October 19-23, 2009

Hi, Students,
Take time to go online and use the blog to practice your grammar and vocabulary. Here's a fun FUN VOCABULARY GAME at http://www.quia.com/jg/412144.html to help you study about Colonial Georgia. For fun playing with maps go to http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/maps/atlas/puzzles.html
Parents and students remember that there'll be no school October 23rd. Mark your calendars.
See you in class! :)
Ms. Holden

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English Language Arts

Monday
Warm UP
Identify adverbs in the sentences on the board.
GPS ELA8R2
Lesson:
Ex. 10 Identifying adverbs that modify other adverbs
Task
Cooperative Practice Review C
Closer
Rapid Review

Tuesday
Warm UP
Identify the adverbs in the sentences on the board.
GPS ELA8R2
Lesson
List commonly used prepositions and define PREPOSITION using graphic organizer.
Task
Ex. 11 Guided Grammar Practice identifying prepositions
Closer
Homework Preview-Identifying Prepositions

Wednesday
Warm UP
List 25 prepositions in your notebook.
GPS ELA8R2
Lesson
Review Prepositions and Introduce Prepositional Phrases (p. 68)
Guied Grammar Practice Ex. 12
Task
Rewrite sentences demonstrating differences between adverbs and prepositions.
Ex. 13 Independent practice
Closer
Homework Practice and Review

Thursday
Warm UP
Identify the part of speech of the highlighted word in the sentences on the board.
GPS ELA8R2
Lesson
3 column graphic organizer on CONJUNCTIONS.
Task
Cooperative practice ex. 14
Independent practice-Grammar Workbook
Closer
Rapid Review

Friday
NO SCHOOL TODAY

Next week:


Monday
Warm UP
Identify prepositional phrases from sentences on the board.
GPS ELA8R2
Lesson
Identifying Interjections-Review of Ivan Capp mneumonic
Task
Ex. 15 Identifying Interjections
Closer
Review D-p. 73-Whiteboards


Tuesday
Warm UP
Review D-p. 73
GPS ELA8R2
Lesson:
Review E and Review F Guided and Independent practice
Task
TEST on Ch 3 today
AR Reading
Closer
Rapid Review
ELA Online Resources:
www.readwritethink.org
http://www.quia.com/ba/112587.html
http://www.quia.com/jg/65832.html
http://www.quia.com/quiz/265261.html
http://www.quia.com/rr/124861.html
www.chompchomp.com

Georgia Studies

Monday
Warm UP
Ch 5 Test questions in CRCT format on the board
GPS
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.
Lesson
Tories, Patriots, boycott, Proclamation of 1763, Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Liberty Boys, Townshend Acts, and Quartering Act.
Task
Guided Reading Ch 5 Section 3
Closer
It's Your turn questions
Review together in class. Classwork left undone should be completed for homework.


Tuesday
Warm UP
Ch 5 Test Questions in CRCT format.
GPS:SS8H3
Mini Lesson
Students will view the video-Georgia Stories II Video 1 Program 3: Colonial Georgia, Part 2 Story 3: Georgia’s Oldest Business
Students will answer ocmprehension questions about what they viewed in the Colonial Georgia video.
Closer
QUIZSHOW

Wednesday
Warm UP
CRCT Review Questions
GPS SS8H3
Lesson-Read together the "Adams Family Papers" and discuss the significance of these to our early history.
Task
Complete "Where did it happen?" and "Filling in the details" activities collaboratively.
Closer
Rapid Review-Vocabulary Activities
Homework-"Revolutionary War Sites" Map Activity

Thursday
Warm UP
CRCT Review Questions
GPS SS8H3
Lesson
Complete "So They Said" in class with large group.
Task
Complete "Who Am I?" activity collaboratively in small groups.
Closer
Quiz Show or Match that Quote on Whiteboards

Friday
NO SCHOOL TODAY

GA Online Resources:
Chapter 5 - From Royalty to Independence, 1752 - 1783
Hyperlinks

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

www.earlyamerica.com
Website on colonial America

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

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


www.unitedstreaming.com