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.