This Week in Core:  Maya 





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HOMEROOM

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HOMEROOM

Tanzanian Orphans
  HOMEROOM

Organize your backpack
HOMEROOM

Game Day
LANGUAGE

Grammar begins!  Diagnostic ch. 1.
Your prescription.
Sentence parts.

Completed "Me" Brochure due  Wednesday, Sept. 10.
LANGUAGE

Grammar 1.1 p. 6: complete subject & predicate.
1.2 p. 8: simple subject. 
Work on GUM 1-6.
LANGUAGE

Turn in ME Brochure!

Grammar 1.3 p. 10: simple predicate.
Work on GUM 1-9.
LANGUAGE

Language Centers
LANGUAGE

Language Centers
HISTORY

Maya simulation.
Trading Day 4 kan.
Reading Notes 23.4: Family Life (History Alive p. 264-265, HWB 163 handout)

HW: Complete, cut and paste into HNB, due Tuesday.
Title Page & HNB due Friday.
HISTORY

Maya simulation.
Trading Day 5 chikchan.
2nd Sacrifice Day!
Reading notes 23.5: Religious Beliefs & Practices (History Alive p. 266-267, HWB 164)

HW: Complete, cut and paste into HNB, due Wednesday

HISTORY

Maya simulation.
Trading Day 6 kimi.
Reading notes 23.6: Agricultural Techniques (History Alive p. 268, HWB 165)

HW: Complete, cut and paste into HNB, due Thursday.
HISTORY

Chapter 23 Review:
Achievements of the Maya
The Decline of the Maya (History Alive p. 269)

HW: Maya Museum handout.  Complete, cut and paste into HNB, due Friday.
Title Page & HNB due Friday.
HISTORY

History Chapter 23 Test (Click here for Study Guide): the Maya.

Turn in HNB today.  How to complete the self-evaluation.
LITERATURE

Independent Reading Plan
Go to library to choose a biography

Get parent & teacher approval of your choice by Wednesday.
LITERATURE

Anne Frank

November 10, 1942  ** Taking in an 8th person.
November 17  ** Mr. Dussel (Fritz Pfeffer) arrives.
November 19, 20   Dussel describes bad conditions for Jews.
November 28  Dussel & family are critical of Anne.  


LITERATURE

Anne Frank

December 10, 1942  * Making sausages;  Mrs. VD’s dental exam.
December 22  Butter for Christmas;  Mr. Dussel’s noisy exercises.
January 13, 1943  ** Terrible misery outside.  We are luckier than most.
January 30  ** Boiling with rage at criticisms
LITERATURE

Anne Frank

March 25, 1943  **Burglars attempt to break into warehouse.
March 27  Studying; Nazis declare that Jews must be “cleaned out.”
April 2  ** Anne refuses to pray with Mother.
 
NO Quiz tomorrow  
LITERATURE

 
 
Continue Anne video.
puzzle.gifToday's Secret Question: What is the meaning of today's Mayan day "kan"?
questions.gifToday's Secret Question:  What events provided a break from the peasants' farm work? See p.264. puzzle.gifToday's Secret Question:  What is Mr. Dussel's valuable skill?  questions.gifToday's Secret Question: What agricultural technique did the Maya use on steep mountainsides?  puzzle.gifToday's Secret Question: What do a potato, a hurricane, and a target have in common? 
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THE HOMEWORK BOARD
due Tuesday 
  • HISTORY: Family Life HWB 163 handout. Complete, cut and paste into HNB.
due Wednesday 
  • HISTORY: Mayan Religion HWB 164. Complete, cut and paste, or write directly in HNB.
  • LANGUAGE: Completed "Me" Brochure
due Thursday
  • HISTORY: Agricultural Techniques HWB 165. Complete, cut and paste into HNB.
due Friday 
  • HISTORY: Test on Maya ch. 23.
  • HISTORY: Maya Museum handout.  Complete, cut and paste into HNB.  Title Page due.  Turn in HNB.
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 Fundamental Social Studies Vocabulary
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