Tuesday, February 3, 2015

REMINDERS
- Bring headphones for Advisory lesson tomorrow
- Elective Night for students and parents Feb. 26th
- Singing Valentines $3

Language Arts  
- in your Language Arts notebook, write down from "Joyas Voladoras"

• a sentence
• a phrase
• a word

that is important to make sense of the question: What Does Doyle mean when he says "So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment"? What is being held? How do you know this? How might this help us figure out his message?

For your sentence, phrase, and word, make sure you explain:

1. Why you chose the phrase or word.
2. How does it answer the question?

 
- NoRedInk Assignment #20: Clauses and Phrases due Mon. 2/9
 
Social Studies
- complete your Kushite Perspectives PowToon Project Search and Study for the questions you created from reading History Alive 10.2-10.5 by these links:

Websites for Reference	Videos for Reference
The History of Ancient Nubia Ancient Kingdom of Kush (Nubia) Kingdom of Kush The Kingdom of Kush Nubia Who are the Nubians?	The Kush Empire Nubia the Forgotten Kingdom (Part 1) Nubia the Forgotten Kingdom (Part 2) Nubia the Forgotten Kingdom (Part 3) Nubia the Forgotten Kingdom (Part 4) Nubia the Forgotten Kingdom (Part 5) Nubia the Forgotten Kingdom (Part 6)

 

- continue reading the various articles on Egypt and Kush — pace yourself to read one article each day — there will be a reading quiz this Thursday in which you will have access to the articles (but you don't want to be reading them for the first time during the quiz!) 
Civilizations of the Nile pg. 67-68
The Wonders of the Pyramids pg. 69-74
What Was Inside a Pyramid? pg. 75-78
The Finding of the Tomb pg. 79-81
Multitudes of Gods pg. 82-85
The Other Half of History: The Women of Ancient Egypt pg. 86-90
Kush —The Nubian Kingdom pg. 91-94
Astronomy and Timekeeping pg. 95-98      

Math 6
Decimal Practice Quiz
Headphones
Snowman project due Wed. 
Test Corrections with Parent signature

Quizzle - Friday

Math 6/7
Robot
Test with corrections and signatureMind Bender - Friday

Science
RAFT recording sheet
Read Chapter 9.1 and Questions 1-5 in complete sentences

Exploratory (Oliveira)
No Homework

Exploratory (Sun)
- start learning more about the iOS iMovie by:
watching a video tutorial on the basics
reading the "How To" sections from the Apple website