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Lisa Cowart
RICHARDS MIDDLE SCHOOL
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HOMEWORK for Monday night, February 1

Write a three paragraph essay about Cortez. Describe the encounter and consequences of conflict between Spanish and the Aztecs and Incas and his role.

 

HOMEWORK FOR TUESDAY NIGHT, February 2

 

Write a three paragraph essay about Montezuma. Describe the encounter and consequences of conflict between Spanish and the Aztecs and Incas and his role.

 

HOMEWORK FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT, February 3

Write a three paragraph essay about Pizarro.Describe the encounter and consequences of conflict between Spanish and the Aztecs and Incas and his role.

 

Six questions about Rain Forest Destruction in Brazil, on bottom of sheet titled "Environmental Issues Latin America"

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WHAT ARE WE LEARNING ABOUT?

Through week 24: Latin America

 

The student will describe the impact of European contact on Latin America.

   a. Describe the encounter and consequences of the conflict between the Spanish and the Aztecs and Incas and the roles of Cortes, Montezuma, Pizarro, and Atahualpa.

   b. Explain the impact of the Columbian Exchange.


 

The student will analyze important 20th century issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. a. Explain the impact of the Cuban Revolution. b. Explain the impact and political outcomes of the Zapatista guerilla movement in Mexico.

 

 The student will locate selected features of Latin America and the Caribbean. a. Locate on a world and regional political-physical map: Amazon River, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific Ocean, Panama Canal, Andes Mountains, Sierra Madre Mountains, and Atacama Desert.
b. Locate on a world and regional political-physical map in the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Haiti, Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela.


 
The student will explain the impact of location, climate, physical characteristics, natural resources, and population distribution on Latin America and the Caribbean. a. Compare how the location, climate, and natural resources of Mexico and Venezuela affect where people live and how they live. b. Compare how the location, climate, and natural resources of Brazil and Cuba affect where people live and how they trade.


 

The student will describe the cultural characteristics of Latin America and the Caribbean. a. Describe the results of blending of ethnic groups in Latin America and the Caribbean.
b. Explain why Latin America is a region based on the languages of Portuguese and Spanish. c. Evaluate how the literacy rate affects the standard of living.


The student will compare and contrast various forms of government. a. Describe the ways government systems distribute power: unitary, confederation, and federal.
b. Explain how governments determine citizen participation: autocratic, oligarchic, and democratic. c. Describe the two predominate forms of democratic governments: parliamentary and presidential.

 

The student will explain the structures of national governments in Latin America and the Caribbean.
a. Compare the federal-republican systems of the Federative Republic of Brazil (Brazil) and the United Mexican States (Mexico) to the dictatorship of Republic of Cuba (Cuba), distinguishing the form of leadership and the role of the citizen in terms of voting and personal freedoms.


 

 

Week 25 and 26 Canada Today

 

Week 27, 28 and 29  Canada: Environmental and Economic Forces

 

Week 30 and 31 Australia

 

 

Attached are copies of most handouts, maps, classwork, etc. used this week.  If you lose your copy that I give you, I do not have extras. You may however, using your own printer, print off a new copy since they are on this website. (I am not able to post all things that I use, but I will post as many as I can. Ultimately, it is YOUR responsibility to keep up with your materials in your social studies notebook.)

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Please email me anytime...

lcowart@mcsdga.net

or

CowartatSugarMill@yahoo.com

I will do my best to respond.


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YEARBOOK COST IS $37 on or before the day of registration

$40 until October 31

$45 from November 1 until January 31

$50 after February 1

Bring your check to Mrs. Cowart in Room 305.


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To my students and parents:

Before you begin to depend on this site too much, I want to make something very clear. I am constantly revising my lesson plans. Each day that goes by, when I am teaching, there is a possibility I will revise my plans for homework or a date for a test. YOU MUST UNDERSTAND that you cannot absolutely, 100% rely on these dates or this information(listed on this site) to be totally and completely accurate. I will try to post information once a week about what we are doing, but during the course of that week, due to many different factors, our schedule may change.



For example, if I find that my students needed more than one day to work on a lesson, I give them an extra day over what was originally planned, and then the quiz or test schedule is moved a bit further into the future. Sometimes we might have a program or assembly at school, perhaps even a fire drill, that takes up class time and I am not able to teach the lesson that day that I wanted to. These type of things will make me adjust my schedule for quizzes and tests. I may even add a homework assignment that was not originally planned.



The bottom line is: you must listen to what I say in class and write down your homework based on what I have on my board. IF YOU USE THIS SITE AS YOUR SOLE SOURCE OF INFORMATION, YOU MIGHT NOT GET THE RIGHT DATES OR OTHER MATERIAL PERTAINING TO QUIZZES, TESTS, AND WHEN HOMEWORK IS DUE.  Even though this site exists, it is still your responsibility to write down your assignments and homework that I have on my board.



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WHAT ARE WE STUDYING?

The entire first semester (first half of the school year before Christmas break), we will be studying about Europe.

 

YEAR PLAN

Sixth Grade Social Studies 2009-2010

(The plan is to get all standards covered before CRCT)

 

The week is on the left, then the topic on the right

 

1 RMS Handbook

 

2 MCSD Behavior Code and Policy Handbook

 

3-8 Europe Today

9-12 Europe: Environmental and Economic Forces

13-18 Europe's Historical Influence

19-20 Latin America Today

21-22 Latin America: Environmental and Economic Forces

 

23-24 Latin America's Cultural Legacy

 

25-26 Canada Today

 

27-29 Canada: Environmental and Economic Forces

 

30-31 Australia

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DO NOT THROW OUT MATERIALS IN YOUR NOTEBOOK EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE FROM TOPICS WE HAVE ALREADY STUDIED.  We will be referring back to these materials.   ALSO, the CRCT Review questions that we have discussed in class will need to stay in your notebook the entire school year to help prepare us for the CRCT.

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TESTS AND PROJECTS COMING UP?


Might have a test or quiz that may include all info gone over in class this week. Make sure you keep everything I give you!


Reread your notes each night that we have discussed in that day's lesson.

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NOTEBOOK TABLE OF CONTENTS

These are things, perhaps sections, that you might like to make in your social studies notebook.  If you find that there is a better way you would like to organize it, use whatever method works for you. 


1.Definitions and Vocabulary Words

2.Notes and Facts

3.Handouts and Study Guides

4.additional classwork to study and review at home

5.Notes on any ongoing projects

6.CRCT Prep and Review questions

You need to bring your social studies notebook each day. It must be a notebook that has three brads, or three rings so that you can add handouts and materials to it as I give them to you. A folder with pockets only will not work.

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I am happy that you are in my class and I look forward to spending this school year with you!

Please email me anytime if you have any questions or concerns.

lcowart@mcsdga.net or CowartatSugarMill@yahoo.com

Lisa Crowson Cowart
Richards Middle School
Sixth Grade Social Studies

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Need a copy of what we are studying about? Need to watch a video again in order to have the information repeated? Look at the links provided below. You can go to www.gpb.org/education, click on video streaming, sign on as me (see notes below how), and search for our topic of study. Look at the "teachers guide" or the "blackline masters" if you want to see again what we went over and discussed in class.

To signon as me: "Lisa Cowart" (no quotation marks)

password is "warriors" (no quotation marks)

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BRAINPOP.COM

Want to review a brainpop we saw in class? You can log on as me. "LisaCowart" with no quotation marks, and the password is "warriors" with no quotation marks. There are many interesting animated videos that you might be interested in seeing. (PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE be sure to logout when you are done so someone else can look at it. Only three people at a time are allowed to signon with my logon at once. If you don't logout, someone else might not be able to logon.)

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STUDY GUIDES

Will be given to you in class. Keep in your notebook. If you lose it, you will "be up the creek without a paddle" (my mom's favorite phrase... that means you would "find yourself in a pickle"!)

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IB MAGNET STUDENTS:

 This is so cool, I cannot wait to tell you about it. 

I just found out about www. encyclopedia.com.  Put in your topic.  It will bring up lots of great research AND IT DOES THE CITATION FOR YOU, just copy it exactly.  Remember, we want MLA format.  I say that because sometimes there are two citations, so if it gives you an option, look for the MLA one.

 And here is the gold mine...

Use this for anything you have to do for research, not just NHD, not just social studies!

Go to www.gpb.org/education.

Sign on as me, LisaCowart (no spaces)

Password is warriors (just like that, no caps)

 

Do a search for your topic.

It will bring up VIDEOS, and ARTICLES!!!

Watch the video or the clips. They are great quality.  Read the article or print it off, if you like.

 

Before you watch the video clip though, scroll down to the bottom.  Click on the tab that says CITATIONS. You can use this source and they do the citation work for you! Just copy exactly what they have.

 

I bet this will help you a great deal with NHD and any time in the future you ever have to do a report.

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