Brewer’s Bountiful Notes
February 5, 2007 by Debbie Brewer
NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE Progress reports need to be signed and returned ASAP.
Dear Parents,
Remember to encourage your child to follow the dress code that is in the agenda book. Belts are being left at home and shirt tails are not being tucked in. Also all jackets should be in school colors to be worn in the classroom. Rules can be made, but if they are broken there must be consequences. Thanks! Mrs. Brewer
ATTENTION!
Shelby County Schools announces upcoming community meetings to discuss system wide strategic planning and to present 2007-2008 attendance zone proposals.
Proposed attendance zone maps will be available online 2/9/07 at 9:00 a.m.
Meetings will be held at each high school and are open to the public. All meetings will be held from 6-8 pm in the school auditorium.
Monday, February 12, 2007. Houston High School.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007. Collierville High School.
Thursday, February 15, 2007. Arlington High School.
Monday, February 19, 2007. Bartlett High School.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007. Germantown High School.
Thursday, February 22, 2007. Millington High School.
Thursday, March 1, 2007. Bolton High School.
American History
Feb. 12-16,2007
Monday:T.L.W. complete workbook pages 73- and 74. Go over homework questions. Continue with “Cotton Kingdom in the South” text p. 418-42 1-6 text p. 421. Answer the questions on p. 420 on the graphic skills 1-2 on Southern Economics. 8.2D, M
Tuesday: T.L.W.complete Quiz 14 -1 and 2. Topic Research: 1) Factory conditions in the 1840’s and 1850’s, 2) Formation of Trade Unions, 3) Growth of Immigrant Labor, 4) Discrimination Against African Americans. Give findings in class.
Copy the pyrimid on p. 425 about Southern Society in 1860. Answer the graphic organizer questions 1 and 2. 8.1L2, D
Wednesday: T.L.W. complete workbook pages 75-76. Complete the reading of Chapt. 14 “Life in the South” text p. 422-426 . Jigsaw Activity- each member of a team works with members of other teams to become experts on a topic. 1)Planters, 2)Small Farmers, 3)Poor Whites, 4)Free African Americans, 5)enslaved African Americans.Homework:Section #4 Assessment p. 426 (2-5) and #7.
Thursday: T.L.W. complete Quiz 14- 3 & 4. Continue with presentations.
Friday: T.L.W. Complete Chapt. 14 Test.
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We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way. … What we can best learn from good teachers is how to teach ourselves better.”
~ John Holt ~
Enriched Reading
Feb. 12-16, 2007
Monday: T.L.W. continue with German. Homework: Define the vocabulary words listed on the board from The Glory Field Define:
lurched, stench, plaintive, promenade, hurtling, ominous, contraband, consecrate, sashayed, sporadic, cumbersome, dispersing, demise, jabbing, debris, weariness, dumbwaiter, vitality, contort, vibrant, raucous, sophisticated, hassock, glistening, anthem, dislocated, prominemt, withdraw tribulation, achieve, defiantly. spi. 8.1.11, 8.1.3, T3, 8.1.13
Tuesday:T.L.W. continue with The Glory Field. Complete workbook activity p. 133 Capitalizing Titles. Homework: worksheet provided. T2, spi.8.1.11
Wednesday:T.L.W.continue to read The Glory Field. Questions on what we have read thur far. Happy Valentine’s Day! spi.8.2.06
Thursday: T.L.W. continue to read The Glory Field. Character study analysis. All vocabulary words are due. spi.8.3.04
Friday: T.L.W. complete a quiz on The Glory Field. Making subjects and verbs agree worksheet- using the correct verb tense review. spi. 8.2.06
“We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way. … What we can best learn from good teachers is how to teach ourselves better.”
~ John Holt ~
Reading
Feb. 12-16, 2007
Monday: T.L.W. begin the reading of the novel The Glory Field. Take notes to study. Homework: Define the vocabulary words listed on the board form The Glory Field Define:
lurched, stench, plaintive, promenade, hurtling, ominous, contraband, consecrate, sashayed, sporadic, cumbersome, dispersing, demise, jabbing, debris, weariness, dumbwaiter, vitality, contort, vibrant, raucous, sophisticated, hassock, glistening, anthem, dislocated, prominemt, withdraw tribulation, achieve, defiantly. spi. 8.1.11, 8.1.3, T3, 8.1.13
Tuesday:T.L.W. continue with The Glory Field. Complete workbook activity that is Capitalizing Titles p. 133. Homework: worksheet provided. T2, spi.8.1.11
Wednesday:T.L.W.continue to read The Glory Field. Questions on what we have read thur far. Happy Valentine’s Day! spi.8.2.06
Thursday: T.L.W. continue to read The Glory Field. Character study analysis. Review verb tenses for the week’s grammar link . Quiz.
spi.8.3.04
Friday: T.L.W. complete a quiz on The Glory Field. Making subjects and verbs agree worksheet- using the correct verb tense review. spi. 8.2.06
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