This course site will provide links to websites and materials for parents to use with their children. It will also provide forums where parents can have discussions with one another as well as with the teacher. Video tutorials will teach parents how to use the various websites with their children. It will evolve over time as parents express their needs and concerns.
Course Description: This is a one semester course that attempts to answer the essential questions: What types of power do women have? How do various cultures and groups define power? How do/how have women gotten and kept power historically and in modern times?
This program is designed to allow Smith School students to extend their learning experiences beyond my classroom, both in creating their own art and learning about famous artists and art movements. I will also have an area for parents that will offer tips in guiding their "young artists" towards expressing their thoughts creatively through art and a gallery that will highlight some of the activities students are currently engaged in.
This unit is based off the 1950's radio program, "This I Believe" in which Americans from all walks of life shared their personal philosphies. Seventh graders, it is time to tell me what you believe!
Seventh grade world geography students study the world region by region focusing on physical features, climate, vegetation, population density and economic activity.
This course, Improving Writing Skills, focuses on providing opportunities for teachers to learn more about writing strategies. During this course, you will share ideas and lessons with your colleagues. Topics include: interactive graphic organizers, protocols for looking collaboratively at student work, MCAS writing, open response writing, creating dynamic lesson plans, a vast assortment of writing prompts, graphic organizers and templates, creating rubrics, writing across the curriculum, mechanics of writing and publishing of student writing. There are areas devoted to personal growth, as well as materials that students can access to enhance their writing skills.
Advanced Placement European History is a college level course designed to challenge high school students to achieve at a higher level. The course covers European history from The Renaissance through to the turn of the 21st century. Students are expected to take the AP European exam in the Spring. A recommendation from your history teacher recommendation, approval from course teacher, signed contract, and completed summer work are REQUIRED for admission.
This course provides an understanding of the characteristics, the organization, and the operations of all types of businesses. This course covers concepts necessary to manage a small business or to operate a large corporation. It exposes students to the activities, decisions, problems, and successes involved in business, from entrepreneurship to the globaleconomy. Topics include business operations and structures, social responsibility and business ethics, international business, governmental impact, small businesses, human resources, technology in business, financial institutions, credit regulations, investment strategies, and risk management. It opens a career pathway to management, entrepreneurship, accounting, and finance.
This course will serve as a resource for primary grade teachers. It will focus on phonemic awareness, phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. It will help you learn to use DIBELS to assess students. There will be files, websites, videos and Powerpoint presentations to help you to understand these topics. It will also contain links to websites to develop effective lessons, as well as helpful websites for student use.
This is a unit that integrates environmental science and a novel study of Hoot by Carl Hiaasen. The in-class portion of the study focuses upon nonliving and living environmental factors that impact organisms' survival in terrestrial and aquatic environments. Online, students will read and discuss the novel Hoot by Carl Hiaasen. The novel, an ecological mystery, focuses on the plight of endangered burrowing owls. Students will simultaneously explore online resources in areas such as biodiversity and endangered animals.The unit will culminate with the research of an environmental issue and the completion of an action project.
This course emphasizes the use of theorems, postulates and definitions and their applications to original problems while integrating solid geometry with plane geometry. The primary objective of this course is to teach math as a method of reasoning and problem solving. To accomplish this, underlying concepts and understandings are stressed while making real life applications. The unit topics include basic geometric terms and notation, congruence, parallelism, circles, area and perimeter, similarity, right triangles, 3-D figures, and quadrilaterals.
Appropriate use of technology is encouraged throughout the course, and students are required to have a graphing calculator (TI-84 Plus preferred).
This one semester course will examine who Americans and other cultures define the "Ideal Woman." All cultures develope a concept of what the ideal woman is. Some cultures define ideal by physical appearance, others emphasize personal characteristics. Most define the ideal woman in terms of physical ideal AND character ideal. This course will allow students to choose the path of study that best suits their interests as they attempt to answer the essential question: "What defines the ideal woman?"
The focus of this course is the continued development of each student as a critical reader, writer, and thinker. Through the close reading of British and world literature, students will examine the connection between a writer’s purpose, form, and content. Spelling, grammar, usage, and mechanics will be investigated as tools for creating clear and understandable writing. Students will be responsible for long and short-term supplementary reading assignments. As part of this course, all seniors will complete the Senior Project requirement.
During this science interdisciplinary unit, we will explore the effect of varying stimuli on the environments around us. Using online tools, hands-on experiments, and other activities, we will gather information and use these resources to think critically about our local and global environments. In addition, readings from our Treasures curriculum will be used to support our understanding of these topics and expand our understanding of the world around us as we write and reflect on what we have learned.
This course surveys the history of the United States from the American Revolution to Reconstruction. Students will use a wide range of primary sources to investigate the political, economic, and social history of the United States. I've designed this website to enhance the US History I course by providing a thematic unit of African Americans in US History. This website has a series of Modules designed to enrich your understanding of US History through the experiences of African Americans.
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This course site will provide links to websites and materials for parents to use with their children. It will also provide forums where parents can have discussions with one another as well as with the teacher. Video tutorials will teach parents how to use the various websites with their children. It will evolve over time as parents express their needs and concerns.
This course, Improving Writing Skills, focuses on providing opportunities for teachers to learn more about writing strategies. During this course, you will share ideas and lessons with your colleagues. Topics include: interactive graphic organizers, protocols for looking collaboratively at student work, MCAS writing, open response writing, creating dynamic lesson plans, a vast assortment of writing prompts, graphic organizers and templates, creating rubrics, writing across the curriculum, mechanics of writing and publishing of student writing. There are areas devoted to personal growth, as well as materials that students can access to enhance their writing skills.
This course will serve as a resource for primary grade teachers. It will focus on phonemic awareness, phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. It will help you learn to use DIBELS to assess students. There will be files, websites, videos and Powerpoint presentations to help you to understand these topics. It will also contain links to websites to develop effective lessons, as well as helpful websites for student use.