Homework -- 5/8

NOTE: Students are to always have their current independent reading book with them in school. They should be reading for 20 minutes daily in their independent reading book. Language Arts Note: Have L.A. journal in class with you all the time. Assigned today: None Previously assigned/still due: None Math Assigned today: 7th Grade: None 8th Grade: None Previously Assigned/still due: 7th: None 8th: None Note: When needed, you can always get grid paper from the internet. Social Studies Assigned today: 7th Grade Only: Due Monday, 5/11, read pp. 205-206 of Geography Skills book; do A and B on p. 207. Write answers in spiral notebook and use complete sentences. Previously Assigned/still due: Due Monday, 5/11, read pp. 107-115 of The New Nation. Answer questions on handout (1-6). Science Assigned today: 8th Grade only: Due Monday, 5/11, read pp. 68-69 of "Reviewing Atoms" handout. Do Activities 1, 2, & 3 in spiral notebook per directions given in class. Previously Assigned/still due: None Spanish Assigned today: 7th Grade: None 8th Grade: None Previously Assigned/still due: 7th Grade: None 8th Grade: None

8th Grade Project

• Write something everyday in your journal (except weekends, unless otherwise arranged with advisor): entries should be dated and focused on how your independent project is going, your feelings about it, challenges, successes.
• Journals are turned in every Friday morning (onto Marc's table). If we do not have school on Friday, they are turned in at the end of the day on Thursday.

Materials Needed for Homework to be Taken Home:

• 8th grade - L.A. journal (for project entry)
• Social Studies - The New Nation book or handout
• Social Studies - Questions handout for The New Nation
• S.S. - 7th Gr: Geography Skills book and spiral notebook
• Science - 8th Gr: Review of Atoms handout and spiral notebook

Homework - 5/7

NOTE: Students are to always have their current independent reading book with them in school. They should be reading for 20 minutes daily in their independent reading book. Language Arts Note: Have L.A. journal in class with you all the time. Assigned today: None Previously assigned/still due: None Math Assigned today: 7th Grade: None 8th Grade: None Previously Assigned/still due: 7th: None 8th: None Note: When needed, you can always get grid paper from the internet. Social Studies Assigned today: Due Monday, 5/11, read pp. 107-115 of The New Nation. Answer questions on handout (1-6). Previously Assigned/still due: None Science Assigned today: None Previously Assigned/still due: None Spanish Assigned today: 7th Grade: None 8th Grade: None Previously Assigned/still due: 7th Grade: None 8th Grade: None

8th Grade Project

• Write something everyday in your journal (except weekends, unless otherwise arranged with advisor): entries should be dated and focused on how your independent project is going, your feelings about it, challenges, successes.
• Journals are turned in every Friday morning (onto Marc's table). If we do not have school on Friday, they are turned in at the end of the day on Thursday.

Materials Needed for Homework to be Taken Home:

• 8th grade - L.A. journal (for project entry)
• Social Studies - The New Nation book or handout
• Social Studies - Questions handout

Questions based on Reading: The New Nation, pp. 107-115 1. What is the advantage of "interchangeable parts" - like the design of the Whitney musket (yes, the same Eli Whitney of cotton gin fame)? 2. How did the treatment of workers in Mr. Francis Lowell's mill differ from other textile mills.? 3. In your own words, what is meant by a "market revolution"? 4. Describe what a "macadam road" was. 5. Describe the path of the Erie Canal. 6. How did the Erie Canal help make New York City the country's largest city?

Homework -- 5/6

NOTE: Students are to always have their current independent reading book with them in school. They should be reading for 20 minutes daily in their independent reading book. Language Arts Note: Have L.A. journal in class with you all the time. Assigned today: None Previously assigned/still due: Due Thursday, 5/7, write a well-edited journal entry - a page long - a friendly letter to Emily from Mr. Higginson, Sue, or Mr. Bowles. Math Assigned today: 7th Grade: None 8th Grade: None Previously Assigned/still due: 7th: For Thursday, 5/7, study problems #22-26 to prepare for quiz tomorrow Thursday. 8th: For Thursday, 5/7, study problem #29 (includes solving algebraic equations with fractions) to prepare for quiz Thursday. Note: When needed, you can always get grid paper from the internet. Social Studies Assigned today: None Previously Assigned/still due: Due Thursday, 5/7, revise your essay on the Industrial Revolution, illustrate North and South in borders. Science Assigned today: None Previously Assigned/still due: None Spanish Assigned today: 7th Grade: None 8th Grade: None Previously Assigned/still due: 7th Grade: Due Thursday, 5/7, bring in your completed drawing representing "La Batalla de Puebla." 8th Grade: None

8th Grade Project

• Write something everyday in your journal (except weekends, unless otherwise arranged with advisor): entries should be dated and focused on how your independent project is going, your feelings about it, challenges, successes.
• Journals are turned in every Friday morning (onto Marc's table). If we do not have school on Friday, they are turned in at the end of the day on Thursday.

Materials Needed for Homework to be Taken Home:

• 8th grade - L.A. journal (for project entry)
• MCAS problems (for Math review)
• L.A. journal
• Industrial Revolution essay

Homework -- 5/5

NOTE: Students are to always have their current independent reading book with them in school. They should be reading for 20 minutes daily in their independent reading book. Language Arts Note: Have L.A. journal in class with you all the time. Assigned today: Due Thursday, 5/7, write a well-edited journal entry - a page long - a friendly letter to Emily from Mr. Higginson, Sue, or Mr. Bowles. Previously assigned/still due: None Math Assigned today: 7th Grade: For Thursday, 5/7, study problems #22-26 to prepare for quiz tomorrow Thursday. 8th Grade: For Thursday, 5/7, study problem #29 (includes solving algebraic equations with fractions) to prepare for quiz Thursday. Previously Assigned/still due: 7th: Due Wednesday, 5/6, complete Math's Mate Term 3, Sheet 7. 8th: Due Wednesday, 5/6, complete Math's Mate Term 2, Sheet 7. Note: When needed, you can always get grid paper from the internet. Social Studies Assigned today: Due Thursday, 5/7, revise your essay on the Industrial Revolution, illustrate North and South in borders. Previously Assigned/still due: None Science Assigned today: Due tomorrow, Wednesday 5/6, do page 1 of Table of elements. Previously Assigned/still due: None Spanish Assigned today: 7th Grade: Due Thursday, 5/7, bring in your completed drawing representing "La Batalla de Puebla." 8th Grade: None Previously Assigned/still due: 7th Grade: None 8th Grade: None

8th Grade Project

• Write something everyday in your journal (except weekends, unless otherwise arranged with advisor): entries should be dated and focused on how your independent project is going, your feelings about it, challenges, successes.
• Journals are turned in every Friday morning (onto Marc's table). If we do not have school on Friday, they are turned in at the end of the day on Thursday.

Materials Needed for Homework to be Taken Home:

• 8th grade - L.A. journal (for project entry)
• MCAS problems (for Math review)
• L.A. journal
• Industrial Revolution essay
• Science - Table of Elements handout

"U.S. History of the 19th Century" Handout

Review: What events led to the Industrial Revolution in the United States, and why did it develop primarily in the Northern States? 1. Who was Samuel Slater, what was "Slater's Mill" and what was the time period of this development? 2. How was this "factory system" different from the way cloth was made prior to this time? 3. who was Eli Whitney, and what did he invent that improved the situation for cotton growers? (what year was this?) 4. How did the factory system - later more developed in the big mills of Lowell, Massachusetts - affect the price, and thus the demand for Cotton clothing? 5. How did this development of Southern land affect the growth of slavery as an Institution in the Southern states? 6. How did all these developments weave together the economies of both the Northern and Southern States?

Homework -- 5/4

NOTE: Students are to always have their current independent reading book with them in school. They should be reading for 20 minutes daily in their independent reading book. Language Arts Note: Have L.A. journal in class with you all the time. Assigned today: Due Tuesday, 5/5, ask an adult that you know well what they know - or think they know - about Emily Dickinson. Record what they know in a bulleted list in L.A. journal. Be ready to share in class. Previously assigned/still due: None Math Assigned today: 7th Grade: For Tuesday, 5/5, study problem #22 (all parts) to prepare for quiz tomorrow. Due Wednesday, 5/6, complete Math's Mate Term 3, Sheet 7. 8th Grade: For Tuesday, 5/5, study problems 22-27 to prepare for quiz tomorrow. Due Wednesday, 5/6, complete Math's Mate Term 2, Sheet 7. Previously Assigned/still due: 7th: None 8th: None Note: When needed, you can always get grid paper from the internet. Social Studies Assigned today: Due Tuesday, 5/5, write a 1 - 2 paragraph summary, answering today's question on the Industrial Revolution: What events led to the Idustrial Revolution in the United States, and why did it develop primarily in the Northern States? Previously Assigned/still due: None Science Assigned today: None Previously Assigned/still due: None Spanish Assigned today: 7th Grade: None 8th Grade: None Previously Assigned/still due: 7th Grade: Due Tuesday, 5/5, 5-6 sentences with photo or illustration answering: "What is Cinco de Mayo?" "Where is it celebrated?" "How is it celebrated?" "Why is it important?" 8th Grade: None

8th Grade Project

• Write something everyday in your journal (except weekends, unless otherwise arranged with advisor): entries should be dated and focused on how your independent project is going, your feelings about it, challenges, successes.
• Journals are turned in every Friday morning (onto Marc's table). If we do not have school on Friday, they are turned in at the end of the day on Thursday.

Materials Needed for Homework to be Taken Home:

• 8th grade - L.A. journal (for project entry)
• MCAS problems (for Math review)
• L.A. journal
• Social Studies handout on "U.S. History of the 19th Century"