1. Thursday, August 30 Remember that your “All About Me” worksheet is due Friday 1.Turn in your parent letter on my desk if you did not yesterday. 2:Update your Table of Contents DateTitleEntry # 8/27First Day of School Notes1 8/27Off the Wall Scavenger Hunt2 8/29Mapping Physiographic Features of the U.S. 3 8/30 United States: Physical Map 4 8/30European Exploration and Colonization Timeline5 3. Turn to entry #3 (Don’t start until I tell you to!!)

2. Pair Work: Conversation: Discuss activity with your partner. Conversation should only be about the assigned task. Help: 1. read the instructions again. 2. Look in your reference materials (binder). 3. Discuss your question with your partner. Then raise your hand or come to my desk for my help but continue working. Activity: Completed written responses in complete sentences (not just answers). Ex. The Atlantic Ocean is the … Movement: May get out of seat to sharpen pencil or to come to my desk to get another slip/picture without permission. Participation: Sit up. Work only on assigned task. BOTH partners working together, sharing ideas, contributing, and focused on the assigned task. No personal conversations.

3. What do I do now? Directions: 1.Finish the geography questions from yesterday Maps to Use: Desk map, page A8 and A9 in the blue textbooks 2.After you have answered all the questions you will come to me to get a blank map. You will then label and color code all your answers. Glue this in your spiral. It is entry #4 Blue = water Brown = Mountains Green = Cape Cod 3. Copy the timeline on entry #5. Choose 4 to illustrate

4. European Exploration and Colonization 1497 Cabot searches for the Northwest Passage 1521 Cortez conquers Mx 1565 Spanish found St. Augustine 1609 Hudson searches for the Northwest Passage 1585 First English colony settled at Roanoke 1607 Jamestown founded 1620 Pilgrims landed at Plymouth 1630 Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony #5