Social Studies

Fantastic Job Grade 6! I very much enjoyed today’s class, and everyone did a magnificent job. I especially liked the great costumes people created to help them accurately present the person/god they chose.

Make sure to write a full paragraph describing your feelings in response to the following questions/statement. Make sure to spell check, grammar check, read out loud, and format with paragraph spacing before you click publish.

1. What did you enjoy and/or find interesting about the presentations you heard in class?
2. What would you change to improve your speech/presentation if you were to do the assignment again?
3. Explain with details and specific information what you learned from your classmates’ speeches.

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You will be presenting your Famous Egyptians Speech next period. You must be in costume to help accurately present the person/god you chose, and you must turn in all of your work. That means you have at least two full pages of notes, from at least two different sources, your finished web, and your printed citations.

Date you will be presenting your speech:

Block B, C and D: Thursday, March 6th
Block H: Friday, March 7th

REMINDER: You must turn in all of your work on the presentation day! You should staple the following information in order with the rubric on top.

• Rubric/web
• Typed Draft
• Research Records
• Citations

NOTE: The assignment, rubric, and brainstorming web are all on my resource page.

HELPFUL TIPS: 

Introduction- This should be catchy, interesting, and a reflection of you as a speaker! You want to arouse your audiences curiosity.

• Hook- interesting or emotional comment used to catch reader’s attention
• General Comments- interesting background information (define key terms)
• Thesis Statement- specific topic of the essay/explains ideas of the body paragraphs

Conclusion- The reader should see the importance of your essay, and finish thinking about what you have said.

• Ideas of thesis statement- use different words than those in the introduction
• Comments- may include a summary of the main ideas, an evaluation of other ideas, connections to audience, and/or the speaker’s opinion,
• Final statement- a final thought that ties up the topic

GOOD LUCK! I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE EVERYONE PERFORM!

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Now that we have finished our Ancient Egyptian historical fiction stories let’s see what people wrote. Read at least one person’s story from each one of the 6th grade blocks and post a comment on the person’s blog. Please write specific comments about why you liked the story. Remember, all comments must be positive. It is time to let people know that you enjoyed reading their creations!

Please monitor your blog and accept any comments that your classmates post on your blog.

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Do image searches to find pictures of the Egyptian Gods. Make a post with the name of the god, a simple caption explaining what this god represents, a picture of the god, and lastly the URL of the site you found the picture.

Example:

Ra: The Sun God
http://www.ra-horakhty.co.uk/images/what_i22.jpg

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Your have two  homework tasks for next class.

First, you must hand-in all drafts of  your Ancient Egyptian Story. Your work should be stapled in this order:

• rubric on top
• final draft
• 1st draft (with evidence of peer review)

Then, you must create a blog post.  Your post must include:

• title
• story
• pictures

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You must bring a hard and soft copy of your first draft of your Ancient Egyptian Story to class.  We will be conducting peer conferences and revising our work.

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Don’t forget to use the rubric on my resource page as you prepare and revise your masterpiece!

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Don’t forget to double-check your current events date for this quarter on my current events calendar.  The date you find your name on the calendar is the date that your event should be posted on your blog and presented in class.  The name you see in parenthesis () is only showing the response people who they respond to.  Good Luck!  I can’t wait to hear about the issues of the world.

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Please finish the study guide for the Ancient Egyptian information that we were researching.  Click on the link below for the site we used  in class.

Mr. Dowling: Ancient Egypt

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Reflect on the second half of the movie and compare it to the first half.  Write about how people feel about Alexander the Great and if their views have changed or stayed the same. Have your ideas about him changed?  Would you describe him differently now? In the end how do people around him feel about him as a person/friend/leader/king? Please try to write about as many different perspectives (views from different types of people) as you can. Use specific examples from the movie to explain your ideas in your response.

NOTE: Make sure to write a full paragraph describing your ideas in response to the question. Also, don’t forget to use spell check, grammar check, and read your response out loud before you click publish.

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