Introduction to Renaissance with Geography Challenge

Hello! Today students in Mrs. Cobb's class reviewed and discussed lesson 5 assessment. Students can now find final grades on HAC. Both classes then worked with partners to complete the geography challenge in TCI. Students were carefully to answer questions with complete sentences and complete thoughts. Tomorrow students with fully discuss the answers and then move on to a vocabulary activity related to lesson 27.

Second Semester Pre-Test

Today students who didn't finish the Midterm Exam from yesterday were able to finish and then move on to the pre-test for the second semester. This will be used for planning purposes for teachers, not as a part of their grade. Students in Mr. Hogue's class then viewed and discussed their results of Lesson 5 Assessment on the Decline of Feudalism. Mr. Cobb's students will discuss it tomorrow. Students were also given some choices for some background reading on the Renaissance, our next unit of study.

Second Semester Pre-Test

Today students who didn't finish the Midterm Exam from yesterday were able to finish and then move on to the pre-test for the second semester. This will be used for planning purposes for teachers, not as a part of their grade. Students in Mr. Hogue's class then viewed and discussed their results of Lesson 5 Assessment on the Decline of Feudalism. Mr. Cobb's students will discuss it tomorrow. Students were also given some choices for some background reading on the Renaissance, our next unit of study.

Midterm Exam

Today students took the midterm exam which covers learning spanning the 1st semester. This should be somewhat of a reflection of what you learned over the first half of the year and will be posted on HAC but with no weight scale. This test is an acuity test created by state sponsored test builders and consists of 35 multiple choice questions. These questions are on the difficult side and are of the nature of an ECA exam. Students could not really study for this exam as it covers a massive amount of information.

We will be having a pre-test tomorrow and will be information yet to come in quarters 3 and 4 (2nd semester).

Social studies in the sixth grade requires an end of course assessment (ECA) and it will be given near the end of the 4th quarter. The ECA will be scored for a weighted grade that will be credited to the fourth quarter and we will study appropriate vocabulary associated with the exam as well as curriculum concepts.

Decline of Feudalism

Today students took the Lesson Five: Decline of Feudalism assessment. It was in two parts. One being multiple choice concerning the vocabulary and the second an essay response to the question of Bubonic Plague, Hundred Years War, and Magna Carta and their effect on that decline. Tomorrow, students will take a Mid Term assessment over content previously studied. It consists entirely of multiple choice items.

Wednesday, Feb. 5th

Today students were treated to a snow day. Since yesterday was your review-catch up day and today was going to be your assessment, we will have the assessment tomorrow (Thursday). Remember, you may use your notes to write your analysis of how the Black Death, Magna Carta, and Hundred Years War affected the decline of feudalism. That will be part two. Part one will be multiple choice over the eight vocabulary terms. Please ask any questions that you would like tomorrow prior to the tests.

Reading Notes Complete for Hundred Years War/ Preparing for Test

Hello! Today we completed the reading for 5.3 Hundred Years War and created notes. The notes were added to the google drive document that the students have been creating to use for the test. The test is on Wednesday and will include the vocabulary multiple choice as part 1 and part 2 will be essay format. The vocabulary document created in class with the paragraphs included should already be in everyone's turn in folder. If not, please get it there as soon as possible.