Access Canvas

Dear Students and Parents,
I will not be using my blog this year.  You will access all class information on the following website.  You can access CANVAS below:

http://ravenscms.weebly.com

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at
lmooney@spsmail.org or lmooney@spsr12.org

Summer School Announcement

Students and parents, this is a reminder for those students attending summer school.  The summer school office will not be mailing schedules.  Students and parents can now visit the summer school site and print schedules which will include room numbers and teachers’ names.   Please be sure your students have their printed schedule in hand when they arrive for summer school June 2.  If your students need assistance with printing their schedule, please encourage them to see their counselor. 

Thank you.

Week of May 19-23

This week in Social Studies:
Permission slips due today!!


Monday:  End of Course exam in computer lab. 
Homework:  Study for comprehensive social studies final on Thursday.

Tuesday:  Final exam study guide.
Homework:  Study for final on Thursday.  Get study guide signed.

Wednesday:  Review for final exam.
Homework:  Final Exam on Thursday.

Thursday:  Final exam.
Homework:  Fieldtrip to OC tomorrow!! Bring a lunch, bathing suits, towels.

Friday:  Field trip to the Ozark Community Center!!

Week of May 12-16

This week in Social Studies:

Monday:  We will analyze the Mayan Civilization through using the textbook as a resource and answering critical thinking questions.
Homework:  Mayan Civilization questions if not completed. Quiz over the Mayan civilization on Wednesday.

Tuesday:  We will trace the development of the Aztecs by reading an article on the city of Tenochtitlan.  We will also take notes.
Homework:  Mayan Civilization quiz tomorrow.

Wednesday:   Mayan Civilization quiz.  We will critique the rise and fall of the Incan Empire by using the textbook as a resource. 
Homework:  Guided reading questions if not complete.

Thursday:  Review Mesoamerica by completing a venn diagram for each culture.
Review for EOC semester exam.  Exam on Monday, May 19th.
Homework:  None

Friday:  Current event presentations.  Review for EOC on Monday.

Week of May 5-9

Map Testing this week!

Monday:  Map testing- English Language Arts.  Enlightenment quiz re-takes.  DBQ self-evaluation.
Homework:  None

Tuesday:  Map testing- Writing.  Maya and Aztec video using the strategy "Write Something/Say Something" for notetaking.
Homework:  None

Wednesday:  Map testing - Math.  Complete video and notes.
Homework:  Cultures of Latin America - due Monday, May 12th.

Thursday:  Comprehension questions over Mayan people.  Read the story, "The Hero Twins" and write answers to questions using constructed response.  Class discussion of why this story is important.
Homework:  Cultures of Latin America - due Monday, May 12th

Friday:  Current event presentations.  Maya powerpoint using a note-taking strategy for background information.
Homework: Cultures of Latin America - due Monday, May 12th

Week of April 28-May 2

This week in Social Studies:

Monday:  Enlightenment Quiz.  Map Skills Lesson 2 and 3
Homework:  None

Tuesday:  Locate and label places on the South America and Middle America map.  Grade Map Skills Lesson 2 and 3.
Homework:  None

Wednesday:  Review South America map.  Assignment:  Latin America Map Activity using the classroom atlas.
Homework:  South America Map Quiz on Friday.

Thursday:  Review for South America map quiz on Friday.
Homework:  Study for South America map quiz.

Friday:  South America Map quiz.  Current Event presentations.

Week of April 21-25

 Interim Progress Reports were given out today!!! Get signed by a parent/guardian.

This week in Social Studies:
Monday:  Scientific Revolution and Exploration Unit Test
Homework:  None

Tuesday:  Introduce new unit, Enlightenment using the literacy strategy, draw/label/caption.  Students will identify all terms and names for unit.
Homework:  Complete all vocabulary

Wednesday:  Grade Map Skills practice Lesson 1.  Students will view a video using the strategy, Write something/Say something as a note-taking skill.
Homework:  None

Thursday:  Enlightenment powerpoint and notes.
Homework:  None

Friday:  Current event presentations.  Vocabulary study guide assigned.
Homework: Enlightenment vocabulary quiz on Monday.

Week of April 14-18

Fieldtrip permission slips due!!!.
NOTE:  Please remember to send your VOKI to me via lmooney@spsr12.org before Monday.

This week in Social Studies:
Monday:  European explorers presentations using the Voki you created.
Homework:  None

Tuesday:  Complete Voki presentations.  We will view a video on the Spanish explorers and complete a matrix for note-taking from the video.
Homework:  None

Wednesday:  Review for Scientific Revolution/ Explorers Unit Test (Ch. 15).  Review game.
Homework: Scientific Revolution/Explorers Unit Test on Monday, April 21.  Get study guide signed.

Thursday:  Bowling Fieldtrip!
Homework: Study for test on Monday.

Friday:  Current event presentations.  Review for test. 
Homework:  Study for test on Monday.

Week of April 7-11

Oops, sorry I haven't posted yet! Hope you are all having a great week!

This week in social studies:
Monday:  Scientific Revolution quiz.  Identify key terms and names in Chapter 15, Lesson 3 and 4.
Homework:  Complete Terms and Names

Tuesday:  Exploration background information using powerpoint and 3-2-1 strategy.  Students will write letters based upon life on a ship during the 16th century.
Homework:  Complete Life on A Ship letters.

Wednesday:  Share letters.  Use SQ3R reading strategy to complete lesson 3 and 4.  Survey, question, read, recite and review.
Homework:  None

Thursday:  Research a famous explorer and create a Voki with monologue to present.
Homework: Complete Voki if needed.

Friday:  No school!

Week of March 31-April 4

This week in social studies:

Monday:  Counselor visit!
Homework:  None

Tuesday:  Define all vocabulary for Scientific Revolution and put in notebook.  Complete a circle wheel organizer including each scientist.
Homework:  Complete circle wheel.

Wednesday:  Mix & Match activity.  Scientific Revolution guided reading questions will be assigned.
Homework:  Complete guided reading.

Thursday:  Grade guided reading together and review important people from the Renaissance and Reformation.
Homework:  Study for Scientific Revolution quiz on Friday.

Friday:  Scientific Revolution quiz.  Current event presentations.
Homework: None 

Week of March 24-28

NOTE:  The end of the quarter is this Thursday.  Make sure you do not have any missing assignments!

This week in social studies:
Monday:  Students will begin the second semester DBQ.  Samuaria and Knights: Were the Similarities Greater Than the Differences? 
Homework:Analyze all documents.

Tuesday:  Grade all document analysis.  Organize documents into "buckets" and write thesis statement.
Homework:  Be prepared to write the rough draft for the DBQ essay on Wednesday.

Wednesday:  Students will write the rough draft of the DBQ essay using the documents.
Homework:  Be prepared to type the DBQ essay on Thursday and Friday.

Thursday:   Students will learn text features using Chapter 15. They will take notes from a ppt to introduce the unit. Note: Students are typing the DBQ essays in English.
Homework:  None

 Friday:  Current event presentations.  Students will complete a circle chart on each of the scientists.
Homework:  None
 

Week of March 17-21

Hope everyone enjoyed their time off for spring break. It was great to spend time with family and just relax!
This week in Social Studies:

Monday:  We will begin our study of the Protestant Reformation. We will complete our Chapter 14 notes and vocabulary.
Homework:  Complete Reformation vocabulary.

Tuesday:  Meet in Computer Lab for a Reformation Web Search and analyzing a primary document of the 95 Thesis. 
Homework:  Complete Reformation Web Search

Wednesday:  We will review vocabulary.  Classroom assignment will be to answer questions using the Reformation Chapter Walk.
Homework:: Complete Reformation Chapter Walk

Thursday:  We will summarize meaning from text using Martin Luther's cartoons.  Students will create a Twitter profile and news feed based on the Martin Luther documents.
Homework:  Complete Twitter profile

Friday:  Current Event Presentations.  Reformation Quiz. 
Homework:  None

Week of March 4-6

Wow! Another snow day...crazy:)  Hope you all were safe and warm!
This week in Social Studies:

Tuesday:  We will identify the reasons the Renaissance spread north.  We will complete our notes for Lesson 3.  Take an open book quiz over Lesson 2. 
Homework:  Complete reading Ch. 13, Lesson 3

Wednesday:  We will examine a Timeline:  All About the Renaissance.  We will use an article about Leonardo Da Vinci to complete our 8 square notes (purple sheet).
Homework:  None

Thursday:  Renaissance Test (Open book because of snow day!)
Homework:  ENJOY SPRING BREAK!!

Week of February 24-28

This week in Social Studies:

Monday:  Students will learn about the Renaissance inventors/artists by presenting an informal poster through a gallery walk activity.
Homework:  Bio Poem on famous Artist/inventor

Tuesday:  Review for EOC.  Discovery video:  All About The Renaissance with Write It/Say It note taking template.
Homework: Review vocabulary

Wednesday:  We will meet in Lab 112 for EOC (End of Course) exam.  We will research using  Renaissance Web Search questions.
Homework:  Renaissance Web Search if not completed in class.

Thursday:  Ch. 13, Lesson 1 ppt and fill in the blank notes.  We will examine the factors that led to the Renaissance time period. 
Homework:  Complete reading Lesson 1.

Friday:   Current Event Presentations.  We will describe characteristics of significant people of the Italian Renaissance.  PPt lesson 2 with notes.  Quiz Lesson 2 will be assigned.

Week of Feb 10-14

This week in Social Studies:

Monday:  Examine the power of the Roman Catholic Church using 2 column note-taking strategy.
Homework:  Complete notes for Ch. 10, Lesson 1.

Tuesday:  Explain the Crusades by creating a foldable. 
Homework:  None

Wednesday:  Feudalism Activity - History Alive!!
Homework:  None

Thursday:  Create a Survivor Guide giving information on the Black Death, its causes, cures, and how it spreads. 
Homework:  Survival Guide due Monday. 

Personal Coat of Armor

DUE MONDAY
Personal Coat of Armor
Requirements:  At least one animal, at least one symbol, and colors that symbolize you.  Remember to write a descriptive paragraph explaining why you chose the things you did for your coat of armor.
Use the following website to help determine meaning.
http://www.oshel.com/symbols.htm

Week of February 3-7

This week in Social Studies:

Monday:  We will examine the steps to knighthood, and create our own Coat of Arms.
Homework:  None

Tuesday:  Complete Coat of Arms and place them on your locker.
Homework:  None

Wednesday:  History Alive Feudalism Activity! Fun, fun:)
Homework:  None

Thursday: Create a foldable about the Crusades.
Homework: None

Week of January 27-31

This week in social studies:
Monday:  We will examine the development of feudalism in Europe.  Assignments:  Questions to guide reading, and notes for Ch. 9.  We will also review vocabulary for Ch. 9 and Ch. 10.
Homework: None

Tuesday:  We will use a strategy called Write It-Say It while viewing a Discovery short video on Life during the Middle Ages.
Homework:  None

Wednesday:  Ch. 9, Lesson 2 Daily Life during the Middle Ages guided reading questions. Students will closely read for information.
Homework:  Complete guided reading questions if not completed in class.

Thursday:  Current event presentations.  Examine the steps to knighthood. 
Homework:  Knights and Knighthood worksheet

Friday:  Social Structure of the Middle Ages video and questions.
Homework:  None

Week of Jan 21-24

This week in social studies:

Tuesday:  Using a reading strategy called, "read around the text" students will identify what they will be learning about.  They will create a 6 square organizer for the strategy.
Homework:  Study for Europe physical map test Wednesday.

Wednesday:  Europe physical map test.  Define all vocabulary for this next unit of study.
Homework:  None

Thursday:  Ch. 9 teacher directed notes.  Review all vocabulary, and guided reading questions will be assigned.
Homework:  Complete questions.

Friday:  Current event presentations.  Video: Social Structures of the Middle Ages.
Homework: None

Week of January 13-17

This week in social studies:

Monday:  Meet in Lab 171 for MSIP survey.  Research Medieval Life using Http://www.medieval-life.net and create a visual showing an aspect of daily life.
Homework:  Europe countries/capitals quiz tomorrow.  Complete visual of Medieval Life.

Tuesday:  Europe countries/capitals quiz.  Review Europe map for test on Thursday.
Homework:  Study for Europe map test.

Wednesday:  Character Ed schedule. Desk map activity to review for Europe map test on Thursday.
Homework:  Study for Europe map test.

Thursday:  Europe map test.
Homework:  None

Friday:  Current event presentations.  Medieval Europe vocabulary strategy.
Homework:  None

Week of January 8-10

Welcome back after a long weekend:)
Hopefully, we will not miss any more days for bad weather.

This week in social studies:
Wednesday:  Label a map of western Europe including capitals, and bodies of water.
Homework:  Study countries and capitals for quiz on Friday.

Thursday:  Complete labeling Europe maps.  Western Europe map crossword puzzle.
Homework:  Crossword if not completed, and study for countries/capitals quiz tomorrow.

Friday:  Countries/capitals quiz over Europe.  Review map with Smartboard activity.
Homework:  Study Europe map. Test next week.

Updated Progree Reports

Updated Progress report dates:

3^rd quarter PR1 – Jan. 31 sent home

3^rd quarter PR2 – Feb. 21 sent home

3^rd quarter RC – March 28 sent home

4^th quarter PR1 – April 10 sent home

4^th quarter PR2 – May 2 sent home

4^th quarter RC – mailed home after school is out.

Welcome back and exciting news!

Welcome back!  Exciting news!!  My first grandchild was born this week! What an amazing feeling:)
I hope you had just as great a break as I did.  I will not be at school Thursday or Friday, so work extra hard and show your best character for our substitute.  Have a great rest of the week.

Thursday:  Analyze the Bushido Code by breaking down the characteristics of being a Samurai.
Homework:  Make sure you have all of your notes and any worksheets from our Japan Unit.  Open book test tomorrow.

Friday:  Japan open book test.  You may use your notes as well as any other papers we have done, and your textbook.  If you do not complete the test, you will have an opportunity to finish on Monday.
Homework:  None