Friday, September 29th

Agenda: Friday Fun-Day Surprise! Check and Review Geography Challenge Critical Thinking Questions as a class. **iPad Day** Read article on Newsela on Roman Aqueducts as a class! Homework: None.

Thursday, September 28th

Agenda: Take the first 15 mins. of class to double-check with a partner on #s 1-6, then using your collaboration time with your partner, complete #s 7 & 8. Then you'll be using the rest of the time to work on #s 9-11 (the dreaded critical thinking)! Homework: Critical Thinking Qs are due by start of class tomorrow (if you don't finish them during classwork).

Wednesday, September 27th

Agenda: Handout needed Notebooks **NOTEBOOK DAY**. Also **iPad DAY**. Homework: Finish Geography Skills (1-6 ONLY), be ready to check and share tomorrow morning.

Friday, September 22nd

Agenda: Glue Self-Identity Head on back of Interactive Student Notebook :) Enjoy foreshadowing our unit on the Fall of the Roman Empire with first half of Rome: Engineering an Empire documentary! Homework: None.

Wednesday, September 20th

Agenda: Finish Classroom Fight activity. Handout Interactive Student Notebooks. Homework: None, Happy New Year to our Jewish Friends!

Tuesday, September 19th

Agenda: Discuss the importance of perspective with the classroom activity, "Lunchroom Fight". Homework: None.

Monday, September 18th

Agenda: Quick Weekend Wrap-Ups, then start group presentations of the 5 Themes of Geography. Homework: None.

Friday, September 15th

Agenda: Take the first half of class to continue to prepare for your Google Slide Group Presentation on Your Theme of Geography. Then we'll check in and see how you're looking. If time, we'll have the first group that would like to volunteer to go before the weekend. Homework: If your group doesn't go today, be ready to go first thing Monday morning.

Thursday, September 14th

Agenda: ***iPAD DAY*** As soon as class starts, get to work with your group members in your "Knights of the Roundtable" on creating your Google Slide Presentation on your selected theme of geography. Remember, EVERYONE will present tomorrow, so be ready at the start of class. And also keep in mind that it will be a group grade, so remember our other theme: teamwork! Homework: Finish crafting your Google Slide Presentation (a minimum of 3 slides), by the start of class tomorrow!!

Wednesday, September 13th

Agenda: Cut out our Self-Identity Profiles to show your parents tomorrow night! Then popcorn group work on Thinking Like Historian: History and Geography on Pg 112 in your Red Book. Then assign groups to present one of the 5 Themes of Geography. You'll be presenting at the start of class on Friday!! Homework: Continue to work on your Theme of Geography Google Slides Group Work.

Tuesday, September 12th

Agenda: 10 Minutes to Study at the start of class. Then turn-in World Maps. After that, take World Map Quiz. Homework: None.

Monday, September 11th (Patriot Day)

Agenda: 9/11 Remembrance/Reflection. Then quickly check World Maps, so that you can have the rest of class to study for your quiz tomorrow. Homework: STUDY, STUDY, STUDY for your World Map Quiz tomorrow.

Friday, September 8th

Agenda: Museum of Tolerance Day. Homework: World Map Due Completed by Start of Class on Monday.

Thursday, September 7th

Agenda: Quick check in with a partner to start class on the tough locations before you thin-tip sharpie them. Spend rest of working on map (Thin-Tip Sharping and if you're ready, coloring). **IPad Day** for the ones you may still be having difficulty locating in your book. Homework: Continue to work on World Maps (due at start of class on Monday) and World Map Quiz on Tuesday. DON'T FORGET TO BRING A LUNCH FOR THE MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE FIELD TRIP TOMORROW.

Wednesday, September 6th

Agenda: Do a quick check for location q.'s before you take the entire class to work on your World Maps. (You may make it an *IPad Day* if there are ones you are having difficulty locating in your book. Homework: Continue to work on World Maps (due at start of class on Monday) and World Map Quiz on Tuesday.

Tuesday, September 5th

Agenda: Weekend Wrap-Ups, then hand out World Maps and use the class time wisely to work on the pencil for your map. Homework: Continue working on World Map.

Friday, September 1st

Agenda: **iPad Day**Newsela Geography article. Then explain and start on finding locations on your World Map locator sheet. Homework: None.