Mrs. Walker\’s Lessons

STudents will continue working on activities on Turkey.Thursday: Spanish 

TURKEY!!!!We will begin working on a series of activities on the Memphis in May country-Turkey!!!  Friday: Guidance. 

Monday: sTudents will continue working on their assigned country for a group project.  Today’s assigned research topic is a traditional activity related to the country.Tuesday: We will begin presentations.  Each group will bring in a food item to represent the country and teach the class about the country.Wednesday: Students will continue their presentations.Thursday: SpanishFriday: students will finish their presentations. 

Monday: Students will complete Lesson 4 in the Coach book.  We will discuss and check.  Students will then complete the TCAP review on page 152 in the COACH book and we will discuss and check.  When done, I will give each pair of students and s.p.i. we have not covered and they will compose a presentation for the class. Tuesday:  STudents will continue working on their presentations.  Wednesday: WE will begin our presentations on our s.p.i.’s.  Thursday: Students will take the COACH post-test 1.  We will check and discuss.  Any missed questions, students will have to find the correct answers and correct.Friday: Guidance.  When done we will take COACH post-test 2.

Monday: Students will present their assigned time period timeline.  When done we will discuss different religions and their founders (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Moses, Jesus, Mohammed)  Students will compare/contrast these religions.  6.1.3Tuesday: Review time periods and religions for a quiz.  After quiz, students will work on Atlas activities 19-21.Wednesday: Students will finish their Atlas activities and check them in class.  Students will use their textbook to find how key groups impacted world history (Muslims, Christians, Mongolians, Vikings, slave traders, explorers, merchants/traders, inventors ) 6.6.1Thursday: SpanishFriday: Students will continue with Wednesday’s textbook activity. 

Monday: Students will split up into groups to research key artifacts and writing related to a specified civilization (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Chines, Native American, Medieval, and Renaissance) 6.5.3, 6.5.4Tuesday: Students will continue to organize their information for their assigned civilization.  We will begin presenting today.Wednesday: We will present and discuss the differences.  Tomorrow will be a quiz over the content presented.Thursday: STudents will take a quiz over artifacts and writing for different civilizations.  When done, we will recognize major historical time periods in small groups. (Early, Classical Period, Dark AGes, Middle Ages, and Renaissance) 6.5.7Friday: Guidance and we will continue researching historical time periods. 

Monday: STudents will check the Atlas activity on Ancient Greece from Friday.  Students will then read and discuss section 1 of chapter 7.Tuesday: Students will make a chart comparing and contrasting the Minoans and Myceneans.  We will read lesson 2 of chapter 7.  Students will then get into small groups to reinact the rise of Greece.Wednesday: STudents will perform their skits.  WE will discuss the key points.  When done, students will complete 2 handouts over lesson 1 and 2.Thursday: Spanish!Friday: Students will paint/draw a mural of the Golden Age of Athens.   

Monday: Students will read over lesson 4 of Chapter 8.  We will discuss as we go.Tuesday: We will discuss how Christianity was spread.  We will discuss key points from Ancient Rome and how it effects things today.  Complete ch. 8 review.Wednesday: Students will take the chapter 8 test.  After test, students will illustrate the first 10 vocabulary words from ch. 7.Thursday: We will begin reading and discussing lesson 1 of chapter 7.  We will discuss the geography of the land and compare/contrast the Minoans and Mycenaeans.  Students will complete Activity page 45 on Islands, Peninsulas, and Water.Friday: We will go to the computer lab to practice skills on study island.

Monday: students will view pictures of Roman architecture on the overhead.  STudents will apply Roman architecture to building their own Roman building with play doh and popsicle sticks.  Students will review the southern Europe countries on thatquiz.orgHW: Mythology project due Wednesday!  Tuesday:  Read pgs. 26-263.  Why was the Roman Empire able to survive long after Augustus’ death?  Pax Romana periodHW: Mythology project due Wednesday!  Wednesday: Students will compare maps on pgs. 266-267.  Students will present their mythology posters. Thursday: SpanishFriday: International Day ALL day!!!! 

Monday: NO SCHOOL!! Tuesday: Read pgs. 255-260 in book.  Students will complete a handout over the Roman Government.  Students will receive a Roman mythology assignment from Mrs. Platania.   Students will also discuss Southern Europe for the geography component of this week.  If time prevails, we will read about Pompeii.Wednesday: Read pg. 279 and do a worksheet on telescoping time line.   After we will begin watching a video on Rome.Thursday: Students will fill in a sheet that follows the video.  We will discuss it and highlight key points and events.  We will then move on to discuss Roman mythology and begin reading about famous Roman myths.Friday: Guidance from 2:05-2:35.  Students will take a quiz over Southern Europe.  Students will also compare historical maps on pgs. 266-267 in book.