11/9/09 7th Grade Social Studies-Montgomery
Classwork:We went over how to find countries government using the textbook in class today. We covered page 12 only of the, The Legitimacy of Democratic Government. We also spent some time on some word decoding tricks that is used to recognize words that you know in your listening and speaking vocabulary. We will use these tricks to decode words in our reading.
Homework: read pages 13 and 14 of the Legitimacy of Democratic Government.
11/9/09 7th Grade Social Studies- Lipscomb/Montgomery
Essential Question: How does the population change the geography of the land around us?
Learning Objective: Describe and locate physical features of Africa. Students will recognize the environmental issues surrounding these locations and how population growth effects the land.
Classwork:Power Point on the Africa in class today. You were given a graphic organizer to complete by tomorrow using pages 496-501 in you textbook. Also you to label the climate regions of Africa on the map given to you.
Homework: Finish your graphic organizer for 496-501 and the map on the climate regions. This is due tomorrow. You were also given vocabulary terms to work on, please try to complete as soon as possible.
9/09/09 7th Grade Social Studies-Smith/Montgomery
Essential Question: How does the population change the geography of the land around us?
Learning Objective: Describe and locate physical features of Africa. Students will recognize the environmental issues surrounding these locations and how population growth effects the land.
Classwork: Finished up our stations on the physical features of Africa.
Homework:
Monday, November 9 - Answer the following question on a sheet of notebook paper in five sentences or more: "Why Should We Study the Continent of Africa?"
Wednesday, November 11 - Read and answer questions to handout "Women Bear the Weight of Water"
Thursday, November 12 - Current Event due tomorrow! Be sure to find a current event on Africa, write complete sentences, and follow the current event format!
6th Grade Social Studies- Ross/Montgomery
Essential Question: Explain how the collapse of the Soviet Union led to the end of the Cold War and German reunification.
Learning Goal: The student will describe major developments in Europe during the 20th century.
Classwork:We took the pre-test for Political and Economic Systems of Europe and Canada. Once you completed the test, you were to read pages 394-397 .
Homework: Copy the chart on page 397 in your textbook and complete it, You listing characteristic of Germany as a divided country than as a reunified country.