5th Grade - Historic Patriots

This Week:
LAID - ...BEGINNINGS...(continued) [PreHistory-1500]
We are still in our time warp to the past...PreColumbian America!

We will finish discussing ANCIENT AMERICAN CULTURES before hitting the fast-forward button to European colonization...the era that lead into 13 small colonies deciding to do something extraordinary - create a nation where the PEOPLE RULE...where the PEOPLE have freedom to do with their lives what they may...

REMEMBER you must have a U.S. CONSTITUTION DAILY. You may have another quiz this week making sure...be prepared!

TEST - next week...


44 PRESIDENTS - keep going over all their names (first and last). Here's a sheet in case you need another one.

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U.S. History Reading [permission from the author and publisher to reproduce the readings is on file]
For next Monday - Ch 4+?

QUESTIONS #3

NOTE! - the Reading this week is a bit different. You need to read CHAPTER 4, then CHOSE the next CHAPTER you want to read and focus on. The next few chapters will cover:

• Chapter 5 - Eskimos
• Chapter 6 - Cliff Dwellers
• Chapter 7 - NW Indians
• Chapter 9 - Plains Indians
• Chapter 10 - Mound Builders
• Chapter 11 - Eastern Indians
• Chapter 12 - Iroquois
• Chapter 13 - Vikings

FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS for this chapter you have chosen - come ready to describe to the class what you find...

In case you wish to read ahead another week, the next chapter reading can be found here and the sheet for the next questions can be found here. 

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We will work in class on our WEEKLY CURRENTS assignment. You will have ten minutes to finish in class.

CURRENTS SHEET

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REMEMBER...

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We will continue working on National Geography Bee on Thursdays. We will finish the handout sheet we worked on last Thursday (here's another copy, if you need one)

We will also begin learning all the names of the countries in NORTH AMERICA (and their capitols).

NORTH AMERICA MAP

Here are the LYRICS for the Wakko's World Song.

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