Sunday, November 29, 2009
Homework week of 11/30/09
Middle School Humanities and Language Arts Homework
Week of November 30, 2009
History
1. Complete assignment on “Bloody Kansas”. Due in second block this week.
(I-Fri., II-Thurs., III-Wed.)
2. Follow the link from the Humanities Blog to the interactive map of John Brown’s life.
Using the map, write 5 questions about John Brown’s life. We will exchange questions in 2nd block class this week.
3. In second block you will receive a study guide for a history test on the 2 chapters we have read, “A Restless Peace” and “Bloody Kansas”. It will also cover the map of the U.S.---1820-1850, which you completed last week. This study guide is due in 1st block next week (I-Tues., II and III-Mon.)
Language Arts
6th
1. You will receive a memoir reading assignment in class on Tues. It will be due on Thurs., 12/3.
2. Complete your independent reading book by next Monday. A book review is due on 12/11.
7th
1. You will receive a memoir reading assignment in class on Wed. It will be due on Fri., 12/ 4.
2. You will also receive a punctuation assignment on Wed., due on Fri. 12/4.
3. Complete your independent reading book by next Monday. A book review is due on 12/11.
8th
1. Poetry reading and writing will be assigned in each class this week.
Week of November 30, 2009
History
1. Complete assignment on “Bloody Kansas”. Due in second block this week.
(I-Fri., II-Thurs., III-Wed.)
2. Follow the link from the Humanities Blog to the interactive map of John Brown’s life.
Using the map, write 5 questions about John Brown’s life. We will exchange questions in 2nd block class this week.
3. In second block you will receive a study guide for a history test on the 2 chapters we have read, “A Restless Peace” and “Bloody Kansas”. It will also cover the map of the U.S.---1820-1850, which you completed last week. This study guide is due in 1st block next week (I-Tues., II and III-Mon.)
Language Arts
6th
1. You will receive a memoir reading assignment in class on Tues. It will be due on Thurs., 12/3.
2. Complete your independent reading book by next Monday. A book review is due on 12/11.
7th
1. You will receive a memoir reading assignment in class on Wed. It will be due on Fri., 12/ 4.
2. You will also receive a punctuation assignment on Wed., due on Fri. 12/4.
3. Complete your independent reading book by next Monday. A book review is due on 12/11.
8th
1. Poetry reading and writing will be assigned in each class this week.
Monday, November 16, 2009
REVISED homework week of 11/16/09
Middle School Humanities and Language Arts Homework
Week of November 16, 2009
History
1. Complete the 2 worksheets on the Missouri Compromise.
The link is http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/neh/interactives/sectionalism/lesson1/
Language Arts
6th grade
1. Read a minimum of 50 pages per week in your individual book. A book review is due by Dec. 11th.
2. Write a literary log letter to a partner to be assigned in class. This letter is about the book you are currently reading. The following are ideas to get you started; feel free to write about other topics as well. How and why did you choose this book? Was it hard/easy to get into? Explain. What are some things you like/don’t like about the book? Use quote(s) to explain your thinking. Is this a new genre for you? What is your favorite part so far? Why? Due on Thursday, Nov. 19th.
7th grade
1. Read a minimum of 50 pages per week in your individual book. A book review is due by Dec. 11th.
2. Write a literary log letter to a partner to be assigned in class. This letter is about the book you are currently reading. The following are ideas to get you started; feel free to write about other topics as well. How and why did you choose this book? Was it hard/easy to get into? Explain. What are some things you like/don’t like about the book? Use quote(s) to explain your thinking. Is this a new genre for you? What is your favorite part so far? Why? Due on Friday, Nov. 20th.
3. Wordly Wise unit 3 is due Tuesday, Nov. 24th.
4. You will have a writing assignment given in class on Wed. and due Friday, Nov. 20th.
8th grade
1. Read a minimum of 50 pages per week in your individual book. A book review is due by Dec. 11th.
2. Write a literary log letter to a partner to be assigned in class. This letter is about the book you are currently reading. The following are ideas to get you started; feel free to write about other topics as well. How and why did you choose this book? Was it hard/easy to get into? Explain. What are some things you like/don’t like about the book? Use quote(s) to explain your thinking. Is this a new genre for you? What is your favorite part so far? Why? Due on Friday, Nov. 20th.
3. Work on “Credo” in your poetry packet will be assigned Monday and due Thursday, Nov. 19th.
Week of November 16, 2009
History
1. Complete the 2 worksheets on the Missouri Compromise.
The link is http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/neh/interactives/sectionalism/lesson1/
Language Arts
6th grade
1. Read a minimum of 50 pages per week in your individual book. A book review is due by Dec. 11th.
2. Write a literary log letter to a partner to be assigned in class. This letter is about the book you are currently reading. The following are ideas to get you started; feel free to write about other topics as well. How and why did you choose this book? Was it hard/easy to get into? Explain. What are some things you like/don’t like about the book? Use quote(s) to explain your thinking. Is this a new genre for you? What is your favorite part so far? Why? Due on Thursday, Nov. 19th.
7th grade
1. Read a minimum of 50 pages per week in your individual book. A book review is due by Dec. 11th.
2. Write a literary log letter to a partner to be assigned in class. This letter is about the book you are currently reading. The following are ideas to get you started; feel free to write about other topics as well. How and why did you choose this book? Was it hard/easy to get into? Explain. What are some things you like/don’t like about the book? Use quote(s) to explain your thinking. Is this a new genre for you? What is your favorite part so far? Why? Due on Friday, Nov. 20th.
3. Wordly Wise unit 3 is due Tuesday, Nov. 24th.
4. You will have a writing assignment given in class on Wed. and due Friday, Nov. 20th.
8th grade
1. Read a minimum of 50 pages per week in your individual book. A book review is due by Dec. 11th.
2. Write a literary log letter to a partner to be assigned in class. This letter is about the book you are currently reading. The following are ideas to get you started; feel free to write about other topics as well. How and why did you choose this book? Was it hard/easy to get into? Explain. What are some things you like/don’t like about the book? Use quote(s) to explain your thinking. Is this a new genre for you? What is your favorite part so far? Why? Due on Friday, Nov. 20th.
3. Work on “Credo” in your poetry packet will be assigned Monday and due Thursday, Nov. 19th.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Homework week of 11/09/09
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Middle School Humanities and Language Arts Homework
Week of 11/09/09
History
1. Read “A Restless Peace” chapter 3 of A Nation Torn. Complete questions.
Due in 2nd block this week (I-Friday, II-Thursday, III-Wed.)
2. Complete the United States map(s) to be handed out in class in 1st block.
Due in 2nd block this week (I-Friday, II-Thursday, III-Wed.)
3. You may receive a second reading assignment to be due in first block next week. Stay tuned.
Language Arts
All students:
1. Choose and begin a new independent book. It must be approved by your language arts teacher by Tuesday, Nov. 10th. Read a minimum of 50 pages per week. We will assign literary logs each week and there will be a book review due by Dec. 11th.
6th grade
Final Anthony Burns projects are due this week:
Newspaper article is due on Tuesday, November 10th. Art project is due Thursday, Nov. 12th.
7th grade
Final Anthony Burns projects are due this week:
Newspaper article and art project are due Friday, November 13th.
2. Complete illustration of farm school poem. Due Friday, Nov. 13th.
8th grade
Final Anthony Burns projects are due this week:
Newspaper article is due on Monday, Nov. 9th. Art project is due Friday, November 16th.
3. Poetry homework will be assigned on Monday and due on Friday, Nov. 13th.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Study Guide for "America, North and South" and maps
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Study Guide for test on “America, North and South” and Maps we have done
(Pages 17-23)
1. Why did the population of the US grow so fast between 1800 and 1860?
2. The expansion of the railroad was important in a number of ways. Explain what these were in detail.
3. In what important ways was life in the North different from life in the South?
4. Explain the way the in the South depended on the North and the economy of the North depended on the South.
5. This relationship caused many difficulties. Explain these conflicts.
6. Who was John Calhoun and what did he propose?
Was this a good idea? Explain your answer.
Slavery - We watched the film and also you read about slavery in the reading packet. The following questions draw from both the film and the reading.
7. The earliest colonists, who came in the mid 1600’s, brought slaves and indentured servants with them. Would you say the lives of these early enslaved people were better or worse than those of slaves in the 1800’s? Explain your answer.
8. Where did the slaves come from and how did they get to the Americas?
9. Who was Eli Whitney and what did he do?
When was this? What difference did it make and why?
10. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote an important book called
What impact did it have and why?
11. Abolitionists were people who _________________________________________________.
What are some things abolitionists did?
Who was William Lloyd Garrison and what did he do?
12. How did Southerners see the people they enslaved and justify slavery?
From the Maps and Timeline
13. People from what 3 countries came to the Americas starting in the 1600’s?
What are some of the reasons they came?
14. Who was already here and what happened to them?
15. There were two major trade triangles. One went from ______________________ to ________________________ to ___________________________. The other one went from ________________________ to _________________________ to _______________________
Draw them on the map and show what was traded in each direction. Were people in both the Northern and Southern colonies involved on these trade triangles? Explain.
16. The 13 original colonies belonged to which country? ____________________________
When did they become the United States and how? ___________________________________
17. The United States grew by buying land, annexing land and having land ceded to it. Explain what each of these words means.
18. What happened in 1803? Be specific and explain the importance of this.
19. How and when the US get land that is now part of Florida?
20. Explain what a border adjustment is.
Where did this happen and with what country?
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Monday, November 2, 2009
homework week of 11/2/09
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Middle School Language Arts and Humanities Homework
Week of Nov. 2nd, 2009
History1. Study for the history test this week. The test days have been changed. The test will be on Thursday during language arts for 6th and 8th graders, and on Wed. for 7th graders.
• Complete the study guide by rereading the packet, looking at your maps and looking at the “Questions North and South” sheet. Have someone at home or a friend ask you the questions and you tell them the answers as if they are a story. Learning things by rote without understanding them will not help you. We will re-word many of the questions.
• Take blank maps and fill them in lightly in pencil without looking at your original maps. Then look at your map and make any changes. Erase and try again.
• Look carefully at your timeline. You don’t need to remember actual dates, but you do need to know why things are important. For example, why was the invention of the cotton gin important? What did it mean for the continuation of slavery? How did the invention of factories change the North? Be specific.
2. Bring your Anthony Burns book to class for 2nd block and all language arts classes this week.
Language Arts
EVERYBODY:
Complete the following 2 final assignments on Anthony Burns.
• Choose 1 day from 1 of the “present - 1854” chapters and write a newspaper article about what happened that day. Be sure to include all details, write descriptively, and write from the perspective of a writer in that time period. You may assume that your writer can be in the courtroom, Faneuil Hall, or any other place mentioned in the book. We’ll give you a sample article to help know how to write and present yours.
• Create an art project that explores one of the main themes in the novel. We’ll brainstorm themes in class. Your art project may be a 3 dimensional project (no dioramas), an assemblage, a collage, a drawing (colored pencils or cray pas), a painting, or a sculpture. We’ll look at some examples in class.
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Newspaper article is due on Tuesday, November 10th for 6th graders and the art project is due Thursday, Nov. 12th. Other due dates are below.
6th grade:
1. Wordly Wise – We will start Wordly Wise unit 2 in class on Tuesday and it will be due on Friday, November 6. The test on unit 1 will be Tuesday, November 10th.
7th grade :
1. Wordly Wise unit 2 is due Wednesday, Nov. 4th.
2. Test on Wordly Wise units 1 and 2 will be on Friday, Nov. 6th.
3. Final Farm School essay is due Friday, Nov. 6th. You will have time to work on it in class on Wed., Nov. 4th. Bring your travel drives.
3. Complete 2 final assignments on Anthony Burns. Look under 6th grade language arts. Newspaper article is due on Wed., November 11th. Art project is due Friday, November 13th.
8th grade:
3. Complete 2 final assignments on Anthony Burns. Look under 6th grade language arts. Newspaper article is due on Monday, Nov. 9th. Art project is due Friday, November 13th
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