REVOLUTION PEOPLE QUIZ

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UNIT 6 VOCABULARY QUIZ


UNIT 6 Pre-AP Vocabulary Quiz

Unit 6 Vocabulary Hangman

Today students will start Unit 6 by working on Vocabulary Boxes listing things the word is like, things it is not like and drawing a picture to represent the word. Vocabulary boxes are due on Monday, December 14th. The Unit 6 Vocabulary Quiz will be on Tuesday.

CLICK HERE FOR THE UNIT 6 VOCABULARY BOXES

http://www.slideshare.net/secret/5wx7IokbpoSezf

UNIT 6 PRE-TEST

CLICK HERE FOR UNIT 5 TEST


CLICK HERE FOR UNIT 5 PRE-AP TEST


When you are finished with your test:

1) Unit 5 Cover Sheet
Pictures describing the "Road to Revolution"
NO WHITE SPACE!!!!


2) Get Unit 5 papers organized

Unit 5 Title Page
P. 1&2 Vocabulary Squares
P. 3 Economic and Political Relationship Notes
P. 4 Colonial dissatisfaction notes
P. 5 Road to Revolution Cartoon Instruction Sheet
P. 6 Station Review Worksheet
P. 7 Road to Revolution Cartoons

UNIT 5 Test will be Tuesday, December 8th. Students should be reviewing their notes every night and will get their Unit 5 notecards on Thursday.

Rags to Riches Unit 5 Review

Unit 5 Battleship

Today in class students drew cartoons to show the events the led to the revolution. Students need to complete these drawings for homework. They must be neat, detailed and colored.

Cartoon Directions

Cartoon Boxes

Monday and Tuesday in class students took notes on:
(1) The political and economic relationship between the colonies and the English
(2) Causes of the American Revolution

Click here for the powerpoint that goes with the notes sheet.

Students will be drawing cartoons on Wednesday illustrating the relationship between the English and the colonies. Click here for Cartoon Directions and click here for Cartoon boxes.

The Unit 5 Test will be on Tuesday, December 8th.

UNIT 1-4 Challenge Board Review

UNIT 5 VOCABULARY QUIZ CLICK HERE


PREAP Vocabulary Quiz Click Here

Unit 5 Vocabulary Quiz Tomorrow!!!!

Unit 5 Hangman

Unit 5 Vocabulary Columns

WARMUP QUIZ

Today in class students started their Unit 5 Vocabulary Boxes.
For each word students need to write:
two things the word is like
two things the word is not like
draw and color one picture to illustrate the word.

The vocabulary boxes are due on Tuesday. They will also have their vocabulary quiz on Tuesday. PreAp students will need to know the definition of the word AND be able to spell the word correctly.

On Monday all students will have a warmup quiz. An example of a quiz question would be: What was the answer to the warmup on September 22nd? or What was the warmup question on October 12th? Students will be able to use their notebooks where they have written the warmups on the quiz. If students were absent or want to check their warmups they can find a record of all the warmups by clicking the link on the left side of the blog.

Click here for UNIT 5 PRE-TEST

Unit 4 Colonial America Test

COLONIAL AMERICA TEST PRE-AP

UNIT 4 Test is on Wednesday, November 18th.

All students will take their Unit 4 Test on November 18th. Unit 4 is one of the hardest units that we study all year. To help students review I will hold an after school review session on Tuesday, November 17th from 3:15 - 4:15. Permission slips will be sent home on Monday to all students who are interested. Students are also welcome to come before school or for lunch to review.

Click here for the ActivVote Review

Unit 4 covers Colonial America and students need to know the following:

The 3 major areas of Colonial America (New England, Mid-Atlantic and Southern) and be able to describe the climate/geography, political/civic live, social life and economic life for each areas.

The First Settlements (Roanoke Island, Jamestown, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts Bay, Pennsylvania and Georgia. For each settlement students need to know where it is, who settled there and why they settled there.

Occupations in Colonial America (Slaves, Indentured Servants, Artisans, Women, Large Landowners, Farmers). Students need to be able to describe each of these occupations.

Click here for the PreAp project Instructions

Areas of Colonial America Quiz

PreAp has a quiz tomorrow on Colonial America. They need to know about the political/civic life, economic life, social life and climate/geography of the three areas of Colonial America.
Colonial America Millionaire Game
Colonial America Challenge Board
Colonial America Battleship

In all the other classes we took notes on Colonial Life in New England. Students need to complete their drawings of New England for homework. See the post below for an example of my drawings.

PreAp classes took notes on Tuesday on Colonial America. They will use these notes to complete drawings of the New England, Mid-Atlantic and Southern Colonies on Friday. PreAp students will have a quiz on this information on Tuesday, November 10th. Click here for the notes and drawing worksheet and click here for the PowerPoint that goes with the notes sheet.

All other classes began working on their cartoon projects on colonization. Students will use the computer to design a cartoon about one of the early English settlements. We will work on these projects on Thursday and Friday.

COLONIZATION QUIZ

In class on Monday students completed a review sheet for their quiz on Wednesday. Click here for the review sheet.

Unit 4 Battleship

Unit 4 Millionaire

The quiz on Wednesday will cover:

1. Location of the 13 colonies (South, Mid-Atlantic, New England)
2. Colonization notes on the 6 settlements (Roanoke Island, Jamestown, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Pennsylvania and Georgia)
3. Occupations of people living in the colonies (Farmers, Women, Slaves, etc.)

Students drew pictures of occupations in colonial America. Students need to complete these drawings for homework. For each occupation on the worksheet students need to draw a picture that describes the ENTIRE description for each box. My example is below.






On Wednesday, students will have a quiz on the following:





(1) The 13 colonies
5 colonies in the South
4 colonies in the Middle
4 colonies in New England

(2) The 6 settlements that we took notes on in class (Roanoke Island, Jamestown, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Pennsylvania and Georgia). They need to know all of the information from their notes sheets.



(3) The occupations of the people living in the the 13 colonies.

Virginia Company Song 1st Period

Virgina Company Song 2nd Period

Virginia Company Song 4th Period

Virginia Company Song 5th Period

Virginia Company Song 6th Period

Virginia Company Song 7th Period

After the Vocab quiz on Tuesday students worked on their 13 colonies map. Each student should have a map that shows the New England, Middle and Southern regions.





We will take notes on the reasons for colonization on Wednesday and Thursday. For copies of the notes sheet click the link below.

Colonization notes sheet

Colonization Powerpoint

UNIT 4 VOCAB QUIZ CLICK HERE

UNIT 4 PRE-AP VOCAB QUIZ CLICK HERE

In class on Friday and Monday students worked on their Unit 4 Vocabulary Squares.
For each word students need to:

• Give two examples of what it is like
• Give two examples of what it is not like
• Draw a picture of the word

Vocabulary boxes are due on Tuesday. Students will also have a quiz on these words on Tuesday.

PreAP classes must also be able to spell the words correctly.

Unit 4 Vocabulary Hangman

Unit 4 Vocabulary Battleship

Unit 4 Vocabulary Jumble

UNIT 4 PRETEST CLICK HERE

UNIT 3 TEST CLICK HERE

UNIT 3 EXTRA CREDIT

Earn 2 points on your test by posting a comment that includes the following information:

1) First Name and Class Period (do NOT post your last name)
2) List the 4 explorers we discussed in class, the area that they explored and the country they were from.

You must post by 8:00am on Tuesday morning to receive extra credit.

UNIT 3 Review Games

Unit 3 Hangman
Unit 3 Millionaire
Unit 3 Challenge Board
Unit 3 Matching

Explorers Quiz

Wednesday we will have a quiz on Exploration that will cover:

Portuguese trade with Ghana, Mali and Songhai
What was traded
Who traded what
The time period that this happened
The location of the Niger River and Sahara Desert in Africa.

Cultural Interaction between First Americans and European Explorers
How the French, Spanish and English interacted with First Americans
Areas of conflict (land, competition for trade, cultural differences, language and disease) and cooperation (technology, trade, crops) between First Americans and Europeans

Review Millionaire

Review Battleship

Monday in class students made drawings showing the cultural interactions between First Americans and Europeans. They used their note sheet from Thursday to complete their drawings. The drawings must be completed by Tuesday so that each student can participate in the walk and talk (sharing of drawings with classmates).

Wednesday we will have a quiz on Exploration that will cover:

Portuguese trade with Ghana, Mali and Songhai

• What was traded
• Who traded what
• The time period that this happened
• The location of the Niger River and Sahara Desert in Africa.

Cultural Interaction between First Americans and European Explorers

• How the French, Spanish and English interacted with First Americans
• Areas of conflict (land, competition for trade, cultural differences, language and disease) and cooperation (technology, trade, crops) between First Americans and Europeans

Unit 3 Exploration Vocabulary Quiz
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Bedwell Quiz

Our Unit 3 Vocabulary test is Thursday and will cover the 16 vocabulary words from the Vocabulary Squares worksheet. We began our exploration notes on Tuesday. We started with Portugal and their trade with the West African societies of Mali, Ghana and Songhai. Each student should have a notes sheet and a drawing that demonstrates their understanding of the notes. If you neeed a notes sheet click here.

Don't forget to bring in your money for the play. The last day to bring in money is on Thursday (tomorrow)!!!

We will begin our Unit 3 vocabulary today. There are 16 vocabulary words for Unit 3 and we started our vocabulary boxes in class. For each word students need to:
1) give two examples of what it is like
2) give two examples of what it is not like
3) draw a picture with color

The vocabulary squares worksheet is due on Wednesday and there will be a vocabulary quiz on Thursday.

Starting Tuesday homeroom teachers will be collecting money from students to attend the high school play, Charlie Brown Comes to Town, on Friday, October 9th. The cost of the play is $1.00. Students need to turn in their money by Thursday if they would like to attend the play.

Friday in class students completed their Unit 3 PreTest. After the PreTest students completed any missing assignments from Unit 2. We then organized our Unit 2 files by taking out all of our notes sheets and putting them in folders to keep in the class. We also created a Unit 2 Title Page. Students need to finish this at home if it was not completed in class.

UNIT 3 PRETEST

UNIT 2 TEST CLICK HERE
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.Bedwell Unit 2

PRE-AP UNIT 2 TEST CLICK HERE

Tuesday in class students finished their First American projects. When they were finished they worked on their Food, Clothing and Shelter handout. For each group of First Americans students need to draw a picture representing how they got their food, clothing and shelter. Click here if you need the handout . Here is an example of what your handout should look like.

Click on the link on the left side if you need the warmups from this week.

Picture day is Wednesday!!!

The Unit 2 Test will be Thursday, October 1st. This test will cover our unit on First Americans. Students should be studying their yellow notecards and pages 1-4 in their history notebooks. Students need to know the following on our 5 groups of First Americans:

1) What type of shelter they had

2) Where they lived (location)

3) Climate/Geography of their location

Students can use the following review games to practice:
Rags to Riches
Jeopardy
First American Hangman
Vocabulary Hangman
Vocabulary Battleship

AtivVote Unit 2 Review

First American Songs written and recorded by PreAp 1st and 7th Period.

Derrik, Nathan, Justin

Rachel, Karyn, Taylor

Inuits by Ashley, Ellie and Amelia

Sioux: Ian, Caleb, Isaiah

Inuit: Brent, Kyle, Patrick

Hailiey, Abbey, Megan

Daniel, Bri, Sarah

Juli, Callie

Haley, Ross and Stephanie

Stevie and Noah

After the vocabulary quiz today students received their First Americans Notecards. They should be reviewing these every night! Below are some review activities on quia.

Rags to Riches
Review Patterns
Hangman
Jeopardy

In class on Friday students will be working on a project for the First Americans.
1st and 7th Period PreAP: will be put in groups and tasked with creating a song for one of the First American Groups.

2nd, 4th, 5th and 6th Period will be put in groups and tasked with creating a flier for one of the First American Groups.

Both activities will be completed in class and graded.

On Wednesday in class we started our notes on the First Americans and we will finish them on Thursday. In total students will have 2 sheets of notes completed by Thursday. One sheet on each of the different First Americans and another sheet on food, shelter and clothing.
I have posted the notes sheets on the classnotes page which you can access by clicking the link on the right side of the page.

We will have a vocabulary quiz on Thursday on the 8 vocabulary words from the vocabulary boxes (environment, resources, arid, arctic, inhabited, dispersed, climate, harvested).

Vocabulary Hangman

Vocabulary Matching

Vocabulary Battleship

Students will receive their First American Flashcards on Thursday after their quiz. They should be studying them nightly!

Today in class students worked on vocabulary squares worksheet for Unit 2. For each of the 8 words they need to:
1) list two things it is like
2) list two things it is not like
3) draw a picture

What was not finished in class is homework.

UNIT 2 PreTest: Click Here

Today we finished our notes for our Geography Unit. Students will be having their first Unit Test in this Friday, September 18th. The following will be on the test and should be used to review:

1. Notebook pages 1-5
2. Green Notecards (46 of them)
3. Review Games listed below

Review Games: Click below or go to the quia webpage and look in the activities folders.
Geography Jeopardy

Geography Millionaire

Unit 1 Activ Vote Review

Come to class with questions if you don't understand something!

Geographical Regions

Today in class we began learning about the 8 geographic regions of the U.S. Each class created a sentence to remember the regions and where they are located.

Students to earn extra credit on your test: post a comment to this message listing the sentence your class uses to remember the Geographical Regions across the United States AND the Geographical Regions that the sentence stands for. Please post your first name, last initial and period number as your name. (Ex. Katie S. 1st). Good luck!! :). You must post by Wednesday at 8:00 am to get a ticket.

CLICK HERE FOR YOUR GEOGRAPHY QUIZ

Mr. Bedwell Geography Quiz

GEOGRAPHY REVIEW ACTIVITIES:

Bodies of Water Review: http://www.quia.com/jg/1706856.html
Vocabulary Battleship: http://www.quia.com/ba/317653.html
Bodies of Water Matching: http://www.quia.com/quiz/1919006.html
Continents and Oceans Matching: http://www.quia.com/quiz/1918612.html
Vocabulary Flashcards: http://www.quia.com/jg/1700676.html
Geography Millionare: http://www.quia.com/rr/507616.html

I can't believe it is already the third week of school! Yesterday we finished our notes on Longitude and Latitude and today we are working on the major bodies of water in North America. Today students colored and labeled a map with major bodies of water in the United States and took notes on the back explaining why they are significant. The map should look similar to the one to the right.

Students have a quiz on Friday that will cover:

(1) Labeling the continents, oceans, bodies of water in North America

(2) Explaining the importance of the bodies of water in North America

(3) Geography vocabulary including longitude and latitude

Today we learned about Longitude and Latitude by learning a song and playing a game. In the game students had to use longitude and latitude to find points on a map. The students seemed to love the game and demonstrated that they were able to use longitude and latitude correctly. I can't believe week two is already over! It has been a great week and I hope everyone has a restful weekend! See you Tuesday.

Today in class students took their vocabulary quiz. After that they cut out their first set of notecards and made a cover sheet for their notebook. Students should be reviewing their notecards every night and they should also bring them to class everyday! Tomorrow we start longitude and latitude and will continue with it on Monday.

Vocabulary Quiz Link
Pd. 2, 4, 5, 6: click here http://www.quia.com/quiz/1910723.html

Pd. 1, 7: click here http://www.quia.com/quiz/1911390.html

Today we labeled continents and oceans and reviewed our geography vocabulary. Tomorrow we will have a quiz on the geography terms. Make sure you study your 8 words and practice on quia. You also need to finish coloring your continents and oceans map.

Today the students started their geography vocabulary. They were each given a worksheet with eight words and a definition. The students then had to come up with examples for:

• what the word is like
• what the word is not like
• a picture for the word

Students are welcome to post to the blog if they are stuck on any of the words. We shared some in class today and each class had very creative examples for the words. I can't wait to hear more of them tomorrow!

Homework is to finish the worksheet and have their computer login cards signed. We will have a vocabulary quiz on Thursday.

Pretest

Click on the link to access the pretest. http://www.quia.com/quiz/1894665.html

We had a great first week and I really enjoyed getting to know everyone. The students did a fantastic job with their globe project!!! I can't wait to hang them up on the wall this week.

On Monday we will take the pretest for geography. The pretest does not count against the students' grade - it is only used to see how much they already know before the unit starts. On Monday I will also hand out info cards to each student. It will have their computer login for WBMS and their quia login. We will use quia for online quizzes, tests and practice activities. Most of the class on Monday will be spent getting the students acquainted with the laptop computers.

I am looking forward to another fantastic week and I am very excited to start our first unit on Geography. If anyone would like to do some practice activities they can click on the quia link on the side of the page.

Today students shared their globes with the class. Everyone who completed their globe did a fantastic job. The globes were awesome! The drawings were great and the students really enjoyed listening to their classmates present. I am so proud of everyone for doing such a good job. Those who did not get to present will do so tomorrow. The globes will be on display all year in my room and I hope you get to see them on back to school night.

Students also received their textbooks. These can stay at home until June when I collect them. We are lucky enough to have a class at school to use during the day.

Tomorrow we will organize notebooks and start learning how to access information online. We will have a pretest on Monday which will not count against their grade and then we dive right into the geography unit.

Today in class the students started their globe project. This is due tomorrow (Thursday) in class and students are expected to present their globes to the class.

Globe instructions:

1) Put your first and last name in the middle.

2) Draw seven pictures that represent you.

3) NO white space.

4) Neatness and effort count. I am not grading you on artistic ability but on your effort!

We are off to a great start in History. I know many students have brought home papers that need to be filled in by their parents. If you dig through the stack of papers from the student conduct code there is a white sheet that helps you figure out what needs to come back to school and what stays at home.

In history class today we reviewed the Class Syllabus and the Rules and Procedures. I also sent each student home with a contact sheet. Parents need to fill out the top sheet and students need to fill out the bottom of the sheet. If your child does not have a copy of the Info Sheet you can download it by clicking on the link on the left for classnotesonline.com

If you have any questions or concerns please contact me.

Welcome 6th Grade Students!!!! Most of you were able to attend the Terrier Transition program and were able to learn a little about what to expect at William Byrd Middle School. The first day of school is August 24th and I am looking forward to getting to know all of my students. I will use this blog to communicate with students and parents about my classroom and activities at the school. This will include information on what we did in class, upcoming quizzes and tests and any school announcements. I will also include links to other webpages that will be useful to you.

Supply List

Students will need the following items for US History

3 ring binder (daily)
spiral notebook or loose leaf paper to be put in 3 ring binder (daily)
pen/pencil (daily)
10 folders with prongs. I will collect these the first week of school and we will use them to organize each unit.
1 package of 3x5 index cards. I will collect these the first week of school to use throughout the year.

All supplies must be in class by Friday, August 29th.