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This Homework Sheet is for the next week. Ski/Snowboard Club starts on Tuesday. Non-skiers should be prepared
to walk to the Youth Center to swim (appropriate shoes, coat, hat, swim suit, $2 for swimming). This Homework
Tracking Sheet is due Monday, January 30 (B/O Thursday, February 2) for Academic Skills credit.
History
Define vocabulary words from the Glossary on page 95 in your own words in your Language Arts Reference Guide.
Locate two sentences that contain the word from the text and copy these underneath your definitions. Make sure
and use quotation marks. Reference Pearson History and Geography (PHG) and the paragraph and page number.
This needs to be started now in preparation for a vocabulary test at the end of the unit on Ancient Greece and
Rome.
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Study Guides have been handed out for our new unit on Ancient Greece and Rome. Students should complete
these as they read through the material. Students are responsible for knowing this information.
Students should read “Alexander and the Hellenistic Period” (pages 69 – 72) and answer the following question in
writing using what they know about good paragraph structure. Students should write at least five sentences. There
will be class time on Monday, January 23, to get started on this. Due Wednesday, 1/25 (B/O Friday 1/27).
1) Why was Alexander’s conquest of much of the world so significant?
We will watch the beginning of Julius Caesar. Students will generate a list of character traits in the LA Reference
Guides under “C” and an entry defining character qualities or traits. Clues to a character’s traits or qualities are the
details of how that character acts, feels, and looks. With each trait, students are to supply evidence (details of how
the character acts, feels, and looks) why they think this is so. The graphic organizer should have a column for
trait/quality and evidence. See the example below which uses the wolf from The Three Little Pigs:
Character Traits/Qualities
Fury and brown
Hungry/Ravenous
Cocky/Certain of his strategy
Evidence
Illustration in book
Eating one pig isn’t enough!
Tells each pig how he is going to blow his house down
The first characters to create charts for are young Julius Caesar, Cato, Cornelia, Pompey, and Sulla. Leave room to
add more traits as the movie progresses.
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Art and History
The alternative assessment for our study of Ancient Greece and Rome is student-created Greco-Roman friezes.
Students will select a Greek or Roman God, Goddess, Hero, and Heroine, and tell a story about their figure in words
and images. Students will have four art periods to do this. In addition, students may use Library work periods and
Wednesday afternoon Study Hall time to research their stories. Friezes, along with written captions, are due
Thursday, February 2.
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Science
Read “Drifting Continents” (pages 136-140) and complete purple Guided Reading packet (due 1/23 BO 1/25).
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Science Fair is Friday, January 27. Students should press on! Required elements for Science Fair are display boards
(we will have lots of class time to work on these), lab reports, and research papers. Students should have
completed all experimentation and be putting the final pieces together on their lab reports and research papers.
Any student who has not completed his/her presentation board will need to take the board home Wednesday
(1/25) and bring it the next day (1/26).
Students will turn in a copy of their research essays and lab reports to me on Thursday, January 26. Students will
need an additional copy of their research essays and lab reports without their names for Science Fair.
Math
Bits & Pieces II ACE Homework section 2, problems 19 -27, 45 – 47, 50 due Wednesday, 1/25. We will be doing
Investigation 2.4 in class on Monday, 1/23. Any incomplete portions become homework.
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Bits & Pieces II ACE Homework section 2 class work, homework, and mathematical reflection questions are due
Thursday, 1/26. There will be class time for answering the mathematical reflection questions on Wednesday
1/25.
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Bits & Pieces II ACE Homework section 3, problems 1 – 5, 36, 37 due Monday 1/30. We will be doing Investigation
3.1 in class on Thursday, 1/26. Any incomplete portions become homework.
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Students should begin defining terms for Bits & Pieces II.
Vocabulary for Bits & Pieces II is:
Algorithm
Fact family
Mathematical sentence
Overestimate
Reciprocal
Underestimate