J. Holmes 2014
To
Today’s Target
Essential Question: How do humans impact our Earth and what can we do?
W11
Week of: October 19-23 Words of Week: Arable and Urbanization Name:____________________
Target: I can prepare for my SLC
Monday
Prove it!
SLC PREP – Portfolios Ready
and Reflection Questions
Finish Earth’s Forces
Foldable?
Tuesday
-FINISH FOLDABLE
-Junior Scholastic Article –
Deforestation
Brazil: Saving the
Amazon!
http://www.scholastic.com/
browse/article.jsp?id=3757155
conference with my parents. I will be
able to reflect on the positive parts of
my first quarter of 6th grade at Walnut
Springs and examine one area I have
room for improvement.
Target: I can explain two negative
impacts deforestation has on our
environment.
Geo/Places & Regions/3
PORTFOLIO ORGANIZED
ROUGH DRAFT REFLECTIONS
ISLAND
ON
FRONT
OF
PORTFOLIO
Prove it!
1.
2.
HW: Schoology Online
After Reading
Assignment
Wednesday
SLC Prep Finalized
Portfolios Organized
Final Copy of Reflection
Earth’s Forces Foldable
Island on front of Portfolio.
HW: Come to one session
of SLC’s
Thursday
Student Led Conferences
Friday
Target: I can identify my goal for
second quarter or the rest of the year
for academic success at Walnut
Springs.
Prove it!
Target:
Prove it!
Student Led Conferences
Student Led Conferences
Target:
Prove it!
No School
No School
Arable-(adjective) land
that is good for farming,
agriculture or the growing
of crops.
Illustration of Arable land:
Words of the Week
The Village was glad to find a region that had arable land.
Your turn to create a sentence (arable).
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Urbanization (noun) When
cities grow in size and
expand in rural areas.
The population of urban areas continues to increase,
causing the city to grow in size. When urbanization occurs,
cities expand into rural areas, taking away arable land.
Illustrate how cities grow
larger, by using the target
we discussed in class. You
can use the space to the
right.