WELCOME TO MRS. LETIZIA'S CLASS
HOMEWORK, CLASSWORK, NOTES AND VIDEOS WILL BE UPLOADED TO "GOOGLE CLASSROOM"
Extra help sessions are scheduled before test as needed or upon request.
GRADING: TEST 40% PROJECTS 35% HOMEWORK/CLASSWORK 25%
6th grade:
1. Students make Chinese scrolls with popsicles sticks using Chinese writing,
2. Students re-enact Hammurabi's Court (ancient court of Mesopotmia)
3. Students work on an activity integrating the Indian caste system
7th grade:
1. Mock trial of Christopher Columbus
2. Write our own Declaration of Independence
3. Become a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and debate the topics in the Constitution.
8th grade:
1. Students work on an assembly line
2. Students experience a battle with trench warfare
3. Students present our inventions to Shark Tank judges
WHAT I EXPECT FROM YOU.....
PROCEDURES:
"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."
Thomas Jefferson
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
¯ Marcel Proust
"WHAT LIES BEHIND US AND WHAT LIES BEFORE US ARE TINY MATTERS COMPARED TO WHAT LIES WITHIN US." RALPH WALDO EMERSON