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**Start of 4th Marking Period**
Monday, April 6
7ELA- poetry packet: alliteration
7SS- text page 283; notes: George Washington, cabinet;
vocabulary: precedent
8ELA- song lyrics project: choose two stanzas
8SS- chapter 24 review
Tuesday, April 7
7ELA- No Class: Career Fair at the high school
7SS- text pages 284-287; notes: Hamilton's Financial
Plan; vocabulary: tariff; homework: Whiskey
Rebellion worksheet
8ELA- song lyrics project: write original third verse
8SS- chapter 24 test
Wednesday, April 8
7ELA- poetry: simile, haiku
7SS- text page 290-295; notes: Treaty of Greenville;
worksheet: Republicans v. Federalists
8ELA- song lyrics project: posters
8SS- "Surviving Hitler" pages 1-30
Friday, April 10
7ELA- Easter presentation
**No other classes- half day**
Monday, April 20
7ELA- poetry: rhyme scheme, acrostic
7SS- text page 313-316; notes: Marbury v Madison,
judicial review; homework: Louisiana Purchase
worksheet
8ELA- Final project overview
8SS- "Surviving Hitler" pages 54-65
Tuesday, April 21
7ELA- poetry: onomatopoia, take-off
7SS- text page 317-319; notes: Louisiana Purchase,
Lewis and Clark; vocabulary: expedition,
continental divide; homework: Lewis & Clark
worksheet
8ELA- "Charles"
8SS- "Surviving Hitler" pages 66-98
Wednesday, April 22
7ELA- poetry: tone, finders-keepers
7SS- Lewis & Clark placemat and journal activities
8ELA- ONS reflection paper: planning
8SS- "Surviving Hitler" pages 99-114
Thursday, April 23
7ELA- poetry: license plates
7SS- Lewis & Clark video
8ELA- ONS reflection paper: rough draft
8SS- "Surviving Hitler" pages 114- finish
Friday, April 24
7ELA- "Crispin" pages 130-164
7SS- text pages 327-330; notes: War of 1812, Andrew
Jackson; vocabulary: nationalism
8ELA- ONS reflection paper: revision
8SS- Video: "One Survivor Remembers"
Monday, April 27
7ELA- poetry: hyperbole, start project
7SS- No Class: staff meeting
8ELA- ONS reflection paper: typing
8SS- text pages 836-838; vocabulary: communism,
satellite, notes: cold war, iron curtain, Truman
Doctrine, Marshall Plan; Brain Pop: communism,
cold war
Tuesday, April 28
7ELA- poetry projects
7SS- text pages 330-331; notes: Treaty of Ghent, Battle
of New Orleans; review
8ELA- ONS reflection paper: editing and DUE
8SS- text pages 838-840; notes: Berlin airlift, United
Nations
Wednesday, April 29
7ELA- No Class: planting ceremonies
7SS- No Class: band rehearsal
8ELA- No Class: planting ceremonies
8SS- text pages 850-854; notes: Korean War,
demilitarized zone; vocabulary: stalemate,
McCarthyism
Thursday, April 30
No Classes
Tuesday, May 5
7ELA- poetry: personification, meter/free verse;
poetry projects
7SS- test chapter 9
8ELA- No Class: academic fair work
8SS- text pages 855-859; notes: Cuban missile crisis;
quiz chapter 25
Wednesday, May 6
7ELA- academic fair work
7SS- text pages 347-353; notes: Monroe Doctrine, Andrew
Jackson; homework: Relations with Latin America
worksheet
8ELA- No Class: academic fair work
8SS- No Class: NYS science test
Thursday, May 7
7ELA- academic fair project presentations
7SS- text pages 354-357; notes: Indian Removal Act
8ELA- final project: person paragraphs
8SS- text pages 874-877; notes: Brown v Board
Friday, May 8
7ELA- "Crispin" pages 164-202; book project
presentations
7SS- text pages 358-359; notes: Trail of Tears;
worksheet: Trail of Tears
8ELA- final projects: interview questions
8SS- text pages 877-886; notes: Rosa Parks, Montgomery
Bus Boycott; vocabulary: civil disobedience
Monday, May 11
7ELA- computer lab for typing poetry
7SS- text pages 382-383; notes: industrial revolution;
vocabulary: capitalist
8ELA- pen pal letters
8SS- video: Rosa Parks; text pages 886-888; notes:
Martin Luther King, Jr; vocabulary: sit in
Tuesday, May 12
7ELA- computer lab for typing poetry
7SS- text pages 383-387; notes: mass production,
interchangeable parts
8ELA- No Class: orientation at the high school
8SS- No Class: orientation at the high school
Wednesday, May 13
7ELA- computer lab for typing poetry
7SS- text pages 390-393; notes: telegraph; vocabulary:
urbanization
8ELA- pen pal letters
8SS- text pages 889; notes: Civil Rights Act of 1964,
Voting Rights Act of 1965; quiz chapter 26
Thursday, May 14
7ELA- poetry projects typing
7SS- text pages 393-397; notes: cotton gin; vocabulary:
discrimination
8ELA- 'Pre-' worksheet
8SS- chapter 27: Vietnam Era
Friday, May 15
7ELA- Poetry projects due; "Crispin pages 202-224
7SS- text pages 399-403; notes: Erie Canal;
vocabulary: canal
8ELA- 'Sub-' worksheet
8SS- practice test: 2006 #1-30
Monday, May 18
7ELA- genre study: Science Fiction
7SS- No Class-CASL
8ELA- 'itis' worksheet
8SS- practice test: 2006 #31-45 & CRQ
Tuesday, May 19
7ELA- genre Study: Science Fiction
7SS- video: industrial revolution
8ELA- 'ology' worksheet
8SS- practice test: 2006 DBQ
Wednesday, May 20
7ELA- genre study: non-fiction
7SS- quiz chapter 11
8ELA- 'poly' worksheet
8SS- practice test: 2007 #1-30
Thursday, May 21
No Classes: Spring Dinner!!
Tuesday, May 26
7ELA- genre study: mystery; "Crispin" pages 224-230
7SS- Railroad/Canal DBQ; homework: documents 4, 5, 6
8ELA- Final Projects: outlines
8SS- practice test: 2007 #31-45 & CRQ
Wednesday, May 27
7ELA- genre study: fantasy
7SS- Railroad/Canal DBQ planning; homework: essay
8ELA- Final projects: rough drafts
8SS- practice test: 2007 DBQ
Thursday, May 28
7ELA- Final Project: Create-A-Character
7SS- text pages 422-426; notes: William Lloyd
Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Underground
Railroad, Harriet Tubman; vocabulary:
abolitionist
8ELA- final projects: rough drafts
8SS- practice test: 2008 #1-30
Friday, May 29
7ELA- "Crispin" pages 230-249
7SS- Video: Escape to Freedom
8ELA- final projects: rough drafts
8SS- practice test 2008 #31-45 & CRQ
Monday, June 1
7ELA- final projects
7SS- text pages 427-428
8ELA- Final projects
8SS- practice test: 2008 DBQ
Tuesday, June 2
7ELA- final projects
7SS- text pages 447-451; notes: manifest destiny, Santa
Fe Trail, Oregon Trail; vocabulary: expansion,
rendezvous; homework: Trails to the West worksheet
8ELA- final projects
8SS- State Test
Wednesday, June 3
7ELA- final projects
7SS- No Class
8ELA- final projects
8SS- State Test
Thursday, June 4
7ELA- final projects
7SS- No Class- school softball game
8ELA- final projects
8SS- study hall
Friday, June 5
7ELA- final projects
7SS- text pages 454-456; vocabulary: siege, annex;
notes: Republic of Texas; homework: Independence
for Texas worksheet
8ELA- final projects
8SS- study hall
Monday, June 8
7ELA- final projects
7SS- No Class- CASL
8ELA- final projects
8SS- study hall
Tuesday, June 9
7ELA- final projects
7SS- text pages 457-459; vocabulary: cede; notes:
Mexican-American War, Mexican Cession, Gadsden
Purchase; homework: War with Mexico worksheet
8ELA- final projects
8SS- study hall
Wednesday, June 10
7ELA- final projects
7SS- text pages 464-465; notes: The California Gold
Rush; vocabulary: vigilantes; Brain Pop:
Mexican-American War, Gold Rush
8ELA- final projects
8SS- study hall
Thursday, June 11
7ELA- final projects
7SS- Growth of the U.S. worksheet
8ELA- final projects
8SS- study hall
Friday, June 12
7ELA- final projects
7SS- study hall
8ELA- final projects due
8SS- study hall
Monday, June 15
7ELA- final projects; book project presentations
7SS- Jeopardy review of chapter 13
8ELA- book project presentations
8SS- study hall
Tuesday, June 16
7ELA- final project presentations
7SS- chapter 13 review
8ELA- study hall
8SS- study hall
**End of 4th Marking Period**
Wednesday, June 17
7ELA- study hall
7SS- FINAL EXAM: chapter 13
8ELA- study hall
8SS- study hall
Thursday, June 18
*Graduation Rehearsal in morning
*Yearbooks handed out
*Moccasin Dance in afternoon
Friday, June 19
*7th and 8th grade to Baldwinsville for field trip
Monday, June 22
*Half Day of School
*8th grade graduation at 6:00 pm
Tuesday, June 23
*Half Day of School
Wednesday, June 24
*Jamesville Beach 8:30-1:00
Thursday, June 25
*Half Day of School
*Last Day of School
Have a safe and fun summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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