January 26, 2009

Social Studies: Bring in civil rights leader book. Complete one of the parts you have been assigned (by your group) for your museum display. (Directions for museum display below)

Museum Display Guidelines
GOAL: Create a museum display about the Northeast. Choose people, places, and events to include in your display. Write brief reports about the people, places, and events. Create at least two artifacts, drawings, timelines, maps and journal entries to go with your reports.
Step 1
Brainstorm ideas about how you will design your museum display. For example, will it be in chronological order?

Step 2
Work together to decide what information your groups wants to show in your museum.

Step 3
Use your research to think of creative ways to show the information to visitors, use maps, drawings, models, time lines, quotes.

Step 4
Organize your items in the museum display in a design. Make sure that information is easy to understand.

Step 5
Take turns reviewing the groups work. Are all the facts correct? Is everything labeled?

Topics that must be included:
THE NORTHEAST
LESSON 1/pages 110-114
1. Map of the Northeast (labeled)
2. Geography of the Northeast
3. Climate of the northeast
4. How people use the natural resources of this area
LESSON 2/pages 116-121
5. Description of the early people of the northeast (how did the survive, how did they get along)
6. Explain how the colonies of the Northeast were formed
7. Explanation of the Northeast role in the American Revolution
8. Timeline of the history of the Northeast
9. Analyze the time line (explain some of the events)
10. Explain the history of the Declaration of Independence (how did we form our nation?)
LESSON 3/pages 126-131
11. Explain how transportation evolved in the Northeast and how they improved the area
12. Describe the changes that immigration made to the Northeast
13. Describe in detail the industrial revolution
THE NORTHEAST TODAY
LESSON 1/pages 138-142
14. Explain how New England’s history shaped life there today.
15. How did people in New England use their natural resources.
LESSON 2/146-151
16. Identify the major cities in the Middle Atlantic States.
17. Display the benefits and challenges of city life (draw a picture of the good and bad of living in a city)

LA: Finish pages 39-41 in cursive. WRiting applications on page 39 and 41 Both must be done!! Brain map for "Why I want to be a......"

Science: Complete scientific method experiment sheet.

Reading: No Homework

Math Kapetanis 1: Workbook Page 56 #1-13

Math Kapetanis 2: Workbook Page 72 odd numbers on the top half

Math Grifo:Drill sheet 8x8 and 8x7