Roman Empire Activities - Start Ben Hur this week, starting on Monday. Finish Group Short Reports and Late Republic presentations. Empire Walk - research wall - unit assessment. We will head into Germanic Invasions, Fall of Rome, and Justinian’s expensive attempt to reunify the empire. Next week we will examine the history of Roman Judea, the history of early Christianity, and the writing of the New Testament. We will then wrap up with the split between the Roman Pope and the Eastern Church, followed by the rise of Charlemagne.
In Language Arts students should read Stargirl and FINISH it this week by Friday. For each chapter, students must take take 3 summary notes per chapter in a designated area of the notebook. We will be workshopping and sharing elements of our second draft of our story, and complete it by the end of the week. Next week, we will work on our Stargirl culminating activities, students will join one of the following Stargirl groups: Comic Book Factory, Stargirl Improv group, or Stargirl in Action Group.Next week we will also start a two week transition unit, that will introduce poetry to the rest of the year in both Language Arts and Social Studies.
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