Before you begin to depend on this site too much, I want to make something very clear. I am constantly revising my lesson plans. Each day that goes by, when I am teaching, there is a possibility I will revise my plans for homework or a date for a test. YOU MUST UNDERSTAND that you cannot absolutely, 100% rely on these dates or this information(listed on this site) to be totally and completely accurate. I will try to post information once a week about what we are doing, but during the course of that week, due to many different factors, our schedule may change.
For example, if I find that my students needed more than one day to work on a lesson, I give them an extra day over what was originally planned, and then the quiz or test schedule is moved a bit further into the future. Sometimes we might have a program or assembly at school, perhaps even a fire drill, that takes up class time and I am not able to teach the lesson that day that I wanted to. These type of things will make me adjust my schedule for quizzes and tests. I may even add a homework assignment that was not originally planned.
The bottom line is: you must listen to what I say in class and write down your homework based on what I have on my board. IF YOU USE THIS SITE AS YOUR SOLE SOURCE OF INFORMATION, YOU MIGHT NOT GET THE RIGHT DATES OR OTHER MATERIAL PERTAINING TO QUIZZES, TESTS, AND WHEN HOMEWORK IS DUE.
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WHAT WE ARE STUDYING
Week Nine, October 6-10 "Germany"
The structure of the government, major concern/environmental issue: acid rain in Germany. Explain how the collapse of the Soviet Union led to an end of the Cold War and to German reunification. Explain the diversity of European language as seen in a comparison of German and English. Compare how the location, climate, natural resources of Germany affect where people live and how they trade. Compare the parliamentary system of UK of Great Britain, and Northern Ireland (UK) and the federal system of the Federated Republic of Germany distinguishing the form of leadership and the role of the citizen in terms of voting and personal freedoms. Compare the basic types of economic systems found in the UK and Germany.
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TESTS AND PROJECTS COMING UP?
Might have a test on Friday, Oct 10 that will include all info gone over in class this week. Make sure you keep everything I give you!
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NOTEBOOK TABLE OF CONTENTS
Look on the wall at the side of the room, on the yellow paper to see what you are supposed to have written down on the first page of your notebook... your "notebook table of contents".
1.Definitions and Vocabulary Words
2.Notes and Facts
3.Handouts and Study Guides
4.additional classwork to study and review at home
5.Notes on any ongoing projects
6.CRCT Prep and Muscogee Accountability Plan Review questions
You need to bring your social studies notebook each day. It must be a notebook that has three brads, or three rings so that you can add handouts and materials to it as I give them to you. A folder with pockets only will not work.
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I am happy that you are in my class and I look forward to spending this school year with you!
Please email me anytime if you have any questions or concerns.
lcowart@mcsdga.net or CowartatSugarMill@yahoo.com
Lisa Crowson Cowart
Richards Middle School
Sixth Grade Social Studies
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Need a copy of what we are studying about? Need to watch a video again in order to have the information repeated? Look at the links provided below. You can go to www.gpb.org/education, click on video streaming, sign on as me (see notes below how), and search for our topic of study. Look at the "teachers guide" or the "blackline masters" if you want to see again what we went over and discussed in class.
To signon as me: "Lisa Cowart" (no quotation marks)
password is "warriors" (no quotation marks)
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BRAINPOP.COM
Want to review a brainpop we saw in class? You can log on as me. "LisaCowart" with no quotation marks, and the password is "warriors" with no quotation marks. There are many interesting animated videos that you might be interested in seeing. (PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE be sure to logout when you are done so someone else can look at it. Only three people at a time are allowed to signon with my logon at once. If you don't logout, someone else might not be able to logon.)
FINDING OUT IF A BOOK IS "AR" at Richards:
from any computer, anywhere...
go to www.mcsdga.net
click on the left "resources"
pull down to "Destiny:Libraries"
click on Richards
Search Reading Programs: Accelerated Reader
type in your book name to see if it's AR at Richards
OR
type in your child's minimum reading level to get a list of all AR books they can test/read on at Richards.
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STUDY GUIDES
Will be given to you in class this week. Keep in your notebook. If you lose it, you will "be up the creek without a paddle" (my mom's favorite phrase... that means you would "find yourself in a pickle"!)
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