Greetings, If you are looking for resources to minimize summer “brain drain” I suggest that you check out this web page at the Teachers First web site. On another note, the Common Core State Standards for language arts require that sixth grade students be able to produce three pages of writing at a keyboard in [...]
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Grades for the chapter 14 processing activity and chapter test have been posted to the grade book, and therefore, the Parent Portal. Both will be returned to students tomorrow.
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When I was a boy and my family attended weekly mass at St. Joan of Arc I remember one particular priest who was constantly complaining about people who were late to services. Since he did this at the beginning of mass, it seemed pointless because the people who needed to hear the message weren’t there [...]
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Just a heads up that the students will have a substitute teacher on Wednesday and Thursday of next week, January 30 and 31. I will be at the administration building on Wednesday and the Macomb Intermediate School District on Thursday working on Iroquois’ school improvement plan. Student behavior has been excellent this year, so I’m [...]
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Apparently Google is having issues at the moment and the link to the Empires of Mesopotamia guide to student notes is unable to open the file. Here’s another link until Google gets their act together. isn_empires of mesopotamia And that’s life online. Sorry for the inconvenience…
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Grades have been posted for the chapter 5 student note packet and chapter 5 test. I will return the tests in class tomorrow and we will go over every questions as always!
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On Thursday last week I announced that we would be doing the Processing activity from the chapter 5 student note packet in class today. I did this so that students could plan ahead of time and decide what images they wanted to draw or search for in magazines or on the Internet. Here’s a sample [...]
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With very few exceptions, we completed the the chapter five note packet today. This was challenging for several students and here’s why: There were only a few obvious right or wrong responses. The whole purpose of the activity was to guide students through a process where they had to use analytic thinking skills to find relationships between ”artifacts” [...]
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Two student samples of the Sumerian City-States real estate advertisement can be viewed here. This was the Processing assignment from the chapter 4 student note packet.
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The Oceanside basic map skills map has been graded. This was graded as a project which gets averaged with test and quiz scores. Two samples of projects that received full points are here and here.
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