5TH SOCIAL STUDIES - WEEK OF MARCH 23RD, 2009

Monday 23rd, 2009
AIM: GYM classes for 5th grade
OBJECTIVE:
HOMEWORK: Read Chapter 11

Tuesday 24th, 2009
AIM: How did the colonial government began?
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn of the assemblies and town meetings in an attempt to self-government.
HOMEWORK: Where was the first meeting of Virginia’s assembly held? Elaborate LL

Wednesday 25th, 2009
AIM: Who were the royal governors and what role did they play in the 13 colonies?
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn that 8 of the 13 colonies were ruled by royal governors.
HOMEWORK: p. 287 in NB Copy chart of governmental plan.

Thursday 26th, 2009
AIM: How did John Peter Zenger establishes freedom of the press?
OBJECTIVE: Students will read how Zenger was jailed for criticizing the royal governors.
HOMEWORK: On LL – How John Zenger help in Freedom of Speech?

Friday 27th, 2009
AIM: How did Thomas Jefferson became a member of the House of Burgesses?
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn that 26 year old Jefferson was a lawyer and planter.
HOMEWORK: Review weekly notes

Notable Events in Historoy

More Notable Events on March 16:
1988 U.S. sends 3000 soldiers to Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras

1968 Robert F. Kennedy announces presidential campaign

1941 National Gallery of Art opens in Washington D.C.

1882 U.S. Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross

1881 Barnum and Bailey Circus debuts

Today in History - Mississippi Finally Abolishes Slavery

Mississippi legislators set to abolish slavery
March 13, 1995 Mississippi legislators abolish slavery

Slavery. It's finally - officially - on the way to being over. History. And it only took 130 years for the Mississippi Senate tO see its way clear to ratify the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The only state never to outlaw slavery, Mississippi held out when the amendment was adopted in 1865, in part because lawmakers were upset they were not reimbursed for freed slaves from the federal government.

But Democratic state Senator Hillman Frazier, who brought the state's inaction on the matter back to the table this Year, insisted that it's never too late and the legislative body had an obligation to address

"It's never a waste of time to correct a wrong," said Frazier, the great-grandson of slaves. "I think it's very important for us to show the world that we have Put the past behind us."
Congressman Bennie G. Thompson congratulated Frazier for introducing the bill that he said was long overdue.

"I commend Senator Frazier for being persistent in moving the bill through the legislative Process, where it passed on a voice vote without any objection," said Thompson.
Thompson went on to say, while it is symbolic to ratify the 13th Amendment at this time, it still is the right thing to do. I hope that this will give the legislature the incentive to continue to pass legislation that will improve the quality of life for all Mississippians, particularly African Americans who have suffered from past discriminatory practices of the state government.

8TH SCIENCE - WEEK OF MARCH 16TH, 2009

Monday 16th, 2009
AIM: p. 344 – Evidence of Evolution
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn the importance of fossils as evidence of change.
HOMEWORK: Research the Scopes trial. Power-point presentation due 3/19

Tuesday 17th, 2009
AIM: How is relative and radiometric dating used to date fossils?
OBJECTIVE: Students will analyze the geologic time scale for clues.
HOMEWORK: What is the difference between relative and radiometric dating? 1para.

Wednesday 18th, 2009
AIM: Examples of five types of evidence for evolution.
OBJECTIVE: Students will examine vestigial, embryology, & DNA evidence also.
HOMEWORK: Compare & contrast the five types of evidence of evolution. LL

Thursday 19th, 2009
AIM: Power-point presentation on the Scopes trial
OBJECTIVE: Students will present and debate on the Scopes trail.
HOMEWORK: Supplies of LAB

Friday 20th, 2009
AIM: LAB: A Model of Natural Selection
OBJECTIVE: Students will make and use model to explain natural selection.
HOMEWORK: Complete lab sheet

7TH SCIENCE - WEEK OF MARCH 16TH, 2009

Monday 16th, 2009
AIM: Chap. 18 – The Skeletal Muscle
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn of the five major functions of the skeletal muscle.
HOMEWORK: Lesson 1 vocabulary words on LL

Tuesday 17th, 2009
AIM: How to compare and contrast movable & immovable joints?
OBJECTIVE: Students will examine joints that allow little, no movement, or wide range of movements.
HOMEWORK: p.499 – Section Assessment – 1-3 on LL

Wednesday 18th, 2009
AIM: What are some characteristics of bone?
OBJECTIVE: Students will list some characteristics and formation of bones
HOMEWORK: Draw and label bone layers on p. 495

Thursday 19th, 2009
AIM: Problem Solving – p. 497. Reading Comprehension
OBJECTIVE: Student will read passage and answer 8 questions on LL
HOMEWORK: Lesson 1 vocabulary words for quiz on 3/20

Friday 20th, 2009
AIM: Students will be quizzed on Lesson 1 vocabulary
OBJECTIVE: Students will draw skeletal framework and label on LL
HOMEWORK: Lesson 2 vocabulary words

6TH SCIENCE - WEEK OF MARCH 16TH, 2009

Monday 16th, 2009
AIM: p. A 36 – What is an invertebrate?
OBJECTIVE: Students observe the large variety of animals without backbones. HOMEWORK: List and describe the 8 phyla on p. A 36 & 37 in NB

Tuesday 17th, 2009
AIM: What are the simplest invertebrates like?
OBJECTIVE: Students will oral read and take notes.
HOMEWORK: Where do the simplest invertebrates live? LL

Wednesday 18th, 2009
AIM: How do invertebrates affect people?
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn how important invertebrates are in human lives.
HOMEWORK: p. A45 – write question and answer on LL

Thursday 19th, 2009
AIM: How are complex invertebrates different from other invertebrates?
OBJECTIVE: Students will draw and label parts of the earthworm.
HOMEWORK: Draw and Label grasshopper on p. A 42

Friday 20th, 2009
AIM: Students will be quizzed on drawing and labeling the earthworm.
OBJECTIVE: WB – in notebook questions and answers.
HOMEWORK: Review vocabulary words.

5TH SCIENCE - WEEK OF MARCH 16TH, 2009

Monday 16th, 2009
AIM: p. B 22 – How are populations connected?
OBJECTIVE: Students learn how changes in a food web affect other population. HOMEWORK: WB p. 80 on LL

Tuesday 17th, 2009
AIM: Reading Comprehension WB p. 83
OBJECTIVE: Students will reading and answer questions on LL.
HOMEWORK: p. 84 WB on LL

Wednesday 18th, 2009
AIM: Students will have computer classes.
OBJECTIVE:
HOMEWORK: WB p. 89 1-8 on LL

Thursday 19th, 2009
AIM: What is symbiosis and mutualism?
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn how organisms interact and benefit each other.
HOMEWORK: p. 89 # 9-15 in NB

Friday 20th, 2009
AIM: p. 91 WB Interaction Among Living Things
OBJECTIVE: Students will answer questions in NB
HOMEWORK: Review weekly notes

6TH SOCIAL STUDIES - WEEK OF MARCH 16TH, 2009

Monday 16th, 2009
AIM: TEST followed by The dangers of building Bagdad on the Tigris.
OBJECTIVE: Students will make a conclusion about the dangers of building up Bagdad . HOMEWORK: p. 277 on LL # 5

Tuesday 17th, 2009
AIM: Chapter 11 - Ancient America
OBJECTIVE: Students will read about the unique geography of Ancient America
HOMEWORK: vocabulary and place on Lesson 1 in NB

Wednesday 18th, 2009
AIM: How did the land bridge form between Asia and the Americas?
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn that over thousands of years ago there was a land bridge that
connected Asia with the Americas.
HOMEWORK: Describe the rain forest of Middle America – 1 page

Thursday 19th, 2009
AIM: Lesson 1 quiz followed by the three major climate regions.
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn the three major climates in Middle America.
HOMEWORK: p. 289 # 5 on LL

Friday 20th, 2009
AIM: Reading Climographs
OBJECTIVE: Students will analyze the three graphs on p. 291 and answer questions
HOMEWORK: Review Lesson 2

5TH SOCIAL STUDIES - WEEK OF MARCH 16TH, 2009

Monday 16th, 2009
AIM: Students will have gym classes
OBJECTIVE:
HOMEWORK: Review test notes

Tuesday 17th, 2009
AIM: Unit 4 Review
OBJECTIVE: Students be given questions for unit 4 for test on 3/17
HOMEWORK: Review test notes


Wednesday 18th, 2009
AIM: Unit 4 test
OBJECTIVE: Students will be tested on work done on chapters 8-10
HOMEWORK: Chapter 11 –Vocabulary words.


Thursday 19th, 2009
AIM: How did the colonies begin to govern themselves?
OBJECTIVE: Students will oral read and take notes on the self-governing
HOMEWORK: Copy chart on p. 287

Friday 20th, 2009
AIM: 2:30 dismissal
OBJECTIVE: Students must read chapter 11.
HOMEWORK

8TH SCIENCE - WEEK OF MARCH 9TH, 2009

Monday 9th, 2009
AIM: Chapter 12 – Mechanism of Evolution
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn of the importance of variations in organisms.
HOMEWORK: Lesson 1 vocabulary words

Tuesday 10th, 2009
AIM: What is evolution by natural selection?
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn of Charles Darwin theory of evolution.
HOMEWORK: How are genetics and the theory of evolution related?

Wednesday 11th, 2009
AIM: What are the principles of Natural Selection?
OBJECTIVE: Students will review the 5 theories of natural selection.
HOMEWORK: What is meant survival of the fittest?

Thursday 12th, 2009
AIM: How fast does evolution occur?
OBJECTIVE: Students will that the process is very slow.
HOMEWORK: What is adaptation and give examples. On LL

Friday 13th, 2009
AIM: SCHOOL CLOSED
OBJECTIVE: ASP OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS
HOMEWORK: review weekly work.

7TH SCIENCE - WEEK OF MARCH 9TH, 2009

Monday 9th, 2009
AIM: Chap. 14n - How is the ozone harmful to human health?
OBJECTIVE: Student will learn how air pollution affects your health.
HOMEWORK: What are some sources of water pollution? LL

Tuesday 10th, 2009
AIM: How are plants such as the hyacinths important to water?
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn how the hyacinths remove pollution from water.
HOMEWORK: What are amphibians and types of pollution affecting them?

Wednesday 11th, 2009
AIM: How can we help our environment?
OBJECTIVE: Students will write an essay using chapter 14 to answer question.
HOMEWORK: Research water plants in NY

Thursday 12th, 2009
AIM: Where do New Yorkers get their drinking water?
OBJECTIVE: Online research on water plants in NY
HOMEWORK: Students will continue their research on water in New York

Friday 13th, 2009
AIM: SCHOOL CLOSED
OBJECTIVE: ASP OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS
HOMEWORK: review weekly notes

6TH SCIENCE - WEEK OF MARCH 9TH, 2009

Monday 9th, 2009
AIM: Quiz on Tropical rainforest and desert biome.
OBJECTIVE: Students will use notes to answer 5 questions.
HOMEWORK: Draw biomes on p. A 73 in NB

Tuesday 10th, 2009
AIM: LAB: p. A 96 Make a model of an ecosystem.
OBJECTIVE: Students will invent of an ecosystem which includes biotic and abiotic factors
HOMEWORK: Complete lab sheet

Wednesday 11th, 2009
AIM: How do mountain barriers produce different climates?
OBJECTIVE: Students will use the pictures on p. A68-69 to observe barriers.
HOMEWORK: How do seasons change as you go north of the equator?

Thursday 12th, 2009
AIM: How is the tropical rain-forest different from the deciduous forest?
OBJECTIVE: Students will observe online the two biomes and write down observation.
HOMEWORK: Describe the Grassland biome. On LL

Friday 13th, 2009
AIM: SCHOOL CLOSED
OBJECTIVE: ASP OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS
HOMEWORK: Review weekly notes

5TH SCIENCE - WEEK OF MARCH 9TH, 2008

Monday 9th, 2009
AIM: What is a biome?
OBJECTIVE: Draw and label biomes on Earth and answer questions in NB
HOMEWORK: p. A42 – Lesson vocabulary in NB

Tuesday 10th, 2009
AIM: What are tropisms?
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn how responses and adaptation help plant survive.
HOMEWORK: Report on Charles Darwin

Wednesday 11th, 2009
AIM: How do plants survive and compete with each other?
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn the strategies plants use to survive and compete. P.A46-47
HOMEWORK: What are some examples of positive and negative tropism? LL

Thursday 12th, 2009
AIM: LAB: Design two ways that adaptations can help plants survived?
OBJECTIVE: Students will ways to set up the experiment and write down a hypothesis.
HOMEWORK: Complete lab sheet

Friday 13th, 2009
AIM: SCHOOL CLOSED
OBJECTIVE: ASP OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS
HOMEWORK: Review weekly work

6TH SOCIAL STUDIES - WEEK OF MARCH 9TH, 2009

Monday 9th, 2009
AIM: How do environments differ in various parts of Arabia?
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn how different the environments were in Arabia. HOMEWORK: Lesson vocabulary words in NB

Tuesday 10th, 2009
AIM: Who were the Bedouins and how did they help trading across the desert and sea?
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn how trading was possible in a harsh environment>
HOMEWORK:

Wednesday 11th, 2009
AIM: The Beginnings of Islam.
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn how Islam began and the birth of Muhammad.
HOMEWORK: What are some of the major teachings of Islam on LL

Thursday 12th, 2009
AIM: Why was Mecca an important religious center?
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn of its importance in trading and religious meaning.
HOMEWORK: What are the Five Pillars and its purpose?

Friday 13th, 2009
AIM: SCHOOL CLOSED
OBJECTIVE: ASP OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS
HOMEWORK: Review weekly notes

5TH SOCIAL STUDIES - WEEK OF MARCH 9TH, 2009

Monday 9th, 2009
AIM: GYM-CLASSES
OBJECTIVE:
HOMEWORK: Lesson 3 vocabulary words in NB

Tuesday 10th, 2009
AIM: How did Britain win the war?
OBJECTIVE: Students will learn how Britain poured money into buying new equipments.
HOMEWORK: What was the Proclamation of 1763? On LL

Wednesday 11th, 2009
AIM: COMPUTER
OBJECTIVE: Students have computer classes.
HOMEWORK: Study vocabulary words for quiz

Thursday 12th, 2009
AIM: Vocabulary quiz; Chapter 10 Review
OBJECTIVE: Students will be given 10 questions from page 276
HOMEWORK: Unit 4 Review 1-10 in NB-p.278

Friday 13th, 2009
AIM: SCHOOL CLOSED
OBJECTIVE: ASP OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS
HOMEWORK: Review weekly work