Mason's Minutes

Week of May 4 - 8

 

Culture Boxes

Students began working on their Culture Box with a partner in class. The items for the Outside of the Box are due Wednesday, May 6. Here are the directions:

Download Culture Box Guidelines

Homework: Current Event due Thursday, May 7.  Culture Boxes due Monday, May 11.

Week of April 27 - May 1

Monday, April 27

Students completed their Aboriginal Bark Cloth Activity.

Tuesday, April 28

 Rough draft of an acrostic poem on Australia.

Wednesday, April 29

Final copy of the Australia acrostic poem.

Thursday, April 30

Benchmark Test IV and videostream

Friday, May 1

Begin research for the Culture Box project

 

Week of April 20 - 24

We hope you can join us for Awtrey’s Family Night this Friday, April 24, from 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Enjoy a silent auction, craft fair, Awtrey student dance, family movie and food with other members of our school community!

 

CRCT Schedule

Date	Content Test
Tuesday, 4/21/09	Reading
Wednesday, 4/22/09	Language Arts
Thursday, 4/23/09	Math
Friday, 4/24/09	Science
Monday, 4/27/09	Social Studies

No Homework this week!

 

Week of March 30 - April 3

Monday, March 30

We started our study of Australia today. The students labeled a physical and political map in class.

Homework: None

BOOK CHECK WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1ST!!!  ALL STUDENTS MUST BRING THEIR TEXT BOOKS FOR A BOOK CHECK!!! 

Tuesday, March 31

We reviewed the maps and began working on the vocabulary words. The students were given class time to create Key Term Blocks for each vocabulary word (Word, definition, sentence, picture).

Homework: Key Term Blocks due Thursday. Bring Social Studies book to class for a book check tomorrow!

Wednesday, April 1

We watched a video stream about Australia and discussed the G-20 Summit going on in the United Kingdom today.

Homework: Key Term Blocks due tomorrow!

Thursday, April 2

We checked the Key Term Blocks today in class. Students explored the history and government of Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania. We had a brief discussion of the Commonwealth of Nations. We read pages 733 - 736 in the textbook and started on the Section Assessment on p. 736.

Homework: Section Assessment, p.736, # 2-4.

Week of March 23 - 27

Monday, March 23

Students took a Benchmark test today and began working on flash cards for the vocabulary words.

Homework:  March Current Event due Wednesday, March 25.

Tuesday, March 24

We reviewed the definitions to the vocabulary words. Students then began working on using each word in a sentence as it applies to Latin America.

Homework: March Current Event due tomorrow!!!

Wednesday, March 25

Students were given time in class to finish up their vocabulary sentences. They created a review game to go along with the vocabulary words.

Homework: Continue to review the vocabulary words and be prepared for a quiz on these words Friday.

Thursday, March 26

Students reviewed for the vocabulary quiz and took Benchmark IV pretest in class today.

Homework: Vocabulary quiz  tomorrow! STUDY!!!

Week of March 16 - 20

Monday, March 16

Students read and discussed Ch. 9 section 3. Ms Watson, who is a native Brazilian, spoke to each class about Brazil.

Homework:  Complete the bubble map drawn on the board.  Brazil is the center bubble and there shoud be 5 branching out bubbles with the following subjects : Regional leaders, Government, Culture, Economy, and People. 

Tuesday, March 17

We graded the Brazil bubble maps in class today. Students worked with a partner on the section assessment on page 247.

Homework: Finish the section assessment on p. 247 #1-3.

Wednesday, March 18

We reviewed the section about Brazil.  We viewed a power point introducing the Guerrilla movements and then began a reading about the Shining Path, "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly."

Homework: March Current Event due Wednesday, March 25.

Thursday, March 19

We discussed Peru's government and the Shining Path. Students filled out a graphic organizer about who or what helped democracy and things that hurt democracy in Peru.

Homework: March Current Event due Wednesday, March 25.

Friday, March 20

We reviewed the sheet about Eva Peron, "Santa Evita," and watched a videostream about her life.

Homework: March Current Event due Wednesday, March 25.

Week of March 9 - 13

Monday, March 9

We discussed the economy and culture of the Caribbean and Central America.

Homework: Section Assessment p. 213 # 1 - 3.

Tuesday, March 10

We graded the Section Assessment and watched a videostream about the cultures of the Caribbean and Central America.

Homework: Bring a poster board for an activity we will be working on in class the rest of the week.

Wednesday, March 11- Friday, March 13

Students began a Central America and Caribbean in class group project today.

Homework: Work on your aspect of the project. The project is due Monday.

Students will be allowed to work on their projects in class one more day.  Projects due Tuesday!  :))

 

Week of March 2 - 6

Monday, March 2

Students turned in their Liberator Projects today. Students focused on how through periods of reform and revolution, Mexico struggled to establish a strong democratic national government. They wrote 10 facts about our discussion today. (Textbook: pages 179 - 184)

Homework: Turn those facts you wrote into questions that can be answered with your facts.

Tuesday, March 3

Students read and discussed how the countries of Central America and the Caribbean moved from independence to recent times. Students wrote down 10 facts from Ch. 8 Sec. 1 (pgs. 203 - 207).

Homework: Create questions that the facts can answer.

Wednesday, March 4

Students read and discussed how the countries of South America moved from independence to recent times. Students wrote down 15 facts from Ch. 9 Sec. 1 ( pgs. 231 - 235).

Homework: Create questions that the facts can answer.

Week of February 23-27

Monday, February 23

Students attended the Performing Arts program today.

Homework: None

Tuesday, February 24

Today students were each given an article about a Latin American liberator.  They read and took notes over the article, then grouped with others and shared the notes they had collected.  We will continue this on Wednesday.

Homework:  None

Wednesday, February 25

Today we continued our study of the Latin American liberators, Miguel Hidalgo, Toussaint L'Ouverture, and Simon Bolivar. The students completed a graphic organizer about each one.

Homework: None

Thursday, February 26

The students began working on an in-class performance task using the Latin America graphic organizers they completed this week.

Homework: Bring pictures or other supplies needed for your Liberator activity.

Friday, February 27

We will continue working on the in-class assignment over the Latin America Liberators.

Homework: Final products are due Monday. Remember NO PENCIL on final copy!!!

Week of February 16 - 20

Monday, February 16

Student holiday - President's Day

Tuesday, February 17

Students reviewed the vocabulary with a powerpoint presentation. We then started on the Study Guide for the test.

Homework: Finish the Study Guide.     Test Thursday.

Wednesday, February 18

We reviewed the Study Guide and played a review game.

Homework: Test tomorrow! Study!!!

Thursday, February 19

Students turned in their notebook and took a test on the Land and History of Latin America.

Homework: None

Friday, February 20

Students created an invitation to celebrate the end of the "nothing" days using Maya, Aztec, and student created hieroglyphics.

Homework: The invitation assignment is for extra credit.