Calendar


 * April 22 -** Green zone trip for 6th grade
 * April 23 -** review and post test for the course
 * April 24 -** Learned how to use the Question Exploration Guide and began using it for a critical question - will become essay.
 * April 25 -** began reading articles to take notes for argumentative essay
 * April 23 -** review and post test for the course
 * April 24 -** Learned how to use the Question Exploration Guide and began using it for a critical question - will become essay.
 * April 25 -** began reading articles to take notes for argumentative essay


 * April 28 -** continued reading 2 articles and taking notes for argumentative essay
 * April 29 -** completed prewrite on the Question Exploration Guide.
 * April 30 -** write rough draft. Any of these steps could be finished at home if students needed more time.
 * May 1 -** Turn rough drafts into final drafts
 * May 2 -** turn in Question Exploration Guide and final drafts in for grade. Unit Organizer completed for new unit, schedule in planners, book preview.


 * May 5 -** Middle Ages in Europe - vocabulary to define, film clip
 * May 6 -** vocabulary Bingo - drill on vocabulary by definitions
 * May 7** - Ch 17-1 read, take notes, correct notes.
 * May 8 -** round table review, then drawing of a figure - include 10 details that explain what life was like in Germanic villages.
 * May 9 -** 17-2 read, take notes, correct notes.


 * May 12 -** fill in maps of Europe and answer the first 2 Big Questions from unit organizer into notebooks
 * May 13 -** Charlemagne - What was so great about Charles the Great? Read first half of Ch 18 and take notes.
 * May 14 -** Charlemagne continued. finish Ch 18
 * May 15 -** Anglo Saxons - who they were, and where they settled
 * May 16 -** Vikings - who they were and where they attacked


 * May 19 -** review and quiz
 * May 20 -** life in Middle Ages film
 * May 21 -** feudalism. Become an expert in one subject about feudalism from the book.
 * May 22 -** share with the class what you know and get notes for the parts you don't
 * May 23 -** life on a feudal manor film


 * May 27 -** review
 * May 28 -** quiz
 * May 29 -** Hersey Park trip for band and chorus. All others review again.
 * May 30 -** green zone activity in afternoon. Those in class or not in green zone retake either of the quizzes and average the 2 scores to improve.


 * June 2 -** Role of the Church - notes from book
 * June 3 -** Role of the Church finish. Symphonic Band tour elementary schools.
 * June 4 -** Cathedrals film and notes
 * June 5 -** finish cathedrals
 * June 6 -** Crusades


 * June 9 -** Crusades finish
 * June 10 -** timeline of Middle Ages and turn in books
 * June 11 -** review
 * June 12 -** Unit Test
 * June 13 -** grade notebooks, closing activity