| Date | Homework |
| 1/14/08 | This week: Martin
Luther King, Jr. Homework check: Turn in paragraphs about challenges. Green group turn in activity book (pp. 60-62), and Q & A. WBW p. 163: Timeline of U.S. History Access History pp. 50-51: Slavery. Vocabulary: time line, chronological order, events, kidnap, slave, slavery, slave trade, property, permission, cruel, punishment, prejudice, discrimination Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. Vocabulary: minister, clergyman, pastor, prejudice, inequality, segregation, march, demonstrate, peaceful protest, passive resistance, civil rights movement, assassin, assassinate Homework for all: Read the story about Dr. King. Write new vocabulary in your vocab. notebook. Study the dictation sentences. Green group: Do the exercises. Reading and Vocabulary, dictation sentences |
| 1/15/08 |
Today is Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.'s
birthday. MLK, continued Vocabulary Squares: Do 8 (word-definition-picture-sentence) Word Search for MLK (passive resistance, boycott, etc.) View United Streaming video clip about Dr. King's childhood Green Group: Read the story about MLK together; correct the exercises. Blue Group: Do the fill-in-the-blank exercises. HOMEWORK: Reread the story about Dr. King. Study the vocabulary. (Blue Group: Do the exercises.) Everyone: Finish 8 word squares. Give yourself a practice dictation test. |
| 1/16/08 | MLK, continued Share vocabulary squares; View second videoclip on United Streaming about the Civil Rights Movement; Practice Dictation Test, levels 1 and 2. HOMEWORK: Study for dictation test. Answer questions from video. (handout) |
| 1/17/08 | Review questions
from video. Dictation Test Watch the first half of "The Long Walk Home" (We stopped viewing after the Christmas dinner when Mrs. Thompson's mother was so rude. Scene 5-12) HOMEWORK: Study the MLK vocabulary words. Be ready for a test. |
| 1/18/08 | Today: Reading Test
on Dr. King Finish watching "The Long Walk Home" Monday: No school in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |