Date Homework
12/3/07

Warm up: Quiz on vocabulary from ch. 7
Return Past tense verb quiz; 1 make-up test
Issue books to new student
Present act-it-outs from Friday:
     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
 

12/4/07 Literature: "Zebra"  (book: Interactive Reader Plus, consumable; audio track is on disk 2)
                We are postponing:    "Geographically Speaking" activity with atlases

Homework: Study the vocabulary from TCI ch. 7
Read "Zebra".  Finish the Q & A.  Do activity pages 66 and 69 in the workbook.
12/5/07 Zebra: Turn in Q & A; Review vocabulary & p. 69
TCI Ch. 7:  Study Guide questions in groups;
Homework: Study TCI ch. 7: ideas + vocabulary
                     Study lit. vocab. from Zebra (10 words)
  Review key ideas for Chapter 7 test

Grammar Focus  pp. 8-11
12/7/07 Finish the travel brochure project.
Last day of the trimester