomad, Bedouins, oasis, sedentary, barter, irrigate, terrace All students read 7.1 and 7.2; Then specialize as follows: Group 1 Do 7.3 Desert; Group 2: 7.4 Oases; Group 3: 7.5 Coastal Plain; Group 6: Mountains 7.6 Read & discuss your section. (Tomorrow we will continue this and have you act out your information.) Crossword puzzle to practice irregular past tense verbs; Past Tense Verbs test |
| 11/30/07 | Miss Heather Stern
Substitutes today. :) Take Past Tense verb quiz; trade papers & correct together Continue Ch. 7 "Geography of the Arabian Peninsula" pp. 75-81. Students pass out class set of history books and use their ISN (Interactive Student Notebooks). Yesterday each group studied one section (See above). Today they will continue with their section, prepare to act out one way that people in that area adapted to their environment. (Directions are in their ISN.) They will teach the class the information they found out, including the act-it-out.. The class will take notes in their ISN's. Vocabulary: environment, adapt, adaptation, Arabian Peninsula, caravan, plateau, nomad, Bedouins, oasis, sedentary, barter, irrigate, terrace Literature: "Zebra" (book:
Interactive Reader Plus, consumable; audio track
is on disk 2)
We are postponing: "Geographically Speaking" activity with atlases |