Please complete the reading in the time frames specified in class.
Make dot notes on the reading.
Write notes on the page started in class!
This should take no more than 45 minutes total!
Have a great Thanksgiving!
2013-11-22
Greek Art: Inquiry into Pottery Due Tuesday 11/26
Complete the assignment provided in class using the visuals and descriptions provided.
2013-11-20
Rapidly Read the Greeks!
Read Rapidly to Comprehend II
Name_____________________________________ date________/12
Goal: Learn to read rapidly and increase your comprehension.
Homework: Use a timer, your textbook, and a piece of paper and pen to complete this assignment.
1. Read pages 143-145: Athens and the Development of Democracy: Take 7 minutes only.
2. Turn your book over and do not look at it while you make notes. Take 3 minutes only
3. Choose 4 key terms/name and write a brief definition from the text. Take 1 1/2 minutes only.
4. Read page 146-147. War with Persia : Take 6 minutes only..
5. Turn your book over and do not look at it while you make notes. Take 3 minutes only
6. Choose 2 key terms/name and write a brief definition from the text. Take 1 minute only.
7. Read page 154-155 The Conquests of Philip : Take 3 minutes only.
8. Turn your book over and do not look at it while you make notes. Take 1 minute only
9. Choose 2 key terms/name and write a brief definition from the text. Take 1 minute only.
2013-11-18
Rapid Reading Due Wednesday
1. Period 4: Test corrections due Weds.
2. Bring text to the next class!
3. Read Rapidly to Comprehend
Goal: Learn to read rapidly and increase your comprehension.
Homework: Use a timer, your textbook, and a piece of paper and pen to complete this assignment.
1. Read pages 150-152: The Limits of City-State Democracy: Take 7 minutes only.
2. Turn your book over and do not look at it while you
Make notes from the reading
3. Choose 4 key terms/name and write a brief definition from the text. You may use the text. Take 1 1/2 minutes only.
4. Read page 147. Athens: from City-State to Mini-Empire : Take 1 minute only.
5. Turn your book over and do not look at it while you
Make notes from the reading
6. Choose 2 key terms/name and write a brief definition from the text. You may use the text. Take 1 minute only.
7. Read page 148.Golden Age of Athenian Culture : Take 4 minutes only.
8. Turn your book over and do not look at it while you
Make notes from the reading
9. Choose 2 key terms/name and write a brief definition from the text. You may use the text. Take 1 minute only.
2013-11-14
Comparisons and Text due next lesson
1. Complete the comparison, sentence selection and vocabulary pages from today's lesson and reading from Thomas Cahill's book about the Greeks.
2. Bring your textbook next lesson.
3. Period 1A only: Test correction assignment: 5 test corrections required. 10 additional are optional. (Note: 4A will do this next week!)
2013-11-08
Guardian-Warrior Education and Greeks: Chapter 5
1. Discuss Socrates' ideal education for Warrior-Guardians with an adult. Extra credit for an adult response/signature on the reading.
2. Complete notes for chapter 5: empires by THURSDAY next week.
2013-11-01
Thinking and Sharing
1. Ask an adult to answer the question, "What is the relationship of how you think to what you think?
2. With a parent/guardian or adult read the Smith and Kimball article from the Atlantic Monthly, "The Myth of 'I'm Bad at Math".
3. Discuss the article and note at least three points of your discussion.
4. Ask the adult to write one sentence about the article and/or their reaction to the article and to print their name.
Extra credit: Repeat this with another adult!
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