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September 29, 2006

Here are you assignments for the week:

Lesson Plans – Oct. 2nd-6th

Monday:

1. Quickly review reasons to settle Ga.
2. Assign advertisement – Come to Georgia – due Friday -- colorful and eye-catching, give reasons to come to the New World, express 2 purposes for settling Georgia, have a caption expressing what types of people were wanted and types of people that were not allowed, plain white paper, and have a catchy slogan. If you have any questions, please be sure to check in with me.
3. Finish outline that was started on Friday.

**Warm-up – Why would people want to leave England and set up a new colony?

Tuesday:

1. Analyze picture and seal on page 75 (what do students see in the picture?, what items are represented by the seal?, etc.)
2. Then read “Comparing Viewpoints” and discuss questions that go with it – why did people “glamorize” life in Georgia? What businesses do this today? Why? (economics)
3. Word wall – split words for chapter 5,6, and 7 – students work in groups of 3 to illustrate the definition of words – these will be hung in room.

**Warm-up – Why do people try to glamorize things that aren’t really so glamorous?


Wednesday:

1. Finish and hang up words for “Word Wall”
2. Have students read pages 76-79 and complete #1 and #2 on outline
3. Problem/solution chart – “What do I (Oglethorpe) do about getting people mad and wanting to leave?”
4. Homework: Read pages 79-80 and finish outline #3-#10

**Warm-up – Why are so many of the colonists angry with Oglethorpe?

Thursday:

1. Check and go over rest of outline, reasons to be upset.
2. Quiz pages 72-76
3. Watch Georgia Stories I, program 4
4. Ad due tomorrow

**Warm-up – What happened in Georgia after Oglethorpe left?

Friday:

1. Share and turn in advertisements
2. Start chapter review sheet – study guide
3. Georgia Stories II, program 3

**Warm-up- What was colonial life like for the early settlers?

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September 25, 2006

Here are the lesson plans for this week. Be sure to check in with me if you are absent.
Mrs. Suggs

Lesson Plans – Sept. 25 – 29

Monday:

1. Return R.A.F.T. projects
2. Lecture on Spanish and English race to claim lands in New World – background on their relationship, as far as powers of the world.
3. Anticipation guide – pages 64-68
4. Study guide – due tomorrow
5. Ch. 5 test on Wednesday.

Tuesday:

1. Finish Anticipation guide from yesterday
2. Review game to prepare for tomorrow’s test

Wednesday:

1. ch. 5 test
2. illustrate chapter 6

**Why was England able to take over in the race for new land in North America?


Thursday:

1. Return test and discuss
2. Judge illustrations from yesterday
3. Picture analysis pages 70-71 – complete and discuss to intro chapter
4. Ocean travel – overhead – discuss as a class.

**Warm-up – How could ocean travel be dangerous in the 1500’s-1600’s.


Friday:

1. Briefly discuss life in England with debtor’s prison being overcrowded, Oglethorpe’s John Percival, dirty, rats, etc. Tell students that b/c Oglethorpe is high up in Parliament, he has some options as to how to solve this problem: put problem on the board – “What to do with overcrowded jails?” With a partner, the students write the problem on their paper, and come up with 3-4 options to solve the problem, then 2 consequences for each option (one positive and one negative), then make a decision based on what he should do and why. Discuss as class – then discuss what really happened.
2. Start outline pages 72-76 (I, II, III – due Monday)
*Warm-up - What is Parliament?

**Essential question for chapter 6: What were the factors that caused England to set up both Georgia as well as the other 12 English colonies?

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September 22, 2006

I bumped the date of our study guide and test for chapter 5:

chapter 5 study guide is due on Tuesday, Sept. 26th

and

ch. 5 test will be on Wednesday, Sept. 27th - be sure to STUDY! STUDY! STUDY!!!!!

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Here is a list of all the items that should be in your notebook for chapter 5: **remember that the order is not important

1. ch. 5 illustration
2. "explorer" concept/word map
3. Explorer chart
4. ch. 5 2-column notes
5. Constitution Day notes
6. ch. 5 quiz
7. Columbus Reaches America - map
8. Fr. Explorations worksheet
9. ch. 5 study guide
10.French/Portugal/Spanish - compare the efforts of each to settle the New World
11. R.A.F.T.
12. ch. 5 test

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September 19, 2006

Here are some basic explanations for your RAFT activity - that is due on Friday, Sept. 22nd

Here are what the letters stand for for your RAFT and some examples for you to select from (you, of course, can come up with something of your own).

R - Role - who do you want to be? - this needs to relate to chapter 5 - options: explorer, Native American, person living in Europe during this time period, pirate, sailor on an explorer's ship, King of a country, etc.

A - Audience - who is you intended audience? - people back home, Europeans, your spouse, king, etc.

F - Format - what are you going to write/draw? - letter, advertisement, picture, journal, ship log

T- Theme - what do you want you audience to get from this? - plea, asking for $ or supplies, telling how great things are, saying you are so happy the "gods" have finally come, asking for husband to come home, etc.

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September 18, 2006

Here are you assignments for this week - be sure to check in with me if you are absent.

Monday – Sept 18th –
CONSTITUTION DAY ACTIVITIES

Tuesday 9/19
1.***Quiz on Columbus - DeSoto (explorer chart) and 2 col. notes from last week.***

2. Warm-up – Why did Columbus sail to America so many times?
3. Columbian Exchange w/Columbus reaches America activity (students are looking at what items were brought to Europe from the New World and vice-versa – both good and bad things – discuss as a class.
4. Read letter (transparency) to class written by Columbus as he is making one of his journeys to America and discuss – and share facts about Columbus.
5. Explain RAFT activity to class – due Friday, 9/22

Wednesday 9/20 (EARLY RELEASE) – Social Studies teachers at an in-service

1. Warm-up – on own, students need to compare the efforts of France, Portugal, and Spain to settle the New World. They need to include the issue with the Line of Demarcation. They can make some sort of 3-way Venn Diagram to make the comparison or write a paragraph. This needs to be turned in when completed.
2. Hand out study guide for the chapter – this will be due completed on Monday – Sept. 25.
3. Continue working on RAFT activity – due on Friday.

Thursday 9/21

1. Warm-up – What is the right of first discovery?
2. Finish notes that were started last week.
3. Complete French Locations in the New World – looking at where the French settled and why – discuss as a class

Friday 9/22

1. Warm-up – Why might some countries had been willing to go to war to keep their claims on areas in the New World?
2. Finish any activity not completed yesterday.
3. Turn in RAFTS – share any from volunteers
4. Have students complete “Anticipation Guide” for pages 64-68 and discuss as a class.

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September 14, 2006

Here is an opportunity to earn some bonus points!!!

Constitution Day is Monday, 9/18. We will be completing an activity that focuses on the Preamble. Your task, if you choose to accept it, is: conduct a newspaper search and create a collage of headlines, photographs, and news articles that define or illustrate the purposes of the Preamble. Your collage needs to be neat (as far as gluing is concerned), your paper needs to be totally covered, and you need to be able to justify why you included each item. This will be worth 15 points to be added to any formal assessment - ie: a test or project grade.
It is due by class time on Friday, Sept.22. No late work will be accepted.

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Be sure to note which class period you are in when figuring out when assignments are due:-) **Sorry for the confusion with testing week. We will be back to our normal routine next week.

***Progress reports are coming home this week as well. You will receive them either Thursday or Friday - depending on when your class meets.***

3rd: 1. Take notes on 1st section of chapter 5 - teacher will guide the note taking process - we will follow a 2-column note taking format. We will be taking quite a bit of notes with this chapter following the same format throughout.
2. Go over "Explorer" chart - Columbus to DeSoto - make sure you are thorough with the chart b/c there is a good chance we will have a quiz over this information next week.
3. Finish "Explorer" chart - due on Monday (**you should be able to finish this in class and have no homework over the weekend:-)!!)
4. Any of our extra time will be filled with DEAR reading and finishing our movie.

Sept. 14th (1st and 2nd periods):

1. Take notes on 1st section of chapter 5 - teacher will guide the note taking process - we will follow a 2-column note taking format. We will be taking quite a bit of notes with this chapter following the same format throughout.
2. Go over "Explorer" chart - Columbus to DeSoto - make sure you are thorough with the chart b/c there is a good chance we will have a quiz over this information next week.
3. Finish "Explorer" chart - due on Monday.

Sept. 15th (6th and 7th periods):
1. Take notes on 1st section of chapter 5 - teacher will guide the note taking process - we will follow a 2-column note taking format. We will be taking quite a bit of notes with this chapter following the same format throughout.
2. Go over "Explorer" chart - Columbus to DeSoto - make sure you are thorough with the chart b/c there is a good chance we will have a quiz over this information next week.
3. Finish "Explorer" chart - due on Monday

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3rd period - finish chart up to DeSoto

6th and 7th periods:
1. judge illustrations for chance of earning bonus points - to be added on to a test
2. Word/concept map of explorer - and discussion of why explorer came to America (what they were searching for, when they came, who paid for their trips, why people were scared to travel too far on water, etc.)
3. Start "Explorer" chart - complete Columbus to DeSoto by Friday.

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September 12, 2006

Here are the assignments for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd periods:
1. Word map - "Explorers" - definition, examples, characteristics
2. Discussion of explorers of the New World
3. Start on Explorer chart - Columbus - DeSoto (due Thursday)
4. Notebook check (ch. 3/4) - these are already recorded on I-Cue

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September 01, 2006

Here are your assignments for this week. Please notice the notebook check scheduled for later in the week:-)

Lesson Plans: Sept. 5th – 8th

Monday:
NO SCHOOL – LABOR DAY HOLIDAY

Tuesday:

1. Return quiz from Friday
2. Briefly discuss how rest of chapter 4 goes into the different Indian time periods – weapon development, foods, where/how they lived, etc.
3. Have students complete Indian Groups chart by reading the chapter and filling in as they go

***Warm-up – Why do we have no school on Labor Day?

Wednesday:

1. Quiz using the Indian Groups worksheet
2. Discuss chart with basic notes on advances in civilization
3. Watch last section of Georgia Stories I – prog. 2 (DeSoto)

***Warm-up – What can you about a civilization by the homes that they live in?

Thursday:

1. Chapter 4 vocabulary activity – with a partner, students complete story about the people who lived in prehistoric Georgia
2. Chart test – using the Indian Groups chart, textbook, and any other available resources from home, the students are to answer 3 out of 5 questions that relate to how a society develops in civilized culture such as we live in today. Test is due on Friday.

***What do you think the Native Americans were thinking when DeSoto and his men landed in the New World?

Friday:

1. Warm-up question – as a quick written activity: Christopher Columbus is often credited with “discovering” America, although the land he discovered was already inhabited. Imagine that you are one of the Native Americans who was living in North America when Columbus arrived. You later learn that he has taken credit for the “discovery” of your home. Write a response to his claim.
2. Return vocabulary activity.
3. Turn in “chart test” from yesterday.
4. Illustrate chapter 5.
5. Notebook check – chapters 3 & 4.

Essential Question: What are the 4 Indian Tradition periods?
And, how did their advances in weapons totally change their lives?

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This is a message from Mrs. Haag, the 8th grade counselor:

All 8th graders will take the following tests during September:
September 6-7: Cogat Ability Test
September 11-15: ITBS Achievement Test

Please make sure that your student is well rested and on time these days. Students who are absent will have to make up the tests during alternate times.

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