Greetings! Parent-teacher conferences are on Monday and Wednesday this week from 3 until 7. Parents and students signed up for a time to come to conferences through home bases. This method’s purpose is to spread out visits over the two days and is not a specific appointment time. If parents would like to schedule an after school conference on a different day, please send an email! dwells@tcsd.org
Monday:
1. Finish close reading of Columbus text – We are comparing various textbook entries from different time periods about Columbus’ landing in the New World and analyzing them. They are from the 1880s, 1946 and 1995. Students will share-out in a fishbowl format.
**Parent Conferences: 3-7pm
Tuesday:
1. The Age of Exploration! Students will be using the text and video clips to create a timeline of European exploration in the New World.
HW: Due Thursday – Write a 2 paragraph journal entry from the perspective of one of fifteen explorers. Students must include enough historical details to lead a classmate and the teacher to guess whom the explorer is. More details will be given in class.
Wednesday:
1. Finish timelines!
2. Student Play: De Soto on the Mississippi.
**Parent Conferences: 3-7pm
Thursday:
1. HW Check – Explorer journal entries.
2. Students will read their journal entries aloud, and their peers will make an educated guess from whose perspective they were written.
3. Brief Quiz: The primary European explorers.
Friday: