Happy Halloween Week!

Halloween Week Plans for 7th Grade SS: Students are actively working on their Ancient Egypt Papers. This paper is both an individual and group assignment. The final paper is due at the end of the hour Wednesday. Students have received instruction and a rubric for this assignment. Each individual is assigned a portion of the paper to complete and then the group organizes the final paper through Google Docs. This paper will be included in the student's student led conference folder.

Halloween Week Plans for 6th Grade SS: Students are finalizing their studies of Chapter 2, Seeing the World as a Geographer. Students are completing their reading notes on Monday (work due Tuesday). On Tuesday, student groups will organize and perform a group act it out on their assignend economic activity. Review work will begin on Wednesday and the Chapter 2 Test will be this Friday....to be honest....as a result of Halloween, the test might be postponed to Monday. (the day after Halloween probably isnt the best test day)

Plans for the Week of Oct. 21st

Congratulations students, Meap is all done! Great Job putting forth your best efforts! Now our schedule and routine will be back to normal.

6th grade SS plans: Students are working on chapter 2, Seeing the World as a Geographer. This week's lessons require students to use their geographical skills to interpret and create different types of maps. Monday thru Thursday will pertain to in-class map work and act it outs. Act it outs are simple student demonstrations of their assigned geographical skill.

7th grade SS plans: Students are learning to walk like an Egyptian. Our week begins with this old Bangles song as the students are divided into groups for the week's work. Student groups will be investigating the 7 major elements of the Ancient Egyptian Civilization. This week's work will be completed in class, there shouldn't be much homework this week.

Enjoy your week,

Mr. Toole

Happy Meap Meap! Plans for the Week of Oct. 14th

As a result of continued Meap testing, our class schedule and course requiremnts will be affected.
In 6th grade SS class: students are introduced to chapter 2. Covering sections 2.1 and 2.2. Homework assignment to complete chapter 2 geoterms.
7th grade SS class: students are finishing their work in the computer lab researching and taking notes on Mesopotamia. Notes due either Weds. or Thursday of this week. We will begin Ancient Egypt at the end of this week.

Progress reports will be sent home this Friday with your studet.

Mesopotamia Independent Project
1. Use the web sites book marked on this page to fill in all the sections of your Cornell notes about Mesopotamia. Play the interactive game when complete. The game will also help you add to your Cornell notes.
Web Sites
The Game
http://mesopotamia.lib.uchicago.edu/interactives/DigIntoHistory.html
Information
http://www.kidskonnect.com/subject-index/16-history/257-ancient-mesopotamia.html
http://mesopotamia.lib.uchicago.edu/mesopotamialife/index.php

6th and 7th Grade SS Plans

6th Grade: Students just completed their 1st Test. The test was from chapter 1. On Monday, we will go over the test. Any student that did not score above a 70% will have the chance to make improvements and raise their grade. The remainder of the week will be spent on Chapter 2, Seeing the World as a Geographer. Students will need to complete new Geoterms and study guides in class and as homework assigned.

7th Grade: Students will receive their comparison papers back and we will work as a class to improve student's writings. Students that did not score above a 70% will have a chance to rewrite their paper for an improved score. Students will also be researching Mesopotamia online and complete and submit notes.