"Or perhaps in Slytherin,
You'll make your real friends,
Those cunning folk use any means
to achieve their ends."
Homework - Please note that the date here is the date the hw is assigned, and that it is due the following day, unless otherwise indicated.
Monday, September 20, 2004:
1. Cover your geography textbook.
2. Read pages 7-12 in your geography textbook and answer questions 1-4 on page 12. You do not have to write out the question: just write the number and your answer.
Tuesday, September 21, 2004:
1. Study your geography terms. You will have a quiz on them on Friday.
Wednesday, September 22, 2004:
1. Add 3 new terms to your geography dictionary.
Thursday, September 23, 2004:
1. Add 1 new term to your geography dictionary. Choose from the vocabulary words on page 12 in question one. Also, visit The Owlery on this website and sign the guestbook. You may use my classroom computers to do this when you have free time in class or after school. You can also do this at the Mac Lab.
Friday, September 24, 2004:
1. There will be a geography terms quiz today.
Tuesday, September 28, 2004:
1. No Homework!
Wednesday, September 29, 2004:
1. Finish your journal entries.
2. Study your vocabulary terms for tomorrow (from pages 6-12 in your textbook). There will be a pop quiz tomorrow.
Thursday, September 30, 2004:
1. Draw a picture of the Earth. Label a) longitude, latitude and the equator.
Friday, October 1, 2004:
1. No HW!
Monday, October 4, 2004:
1. Add the vocabulary terms "location" and "place" to your geography dictionary.
Tuesday, October 5, 2004:
1. Add the vocabulary terms "Human Environment/Interaction," "Movement" and "Region," to your geography dictionary.
Wednesday, October 6, 2004
1. Add the vocab terms "axis," "orbit," and "solstice," to your geography dictionary.
Thursday, October 7, 2004
1. Add the vocab term "galaxy" to your geography dictionary.
2. Work on your season projects.
Friday, October 8, 2004
1. Have a good weekend - no HW!
Monday, October 11, 2004
1. No HW!
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
1. Continue reading pages 30-32.
2. Answer questions 1-5 on page 32.
Monday, October 18, 2004
1. Add the following terms to your geography dictionary: "aquifer," "evaporation," and "vegetation."
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Thursday, October 21, 2004
1. No school!
Friday, October 22, 2004
1. No School!
Tuesday, November 30, 2004:
1. Go here and complete the United States activity.
Wednesday, December 1, 2004:
1. If you are studying The Breadwinner, go here and explore this website. Click on the links of the left hand side of the page. Make sure that you check out the photo gallery for pictures of Afghanistan, general info, politics, news, culture, economy, geography, history, languages, etc. (all of the links on the left). Make sure to add this website to your bibliography..
2. If you are working on your geography scrapbooks, go to EnchantedLearning.com. Click on USA, then click on "State Info. Pages." Once you find your state in the list, click on it. Record important information in a word processing document (microsoft word, appleworks, etc.). You may print this at the end of the period. Make sure to add this website to your bibliography.
3. If you are working on your geography scrapbooks and have already completed assignment #2, click here. Read the first page and write down the definition of a biome in your notes. Using your prior knowledge, the internet, and your classmates, figure out which biome your state belongs in. For example, Vermont = "forest." Click on the generalized biomes and figure out which of those subcategories your state belongs in. For example; Vermont = Temperate Forest. Write down notes and add this to your scrapbook in the "region" section. Make sure to add this website to your bibliography.
Thursday, December 2, 2004:
1. If you are working on your geography scrapbooks, please continue working on the "region" section of your scrapbook. You MUST include what biome your state falls into. If you do not know what a biome is, please look at the assignment for Wednesday, December 1, and do step 3. Your HW is to finish the "region" section of your scrapbook.
2. If you are studying Afghanistan and The Breadwinner, get the rest of your group together and ask Ms. Cognato for the book. Go to the library and read the next two chapters and fill out the study guides. If you can budget your time appropriately, you will be able to do it all in class and you will not have any hw.
Friday, December 3, 2004:
1. If you are working on your geography scrapbooks, please start researching the "vegetation," section of your scrapbook. Find out what types of trees, flowers and other plants grow in your area. You may search online at Kids Discovery, Yahooligans, National Geographic, Kids Click and Enchanted Learning. You may also request books on plant life from your teacher. You may print information and pictures on plant life in your state (to the Mac Lab). 5 pages MAX per student.
2. If you are studying Afghanistan and The Breadwinner, get the rest of your group together and ask Ms. Cognato for the book. Go to the library and read the next two chapters and fill out the study guides. If you can budget your time appropriately, you will be able to do it all in class and you will not have any hw.
Monday, December 6, 2004:
1. If you are working on your scrapbooks, go here and write down the definitions of each kind of biome. You will be having a QUIZ on the different types of biomes this Wednesday. You will be allowed to use your geography dictionaries on this quiz, so please use this time in class to add these terms (different types of biomes) to your geo dictionary. If your dictionary is full already, you may create a "second quarter" geo dictionary. If you complete this activity in class, you will have no HW.
2. If you are reading The Breadwinner, go to the kitchen, or outside in the hall and read the next chapter of the novel. When you are done, fill out that portion of the study guide (as a group).
3. If you are reading The Breadwinner, go here and watch an online interview with the author, Deborah Ellis.
Tuesday, December 7, 2004:
1. If you are reading The Breadwinner, get the book and the rest of your group. Get pillows and take a laptop to the middle of the room. You are going to have a group discussion o the book. Go here for your discussion questions. Assign one person to be the group leader and to call on people. Another person should be the question master and be in charge of asking the questions. Assign someone else to be the time manager and get the timer from Miss Cognato, and allot a certain number of minutes per question. Assign another person to be the "on task manager," to make sure that people stay focused and don't go off on tangents.]
2. If you are working on your scrapbooks, continue studying the plant life and FINISH that page in your scrapbook. If you finish early, look for information on animals that live in your state.
Wednesday, December 8, 2004:
1. Breadwinner group: use this time to read silently.
2. If you are working on your scrapbooks, please continue working on them. They are due on Jan 1st.
Thursday, December 9, 2004:
1. If you have read The Breadwinner, go here, print and complete this graphic organizer on the novel. When you are done, go here, print out and complete this prediction.
2. If you are working on your scrapbooks, please continue to gather data. By the end of this period, you must have completed your food chain page for your state scrapbook. If you don't know what a food chain is, go here. To learn more about them, and to see a good example of a food chain, go here. Add the term "carnivore," and "herbivore," to your geography dictionaries.
Friday, December 10, 2004:
1. If you have finished reading The Breadwinner, go here, and read the article "A Girl in Afghanistan." Then, go here and read an interview with Deborah Ellis.
Then, look at the photo essays Women in Afghanistan & A Country Divided. If you have any extra time, look at the two additional photo essays at Burden of Sanctuary
2.
Monday, December 13, 2004:
1. If you have finished reading The Breadwinner, go here, print it out (to the mac lab), complete, and put in the Slytherin HW bin. Remember to write your name on it!
2. If you have finished reading The Breadwinner, go to the vocab sheet, highlight the words, then copy them into a blank Appleworks document. Use dictionary.com to define the words. Highlight the definitions, copy them into the word document (next to the vocab word), type your name at the top and print it out (to the mac lab). When you are done, put in the Slytherin HW bin.
3. If you are doing scrapbooks, please continue working on them. They are due on January 3rd, 2005.
Tuesday, December 14, 2004:
1.Breadwinner group - finish the assignments listed above if you have not already done so. If you are all done, you may use this time as a study hall to work independently.
2. If you are doing scrapbooks, please continue working on them. They are due on January 3rd, 2005.
Thursday, December 16, 2004:
1. If you are in The Breadwinner group, go to Diagon Alley. Using the search engines listed at the bottom of the page, find a map of the middle east. Then, locate Kabul and measure the distance from Kabul to the United States. Draw your own map of the world in pairs. (Corey and James, Paige & Nathan). Locate Kabul on the map and put a star on it. Then, locate Vermont and put another star on it. Measure the distance if you were to fly from Kabul to Vermont. Estimate the cost of airfare for a round trip ticket. Label the names of the other countries you would pass through if you were going to Kabul and cities you might stop in along the way. You will be working on this on Friday as well.
2. If you are doing scrapbooks, please continue working on them. They are due on January 3rd, 2005.
Friday, December 17, 2004:
1. If you are in The Breadwinner group, keep working on Thursday's project.
2. If you are doing scrapbooks, please continue working on them. They are due on January 3rd, 2005.
Tuesday, December 21st:
1. If you are at home/were absent, print out this 2005 biome calendar and color it in =D
Monday, January 31, 2005:
1. Read "The Gruesome Greeks," and write a 2 paragraph summary.
Tuesday, February 1, 2005:
1. Read "The Odd Olympics," and make a list of how the Olympics have changed since ancient times.
Wednesday, February 2, 2005;
1. Write your own Greek Nature Myth.
Thursday, February 3, 2005:
1. Read "The Odd Athenians."
2. Read at least half of "Phaethon."
Friday, February 4, 2005:
1. Read the second half of "Phaethon."
Thursday, February 5, 2005:
1. Read "Aeneas Meets Dido" & make a list of chronological events in the story. This assignment is due when we get back from Winter Recess.
Example:
1) Trojans leave Crete
2) Trojans land on island with Harpies
3) Aeneas and his men are attacked
4) Celaeno (one of the Harpies) predicts that the Trojans will endure a lot of hardships
5) Trojans leave island
Friday, April 8, 2005:
1. Go here to learn what it is like to live in Belfast, a place in the British Isles.
2. Go here and read National Geographic's article about the United Kingdom.
3. Fill out the Belfast/United Kingdom Scavenger Hunt Sheet & hand in to the Slytherin box.
Monday, April 11, 2005:
1. Explore the Tower of London by clicking here.
2. Then take the virtual tour by clicking here.
Tuesday, April 12, 2005:
1. Finish Monday's assignment.
2. Read about London and do a worksheet on it here.
3. If you finish both of the above assignments, click here and get to know London better by doing this photo tour and worksheet.
Current House Points:
Slytherin = 91
Keep trying your best in class to earn House Points!