Teacher Name: Roderick Steward Week of: Mar 5-9, 2012

World Cultural Studies

Monday / Objective: Students will complete a writing sample based on a Social Studies topic. [Required TELPAS student essays will be turned in. All students will receive a completion daily grade for this assignment.]
Warm-Up: Discuss with your partner how you would answer the following question: What does it mean to be free? [possible answers can be related to the freedoms in the Bill of Rights or other students responses such as moving where you want to move, marrying who you want to marry, etc.] When discussing, remind students about how to write a paragraph; how many sentences should a paragraph have, and what would be considered a “good” paragraph.
Reminders for the TELPAS Writing sample:
  • ESL/LEP students (including LEP waivered students) must have at least 2 of their five TELPAS writing samples from math, science, or social studies
  • the compositions should be about a page in length
  • the compositions should be written in the students’ own words, not copied or rely too heavily on a dictionary or thesaurus
  • the compositions “should show the ability of the students to connect ideas and express themselves in English in an extended way”
  • the actual TELPAS writing samples cannot show a teacher’s corrections or be polished through editing by peers, teachers, or parents
  • the actual TELPAS writing samples cannot be assigned before February 20, 2012
  • the actual TELPAS writing samples should not show brief, rushed, or incomplete writing
  • the actual TELPAS writing samples cannot be worksheets, question/answer writing assignments or short-answer response formats.
Classwork: Student will complete a writing sample on the following topic: The United States has a Limited Government. Why do you think it is important for the leaders and citizens in a Limited Government to have to follow the same laws?
ELPS Standards: Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing
Tuesday / Spring Benchmark
RUN REGULAR SCHEDULE BEGINNING @ 1:27
TUESDAY PERIOD 3 & PERIOD 4
Objective: Use social studies terminology correctly. Students will be able to discuss social studies information.
Warm-Up and Classwork: Students will complete assignment from last week in which they had to complete research on a section on Europe. Each student had a section to complete in their foldable. Students will then move around and write notes about the sections they did not complete in a station format. One student stay behind as the spokesperson for his/her group.
Below are the section that they were divided into:
Title: Western Europe Today
Sections:
  1. United Kingdom and Ireland
  2. France and the Benelux Countries
  3. Germany, Switzerland, Austria
  4. The Nordic Countries
  5. Southern Europe
ELPS Standards: Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing
Wednesday / Spring Benchmark
RUN REGULAR SCHEDULE BEGINNING @ 1:27
WEDNESDAY PERIOD 5 & PERIOD 6
No World Cultural Studies classes today!
Thursday / Spring Benchmark
RUN REGULAR SCHEDULE BEGINNING @ 1:27
THURSDAY PERIOD 0 & PERIOD 7
No World Cultural Studies classes today!
Friday / Objective: Use social studies terminology correctly. Students will be able to discuss social studies information.
Warm-Up: First period will complete the stations work (see Tuesday’s Do Now and Classwork). Third period will move into the test analysis.
Classwork: Complete Do Now and then students will analyze their results from the Spring Benchmark using the teacher made test analysis sheet and the handout from last week. We will discuss misconceptions and mistakes made. ( Directions from last week: [Using the Spring Benchmark objectives, students will complete a rating chart to show what they know (1-I KNOW IT 2- I KNOW MOST OF IT 3- I KNOW IT WITH HELP 4- I DON’T KNOW IT AT ALL). We will then review those objectives that students have questions about.
ELPS Standards: Speaking, Listening, Reading, and Writing
Spring Break March 12th -16th
School resumes March 19th