July 13, 2008

Sheridan
1. Math
2. Science do the book and we'll go over it tomorrow.
Also, read about atoms here. Read these three pages:

>	Overview
-	Structure
-	Orbitals

3. US history: pre-European civilizations. This week we are looking at various American Indian peoples. First, read about potlatch. The read about the Tlingit and explore the links. Then go here and look at pictures.

Zeb
1. Math
2. Gun report: after Dan-dan is finished, finished writing on guns.
3. Science: chemistry, periodic table of the elements. Go look at this beautiful periodic table of the elements. Move the mouse over each square and read off the names, then click on carbon and oxygen and other elements you know, and read about them. Do this activity with Dan-Dan.
4. history: you and Dan-dan visit this site on Plimoth Plantation and look at all the pictures.


(more chemistry for this week)

Tuesday July 8

Sheridan:

begin reading on the settlement of North America by Europeans. We are going to study the history of America in social studies this year.

Read this page on the peopling of north america.
Answer the following questions in your notebook:

1. Where did the first people in north and south america migrate from?

2. What routes did they take in their migration?

3. What kinds of animals did they encounter?

Read this on some of the first people to enter North America, the Clovis point people.
Answer the following questions in your notebook:
1. Why are they called the Clovis point people? What is a Clovis point? What is it made from?

2. When did they live? According to the article, what did they hunt?

When you are done, come see me for some tutoring on the 5 paragraph essay.
_________

Zeb
1. Math
2. science

We are going to look at symbiosis -- life forms living with each other. How do different organisms live together?

Read this page on mutualism.
Look at this page on predation and commensalism in the garden.

3. compile research for your article on gun control

4. history
taiwan history reading.
world history tomorrow!