Friday, September 2, 2011

September 2, 2011

ALL CLASSES! TIMELINES ARE DUE ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH! INDEPENDENT READING STARTS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6! PLEASE BRING YOUR INDEPENDENT CHOICE BOOK TO CLASS TUESDAY TO REGISTER THEM WITH ME.

Block I
We spent time in the Computer Lab working on writing our paragraphs for the personal timeline assignment. We also began our first Social Studies unit, American Beginnings, looking at Native American Cultural Groups. Due to the assembly, we will revisit this topic on Tuesday.

Block 2
We spent time in the Computer Lab working on writing our paragraphs for the personal timeline assignment.All students received a Personal Timeline Scoring rubric - these are also available on my website.

Block 3
We worked on writing paragraphs in the Computer Lab - remember, a minimum of 4-5 sentences for our personal paragraphs and 2-3 for the historical paragraphs - and those paragraphs should be polished! In Social Studies, we learned about the origins of native population groups in North and South America, and finished with an analysis of Native American Cultural groups.