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HOMEWORK Examples

Your homework in history class will involve reading. Yes I know a lot of you dislike reading but you need to read more to make your classes easier for you, it’s the honest truth.

READING SENTENCES (RS) (Pages______)

Direction: Read the assigned pages then create sentences about the reading using these sentence starters.

1. The most important word in this reading was ______because…______

2. ______to me means …______

3. One important fact I learned was…______

4. If I could learn more, I would learn about ______because ….______

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5. The most important topic was ______because…______

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W’s Questions and Answers (W’s ?’s) (Pages ______)

Directions: Read, then take 5 w’s( who, what, where, when, how, why) and make questions and answer them. Samples.

Who was the main history person in this time? Who was the most important person? What happened? What went wrong in this situation? What is the most important event? What was the order of the events? Where did the events take place? Where did the people come from? When did this event happen? When did these people live? Why was this event important? Why was this person important? Why does this event/person matter now?How did this event start? How did this person become famous?

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Vocabulary (Vocab) Pg ___

Word w/ book definition / Your own made up definition / Picture or symbol

Summary (Sum) (Pages ______)

Directions: Read, then take the 5 main ideas and write a 5 sentence paragraph about the reading.

This paragraph was about this. It was also about this person. This person did this. This also happened. Finally it ended like this (of course yours would have details and facts from the book).

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Book Questions (B?’s) (Pages ______)

Occasionally I might give you some of our history books questions to do. Some of them might be about a section or the whole chapter. Always read the questions first before you read the section.

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Simple Vocabulary (S.Vocab) (Pages______)

I will give you some words and then you will give me simple details. If it’s a person I would want a date and what they did. If its an event I would want the date and what happened. If it’s a key term or thing, I would want a simple definition of what it is.

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WHEN I RETURN THIS PAPER TAKE IT HOME TO PUT IN YOUR BOOK SO YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO FOR HOMEWORK OR IN YOUR BINDER.