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6th Grade Room Parents:  Jean Schif, Maria Galley
7th Grade Room Parents:  Nicole Green, Audrey Montgomery
8th Grade Room Parents:  Gail Schmeidler, Maria Galley

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Middle School Weekly Science Assignments
Week of: January 21-25

Middle School Weekly Science Assignments
Week of: January 21-25

6th grade	3rd hour: 10:13-11:00
Monday	1. NO SCHOOL
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Tuesday	1. Daily Science # 45 2. Work on Group project_CHAIR
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Wednesday	1.DS # 43.44.45 2. READ Ch 3 Sec 2_Technology Design Skills 3. Do WS 190-193
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Thursday	1. Daily Science # 46 2. Work on Group project_CHAIR 3.
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Friday	1. Daily Science # 47 2. Do Discover Activity pg 108 3. READ & Discuss pg 108-115 (Ch3_Sec3)

Middle School Weekly Science Assignments
Week of: January 21-25

8th grade	4th hour: 11:03-11:50
Monday	1. NO SCHOOL
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Tuesday	1. Daily Science # 45 2. READ CH 3 Sec 5 3. Do pg 115 questions #1-2 ALL
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Wednesday	1. Daily Science # 43.44.45 2. pg 115 questions 3. Do pg 117/118 (Organize, Review, Checking Concepts)
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Thursday	1. Daily Science # 46 2. pg 117/118 3. Review information
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Friday	1. Daily Science # 47 2. Do wkshts #1-5 (REVIEW)_DUE Monday

Literature and Composition, grades 6-8

Literature:

6th grade is beginning to read the play The Miracle Worker, a story about Helen Keller and her teacher Annie Sullivan. We will be reading it aloud with students either volunteering to read or teacher-assigned reading. In preparation for reading, the students have been exposed to Braille and sign language.

7th grade will read Hatchet, a story about a young boy alone in the Canadian wilderness. Hopefully, we will begin the novel before Thanksgiving.

8th grade will begin The Giver, a 1994 Newberry Award novel, about a futuristic society. It is a science fiction story that should allow much discussion and possible debate.

Composition:

• 6th graders are developing diagramming skills
• 7th graders are honing their diagramming skills
• 8th graders are reviewing all phrases, focusing primarily on verbal phrases. All classes are preparing a final product for the DAR essay contest.

All days and activities are subject to change, editing or revising.

History Book Report

Directions: You are to read one non-fiction history related book per quarter and report the following information.

Book Title:
Publisher:
Date Published:
Topic covered:
Summarize the book:
15 new things that you learned from this book.
What can we learn from studying this topic?

MLA Work Citing

• Book:  Author's Last name, first name. Name of the book. Where it was published : Publisher, year published.
• Web site:  Author's Last name, first name. “Name of the article.” Who put it on the web site. Year it was put on. Complete web address.
• Web Encyclopedia (Unsigned):  “Name of article.” Name of Encyclopedia. Year put on the web. Complete web address.
• Web Encyclopedia (Signed):  Author's last name, First name. “Title of article.” Name of Encyclopedia. Year put on the web. Complete web address

Throughout the article, when you have quoted the article you put it in quotations and after the sentence put (authors last name pg number). for a book and (author's last name). for a web site.

If you are not quoting, but putting an article into your own words you should end the information with (author's last name page number). for a book and (author's last name). for a web site.

6th Grade Religion
May 12-16

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2nd Semester Final Review

Know the following:
1. The virtues and their definitions
2. the Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy
3. the sacraments
4. Beatititudes
5. Each feast day the pertains to Mary and what they celebrate
6. Know the parts of mass and the symbolism involved
7. Precepts of the Church
8. Know the Angelus, Come Holy Spirit
9. Kinds of prayers and their definitions
10. Holy Days of Obligation
11. Church Hierarchy

1. Scriptures
1. Psalm 69:6-7
2. Psalm 92:2
3. Romans 15:1
4. 2 Timothy 4:7
5. Ephesians 4:29
6. Ezra 10:4
7. Matthew 7:12
8. Luke 14:28
9. Proverbs 18:15
10. 2 Timothy 2:23
11. Proverbs 19:20
12. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
13. Proverbs 10:4-5
14. Jeremiah 7:30,31
15. Jeremiah 1:5
16. Philippians 4:11-12
17. Ezra 10:4
18. 2 Timothy 4:7
2. P 78
3. Church Worksheets
4. Church Alive packet highlights
5. Church Alive packet Review
6. Notes over Chap 18
7. Review WKST

7th Grade Religion
May 12-16

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2nd Semester Final Review

Know the following:
1. The Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy
2. Each virtue and they definitions
3. Know the sacraments
4. Know the Holy Days of the Church
5. Know when and what is celebrated for each of the Feast Days for Mary
6. Know what is celebrated during Pentecost
7. Know the following vocab words; revelation, inspiration, covenant, transubstantiation, steward, prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance, parable, Paschal Mystery, transfiguration, Evangelization
8. Know the definition and how to enact Chastity and Modesty
9. Know the prayer of Saint Michael
10. Know the story of the road of Emmaus and the appearance to Thomas,
11. Know the following vocab; Christendom, catechumenate, monasticism, Papacy, abbot, schism, Emperor Constantine, Council of Jerusalem, Council of Nicaea, John Paul II, Thomas Aquinas, John XXIII, Elizabeth Ann Seton, Council of Trent
12. Know the ideas that the Protestant churches had that were different from the Catholic Church at the time.
13. Know what the Catholic Counter Reformation ideas were
14. Know the effects of the protestant reformation
15. Know the kinds of prayer
16. Know the Prayer of St Michael

Spiral Check May 16

1. Scriptures
1. Psalm 62:2-5
2. Ephesians 1:2
3. Timothy 4:14
4. Proverbs 17:3
5. Romans 13:3
6. Matthew 7:12
7. Proverbs 18:15
8. Romans 13:3
9. 1 Timothy 4:14
10. Proverbs 14:23
11. Jo hn 7:24
12. 1 Corinthians 15:33
13. Colossians 3:23
14. Luke 1:13-17
15. Proverbs 10:4-5
16. Jeremiah 1:5
17. Ezra 10:4
18. 2 Timothy 4:7
2. Lecture P 282-289
3. Lecture P 294-299
4. Book notes P 307-316
5. Lecture ordinary times, Lent, Christmas
6. Lecture lent
7. Lecture Holy Thurs, Good Friday, Palm Sunday
8. Lecture Easter week 1-3
9. Review wkst

6th Grade History
May 12-16

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Spiral Check May 13

1. WWI Lecture
2. Industrial Rev lecture
3. People/inventions of Industrial Rev Lecture
4. Bin Laden/Bush highlights
5. Napoleon Lecture

2nd Semester Review Sheet

1. Know the following vocab; Proclamation of 1763, Quarting Act, Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Intolerable Act, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Colombian Exchange, imperialism,
2. Know the following people; Simon Bolivar, Miguel Hidalgo, Toussaint L’Ouverture, George Washington, King Charles, Eli Whitney, James Watt, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Guglielmo Marconi, Henry Ford, Charles Darwin, Wright Brothers, Cortez, Magellan, Pizarro
3. Know why and how different American Indian tribes adapted to their environment
4. Know how Native American tribes got to North America
5. Know how the National Assembly lost the support of the French
6. Know how the Reign of Terror was imposed and controlled
7. Know the effects of the Reign of Terror
8. Know what Napoleon accomplished
9. Know how the Reign of Terror ended
10. Know the causes of the French Rev
11. Know what the Napoleonic Codes did

 

7th Grade History
May 12-16

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Spiral Check May 13

1. Lecture women’s suffrage (102-104)
2. Lecture Populist’s Party (98-101)
3. Lecture Progressivism (104-109)
4. Notes Chap 11 presentation
5. Lecture Great Depression
6. Lecture WWII
7. Chap 12 Vocab
8. P 133 Review
9. Chap 12 wkst

8th Grade History
May 12-16

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2nd Semester Final Review

1. Know the following vocab terms: Free Soil Party, Popular Sovereignty, Dred Scott v Sandford, blockade, Emancipation Proclamation, 13th Amendment, sharecropping, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment, long drive, vaquero, vigilante, reservation, Sand Creek Massacre, Battle of Little Big Horn, Wounded Knee Massacre, Homestead Act, corporation, robber baron, sweatshop, monopoly, patent, Edison, Graham Bell, Marconi, Ford, Wright, Plessy vs Ferguson, Booker T Washington, WEB Du Bois Chinese Exclusion Act, urbanization, Jane Addams, Hull House, progressivism, muckrakers, initiative, direct primary, referendum, Federal Reserve Act, 16th Amendment, 18th Amendment, 19th Amendment, Carrie Nation, imperialism, Anti-Imperialism League, Open Door Policy, Boxer Rebellion, Roosevelt Corollary, USS Maine

2. Know what the significance and outcome of these Civil War battles were; Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Shiloh, Gettysburg, Vicksburg

3. Know what advantages were on the North and South’s side during the Civil War

4. Know what effect the Civil war had on the North and South

5. Explain what black codes were (Jim Crow Laws) and name some examples

6. Be able to tell how people in the East learned about what life was like in the West

7. Be able to tell how the federal government encourage western settlement

8. Know what the Sherman Act tried to do and why the Wheeler-Lea Act was necessary

9. Explain how the Industrialization changed life in cities

10. Explain what reforms took place to address the problems

11. Know the goals and accomplishments of the Progressive Movement

12. Explain the US effect on Cuba, Philippines, and Puerto Rico after the Spanish American War

Spiral Check May 13

1. Teddy Roosevelt Movie notes
2. P 658 Chart
3. Chap 23 Sec 1 questions
4. Chap 23 Sec 2 lecture
5. Chap 23 Sec 3 questions
6. P 661 1-3
7. P 667 1-3
8. P 673 1-3
9. P 678 Chart

Middle School Schedule
2007-2008