Book Project: Mystery Puzzle

Textbook Stories:

"Duffy's Jacket"

"Rikki-tikki-tavi" by Rudyard Kiplang

"Three Skeleton Key" by George Toudouze

"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" by Rod Serling

Literary Terms: plot, basic situation, series of events, suspense, forshadowing, conflict, resolution

Book Project: Autobiography/biography Time Capsule

Textbook Stories:

"Girls"

"Mother and Daughter"

"Anteus"

"A Day's Wait"

"Stole Day"

Literary Terms: indirect characterization, direct characterization

Novel: The Giver by Lois Lowry

" The Highwayman"

Literary Terms: theme, symbol, metaphor, simile, alliteration, cause and effect

Novel: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

"After Twenty Years"

PowerPoint Project: Heritage Folktales

Origins of Seasons"

"Orpheus the Great Musician"

"Flight of Icarus"

"King Midas and the Golden Touch"

Ulysses and Circe

Ulysses and the Cyclopes

Ulysses and his Return

Ulysses and the Sirens

"Oni and the Great Bird"

"The Crane Wife"

"Aschenputtel", "Yeh-Shen", and third Cinderella story

"Aunty Misery"

Literary Terms: motif, taboo, metamorphasis, origin myth

" King Arthur: Sword and kthe Stone"

"Meriln and the Dragons"

"Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady"

Social Studies Syllabus

Ch. 1: Themes of Geography

Place, Location,Region, Movement, Human/Environment Interaction

Ch 2: Paleothic and Neolithic Periods

Ch. 3: Mesopotamia

Mesopotamian Cityy-State project

Ch. 4: Egypt

Egyptian Research paper

Ch 5: Indus River Valley and China

Chinese Contribution Project

Ch 6: Pheonicians

Ch 9: Minoneans and Myceneans

Ch 10-12: The Greeks

Greek Legacy Project

Ch. 13-15 The Romans

Roman Legacy Project

Ch. 24 & 26: Midieval Europe