Social Studies 6 (Period 6) Assignments
- Instructor
- Samantha Weiss
- Terms
- 2017-18 Trimester 1
- 2017-18 Trimester 2
- 2017-18 Trimester 3
- Department
- Social Studies
- Description
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We will study early civilizations! We start off with some geography, an inquiry about why we study history, and then we look at early man (and woman!) We then explore the earliest civilizations, which all developed along rivers. We'll look at Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, the Hebrews, and Greece and Rome. We are going to travel back through time and go to lots of places. It is amazing to speculate about how our earliest ancestors made their lives. We will also learn a lot about current events. It's so interesting to see how some themes are timeless. I can hardly wait to get started on our journey through space and time. Is it Monday yet?
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Past Assignments
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Ancient India Jeopardy will be Wednesday the 30th and the Ancient India Unit test will be Thursday the 31st.
Here is the Jeopardy review board!
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Test on China will be Thursday . And Jeopardy will be Wednesday!
I have attached the Jeopardy review! Enjoy! I have also attached the China Test Review Sheet. By completing this form for yourself (I will NOT collect it), you will help to prepare for your test next week.
Here is a link to the new JEOPARDY LABS JEOPARDY BOARD
Cassidy Tsuji made these quizlets and wanted me to share them with you. I don't have time to check that they are accurate but she's a pretty awesome student!
https://quizlet.com/_4ton5b (Study guide) https://quizlet.com/_4tcady (Jeopardy)
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Here is the China Packet PowerPoint. We will be working on the China Unit for the next 3 weeks.
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Here is the Judaism Jeopardy made by our very own Simon Ackermann! Thank you Simon! This is going to be so fun! We will play on Wednesday, April 18!
Here is the link to the questions (& answers)! :)
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Here is the interactive PowerPoint on Ancient Rome! I have tentatively made a due date of 3/30/2018 but the real due dates will be given on the whiteboard in class. Students are just starting this packet and every students should have received a packet by now. Don't lose your packet!
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Jewish Holidays Poster Activity Directions are attached. We will be working on these soon! I will provide the poster paper but you may need to bring crayons and replenish colored pencil supplies! Thanks so much.
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Hebrews Vocabulary Worksheets. Please print these out. If you don't print them out, then you'll have to copy the whole sentences out in your notebook....
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Test on Greece will be March 1st. I will am uploading the Jeopardy file but I still have 6 questions to write (will edit soon.) Studying key terms and Jeopardy questions will help to get you all good and ready! We will have our Jeopardy review on Wednesday.
Also, whoever left his or her clarinet in my class, I have it! It's safe and you can get it first thing in the morning. It's on my desk.
-Ms. Weiss
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Cassidy from my 3rd Period Class made this quizlet to help study for the test! Thank her if you have a chance. I did!
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Let's do this play together. It looks so fun! I am providing it here for you to preview!
Central questions when we read:
What is a hero?
What makes a dangerous quest worthwhile?
How can ordinary people be heroic?
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Dear Students:
Happy Chinese New Year! The Huntington in Pasadena always puts on spectacular events during this celebratory time. Check out their website and if you have time to go this weekend, let me know how you enjoyed it!
-Ms. Weiss
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Hi folks! Yesterday's field trip to the Getty Villa was FANTASTIC. Students behaved beautifully and the experience was so exciting and rewarding. I look forward to sharing a similarly awesome time with 1st period on March 28th. Permission forms will go home next week!
Neal Chang from 1st period found an electronic copy of the textbook that might be helpful for some of you. Here is the link:
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Periods 3, 4, and 6! We will be going to the Getty Villa this Wednesday! If your parent is a chaperone please make sure they see this attachment. It will be very helpful!
You are in for such a treat. This will be an amazing experience. Don't forget to thank Ms. Kraake. She goes out of her way each year to coordinate this incredible learning experience for us all.
Remember that you will need to pack a lunch! Bring a little spending money if you want to shop in their gift shop. There are lots of cool things to buy if you choose to.
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Research 2 gods and goddesses of your choice:
Make a PowerPoint that explains each god's attributes, shows pictures of your god or goddess, and explains in your own words a myth that surrounds or includes your gods.
The slide show should be at least 10 slides:
Title Slide
Picture Slide
Picture Slide
Attributes Slide
Myth Slide
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Helpful website:
This is a great resource with links to lots of helpful and lively websites.
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This week and over the next 2 weeks, we are working on our Ancient Greece unit. I'm attaching a helpful Powerpoint here. Please work on the interactive notebook in class so that you'll have as little homework as possible.
I'm so excited for the field trip that we are taking to the Getty Villa. Some of you will go in February and some in March. I'm going to need parent chaperones... Stay tuned!
THE TWO POSSIBLE DATES FOR YOUR TRIP (YOU WILL BE ASSIGNED FOR ONE OR THE OTHER - YOU DO NOT GET PICK) ARE 2/14/18 (Valentine's Day) and 3/28/18
We are covering Greece & Rome now so you'll have a richer understanding of the collection you'll be seeing in Malibu this winter.
Also, many of you should have received an email if you signed up to purchase advance sale of tickets to the King Tut exhibit! I am so excited to visit there soon too. That trip would be on your own (with your families of course!)
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Egypt test is next Tuesday. This jeopardy question and answer is a GREAT review. The questions are closely aligned with the questions on the test - yay! See the attached document!
ALSO, STUDY THE KEY TERMS FOR THE ENTIRE UNIT! THESE TERMS CAN ALL BE FOUND LISTED ON PAGE 87. This page lists them all of to the right in a single column. It includes the page number upon which each word is described and how it pertains to Ancient Egyptian society.
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Huge thanks to Sophie O'Shea for letting me know about advanced sale of King Tut's Tomb exhibit tickets for the California Science Center.
Please go to this link if you'd like to reserve tickets for your family to attend. I will give extra credit points to any student who attends and does a write-up! Stay tuned for more information on the extra credit opportunity.
Don't delay trying to get tickets. It will be a popular exhibit.
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The Egypt projects are not due until right before break, but by this Friday, all research for them should be concluded. You may work at home to finish up but we will no longer have library time (computer time!) Most students are finishing them up and will be able to turn in early! What a great feeling to get these projects done!
Keep up the great work! And THANK YOU for all the donations to the pyramid challenge. You guys are amazing. It was super fun and tasty!
-Ms. Weiss
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This week will study the mummification process! It's so fascinating and some parts of the process are still used in some funeral homes today! (Just some ;-)
We are also watching segments of a fantastic documentary from National Geographic on Ancient Egypt.
We will have time next week to finish the EGYPT PORTFOLIO PROJECTS in the library.
PLEASE BRING mini-marshmellows (the smaller ones!) & pointy toothpics for our Pyramid STEM Challenge. We are going to get in groups and see who can build the biggest pyramid fastest! It's a lot of fun and then you can eat your "mortar" when we are finished. :)))
I'll give lots of Raider Bills to kiddos who bring us our building supplies. We need lots of mini-marshmellows and pointy tooth pics. Please please please!!!
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Tonight, log in to http://upfront.scholastic.com (login) then enter "seaturtle1"
Read any article in the magazine. It can be a short article.
Write the title of the article
Write the author of the article if an author is listed.
Write a 5 sentence summary of the article.
Due tomorrow for 3rd, 4th, and 6th
Due Thursday for 1st period.
The documentary we are watching is https://youtu.be/C-fARGKzod8
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Dear Students,
We are working this week on the interactive notebook for Egypt and we will be in the library on Wednesday and Friday doing research for our Egypt projects. Please have the timeline page, the map page, the society pyramid (social hierarchy page) page, and the influencial pharoahs and rulers page completed by this Friday!
Remember that for your projects, you must work independently, and you may choose any member of Ancient Egyptian society that you wish to. Please follow the directions carefully. Books need to stay in the classroom but you may do research at home or at the local library additionally.
The projects will be due right before winter break! I'm so excited to see your projects!
-Ms. Weiss
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Visit this website - it is awesome! It will help you with your research!
Natasha Nirmal found this great site - www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/egypt/
Erin Kessel found these cool sites - www.ducksters.com/history/ancient_egyptian_pharaohs.php
and this one from the British Museum: www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html
If you are an "Artisan" then look at this site that Ry-ry and I found:
And one more from Ry-ry: https://readmecauseimancienthistory.weebly.com/index.html
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Index cards and triangles are due first thing Monday. There has been plenty of time this week to get the work done in class! If you need the weekend to finish up, so be it!
I'm attaching the interactive powerpoint that will help you with the triangle vocabulary and the timeline, which is the next page due in your interactive notebooks!
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Mesopotamia Test coming next Thursday postponed to Friday, November 3 (tomorrow)
Tonight, study 1. KEY TERMS 2. POWERPOINT on Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent 3. The notes from today! See below.
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Please watch this 12 minute video on Ancient Mesopotamia and Take some notes on the powerpoint for Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent.
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This week we will work in groups on another Fertile Crescent Map, we will go over notes on this unit, and we will work on designing our own Codex, just like the Ancient Sumarians had! Yup, that's the clay activity. Thank you so much to all the families who contributed the play-doh! Many many thanks to you!
This will be a great week Sea Turtles!
-Ms. Weiss
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Here are several helpful slideshows to help you review the Mesopotamia Unit.
Also, here is a link to the song: https://youtu.be/fdblRch6m3g
And the They Might Be Giants one: https://youtu.be/jAMRTGv82Zo
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Due first thing tomorrow:
Interactive Notebook Pages (Electronic Version OK too...Either way...)
The Table of Contents Page
The Hammurabi & Gilgamesh Page (Info on pp.73-75)
The Timeline Page (use dates from pp.52-53)
The Map Page (compass rose, 1 flap, one informative rectangle, map)
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Unit 1 Test is Tuesday, October 10th.
Review the first 2 chapters of your text book by going over the key terms and the questions at the end of the Chapter sections.
You may also want to review your notes and the power-points.
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Class Notes for Today:
The Agricultural Revolution
Hunter Gatherers (PRO) - Greater variety of foods, avoided diseases, stronger and healthier
(CON) - Always on the go, little protection from the elements, fewer resources
Agricultural villagers (PRO) - Steady food source (surplus), domesticated animals & plants, fertile soil, specialization of labor
(CON) - diseases spread easily because people living close together now, got crowded, lack of a variety of foods
We watched Brainpop: Agricultural Revolution
We reviewed great answers for the first 5 questions on page 34
Students who did not finish the first 3 questions on page 39 will finish those for homework. Due tomorrow. A few students need to finish up page 34! It's now past due.
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Here are the notes for the first Unit, Chapters 1 and 2. We will have our unit 1 test at the end of the month. Thus, I have assigned a due date for late September. However, I may change the due date. I wanted you to have the notes from the get-go!
This coming week, September 18-22, we will be working in the textbook on Unit 1. We will do some reading from the text but I'm providing the notes for you. I did give you an opportunity to write some of the notes last week while I was getting everyone caught up on our mapwork!
If you started taking the notes on Ch.1 you can STOP because the notes are on Edlio now for you to use and to study. Sometimes, students will finish projects early and I will assign note taking or reading ahead.
I'm also providing you with a list here of historical fiction titles that match up nicely with the 6th grade curriculum. I hope you will find some of these titles at your local library (if not in the RIS library) and enjoy them!
I'm looking forward to this week! I'll also be assigning the words to know for the unit (the bold words) and we will do those in DDC format this once. (Usually I will ask for flashcards but this time I'll be asking for a DDC (Define, Draw, and Create charts...See format attached also!)
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We started our Chapter 2 activity today. Students are working in pairs or small groups on the 4 questions that correspond to the 4 maps at the bottom of pages 14 & 15 in the Ancient Civilizations textbook. We have read the chapter and we are now practicing studying maps and legends to see what different types of maps reveal about the areas depicted. This work should be in your notebook or typed in Office 365 by the end of the class period on Friday, the 22nd. There is plenty of time to work on this in class.
Reminder: retake for the geography quiz will be Friday.
Also, any students absent for the rest of the week may have next week to get caught up or do the retake! No problem! Happy New Year to our Jewish students!
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Classwork Friday, Sept. 15
1. Why study history?
2. Read over Ch. 1 notes together
3. Have an amazing weekend little Raiders - I loved meeting the parents last night! <3
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Take class notes! Write or type. As you write and type you are learning the material! :-)
Notes are now provided and we are moving on so please don't continue to copy. This was assigned for students because others were finishing their work.
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Please study for a geography quiz - see terms below or study your index cards or quizlet!
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Please turn your Cultural Collage Flag on Monday, September 11, 2017.
They should have a finished quality. Did you scribble when coloring in? Is there a lot of white (negative space)? Add more symbols if you don't have enough to represent your culture.
They should be colorful and represent your background, culture, interests!
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Please finish making note cards or quizlet study cards by the end of class Friday.
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Print the Continent and Ocean Categorization Project
Print the Create a Map Project
Print Mystery Continent and Ocean Activity - page 1 only
You are printing these only. They are classwork.
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1) Print out the PDF Cultural collage file below. Staple it together and triple hole punch it. Place it in the general binder and bring it to class with you every day for the next 2-3 weeks, until the project is complete.
2) The interview portion of this assignment is due on Friday. You have tonight, tomorrow, and Thursday night to interview a parent(s) and/or grandparent(s) to help you with this assignment. You need to write a reflection that will be turned in Friday. The reflection is based on your answers to the bulleted questions on the first page. The rest of the project is not due yet. Stay tuned.