• 5th Grade - Take Your Shoebox Home
  

• 6th Grade - Test Tomorrow
  

• 7th Grade - Bring Back Your Textbooks BY MONDAY
  

• 8th Grade - "Environmental Awareness" Worksheet (Most student completed in class)
  

• Earth Science - Test MOVED to Monday by popular demand
  

• 5th Grade - No Homework
  

• 6th Grade - Which was the best NewsCast for the day? Why? TEST FRIDAY
  

• 7th Grade - No Homework
  

• 8th Grade - "Environmental Awareness" Worksheet (Most student completed in class)
  

• Earth Science - Test Friday

5th Grade

I mentioned we would be talking about early immigration tomorrow and suggested the students take a look at EllisIsland.org . There were 14421 people with my last name that came through the island. If you know of a particular ancestor you can search for them there too! Click around for pictures and enjoy the experience.

• 5th Grade - No Homework
  

• 6th Grade - Come prepared to perform News Skit
  

• 7th Grade - Board Game due at the end of class tomorrow
  

• 8th Grade - Test Wednesday
  

• Earth Science - Test Friday
  

Earth Science Study Guide

Earth Science Test

Chapters 16 and 17

Date – Friday, April 30^th

Format

· True/False - 10

· Matching - 10

· Multiple Choice – 20

· Essay – 1 of 2

Key Terms and Concepts

Light

Wavelength

Visible Light

Radiation

Ultraviolet

Scattering

Heat transfer

Convection

Radiation

Clouds

Freezing point of water (F)

Mr. E’s Beard

Air pressure and Wind

Convection Current

Jet Streams

Types of Winds (Northern Hemisphere)

Prev. Westerlies Trade

Polar Easterlies Doldrums

Jet Streams Your Face

What do these instruments measure?

Barometer Wind Vane

Thermometer Anemometer

Wet and Dry Bulb Thermometers

Types of Precipitation

Air Masses

Tropical / Polar

Maritime / Continental

Tornado Watch vs. Tornado Warning

Isobars vs. Isotherms

Cyclones vs. Anticyclones

Direction of Wind in NH

Cold Fronts vs. Warm Fronts

Occluded Fronts

Stationary Fronts

Lightning

When is Hurricane Season?

Causes of Hurricanes?

What types of clouds give you tornadoes?

6th Grade Study Guide

Format: 10-10-10-1

Key Terms, Themes, and Random Fun

Scientific Revolution

Theology

Copernicaus

Johannes Kepler

“Music of the Spheres”

Galileo

Absolutism

Louis XIV

Versailles

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Peter the Great

Westernized Russia

Enlightenment

Voltaire

Jean-Jaques Rousseau

John Locke

Social Contract

Glorious Revolution (1689)

American Revolution (1776)

French Revolution (1789-1799)

Louis XVI

Napoleon

Napoleonic Code

Napoleonic Warfare

Haitian Revolution (1791-1804)

Successful what?

Opium Wars

Effects?

Taiping Rebellion

Hong Xiuquan

Reforms

Members of the 8 Nation Alliance

Boxer Rebellion

Reasons?

Commodore Perry

Which rebellion was the most violent?

What type of reasoning is based on data and observation?

What happened in France once the king and queen were killed?

When did the Qing Dynasty end?

How can you connect the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment to all these Rebellions and Revolutions?

• 5th Grade - No Homework
  

• 6th Grade - Come prepared to work on In-Class Project
  

• 7th Grade - Come prepared to work on In-Class Project
  

• 8th Grade - Test Wednesday
  

• Earth Science - IF YOU WERE ABSENT -
  

1. Read Ch. 17, Sec. 3 - up to "Weather Technology"
2. Write a paragraph about where you will be a year from now, how you know that, and what might change it. In other words, make a prediction about your life by using previous knowledge and interpreting data.
   

Civil Rights Movement Study Guide

Format

10-10-10-1

Key Terms, People, and Questions

NAACP

SNCC

WCC

SCLC

Double-V Campaign

James Meredith

Ole Miss Riots

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Racial Stereotype

Gone With the Wind

Amos and Andy

Selma to Montgomery Marches

Bloody Sunday

Executive Order 9981

Jackie Robinson

Is racism dead?

Little Rock Nine

Orval Faubus

Freedom Summer

Brown v. Board

Segregation academies

March in Washington

John Lewis

Fannie Lou Hamer

George Wallace

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

Assassination

Emmet Till

Cheney, Goodman, and Schwerner

Difference between SNCC and NAACP

Civil Rights in the Cold War

5th Grade - None
6th Grade - Project (In-Class)
7th Grade - Project (In-Class)
8th Grade - Test Next Week
Earth Science - Test Next Week

See you at the auction!

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5th and 6th - No Homework

7th grade - Come ready to work on your board game.

8th grade - Ask your parents if they have hurricane experience.


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7th Grade - plan projects

No other homework.

No Homework!

• 5th Grade - "Necessity is the mother of invention."

1. What has been invented in your lifetime?
2. What might be invented in the next 20 years?
3. REWRITE the above quote in your own words.
   

• 6th Grade - In general, why did Asia isolate itself from contact with Europe?
  

• 7th Grade - What is your favorite board game? Why?
  

• 8th Grade - No Homework
  

• Earth Science - Weather Forecast

• 5th Grade - No Homework
  

• 6th Grade - No Homework
  

• 7th Grade - No Homework
  

• 8th Grade - No Homework
  

• Earth Science - Weather Forecast
  

• 5th Grade - Test Thursday
  

• 6th Grade - No Homework
  

• 7th Grade - No Homework
  

• 8th Grade - No Homework
  

• Earth Science - Finish Last Night's Homework
  

• 5th Grade - Shoebox Project Due Friday - Test Thursday
  

• 6th Grade - No Homework
  

• 7th Grade - Test Wednesday
  

• 8th Grade - Finish Classwork
  

• Earth Science - Read p. 582-584 - Draw 4 types of fronts AND p. 585 #3abc
  

• 5th Grade - Shoebox Project Due Friday - Test Thursday
  

• 6th Grade - One Paragraph - If this school were a country, what type of government is it? Why?
  

• 7th Grade - One Paragraph - Who do you think is the best president from Jackson to Polk?
  

• 8th Grade - DUE WEDNESDAY - One Paragraph - Typed - Who was Septima Clark and what does she have to do with Charleston?
  

• Earth Science - No Homework
  

Civil War Study Guide - 5th Grade

Test is Thursday, April 15th

Test Format

15 - Multiple Choice

6 – Ordering

5 – Labeling

4 – Matching

2 of 4 – Short Response

Important Terms, People, Events

Abraham Lincoln

abolitionist

Ulysses S. Grant

Andrew Johnson

Missouri Compromise

Election of 1860

Harriet Tubman

Civil War

secede

Jim Crow Laws

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Slavery

Expansion

Resistance

Underground Railroad

Confederacy

Battle of Gettysburg

Emancipation Proclamation

Thirteenth Amendment

Fourteenth Amendment

Fifteenth Amendment

Lincoln’s Assassination

Reconstruction

End of Reconstruction

Ordering – Be able to put these events in order

Abraham Lincoln’s Election

Fort Sumter

Appomattox Court House

Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

South Carolina Secedes

Gettysburg Address

Battle of Gettysburg

Thirteenth Amendment

Labeling – Tell which side these states were on

South Carolina

Georgia

Mississippi

New York

Rhode Island

Maine

Missouri

Kentucky

Massachusetts