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Global Perspectives, Monday October 30, 2017

10/30/2017

Mrs. Victor:
6th Grade:
MIT & UVA : Continue to work on your power point - Ancient Egyptian Civilization
UChi & UCLA : Textbk. pp. 72 # 1, 2, and 3.

7th Grade:
Emory: Data sets A & B, B & C, Document B from Columbian exchange package.

Mr. Dayan:
7th Grade: Cambridge/Duke:

Answer the following question, using evidence from the documents
What do the passenger lists tell you about the differences between New England and Virginia in the 1630's?

8th Grade: Brandeis/ Caltech/ Johns Hopkins:

Construct a paragraph detailing how modern times reflect the captioned quote below. Include technological and innovation predictions that will be introduced in the future that could change the world. (next thirty years).
"What seems impossible today may bot be tomorrow." - Thomas Edison

Global Perspectives, Friday October 27, 2017

10/27/2017

Mrs. Victor:
6th Grade:
UVA & MIT: Please work on your power point - Early Egyptian Civilization. Remember we will look at the info for the slides on Monday.
UChi & UCLA: Complete worksheet pp.58 and 63

7th Grade:
Emory:
Use primary source on pp. 50 to complete Source Dissection sheet.

Mr. Dayan:
7th Grade Cambridge/Duke:

Analyze both ship passenger lists
Complete the Graphic Organizer and Questions in your Packet

8th Grade Caltech/Johns Hopkins/Brandeis:
H.W. Pass

Global Perspectives, Thursday October 26, 2017

10/26/2017

Mr. Dayan:
7th Grade Cambridge/Duke:
Based on the documents in your packet:
1. What claim can be made about the Middle Passage and the experiences of Africans in the Americas?
2. Cite at least three pieces of evidence from your documents.

8th Grade Brandeis/Caltech/Johns Hopkins

Continue working on your Document Based Questions
Be sure to identify whether each document describes a social, political, or economic change/problem.

Global Perspectives, Wednesday October 25, 2017

10/25/2017

Mrs. Victor:
6th Grade:
MIT & UVA : Begin research on project
UChi Reading Essentials and Study Guide # 1,2,3, & 7
UCLA - Complete foldable on Pyramids or Pharaohs

7th Grade:
Emory: Vocabulary pp. 41 - 47. pp. 48 # 5

Mr. Dayan:
7th Grade Cambridge/Duke:
Based on the documents in your packet:
1. What claim can be made about the Middle Passage and the experiences of Africans in the Americas?
2. Cite at least three pieces of evidence from your documents.

8th Grade Brandeis/Caltech/Johns Hopkins

Continue working on your Document Based Questions
Be sure to identify whether each document describes a social, political, or economic change/problem.

Global Perspectives, Tuesday October 24, 2017

10/24/2017

Mrs. Victor:
6th Grade
MIT and UVA:
begin project on Ancient Egypt. (See attachment)

ancient_egypt_research_project.docx
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UChi and UCLA:
Create a foldable on important information on either a Pharaoh ( Akhenaton, Tutankhamen, etc,) or a Pyramid - King Khufu, King Khafre, etc.

7th Grade:
Complete chart on European explorers and the answer questions # 2,3, and 4 on pp. 48

Mr. Dayan:
7th Grade Cambridge/Duke:
Homework Pass

8th Grade Brandeis/Caltech/Johns Hopkins

Continue working on your Document Based Questions
Be sure to identify whether each document describes a social, political, or economic change/problem.

Global Perspectives, Monday October 23, 2017

10/23/2017

Mrs. Victor:
Grade 6:
Read pp. 48-52, then answer questions 1,2,4,5 on pp. 52

Grade 7:
Read pp. 34-41, then answer Progress Check pp.37 and # 3 and 4 pp. 41.

Mr. Dayan:
7th Grade- Cambridge/Duke:

Analyze and Annotate Documents A-E
Be Prepared to Master and Discuss these documents in class

For Annotations Include:

What you see
What you think
Questions
Comments
Reflections
Reactions
Criticisms

8th Grade:
Brandeis/Caltech/Johns Hopkins:
Complete a H Chart Defining Social, Political, and Economic meanings within the context of Society. Please provide three examples for each.

Global Perspectives, Friday October 20, 2017

10/20/2017

Mrs. Victor:
6th Grade:
Complete worksheet: The First Farmers pp 13

7th Grade:
Complete worksheet: the First Europeans # 1 through 9

Mr. Dayan:
7th Grade -Cambridge/Duke:

Read the timeline of the 17th Century Servitude among Blacks in Virginia
Highlight or underline important words that demonstrate changes to the status of the early Africans who arrived in Virginia.

8th Grade:
Brandeis/Caltech/Johns Hopkins:

Read Thaddeus Stevens and Andrew Johnson Documents
Radical Reconstruction Guiding Questions

Global Perspectives, Thursday October 19, 2017

10/19/2017

Mrs. Victor:
6th Grade:
MIT, UChi, UCLA - Complete package on The Nile Valley 2.1 # 8, 9 and 10

7th Grade:
Complete project on Indigenous Cultures.

Mr. Dayan:
Brandies/Caltech/Johns Hopkins;
1. Analyze The "Rail Splitter" at Work Repairing the Union

2. List three observations, one Inference, and one question about the image

Global Perspectives, Wednesday October 18, 2017

10/18/2017

Mrs. Victor:
6th Grade:
 MIT, UChi., UCLA - Complete package pp. 17 to 20 # 3 - 7
UVA - Complete package you started in class and worksheet The Nile River pp. 56 and 61

7th Grade:
Continue working on Indigenous Cultures project.

Global Perspectives, Monday October 16, 2017

10/17/2017

Mrs. Victor:
6th Grade:
Worksheet - Making Inferences

7th Grade:
Primary and secondary resources analysis - Sets C and D
- continue working on your project - Indigenous Cultures