October 20-25

Students, I hope you are enjoying a great weekend! We missed a few of you this week, and we hope you'll be back to join class soon. Please keep up with your reading and studying for your test in Georgia Studies. Here is an agenda of activities for this week that we'll be working on.

For Georgia Studies:

OBJECTIVES:

SS8H2 The student will analyze the colonial period of Georgia’s history
c. Explain the development of Georgia as a royal colony with regard to regard to land ownership, slavery, government and the impact of the royal governor.

SS8H3 The student will analyze the role of Georgia in the American Revolution.
a. Explain the immediate and long term causes of the American Revolution and their
impact on Georgia including the French and Indian War (aka Seven Years War), Proclamation of 1763, Stamp Act, Intolerable Acts, and the Declaration of Independence.

Monday
Finish up our review of Chapter Four and take the end of the chapter test. The test will be open book.

Tuesday
Review the correct responses to Chapter Four and have group discussion about the events and important people introduced in this chapter. Students will select one important person to research about and prepare a report to inform their classmates about this person. Will finish on Wednesday if extra time is needed.

Wednesday
Finish reports on today. Students will complete Guided Reading covering Chapter Five(Section One)-"From Royalty to Independence" and discuss findings.
Thursday
Students will summarize Section One in class discussion. Students will work in collaborative pairs to complete activity, "The Adams Family Papers". Class will review answers in large group.
Friday
Students will complete activity, "Guided Reading, Chapter 5; Section 2" during class reading of their textbooks. Students will make flashcards for the word wall and participate in White Board Rapid Review.

Next week: CRCT Practice Questions and Test Strategies in GA Studies-OAS tests

FUN SITES:

memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/colonial/georgia/conclusn.html
Gives an actual narrative as to why the colony charter was returned

www.contemplator.com/america/index.html
Site contains music of the period

www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/gahistmarkers The Carl Vinson Institute’s website for Georgia historical markers

www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/
Website of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.

http://www.history.org/ Has an extraordinary program called “Mapping Colonial America”

www.historyglobe.com/jamestown
Contains an online game about the Jamestown colony

www.nationalcenter.org/LogCabin.html
Website contains an article on how a log cabin was built

www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/explorer.htm
Contains links to information on various European explorers

www.virtualjamestown.org/fhaccounts_desc.html
Contains links to source documents related to the Jamestown colony

http://www.wormsloe.org/ Home page for Wormsloe State Historic Site

ingeb.org/folksong.html
Website contains the lyrics to hundreds of songs

members.aol.com/TeacherNet/Revolutionarywar.html
A child-safe website with links to Revolutionary War websites.

teacher.scholastic.com/thanksgiving/
A website on the first Thanksgiving. Includes timeline and information about Plimoth Plantation in Massachusetts

http://www.earlyamerica.com/
Website on colonial America

www.kidinfo.com/American_History/American_Revolution.html
Contains a wealth of links to various sites about the American Revolution.

www.nps.gov/fofr/col_kids.htm
This page of the National Park Service’s site describes what life was like for children during the colonial period.

www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/
Liberty! The American Revolution, an online companion to a PBS series, this site contains wonderful, documented information on the Revolution.

xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/puritan/purhist.html Contains information on the Puritans

Preview Sites:

Ben's Guide to Government
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/6-8/government/branches.html

Branches of Georgia's Government
http://sos.georgia.gov/archives/tours/html/branches_of_government.html

Branches of Government-Game
http://www.usmint.gov/kids/games/branchesOfPower/


REVIEW TIMELINE

1540 Hernando de Soto began exploring Georgia

1566 Spanish mission of Santa Catalina founded on St. Catherines Island

1663 England claimed Georgia

1721 Fort King George built near Darien

1732 Georgia charter signed by King George II

1733 Oglethorpe and colonists arrived in Georgia

1739 War of Jenkins’s Ear

1742 Battle of Bloody Marsh

1752 Trustees returned colony to King George II

1754 John Reynolds became the first royal governor

1757 Henry Ellis named second royal governor

1760 James Wright appointed royal governor

1763 The Georgia Gazette became the first newspaper in the state

In ELA:
ELA8R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a
warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational
texts.
For informational texts, the student reads and comprehends in order to
develop understanding and expertise and produces evidence of reading that:
a. Analyzes and evaluates common textual features (e.g., paragraphs, topic sentences, concluding sentences, introduction, conclusion, footnotes, index, bibliography). b. Applies, analyzes, and evaluates common organizational structures (e.g., graphic organizers, logical order, cause and effect relationships, comparison and contrast).
ELA8RC3 The student acquires new vocabulary in each content area and uses
it correctly. The student
a. Demonstrates an understanding of contextual vocabulary in various subjects.
b. Uses content vocabulary in writing and speaking.
c. Explores understanding of new words found in subject area texts.
ELA8W1 The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and signals a satisfying closure. The student
a. Selects a focus, organizational structure, and a point of view based on purpose, genre expectations, audience, length, and format requirements.
b. Writes texts of a length appropriate to address the topic or tell the story.
c. Uses traditional structures for conveying information (e.g., chronological
order, cause and effect, similarity and difference, and posing and answering a
question). d. Uses appropriate structures to ensure coherence (e.g., transition elements, parallel structure). e. Supports statements and claims with anecdotes, descriptions, facts and statistics, and specific examples.

Monday
Finish up Reading Comprehension Questions on The Bully and have class discussions about questions.
Tuesday
Students will take STAR and AR tests on today. Students will print copy of their reading scores and take home to have parents sign.
Wednesday
Students will locate main idea and topic sentences in paragraphs given to them. Students may choose to work in collaborative pairs or large group with teacher guidance. Students will review paragraph organization and sentence structure, and inferencing.
Thursday
Students will continue working on paragraph organization and locating main idea and topic sentences in sample paragraphs. Students will complete activities that require them to construct complete sentences.
Friday
Students have earned enough class points in this block to have a "Movie Day"! They may choose to use this on today. Otherwise, we'll be playing review games in class such as GRAMMAR MANIA, GO TO PRESS, or other class games that reinforce ELA skills.

FUN SITES:
www.chompchomp.com
FUN GRAMMAR BYTES

http://www.storylineonline.net/index2.html
FAVORITE ACTORS READ ALOUD ONLINE

http://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/la-grammar.html
GRAMMAR GAMES AND REVIEW

PowerPoints
http://www.pppst.com/languagearts.html