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December 18, 2007

Week of December 17th - 21st

Monday- - Practiced placement of physical map of E & S Africa - IN-class did activity sheet 17.3 p. 124- Learn locations on physical map of East/South Africa. Quiz on Tuesday.

Tuesday - Bingo on terms from Chapter 17. Work on

December 10, 2007

Week of December 10th - 15th

Today in class we will review section 2 of chapter 17 with the guided reading book. We will listen to lesson 3 with audio CD and then work on our camel poster. HW will include activity w/s p. 122 and p. 7 of the map and graph skill In-depth resource book.

Tuesday - The class worked on their "trade route" posters

Wednesday - listened to the audio of Chapter 17, L3 and discussed- took notes for completing wb p. 60. - reviewed Monday's HW - assigned HW 17.3, p. 124

Thursday Finished Posters - Reviewed HW

Friday - In class - InspirEd complete "The Great Rift Valley , Read about Dr. Livingston, and explore the Slave Trade. HW label and color physical features of East & South Africa

December 05, 2007

Week of December 3rd - December 7th

M onday - made graphic organizer of nonrenewable/renewable resources; collected lesson vocabulary; read lesson 2 of chapter 17, discussed and assigned page 59 in workbook as homework. In-class activity was collaborative learning activity on vocabulary from lesson 1. Also homework needs to include studying map locations and vocabulary from lesson 1 and lesson 2.

Tuesday - Reviewed W.African map locations; reviewed and discussed homework page 59 of workbook. Distributed a map of Central Africa to label and color physical locations. HW Study and know vocabulary of l 1 and L2, chapter 17 and know renewable and nonrenewable resources.

Wednesday - Quick quiz on learned materials from Monday and Tuesday Reviewed locations from map of Central Africa - introduced the Camel Poster/Trading Empire for in-class work. HW know the locations from the Central African physical map.

Thursday - Reviewed the map locations for quiz on Friday and study vocab. for lesson 1 & 2, chapter 17 -worked on camel poster

Friday -quiz on west & central physical map features and vocab. from lesson 1 & 2 - review of lesson 17.2 - work on posters