Team 6B Social Studies

Twitter Week in Review for 2010-06-27

Mr. Miller — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Mon, last day of reg schedule: students cleaned out class binders to take home & we played Jeopardy to review history from the entire year #
Tues, last day of school: 6th graders are watching a movie and the talent show, then have activities for the afternoon until 1:35 #

Twitter Week in Review for 2010-06-20

Mr. Miller — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Mon: work time on Other Early Peoples; students wrote an outline of their presentation and began work on ppt, map and artifact drawing #
Note: Friday (June 18) is the due date for the OEP project and it is the last day we will accept late work from 4th quarter. #
Tues/Wed: last extended periods of the year. Students are working for the entire period on the Other Early Peoples project (due Friday) #
Thurs: final day to work on Other Early Peoples project. Students will present on Friday. #
Fri: students presented their Other Early Peoples projects to their classmates. #

OEP Presentation Make Up Assignment

Mr. Miller — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:13:25 +0000

Students will present their Other Early Peoples PowerPoint presentations on Friday, June 18 2010. If a student is absent on the presentation day, they will automatically lose the ten points for presentation skills. To earn back those points, students can complete the following make up assignment. This assignment is due by Friday, June 18 and students are expected to contact Mr. Miller or Ms. Falls ahead of time if the absence is pre-arranged.

Civilizations

Choose three of the following civilizations to research (you cannot use the civilization you already researched for the group project). Use the links provided to read about the civilization.

The Maya (Mr. Donn’s site, Wikipedia article)
The Aztec (Mr. Donn’s site, Wikipedia article)
The Incas (Mr. Donn’s site, Wikipedia article)
The Vikings (Mr. Donn’s site, Wikipedia article)
Feudal Japan (Wikipedia page)
Khmer Empire of Cambodia (Wikipedia article)
Easter Island (Wikipedia article)
Ancient Pueblo Peoples (Wikipedia article)

Writing Task

Select one of the following characteristics of civilization:

Stable food supply
Government
Social structure
Religion
The arts
Technology
Writing

Write a paragraph that compares and contrasts how three civilizations fulfilled that characteristic of civilization. For example, compare the governments of three different civilizations. The paragraph should be at least seven sentences long and have specific details for each of the three civilizations.

Twitter Week in Review for 2010-06-13

Mr. Miller — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:00:00 +0000

Mon: field trip to Safeco Field http://twitpic.com/1uv84k #
Tues/Wed: final day to work on CBA; students must finish research and prewriting then write comparative essay (due at the end of the period) #
Thurs: 1st day of work on the Other Early Peoples project, students learned their topics, formed groups & began researching their topics #
Fri: more time to do research for the Other Early Peoples project #

Other Early Peoples Final Project

Mr. Miller — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:00:55 +0000

For our final project of the year, students will work in groups to research a civilization that we did not have time to cover during the year. Some topics include ancient Japan, the civilizations of Southeast Asia, the Vikings, the people of the Americas (Maya, Aztec, and Inca) and more. Students will then create a PowerPoint presentation about their topic to teach their classmates.

Assignment

Other Early Peoples Project – download the directions as a pdf
Due: Friday, June 18 2010
Updated: PowerPoint Outline – students will use this to outline their presentation before they begin work on the PowerPoint.

Final Project Topic Selection Survey

Mr. Miller — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 05:53:29 +0000

Our final project of the year will focus on civilizations we didn’t have time to study during the year. Students will work in a group and focus on a topic of their choice. Students should use this Google form to submit their top three choices for the final project.

Update: the survey is now closed.

Click here to take the topic selection survey

The survey must be completed by Wednesday afternoon. We will create groups Wednesday night and begin work on the project on Thursday, June 10.

Twitter Week in Review for 2010-06-06

Mr. Miller — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Tues/Wed: students read about the legacy of Greece or Rome then began work on a drawing to show how these civs relate to the modern world #
Thurs: day 1 of work on the CBA. Students selected topics and began taking notes to review two civilizations we studied earlier this year. #
Fri: day 2 of CBA; finish research then begin comparing similarities and differences between the two civilizations. #

Tangerine Needs a Summer Home

Mr. Miller — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:29:03 +0000

Tangerine is a friendly Corn Snake who needs a summer home.

Our classroom pet, Tangerine the Corn Snake, needs a summer home. We are looking for student volunteers who would like to take care of her for the summer. If you would like to snake-sit Tangerine, you must turn in the permission form by June 16. We will then enter names into a lottery to decide who gets to take her home.

Classroom Based Assessment

Mr. Miller — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:17:54 +0000

Students have begun work on a Classroom Based Assessment, often referred to as a CBA, that is a review of the important civilizations and themes we have studied this year. Students are selecting two civilizations to compare how they responded to a historical or environmental challenge.

CBA’s are being required by the Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction in subjects that do not take the WASL MSP. Since this is an official assessment, all work must be completed at school. Therefore, I will not be posting the files online, but our directions are based on the Enduring Cultures CBA.

Students will have three class periods to complete the CBA. The final day of work will be the extended periods on Tuesday/Wednesday (June 8/9). If students are absent Thursday, Friday, or Tuesday/Wednesday, they should visit Mr. Miller’s homeroom to get caught up.

The Legacy of Ancient Greece and Rome

Mr. Miller — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:30:49 +0000

To wrap up our unit on Greece and Rome, students will read about the cultural contributions of the Greeks or Romans and create a drawing to show their connection to the modern world.

Assignment Due Friday, June 4

Choose one of the following readings:

The Legacy of Ancient Greece (History Alive! pages 297 – 303).
The Legacy of Rome in the Modern World (History Alive! pages 361 – 371).

Download the handout, then use the vase image to draw a Greek contribution to our culture or the column to show a Roman contribution.

Use drawings and/or symbols.
Use color
Fill the space

At the bottom of the page, explain how your drawing shows a connection between past and present.

Handout: Legacy of Greece and Rome Drawing

Research Links

Students are being provided with readings from History Alive! that include enough information for this assignment. However, students who were absent on Tuesday/Wednesday will need to use one of the following Wikipedia links to learn more about a topic for their drawing: