Thursday, August 30
Remember that your “All About Me” worksheet is due Friday
1. Turn in your parent letter on my desk if you
did not yesterday.
2:Update your Table of Contents
Date
Title
8/27
8/27
8/29
8/30
8/30
Entry #
First Day of School Notes
Off the Wall Scavenger Hunt
Mapping Physiographic Features of the U.S.
United States: Physical Map
European Exploration and Colonization Timeline
3. Turn to entry #3 (Don’t start until I tell you to!!)
1
2
3
4
5
Pair Work:
Conversation: Discuss activity with your partner. Conversation should
only be about the assigned task.
Help: 1. read the instructions again. 2. Look in your reference materials
(binder). 3. Discuss your question with your partner. Then raise your
hand or come to my desk for my help but continue working.
Activity: Completed written responses in complete sentences (not just
answers). Ex. The Atlantic Ocean is the …
Movement: May get out of seat to sharpen pencil or to come to my
desk to get another slip/picture without permission.
Participation: Sit up. Work only on assigned task. BOTH partners
working together, sharing ideas, contributing, and focused on the
assigned task. No personal conversations.
What do I do now?
Directions:
1. Finish the geography questions from yesterday
Maps to Use: Desk map, page A8 and A9 in the blue textbooks
2. After you have answered all the questions you will come to
me to get a blank map. You will then label and color code all
your answers. Glue this in your spiral. It is entry #4
Blue = water
Brown = Mountains
Green = Cape Cod
3. Copy the timeline on entry #5. Choose 4 to illustrate
#5
1497
Cabot searches for
the Northwest
Passage
1585
First English
colony settled at
Roanoke
Cortez
conquers Mx
1521
1565
Hudson searches for the
Northwest Passage
Spanish found
St. Augustine
1609
European Exploration and
Colonization
Jamestown
founded
1607
1620
Pilgrims landed
at Plymouth
Puritans found Massachusetts
Bay Colony
1630