Date Homework
3/31/08 Return graded work
Review Geography Challenge # 3 and give homework points for completion.
TCI: History Alive
Early Societies in West Africa, Chapter 12.
   forest, savannah, sahel, desert, vegetation, fertile, barren, iron, smelt, extended families, nuclear families
HOMEWORK:  1.Study the vocabulary from Ch. 12 (See your study guide also).
2. Answer Study guide questions # 1,  3, and 4.
3. Double-check your ISN pp. 76-77 for completion and accuracy.
4. Bring Visions books  and your ISN tomorrow.
4/1/08  April Fool's Day Reading & activity
4/2/08 Correct ch. 12 Study Guide questions 1, 3, and 4.
Classwork & Homework: Revise, check, or redo the Study Guide questions. Due tomorrow.  30 points.
* Writing Assignment: Visions p. 249, top.   Partner work.
a. What did you accomplish?
b. What difficulties did you face?
c. How did it change you?
4/3/08 Correct and turn in Study Guide Q & A # 1, 3, and 4
Peer sharing writing about a personal accomplishment; share aloud; turn in stories.
Read aloud:  The Spider Weaver by Margaret Musgrove
* Visions p. 251, bottom: Understanding the Atmosphere and Altitude
* Using Informational Text, Activity p. 136;
HOMEWORK: Activity p. 133, 134, and 136,
(You may do this over spring break.)
                  Not read yet: Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain.
 
4/4/08 Literature: "The Cow Tail Switch"
Read aloud to students; then have them read in pairs. Highlight and discuss new vocabulary.
Make a lit. chart (elements to include: title, setting, conflict, characters and their actions; moral)

Clean up before dismissal.  When we return from spring break, students should bring all: the red Vision book, workbooks, and Social Studies ISN)
  
                                 When we return from Spring Break: Ch. 13 TCI Ghana, Mali, & Songhai