Homework for Week of January 31st.

Day	3rd	5th	7th
Monday
Tuesday	Braille Words	Braille Words	Math Test II MWG Ch. 14
Wednesday	Spelling Sentences Report Topic Due	Spelling Sentences Report Topic Due	Lesson 52 MP Report Topic Due
Thursday	Practice Spelling Test CE Journal	Practice Spelling Test Math Test I CE Journal	CE Journal Lesson 53 MP
Next Week	Third and Fifth post Dragon Description paragraph by Monday morning, Feb 7 with picture or give it to me by Thursday Feb 4 rewritten so that I can type it in for you remember to include a picture. (for Kym)	Third and Fifth post Dragon Description paragraph by Monday morning, Feb 7 with picture or give it to me by Thursday Feb 4 rewritten so that I can type it in for you remember to include a picture. (For Kym)	Seventh Graders post descriptive paragraph by Monday morning, Feb 7 with picture (For Kym)

Ann's Assignment for Febuary Third

Assignment for Thursday, February 3


Across, chapter 11, Lesson 1 pages 280-288.
"Life of St. Francis of Assisi" pages 1-6 (stop at end of 1st paragraph on 6).

Now we are moving away from the non-religious (secular) life of the middle ages,
         with castles protecting lords, knights, ladies, and peasants on one side         
         and medieval towns on the other, with merchants, traders, craftspeople, and peasants coming to market.

We are turning to a somewhat separate but very important part of medieval life, the life of the Christian church. We will look at it from two very different sides
         1) the church as a center of wealth and power, symbolized by the great cathedrals and their treasures
         (as well as by the great monasteries with their libraries of carefully copied books and manuscripts, treasuries of          knowledge)
         2) the church as a center of belief in a higher and better world
         beyond life, where after death god would reward those who were faithful and good

In the life of St. Francis, we will see the contrast and sometimes the conflict between these two sides.

NOTE THAT WEEK AFTER NEXT WE WON’T MEET ON THURSDAY, BUT ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7. THE ASSIGNMENT WILL BE SHORTER FOR THAT SHORT WEEK (THURSDAY TO MONDAY) AND THERE WILL BE MORE READING AND A BRIEF WRITING ASSIGNMENT FOR THE WEEK AFTER (FEB. 7 TO FEB. 17—10 DAYS). Try not to get TOO confused!

Homework for week of Jan 24th

Day	3rd	5th	7th
Monday
Tuesday	Build Wordsearch Finish Math	Build Wordsearch
Wednesday	Solve Wordsearch Chapter 10- JGP	Solve Wordsearch Chapter 10- JGP Lesson 46 All.	Investigation 5 Chapter 13 MWG
Thursday	POW Journal Spelling Sentences	POW Journal Spelling Sentences	POW Journal Paper for Ann Due
Next Week

Homework For Week of 1/17/2011

Day	3rd	5th	7th
Monday
Tuesday	Columbus Write up from Malachi Build Wordsearch One Page Cursive	Build Wordsearch One Page Cursive	Chapter Eight MWG
Wednesday	Solve Wordsearch	Solve Wordsearch Lesson 44	Mixed Practice Lesson 47 Chapter 10 MWG
Thursday	CE (one minute) Journal Spelling Sentences	CE (one minute) Journal Spelling Sentences Lesson 45	CE (one minute) Journal Lesson Practice 48, 49, 50. Ch 11 MWG
Next Week			Paper for Ann Due

Ann's Assignments for the next few weeks

Assignment for Thursday, January 20


Across, Chapter 10, Lesson 2, 269-70 and Lesson 3, 271-274.

Reading: Marie de France on Knightly Love:
"Laustic, The Nightingale" and the first part of "Eliduc" pages 8-9 and down to end of second pgph on 1st half of page 10 (we'll mark it, so you won't be confused).

Coming writing assignment: on knightly life and hierarchy in feudal culture. Due January 27.




Reading for Thursday, January 27

Finish the tale of Eliduc.


Your writing assignment, due Thursday, January 27:

Two type-written double spaced pages (12 pt. type).

Use as your source Across the Centuries and the tale of Eliduc.

On your first page, describe the career of a very lucky and skillful knight. (Don't forget that knights depend on those higher in the hierarchy.) On the second page, describe the careers of less lucky or skillful knights—what bad things would tend to happen to them?

Homework for Week of 1/10/11

Day	3rd		5th			7th
Monday
Tuesday Also, 7th graders have a 5 paragraph rough draft due to Kym for edit and then after edit, it should be posted with a picture on your blog. 5th graders have an eight sentence paragraph first draft due. After edit, they should be posted with a picture on your blog. 3rd graders are done.	Colored Dates Malachi 1530 1630 1670 1680 1720 1790 1800 Make Word search	Colored Dates Alisha: 1490 1540 1580 1620 1700 1760 1770 1840 Make Word search	Colored Dates Lenin: 1610 1550 1610 1650 1740 1820 1830 1850 Make Word search	Colored Dates Presley: 1520 1560 1570 1590 1660 1730 1780 Make Word search	Colored Dates Jonathan 1500 1600 1640 1690 1710 1750 1810 Make Word search	Bonnie description due tomorrow. All descriptions due tomorrow. Finishing reading Ch. 5.
Wednesday	Cursive, Finish Page Need to have wordsearch		Cursive, Finish Page Need to have wordsearch			Lesson Practice Lesson 46. All. Mixed Practice 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 17, 21, 25, 29, 30. Maddy and Emi fix work. Monkey Wrench Gang Ch. 6
Thursday	POW Journal Work on History mini report solve word search Spelling Word Sentences		POW Journal Work on history mini report solve word search Spelling Word Sentences Lesson 43 lesson practice			Percentages Math Sheet. Circle unknown problems.  POW Journal MWG ch. 7
Next Week	Six Sentences for Kym		Eight Sentences for Kym			Five Paragraphs for Kym

Instructions for Kym's writing assignment:

Ideally your rough draft will be almost done during class

Hand in to me Thursday or send to me Friday

I’ll have edits back to you by Saturday night.

Make corrections and post with a picture before class Tuesday morning.

Monkey Wrench Gang Assignment For Monday The 10th

On Monday, I would like to have, in my hand, descriptions of Smith, Hayduke and Sarvis. Two can be drawn, two can be written. I would also like for you to have read chapter four, about B. Abbzug. We will do her description next week.

Have a good weekend. Don't read ahead!

Ann's Assignment For Jan 12

Assignment for Thursday, January 13

Across the Centuries, Chapter 10, Lesson 2, pages 262-268. (We'll read the rest of the chapter next week.)

Reading in "Medieval Readings," pages 1-5, including "Introduction" (pg. 1), "Legend of Roland" (pg. 2), Song of Roland (Rollanz, pg. 3-5).

7th Grade History Guidelines

History Illustrated Timeline

Pick the things during your time period that you think are important for your timeline. All major events should be represented. I am less worried about presidents (aside from the “important” ones) but would like to see things like statehoods, massacres, wars, and other sociopolitical incidents. Each entry should have a summary of what happened, why it was important then, and what impact it has on modern America. Each entry should also have an illustration. These illustrations can be hand drawn, or from an other source. At least half of the entries should be original artwork from you.

Seventh Grade. I expect this timeline to be fairly comprehensive, encompassing most of the important events in American history between 1850 and the present day. I would like to see events more or less evenly spaced throughout the timeline. This is an area of history that you have not studied yet, so I expect that you will have to do some research on what will need to be included in your timeline. If you have questions on where to find information please come and see me, and I can point you in the correct direction.

Since you three will be working on this more or less independent from the rest of the class I expect that you will have questions. Please come and talk to me about any questions you have. I will outline here more or less what I think would be a good pattern of study. First, outline what happened in this time period. The best way to do this would be to split the period in to three, then assign each chunk to a different person to research. Bring this summery to your next meeting. Next, split up the important topics that you have discovered among you. I would encourage you to pick events for yourself throughout the entire time period, rather than just the part you initially researched. The most involved part will be researching the events you have picked for the timeline. Be sure to maintain some perspective on these issues, so that you can complete all of your topics in time. Here is a rough outline of what your time looks like.

Wednesday 5 January	You meet. Divide up time period to research important events. DUE: List of who is doing what time period.
Monday 10 January	Meet. Have list of all important events for the entire time period. DUE: That list.
Wednesday 12 January	Begin to divide up events among yourselves. Begin research.
Monday 17 January	Construct actual timeline. May want to talk to me about how you are going to do this. Due: Write up of at least three events each.
Wednesday 19 January	Continue research. Should be finishing topics in a timely manner.
Monday 24 January	Finishing up. Due, All write ups, in final form. Rough drafts need to come in as they are completed.
Wednesday 26 January	Final Presentation.

Current Event Guidelines

Here are the guidelines for the current event assignment that will be due on Thursday, every two weeks.

Current Events

In place of having Problem of the Week some weeks, we will be doing Current Events. For this assignment, you will pick out a current news article from a newspaper, magazine, or reputable online source. If you don't know what a reputable online source is come see me and I will tell you. Using this article you will create a two to four minute oral presentation, as well as a brief written summery. Your summery should be about the following length. Third Grade: A few sentences to a paragraph. Fifth Grade: Paragraph to half a page. Seventh Grade: Half a page to a full page. This can be typed. I would prefer this to be typed. At some point it may become mandatory that you type this.

These current event reports will be introduced on Monday. They will be due on Thursday. You can pick any sort of event, from world news to local events. Your written and oral reports should include the following elements.

Everyone

• Title of article
• Location of event. Be able to locate on map.
• What happened? What is the article about?

Fifth and Seventh

• Why is this article important? Why did the news agency choose to run this article?
• Does this event affect us here in Salmon Creek? Could it? How?

• Is there a bias? Does the person writing the article have a point of view or an opinion?
• What more do you want to know?

Seventh

• If you had written this article what would you have changed?

Homework for Week of January 3rd

	3rd	5th	7th
Monday
Tuesday	Alisha, Math sheet, Chapter One GMM	Kym Writing	Lesson 41 Selected problems from Mixed Practice
Wednesday	Alisha, Read GMM at least 1/2 Hour	Lesson 41 all	Profile or Picture of Dr. Sarvis. Lesson 43 Selected Problems From Mixed Practice
Thursday	Current Event Journal Malachi, Finish Math Alisha read GMM 1/2 hour	Current Event Journal Lesson 42 Lesson Practice, every other starting with A Mixed Practice All	Current Event Journal Profile or Picture of George Washington Hayduke III Ann's Reading  Next Week: See Ann's Assignment Also, Monkey Wrench Gang assignment.