Date Homework
3/24/08  First day of the third trimester.  Welcome new students.  Issue textbooks.
Crusades video from unitedstreaming.com
Continue assigned reading from Friday. (Reissue incomplete packets)
Questions & A from the reading.  (Number the questions on your worksheet. Answer them on notebook paper using complete sentences.
New seating chart
 
3/25/08 The seating chart may not be correct; I did a new one from memory. Please correct chart as needed.
1. Grammar Warm up: Editing student writing
2. Stamp homework (questions from the Crusades reading)
3. Student presentations by group.  Present information on their person from history; effect of the Crusades on this person.
4. Visions literature: "Discovering the Ice Maiden"   Listen to CD while reading.
HOMEWORK: Activity p. 129; Write new vocabulary in your Vocab. Notebook.  Study lit. vocab. for a quiz.  Include skills presented before the story.
3/26/08 Warm up:  First person, Second person, and third person.  Types of sentences and punctuation: declarative, imperative, interrogative, exclamatory. Exercise: Copy the sentence, supply punctuation, and label the type of sentence.
Read aloud: Many Luscious Lollipops by Ruth Heller
Return graded work.
Collect student editing. (done Tuesday in class)
Collect Library Card grammar packet.
Visions "Discovering the Ice Maiden", continued. Do "Break In" reading

HOMEWORK: 
1.  Write 5 sentences each: Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, and Exclamatory.  Do them in this order.  Make them interesting!
2. Know these 4 sentence types for a test as early as this Friday.
3. Reread "Discovering the Ice Maiden"
4. Do Activity pp. 130 and 132.
3/27/08 Warm up Dictation: Author's Purpose: to inform, to entertain, to persuade, to state an opinion.
   Examples of each type.
Vocab. review from "Ice Maiden"
Stamp sentences (5 each: declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, & imperative). Each table:  Discuss and select the best sentence of each type to share.
"Discovering the Ice Maiden", continued.  Non-fiction narrative.
   "Break In" reading;
   Share word webs from oceans, mountains, and ancient ruins (Activity p. 129)
   Correct activity packet 130 & 132.
HOMEWORK:
Do Q & A from Ice Maiden, p. 248, # 1-10
Grammar book/packet: pp. 68-71
Tomorrow: Bring your ISN.  We will use colored pencils.  You may want to bring your own.
** Quiz tomorrow on types of sentences. Know the terms and be able to identify them and write your own.
3/28/08 Quiz: Types of sentences
                                                             (Skip: Read aloud: Kites Sail High by Ruth Heller)
Geography Challenge #3:   Africa
ISN pp. 76-77; Questions (from T. E. p. 279) Use colored pencils
   4 sections of Africa, vegetation  zones, 3 kingdoms of West Africa from 500-1600
   History Alive pp. 134-135 "Setting the Stage"

HOMEWORK:  Finish the Geography Challenge using your ISN pp. 76-77 and your History Alive book.  (Bring ISN and Visions Monday.) Here are the 8 questions:

West Africa Question 1

Which ocean borders Africa on the west?

Which ocean borders Africa on the east?

Which sea borders Africa on the north?

Label these bodies of water.

West Africa Question 2

Into what four regions is Africa divided?

Draw in the boundaries of these regions,

and label each region.

West Africa Question 3

Lightly shade each of Africa’s vegetation

zones in a different color. Then fill in the

key to show the meaning of each color.

In which of these zones do you think

people were least likely to settle? Why?

West Africa Question 4

Outline Ghana’s boundary in red, Mali’s

boundary in blue, and Songhai’s boundary

in brown. Add these colors to the key.

In what region of Africa were these kingdoms

located? What vegetation zones are

in this part of Africa?

West Africa Question 5

Label the Niger and Senegal Rivers.

Why do you think these rivers were

important to the societies that developed

in West Africa?

 

West Africa Question 6

Label the Sahara Desert.

Why do you think the territory below the

Sahara Desert might have had limited

contact with lands to the north of the

desert before the late 700s C.E.?

West Africa Question 7

What religion spread from North Africa

to West Africa?

Draw and label an arrow to show the

spread of this religion.

West Africa Question 8

What city was an important center of

trade and learning for the kingdoms of

Mali and Songhai?

Label that city.