Mrs. Piner's Class Blog http://npiner.wordpress.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:19:07 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/456b5ab8e6cfc8f77c877c2e4b2eef3f?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png Mrs. Piner's Class Blog http://npiner.wordpress.com November 9-13 http://npiner.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/november-9-13/ http://npiner.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/november-9-13/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:19:07 +0000 npiner http://npiner.wordpress.com/?p=386 ]]>

Calendar Information:

  • No afterschool help this week with Mrs. Piner (pm duty)
  • Wed. 11/11 – No school in honor of our veterans
  • Thurs. 11/12 – November ENC planning sheet due
  • Fri. 11/13 – Chapter 4 test/ Fundraiser party 1-3
  • 11/19 – Laptop lab (ENC work)/ End of grading period

Monday – Warm up: none   Classwork: Review Chapter 4      Homework:  “Who am I: Roanoak edition”

Tuesday - Warm up: none     Classwork: Review Chapter 4

Wednesday: No School

Thursday -  Warm up: none     Classwork: Turn in you planning sheet. Review Chapter 4

Friday - Warm up: none     Classwork: Chapter 4 test.

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Upcoming Calendar Events:

  • 11/3 – Flu vaccine letters due back to Homeroom teacher
  • 11/6 – Power Planning Day – no Science class
  • 11/11 – Veteran’s Day – No School

Monday: Warm up - ___ was England’s most famous sea dog.  Classwork: Read Chapter 4 Section 2; answer questions at the end of the section

Tuesday:  Warm up - England’s first colony in North Carolina was located at __ __.        Classwork:  Read Chapter 4, section 3; answer questions at the end of the section.

Wednesday: Warm up - The first English child born in America was named ___.          Classwork:  “Push and Pull” (See tabbed page on this website)        Homework:  Finish “Push and Pull” writing assignment if you needed more time.

Thursday:  Warm up – “The monarch of England that supported the colonization of North Carolina was named ___”          Classwork - Review chapter 4

Friday:  Warm up – none      Classwork – Review Chapter 4

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Calendar events:

  • 10/26- October ENC post due
  • 10/28 – October ENC presentations
  • 10/29 – Enrichment groups presentations begin today
  • 10/30 – Early release

Monday: Warm up: “If I could be teacher for the day I would…”     Classwork: Enrichment or Remediation

Tuesday:  Warm up:   What are two challenges that you faced in class yesterday?”  How did you solve them?     Classwork:   Enrichment or Remediation

Wednesday: Warm up:  none          Classwork: ENC presentations

Thursday:  Warm up: Which ENC presentation from yesterday did you enjoy the most?  Why?          Classwork:  Read Chapter 4, lesson 1

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Calendar events for the week: 

  • 10/21 – Beaufort Field trip
  • 10/23 -Social Studies Assessment #1 (Please note change in date!)
  • 10/26 – October ENC post is due
  • 10/28 – E NC presentations

Monday - Warm up: Explorer map activity     Classwork: c3s2 notes and quiz

Tuesday - Warm up:  Field trip expectations    Classwork: Review Chapters 1-3

Wednesday - Beaufort field trip

Thursday - No Warm up          Classwork: 8th grade social studies assessment #1

Friday - Assessment #1 remediaton or enrichment

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Tuesday- Warm up: Complete the statement. “The Silk Road and Spice routes connected the _______________________ empire with the _____________________________ empire by trade.”      Classwork:  ENC notes, Columbus video

Wednesday- Warm up:   Adventurers from Spain were known as the __. / The Treaty of Tordesillas divided newly discovered lands outside of Europe between ____ and _____.      Classwork:  Notes – C3S1, quiz tomorrow

Thursday - Warm up: ” ___ was the first European explorer to visit what is now known as North Carolina. / The ___ refers to the movement of living things between the Easter and Western hemispheres.       Classwork: C3s1 quiz, October ENC planning sheets due

Friday - Warm up: “Why was the southeastern part of what is now the United States important to the Spanish?”        Classwork:  C3S2, reading and notes

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Monday -  Warm-up:  Copy the statement into your warm up, complete the statement.  “The ___ language family covered the largest area of North Carolina.”     Classwork:  Review Chapter 2 using your Chapter 2 study guide. (You were given the study guide before we started studying the chapter.) Quiz on Chapter 2 is Wednesday.

Tuesday – Warm up:  Complete the statement.Some early Native Americans built mounds for….”      Classwork:  Chapter 2 review, First Carolinians video, Study for quiz tomorrow.

Wednesday – Warm up:  “About how long did the nound builders live in North Carolina?”     Classwork:  Chapter 2 quiz

Thursday - Warm up: “Who really discovered America and the Native Americans who were already living there?”    Classwork:  Ship graphic organizer and background reading

Friday - Warm up:  “Based on yesterday’s background reading, who do you feel has the most believeable claim of discovering America?  Explain why.”      Classwork:  Read C3S1 (p. 38-47)

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Monday: Warm up - What are the basic needs that all people have?  Classwork –  Read C2S1, Create a chart that compares the four culture groups   Homework – September ENC post due today.

Tuesday:  Warm up - 1.A bone tool used by an early hunter is an example of an ______________. 2.Early people who used slash-and-burn methods lived in areas that had ________________.     Classwork –   Lawson’s Account of Carolina tribes, Read C2S2, compare coastal plains tribes to tribes from the Mountains and Piedmont.  Homework – September ENC presentations Wednesday.

Wednesday: Warm up – None   Classwork - September ENC presentations    Homework – Review Chapter 2

Thursday:  Warm Up – Complete the statement.  “The first people came to North America by …. ”      Classwork – ENC presentation, review C2S2 venn diagram

Friday:  Warm up – Complete the statement.  ” The three main language families among North Carolina Native Americans are ___, ___, and ____.”     Classwork:  Native American Language family activity. (You will need to arrange to stay afterschool to make up this activity.)

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