Ms. Tuttle

Week 31, March 30-April 3

Only one more week until Spring Break!  Let's work hard for a few more days and then have a much deserved rest!

This week in Georgia Studies

• Monday - Chapter 10 Test and Benchmark 3 Review
• Tuesday - Benchmark Test and Chapter 11, Sections 1 and 2 (Culture of the 1920s and the Great Depression)
• Wednesday - Guided Reading 11.3 (The Great Migration)
• Thursday - Guided Reading 11.4 (WW II)
• Friday - Documentaries and make-up work

AC Students will have a modified version of the above schedule due to the honor roll celebration on Tuesday. 

Language Arts

• Monday - Job search skills: Networking and Practicing writing responses to interview questions
• Tuesday - Oral interview questions and The Art of Hand Shaking.
• Wednesday - Guest speakers Mrs. Birchman and Officer Alexander
• Thursday - Begin job interviews - Each student will have a 10 minute interview with a volunteer from the community.  Students should dress appropriately.
• Friday - Interviews continued.  Additional work - Deciphering a pay stub.

Week 30, March 23-27

This week in Georgia Studies, we will finish chapter 10, The Progressive Era.  We will learn about the Great Depression and WWI before having a quiz on Thursday.  Students will complete the study guide for the test on Friday.  The test will be next Tuesday, the 31st.

AC students will take their chapter 10 test on Monday, 3/30, due to the honor roll celebration scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.  They will also complete Current Event #8.  The assignment should be downloaded at home.  Use the embedded link to Georgia newspapers to find an interesting article before answering the questions.  This will be due on Friday.  Download Online_current_event

Above - Booker T. Washington at his "Atlanta Compromise" speech in 1895.
In Language Arts this week

• Monday - Mr. Michelow will speak to us about basic web design and professional writing expectations. 
• Tuesday - Students will finish a handwritten final draft of their resumes and begin a rough draft of their cover letters.
• Wednesday - Students will fill out an application for the job they have chosen.
• Thursday - We will be in the computer lab to type resumes and cover letters for one day only.  All of the technical writing activities from Skills Tutor are due.
• Friday - Students will be given further information about the 8th grade job fair.

Week 29, March 16-20

Report cards go home on Thursday.

This week in Georgia Studies...

• Monday - Sections 9.3/4
• Tuesday - Comparing the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
• Wednesday - Chapter 9 Review/Quiz
• Thursday - Chapter 9 Test and Chapter 10 Vocabulary - The Progressive Era
• Friday - Sections 10.1/2

AC Social Studies

• Monday - Students will participate in a shared inquiry discussing about key concepts in Reconstruction.  HW - Read opposing viewpoint articles about slavery reparations.
• Tuesday -  Socratic Seminar about slavery reparations.
• Wednesday - Quiz and Georgia Fact Quilt
• Thursday - Chapter 9 Test and Chapter 10 Vocabulary
• Friday - Sections 10.1/2 and Fact Quilt

Language Arts

• Monday and Tuesday - Students will work on technical writing skills with Skills Tutor.
• Wednesday - We will have a guest speaker talking about technical writing.
• Thursday - Begin filling out a rough draft job application.
• Friday - Write a rough draft resume.

Week 28, March 9-13

This week in Georgia Studies we will complete chapter 8 with the following:

• Essential questions packet - Monday
• Study guide - Monday/Tuesday
• Test essay questions - Tuesday
• Multiple choice test - Wednesday
• Chapter 9 vocabulary - Wednesday
• Section 9.1 - Thursday
• Section 9.2 - Friday

Throughout chapter nine, students will analyze the impact of Reconstruction on Georgia. emphasizing Freedmen’s Bureau; sharecropping and tenant farming; Reconstruction plans; 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the constitution; Henry McNeal Turner and black legislators; and the Ku Klux Klan.

Language Arts students will continue developing business writing techniques as they finish a final draft of the letter of complaint.

Week 27, March 2-6

Remember, Tuesday is an Early Release day.

This week in Georgia Studies, students will view a video about the economy during the Civil War and draw conclusions, read a war packet and organize concepts, complete a chapter 8 review, and examine the chapter's essential questions and key vocabulary.

AC students will also participate in Civil War Centers for enrichment.

In Language Arts, students will turn in the final draft of the inquiry letter and continue developing technical/business writing skills.  They will take notes about the types of business writing and watch a video about professional communication skills while completing a graphic organizer.