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Geography Unit – Focus – What is geography? Define the underlined vocabulary words for paragraphs 4-10.

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Geography Unit – Focus – What is geography? Define the underlined vocabulary words for paragraphs 11-16.

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Geography Unit – Select 5 vocabulary terms from your reading on What is Geography? SCRAMBLE THE WORDS.

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Draw a map with the title, legend and compass rose on looseleaf

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Map Skills – Draw your own compass rose and label the cardinal points

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Map Skills – Page 9 Intermediate Directions

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Draw 7 continents and label them

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Return Signed Quiz

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Spelling – continents 10x each arranged creatively on looseleaf

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    10.4

Read Text on Pages 7 and 8. Answer questions 1-9 (Lesson 2: How Maps Help Us)

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    10.6

Social Studies Notebook Check on Friday, October 8.

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    10.4

See homework #10 – Finish all the questions.

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Page 30- Map Skills Packet – locate North and South hemispheres

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Parent/guardian signature on your Progress Letter.

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Lesson 3 How Archaeologists Help Us to Study The Past –Copy the sentences that have the words ARTIFACTS, FOSSILS AND HOMINID. Then underline or highlight the vocabulary words.

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Make two columns with the words Archaeologist on one and Anthropologist on the other. What does each scientist focus his attention on? List specific examples as discussed in class.

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   10.15

Lesson 3 (Short Text) How do archaeologists study the past? Answer 8 questions from Board.

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What did you learn in class today about the scientific point of view? Who are archaeologists?

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   10.19

Hominids – Changes for Survival Handout – Read pages 1 and 2. Take notes on the two pages.

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Parent/guardian signature for quiz

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No Class. Practice ELA Test.

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No Class. Walk a thon on Friday, October 30.

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World History – Lesson 4 answer questions 1,2,3,4 on handout

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   11.0

JAT – Answer Tools of the Historian questions #1,2,3

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2^nd Marking Period Begins!

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11.04

JAT – Answer Paleolithic questions #4-7

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11.05

Please have your parent/guardian sign your quiz.

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11.08

JAT – Answer Paleolithic questions, 8.11.12

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11.09

JAT – Answer Paleolithic question #13

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11.18

Project – Research on Paleolithic and Neolithic must be completed by Monday, November 22^nd!

11.22M

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11.29

(TRK article 11.05 on Lunch Lessons) Find a healthy and delicious recipe to bring to class.

11.30

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12.1

Test on Early Humans next Monday, December 6.

COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE

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12.07

Short Response Essay on the Hunters and Gatherers is due 12.9

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12.13

Get Early Humans test signed please.

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12.13

Fill out application for Ancient Egypt Project

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12.14

Mesopotamia – Review lesson by recopying class notes

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12.16

Mesopotamia – After reading “Life in Sumer” – create your own version of the social class graphic organizer.

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12.16

Ancient Egypt Project is due on January 7, 2011

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1.5.11

Mesopotamia – Classwork – Complete short response questions # 1,2,3,6,9

And Homework – Definitions #1,3,6,7,9,10

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1.6.11

Quiz on Ancient Mesopotamia – Friday. Project is also due on Friday.

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Get your Mesopotamia quiz signed please.

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1.18.11

Persuasive Essay “Should Cuneiform be considered the most important invention?” – Use your graphic organizer notes from the Introduction and write it neatly on looseleaf paper in paragraph form.

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1.21.11

Persuasive Essay – On Monday, 1.24.11 please have your introduction, body paragraph 1 and body  paragraph 2 completed. During Friday’s Period 3, students are typing their work in computer class.

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