Greetings. How about this, it's Tuesday already. Today students took a quiz over chapter 37 terms and legacies of ancient Rome and read background information on the middle ages as well as chose an historical fiction story from the same period. We will be reading those off and on as we study the period this quarter. Students were to complete a "Cobb Web" for quiz preparation and use it as their "ticket" to begin the quiz. One area that seems to be troubling students is preparation for quizzes. They did well on the legacies but let down a bit on the terms part. Vocabulary is a big part of social studies and each student will have to settle on a method of study to prepare for those type of quizzes. We will always be posting "tips" for study a few days before quizzes so your know what to be sure to prepare.
This additional note is for the "parents" group. If you are following along by setting your notifications to follow teacher posts, that is fine (you can enable Edmodo to email any new posts etc by going to your account and setting notifications to do what you want it to do). But for reasons unknown to me (Edmodo thing) parents do not automatically get "notes" to students unless I post them directly to the parent groups. So, to make things more simple, go to our web blog (dmssocialstudies6.blogspot.com) and sign up for the email updates in the upper right margin. I always post a mirror post of the daily blog to that page as well as Edmodo. Students do not have to check both as the daily blog goes to Edmodo. That way my blog page will auto send an email every time there is a new post. You won't have to check the blog or Edmodo. You can just read or ignore the email. Also, if it is annoying, you can deselect very easily.
