ELA & SOCIAL STUDIES- Gr. 7 & 8

I  recommend that all students have at least two pencil cases for storage.  Please send your child with a water bottle as our room is very warm.

COVER ALL BOOKS!

3rd Quarter

HW for 2/3:  Complete Lyddie charts for 13 and 14

HW for 2/4:  Sign and correct ELA test and complete chapter 5 chart on Lyddie

HW for 2/5:  Complete Lyddie questions for ch.14  Social Studeis work is due on Monday with test on Tuesday

HW for 2/6:  ELA questions for Lyddie ch. 14 (two charts from the board)

HW for 2/11:  Complete Making Inferences Worksheet + sign and correct social studies test

HW for 2/14:  Correcting inferencing worksheet

HW for 2/24:  S.S. work for CH.10 due on Thursday.  Chapter Charts for the rest of Lyddie due on Friday

HW for 3/10:  Complete essay on your life in the Netherlands.  Grading will be focused on punctuation

TO STUDENTS & PARENTS:  
The following work is for the week of school that we are closed:  March 16-March 20.  While students can work at their own pace, I am recommending which lessons are to be done on which day.  If you have any questions please email and I will get back to you in a timely fashion.

FOR ALL SOCIAL STUDIES SECTIONS WORK:
1.  Include 6 word main ideas for the section.
2.  Complete all skill work for each section
3.  Complete all lesson review questions
ALL WORK FOR SOCIAL STUDIES SHOULD BE DO ON LOOSE LEAF


MONDAY:  
Readworks:  Jackie Robinson
For all readworks, please add the following questions
1.  What is the author's point of view?
2.  What is the main idea and draw a graphic organizer stating evidence that supports your main idea?
3.  Identify types and examples of figurative language in the story.
4.  What is the author's purpose?
5.  Citing evidence, describe 2 themes in the story

Complete Point of View Worksheet #3

Social Studies Work:
Chapter 11, Lesson #2

TUESDAY:
1.  Complete Reading Like a Historian on Lewis & Clark
2.  Complete packet on text structure #4

Social Studies Work:
Chapter 11, Lesson #3 + Chapter review pages 317-320

WEDNESDAY:
1.  Readworks:  Sacagawea and also Is the Earth Getting Warmer
2.  Complete packet on figuarative language #3

Social Studies Work:
Chapter 12, Lesson #1

THURSDAY:
1.  Reading Like A Historian:  Cherokee IndSocial Studies Work:
Chapter 11, Lesson #2ian Removal Act
2.  DBQ #4:  Slavery

Social Studies
chapter 12, Lesson #2

FRIDAY:
Write a 3 paragraph essay on how the coronavirus effected you, the United States and the World.  Use the critical thinking graphic organizer to help prepare your ideas.  You do not need an introduction or conclusion but you do need a topic sentence and a concluding sentence.  You must use 3 websites where you cite evidence from.

NO SOCIAL STUDIES:  If we are not in school the following Monday, complete Reading Like a Historian on Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton's letters to George Washington
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ELA AND SOCIAL STUDIES WORK FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 23

MONDAY: 

ELA:  Read and answer attached questions for the article titled, “Why Everything is Closing For the Coronavirus:  It’s Called “Flattening the Curve.”

Social Studies:  Read the short excerpt from Travels in the Great Western Prairies.  (Stanford History Education Group logo is on top right corner)  Answer the question that goes along with this reading.  Make sure to cite your evidence. 

TUESDAY:

  ELA:  Read and answer the attached questions for the article titled, “The Black Death if 1348.”

Social Studies:  Begin to work on DBQ on the Trail of Tears.  This is a 3 day lesson that should be completed by Thursday.  Feel free to use textbook pages 320-335 for additional information.

WEDNESDAY: 

ELA:  Read and answer the attached questions for the article titled, “The 1918 Flu Pandemic.”

Social Studies:  Continue to work on The Trail of Tears

THURSDAY: 

ELA:  :   Read the article on how Scientists tried to figure out the best protection against the flu.  Then reread the Article from Tuesday on the Black Death of 1348. 
 Complete the following task:  Letter to a European Ruler: Write a letter to a ruler of Europe during the time of the Black Death. Keeping in mind the scientific and technological limitations of the time, use what you've learned in the current events article to advise the ruler on how to respond to the pandemic.  The letter should be at least 250 words.  Make sure you address the letter to a leader of a certain country. 
 
Social Studies:  Complete the DBQ on the Trail of Tears

FRIDAY: 

ELA:  Flowchart:  (Use the attachment in your packet) Make a flowchart for both The Black Death of 1348 and the Flu of 1918.  Use the flowcharts in your packets to track how the pandemic spread.  Once you complete the two flowcharts, answer the following two questions.
Did the pandemics spread the same way?
Did countries respond in similar ways?

Social Studies:  Read textbook pages 336-341.  Write 6 word main ideas for each section.  Complete skills work on pages 339.  Complete questions 1-5 on page 341.  Please remember to restate the question in the answers and to write in complete sentences.  This applies to the skill work also.  Avoid pronouns!

 

Please send your child with a water bottle as our room is very warm.

COVER ALL BOOKS!

3rd Quarter:
HW for 2/3:  Research 3 topics you think the U.S. needs to work on in order to become a Great Society.  Bring in 1 sheet of notes on your research to help write an essay on topic.  Sign and correct both S.S. and ELA test.

HW for 2/14:  Correct inferencing workshhet, complete text structure worksheet #2.

HW FOR 2/24:  Complete Ch. work for Social Studies is due tomorow.  Test on Wednesday

HW for 3/3:  Complete graphic organizer for 5 documents on the Dust Bowl.  Make sure Dust Bowl paper is signed.

HW for 3/10:  Complete paragraph on Dictators. Focus is on punctuation.

TO STUDENTS & PARENTS:  
The following work is for the week of school that we are closed:  March 16-March 20.  While students can work at their own pace, I am recommending which lessons are to be done on which day.  If you have any questions please email and I will get back to you in a timely fashion.

FOR ALL SOCIAL STUDIES SECTIONS WORK:
1.  Include 6 word main ideas for the section.
2.  Complete all skill work for each section
3.  Complete all lesson review questions
ALL WORK FOR SOCIAL STUDIES SHOULD BE DO ON LOOSE LEAF



MONDAY:  
Readworks:  Jackie Robinson
For all readworks, please add the following questions
1.  What is the author's point of view?
2.  What is the main idea and draw a graphic organizer stating evidence that supports your main idea?
3.  Identify types and examples of figurative language in the story.
4.  What is the author's purpose?
5.  Citing evidence, describe 2 themes in the story

Complete Point of View Worksheet #3

SOCIAL STUDIES:
Chapter 10, Lesson 4

TUESDAY:
1.  Complete Reading Like a Historian on the Japanese Internment Camps
2.  Complete packet on text structure #4

Social Studies:
Chapter 10, Lesson 5

WEDNESDAY:
1.  Readworks:  Working Together to Build A Better Future
2.  Complete packet on figuarative language #3

Social Studies:
Chapter review pages 288-291

THURSDAY:
1.  Reading Like A Historian:  Martial Law/ Zoot Suit Riots
2.  Readworks:  Is the Earth Getting Warmer

Social Studies:  
Chapter 11, Lesson #1

FRIDAY:
Write a 3 paragraph essay on how the coronavirus effected you, the United States and the World.  Use the critical thinking graphic organizer to help prepare your ideas.  You do not need an introduction or conclusion but you do need a topic sentence and a concluding sentence.  You must use 3 websites where you cite evidence from.

No Social Studies

IF WE ARE NOT IN SCHOOL ON MARCH 23, NEW WORK WILL BE ADDED TO THE WEBSITE

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WORK FOR ELA AND SOCIAL STUDIES FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 23

MONDAY:  ELA:  Read and answer the attached questions for the article titled, “Why Everything is Closing For the Coronavirus:  It’s Called “Flattening the Curve.”
Social Studies:  Read Document A:  The opening words of a joint declaration by nations of war and Document B:  Part of a news story in a Chicago newspaper.  Complete the two questions on which article came first and which came last.  Include a claim, evidence and warrants for both questions.

TUESDAY:  ELA: Read and answer the attached questions for the article “The Black Death of 1348.”
Social Studies:  Read textbook pages 301-305.  Write 6 word main ideas for each section.  Complete skills work on pages 302 and 304.  Complete questions 1-5 on page 305.  Please remember to restate the question in the answers and to write in complete sentences.  This applies to the skill work also.  Avoid pronouns!

WEDNESDAY:  ELA:  Read and answer the attached questions for the article, “The 1918 Flu Pandemic.”
Social Studies:  Read textbook pages 306-309.  Write six word main ideas for each section.  Complete skills work on pages 307.  Complete questions 1-5 on page 309.  Please remember to restate the question in the answers and to write in complete sentences.  This applies to the skill work also.  Avoid pronouns!

THURSDAY:  ELA:   Read the article on how Scientists tried to figure out the best protection against the flu.  Then reread the Article from Tuesday on the Black Death of 1348. 
 Complete the following task:  Letter to a European Ruler: Write a letter to a ruler of Europe during the time of the Black Death. Keeping in mind the scientific and technological limitations of the time, use what you've learned in the current events article to advise the ruler on how to respond to the pandemic.  The letter should be at least 250 words.  Make sure you address the letter to a leader of a certain country. 
Social Studies:  Complete the Reading Like a Historian Packet that begins with the page Timeline of the Early Cold War.  This packet includes 4 documents and two pages of Guiding Questions.  This is a 2 day assignment that is due on Friday.  There will be no additional social studies work on Friday.

FRIDAY: 
ELA:  Flowchart:  (Use the attachment in your packet)  Make a flowchart for both The Black Death of 1348 and the Flu of 1918.  Use the flowcharts in your packets to track how the pandemic spread.  Once you complete the two flowcharts, answer the following two questions.
Did the pandemics spread the same way?
Did countries respond in similar ways?