Weekly Assignments for Social Studies
by Kathy Terrill
8/28/08-Complete the interest inventory.
8/29/08-Cover social studies textbook. Start making a list of what is wrong with your book. The list will be due 9/5/08.
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9/2/08- Finish "Landforms" packet and complete the "Directions on Directions" handout.
9/3/08-Begin working on the "Bodies of Water" packet. List of what is wrong with your book is due on Friday. The first quiz over classroom vocabulary and the packets will be 9/12/08.
9/4/08-What is wrong with your book is due tomorrow.The first quiz over classroom vocabulary and the packets will be 9/12/08.
9/5/08- Complete handouts (2).The first quiz over classroom vocabulary and the packets will be 9/12/08.
9/8/08- Complete handouts.The first quiz over classroom vocabulary and the packets will be 9/12/08.
9/9/08- (Periods 1,4,7, and 8) Draw an outline of your country. Be sure to include a compass rose, a legend box, and the latitude and longitude of the country. The quiz on Friday will include classroom vocabulary and information from the packets. Be sure to study the continents and oceans, and be aware of how to use longitude and latitude to locate places.
9/10/08 -Finish Worksheet #1. Study for test/quiz on Friday.
9/11/08- Study for test.
9/12/08- No Homework
9/15/08- Not Homework
9/16/08- Periods 1,4,7, and 8 finish worksheet #2 and color your map. Period 3 - Finish worksheet #1. All students receiving below a 70 % on their S.S. test must have it signed and returned by Friday.
9/17/08- No Homework
****Parents *****Please have students bring their backpacks with them to Timber Lee.
9/18/08- Periods 1,4,7, and 8 complete worksheet #3. Period 3- Finish worksheet #2. This includes the written assignment and map.
****Parents *****Please have students bring their backpacks with them to Timber Lee.
9/19/08 - Finish campaign speech. Extra Credit - Create a campaign poster for your candidate. The poster must be colorful and include at least three facts. This will be due after Timber Lee.
****Parents *****Please have students bring their backpacks with them to Timber Lee.
9/25/08-Periods 1,4,7, and 8 - Complete worksheet #3 and the map. Period 3 - Complete worksheet #2 and the map. All extra credit is due by Monday.
9/26/08- Periods 1,4,7, and 8 should complete worksheet #4. There will be a vocabulary quiz next Friday.
9/29/08- Periods 1,4,7, and 8- Complete worksheet #7. Period 3- Complete worksheet #3.
There will be a vocabulary quiz next Friday.
9/30/08-Periods 1,4,7, and 8- No homework. Period 3- Complete worksheet #7.
10/1/08-The following words are on the quiz Friday:
Natural Resource Anthropologist Anthropology Renewable
Depletion Mineral Energy Source
Temperate Zone Tropics Topography Mountain Range
Universals of Culture Boundaries Climate Seaport
Harbor Material Culture
There will be a vocabulary test on Friday.
Periods 1,4,7, and 8- Complete worksheet #8.
Period 3- No homework
10/2/08-Study for quiz tomorrow.
10/3/08- No homework
The last extra credit opportunity for the first quarter will be due 10/14/08. Students may do an extra activity from worksheet #9.
10/6/08- Complete worksheet #9.
There will be a vocabulary test over the next 19 words on 10/14/08.The last extra credit opportunity for the first quarter will be due 10/14/08. Students may do an extra activity from worksheet #9.
10/7/08- Periods 1,4,7, and 8 - Complete worksheet #10. Period 3 - Complete worksheet #8.
There will be a vocabulary test over the next 19 words on 10/14/08.The last extra credit opportunity for the first quarter will be due 10/14/08. Students may do an extra activity from worksheet #9.
10/8/08- Study for vocabulary test.
Arable Energy Source Agriculture Depletion
Unemployment Standard of Living Livestock
Cultivate Economy Manufacture Industrialization Barren
Product Arid Subsistance Irrigation Fertile
Harvest
There will be a vocabulary test over the next 19 words on 10/14/08.The last extra credit opportunity for the first quarter will be due 10/14/08. Students may do an extra activity from worksheet #9.
10/14/08- Complete worksheet #12.
10/15/08-Period 1 has no homework. Periods 3,4,7 and 8 need to complete page one of the three column notes. There will be an open notebook quiz next Wednesday over all vocabulary copied in class this year.
10/16/08- Complete the study guide over pages 28-35. There will be an open notebook quiz next Wednesday over all vocabulary copied in class this year.
10/17/08- No homework. There will be an open notebook quiz next Wednesday over all vocabulary copied in class this year.
10/20/08- Complete the handout on pages 36-39. The paragraph should have at least five sentences and three facts from the text. Be sure to underline your facts. There will be an open notebook quiz Wednesday over all vocabulary copied in class this year.
10/21/08-Complete the handout over pages 40-43. There will be an open notebook quiz Wednesday over all vocabulary copied in class this year.
10/22/08-No homework
10/23/08-Write 3/4 of a page diary entry about the "Iceman of the Alps." Be sure to include four facts in your entry.
10/24/08- No homework.
10/27/08- Complete the graphic organizer for section 2 (pages 58-64).
10/28/08- Periods 3,4,7, and 8--Write a 1/2 page summary about each election article.
10/29/08- Begin working on projects. Students should complete two of the projects from the Fertile Crescent Project sheet. The projects will be due 11/7/08. There will be a test over chapters 2 and 3 on 11/5/08. A study guide will go home next week. What is Wrong With My Book (for the brown book) will be due 11/5/08.
10/30/08-Complete the graphic organizer for pages 65-69. Students should complete two of the projects from the Fertile Crescent Project sheet. The projects will be due 11/7/08. There will be a test over chapters 2 and 3 on 11/5/08. A study guide will go home next week. What is Wrong With My Book (for the brown book) will be due 11/5/08.
10/31/08-Period 1 needs to write a 1/2 page summary about each of the two articles they read. Students should complete two of the projects from the Fertile Crescent Project sheet. The projects will be due 11/7/08. There will be a test over chapters 2 and 3 on 11/5/08. A study guide will go home next week. What is Wrong With My Book (for the brown book) will be due 11/5/08.
11/3/08-Complete the graphic organizer for pages 72-76 .Students should complete two of the projects from the Fertile Crescent Project sheet. The projects will be due 11/7/08. There will be a test over chapters 2 and 3 on 11/5/08. A study guide will go home next week. What is Wrong With My Book (for the brown book) will be due 11/5/08.
11/4/08- Complete the study guide. Study for the test. Finish What's Wrong With My Book.
11/5/08-Work on projects.
11/6/08-Work on projects. They are due tomorrow.
11/7/08- No Homework
11/10/08- Finish the graphic organizer for chapter 4 section 1.
11/11/08- Work on Nile River Project. The project is due Monday. Students may do an extra project for extra credit.
11/12/08-11/14/08-Work on Nile River Project. The project is due Monday. Students may do an extra project for extra credit.
11/17/08- No Homework- Egypt Day will be 12/5/08. All students will need to have a costume. The costumes do not have to be elaborate. Girls may bring in a sheet to wear as a toga; boys may bring in a white t-shirt and a towel to wear as a kilt. Ideas for costumes were given to the students today. Students drew cards to decide where they would be on the social pyramid. Students that are merchants/artisans/farmers should make items to be sold that day. Each merchant/artisan/farmer will need to make 15 items.
11/18/08-No Homework- Egypt Day will be 12/5/08. All students will need to have a costume. The costumes do not have to be elaborate. Girls may bring in a sheet to wear as a toga; boys may bring in a white t-shirt and a towel to wear as a kilt. Ideas for costumes were given to the students today. Students drew cards to decide where they would be on the social pyramid. Students that are merchants/artisans/farmers should make items to be sold that day. Each merchant/artisan/farmer will need to make 15 items.
11/19/08--No Homework- Egypt Day will be 12/5/08. All students will need to have a costume. The costumes do not have to be elaborate. Girls may bring in a sheet to wear as a toga; boys may bring in a white t-shirt and a towel to wear as a kilt. Ideas for costumes were given to the students today. Students drew cards to decide where they would be on the social pyramid. Students that are merchants/artisans/farmers should make items to be sold that day. Each merchant/artisan/farmer will need to make 15 items.
11/20/08- No homework. Make sure that your Pyramid questions are completed. Work on your Egypt Day merchandise if you are a merchant/artisan/farmer.
11/21/08-Complete the graphic organizer for pages 96-101.Work on your Egypt Day merchandise if you are a merchant/artisan/farmer.
