(Scroll down for homework: read about "What are we studying?")

     The State of Georgia dictates precisely what I am to teach in sixth grade social studies and since it is not in the textbook, I will give MANY handouts, printed papers, charts, maps, etc., ALL of which your student needs to keep in a notebook.  A spiral notebook will not work.  A binder that they are able to add these handouts to, that they will be able to snap into the rings so that they papers do not fall out, is what they need. Their notebook will almost become a substitute for their textbook since that is the only way they will receive the proper content I am to teach since I give it to them after having printed it out. 

 
     DO NOT clean out your notebook and throw away any printed handouts, printed papers, charts, maps, etc., that I will give you.  Since you have to keep these all year, page reinforcers will come in very handy.

(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...

Cowart.Lisa.C@muscogee.k12.ga.us

I will do my best to respond.

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$38 on or before the day of registration

$40 from August 6 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?

Week 21 Latin America  (January 23-27)

We are continuing the study the geography of Latin America.  We will be comparing the location, climate, natural resources of Mexico and Venezuela, and will be comparing Brazil and Cuba and where people live and trade. (They have a handout in their notebook about this content. They should keep it and reread or review it in the evenings.)

We will also be learning about the blending of ethnic groups in Latin America and the Caribbean, and why Latin America languages are based on the languages of Portugal and Spain. (They have a handout in their notebook about this content.  They should keep it and reread or review it in the evenings.)

We will also define/identify the next ten vocabulary words / people / places  for this unit.  We will work on this in class, but, as always, if your child doesn't finish their classwork, they will have to take it home and finish it.  The vocabulary words they are responsible for this week are: mestizo, mulatto, NAFTA, peso, Quechua, real, Santeria, Tenochtitlan, Zapatistas, Cortez/Cortes.

Week 22

 (H3ab)impact of Cuban revolution; impact, political outcomes Zapatista guerillamovement Mexico

Week22 and 23 Latin America:Environmental and Economic Forces –

(G2a) air pollution Mexico City, destructionrain forest Brazil, oil related pollution Venezuela;

 (E2abcd) NAFTA’s functions, currency exchange,specialization encourages trade, trade barriers, tariffs, quotas, embargos;

 (E3abcd) human capital, GDP, capital goods,role of natural resources, role of entrepreneurship, literacy rate

Weeks 23,24 Latin America’s Cultural Legacy

(H1ab) conflict b/n Spanish and Aztecs,Incas; roles of Cortez, Montezuma, Pizarro, Atahualpa;

Colombian Exchange impact, decline indigenouspopulation, agricultural change, intro of horse

(H2abc) African slavery related todevelopment of Americas

Influence Spain, Portugal on language andreligion of L.A.

Independence movement: Toussaint L’Ouverture, Simon Bolivar, Miguel Hidalgo         

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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?

Lisa Crowson Cowart

Cowart.Lisa.C@muscogee.k12.ga.us

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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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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