Geography homework, Tuesday, February 24, 2015

In your notebook, provide a written summary of Alice's and Flora's life and choices in paragraph form. This is rough draft writing. Be prepared to share in class tomorrow. No homework slip is necessary.

Geography class work and homework for February 10-12, 2015

There is no written homework this week. The 6th grade is participating in (and overseeing school-wide) a bookmark making challenge meant to create as many of these thoughtful handmade gifts as possible. This bookmark-athon is also raising awareness about and funds for students struggling to learn to read and having access to appropriate reading materials in places like Peru, Latin America and Mali, Africa. 

Classwork and homework this week centers around making bookmarks. Students should bring their creative ideas for bookmark making into their geography classes on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. We will also work to create them with our 2nd grade buddies during our inquiry block on Friday afternoon. 

Students: share our project with your families (definitely do it) and make extra bookmarks at home (only if you want to).  

Parents: ask your students about the details of this unique 'pay it forward' community service project. 

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Geography class work and homework for February 3 - 6, 2015

Class work and homework for Tuesday - Friday, February 3-6, 2015

1. Pay special attention to the expectations and text feature example provided on your direction sheet.

2. You should be reading and re-reading the seven brief overviews of Africa and Eastern Africa.

3. Annotate (make written connections to the text) with each overview.

4. As you read and make connections to the text, consider a text feature (visual and written interpretation of written information) that would best enhance (offer a deeper understanding of the text) the content of each overview.

5. Create a rough draft example of your chosen text feature in your notebook. With time, create rough drafts text features for each of the seven overviews.

6. On-task time commitments:

    In class - 95% of the time or better

    Homework - spend 20-30 minutes making further progress each night

 

 

7. In class on Thursday:

   *  Continue to refer to all available classroom resources during this activity

   *  Finish your annotations and text feature rough drafts for all seven overviews.

   *  Follow the directions on the text feature rubric sheet you receive. Choose one (more    

     than one with time) text feature to convert from a rough to a final draft.