Mr. Curry's Trimester 2 Syllabus

Piedmont Middle School Room 27

Social Studies/Language Arts Core

Berryessa Union School District -- San Jose, CA

Bell Schedule

Mr. Curry teaches 2 double period core classes of Language Arts & Social Studies plus a single period of Social Studies for one other group.

Regular Schedule

Homeroom    8:00-8:12
1st Period      8:15-9:08
2nd Period    9:11-10:04
Break           10:04-10:19
3rd Period   10:22-11:15
4th Period    11:18-12:11
5th Period    12:14- 1:07
6th Period     1:40-- 2:33

Minimum Day Schedule (Every Thursday)
Homeroom    None
1st Period      8:00-8:40
2nd Period    8:43-9:23
Break            9:23-9:38
3rd Period   9:41-10:21
4th Period    10:24-11:04
5th Period    11:07-11:47
6th Period     12:20-1:00

Periods 1& 2: Language Arts/Social Studies Core
Periods 4&5: Language Arts/Social Studies Core
Period 6: Social Studies only

Piedmont uses a rotating schedule.

Second Trimester at a Glance

Mon Aug 29th - First Day of Classes

Mon Dec 12th - Trimester 2 Begins
Fri Dec 16th - Winter Break Begins

January 2nd: School resumes
Monday Jan 16 ML King, Jr Holiday

Sat Feb 18- Sun Feb 26 Presidents' Day Vacation Week

Checkout Mr. Curry's class'
Web-Based Projects

Usable Monitors for 2 computers

Parent Participation in

Piedmont Boosters

More Summer Vacation

Please check the list of student supplies!

2 pencils

2 pens

tracker book

folders

6th Grade California Content Standards

Lang Arts/Reading 6

Social St./History 6

rdcurry@sjteach.org

Mr. R. Curry

Mr. Curry's Class Homepage

Meet Your Teacher
Mr. Curry is now starting his 16th year of teaching (7th year in the Berryessa Union School District), and his first at Piedmont Middle. He spent his summer by:
(1) Moving into a new classroom and teaching summer school right here in room 27.
(2) Traveling to Mount Vernon for a teacher teacher workshop on US history
(3) Working on a project to develop web-based units for teachers to use in their classrooms
(4) Mr. Curry was selected for a history fellowship to learn more about the writing of the US Constitution at Mount Vernon, near Washington, D.C.

	*Literature & Language Arts*	Handbook (Grammar)	*Social Studies*
*Nov 28- Mar 10*			Chapters 6-10 (Units 3-4)
Week #14 Nov 28- Dec 2	Writing Workshop 2: Expository Writing Local News Read 2 stories Story Map & summaries	Ch 3 M :Verbs 48-51 Tu:Action/Linking51-55 W : transitive... 55-58 Th:Adverbs 59-61 F :61-62	Chapter 6: Lessons 3-4 Geography Skills Lesson Chapter 6 Review/ Study Guide Chapter 6 Assessments: QuizLab, Skills/Writing Test
Week #15 Dec 5-9	Writing Workshop 2: Expository Writing Local News Read 2 stories Story Map & summaries	Ch 3 M :Prepositions 62-65 Tu: Prepos./Advers 65-66 W : Conjunction/ Interjections p. 66-70 Th: Ch 3 Review p. 71-72 F : Ch 3 Test	Chapter 7 M -Chapter Intro 164 Tu-Lesson 1 166-171, p 171 Quest #1-4 W -Thinking Skills 172-173, Q p 173 #1-3 Th-Lesson 2: 174-179, p.179 Q #1-4 F - 180-181 Viepoints on Ivory Trade
Week #16 Dec 12-16	Writing Workshop 2 Test Finished Expository Writing Local News Readers Theater Groups read 1 story	Ch 3 Reteaching (as needed)	Chapter 7 M -Lesson 3: 180-187, p 187 #1-3 Tu-188-189, Chapter 7 Review p. 190 W - Chapter 7 Tests QuizLab Th-Unit 3 Review p. 192 Unit 3 Jeopardy Review Game F - Unit 3 Test QuizLab
Week #17 Jan 2-6	Chapter 3: Heart of the Matter M :114-117, p 117 #1-2, Vocab Tu: 118-122 The All American Slurp W : 122-126 The All American Slurp p. 128 #1-5 and summary QuizLab Th: 129-133 Everybody is Different... F : Finish p. 133, #1-3 and Test Practice	Ch 4: Phrases and Clauses M : Diagnostic 74-75 Tu: Prepositional 76-78 W :78-79 Prep Phrases Th: 79-83 Adjectival phrases F : Spell Post Test Spell TEST Vocab/Spell Puzzles
Week #18 Jan 9-13	A Novel Approach AR: M :134-135, Vocab Tu: 136-140 The Emperor's New Clothes W : Literary Response & Analysis p. 142 #1-9 and summary QuizLab Th: 143-147 Uniform Style. F : Finish p. 147, #1-4 and Test Practice	Ch 4: Phrases and Clauses M : 83-85 Adverbal Tu: Adj/Adv? 86-88 W :Clauses 89-91 Th: Adject. Clauses 91-93 F : Spell Post Test TEST Vocab/Spell Puzzles
Week #19 Jan 17-20	Questions/Summary/QuizLab	Ch 4: Clauses/Sent. Tu : Adv Clauses 93-95 W:Clause Review95-96 Th :Phrases & Clause review F: Phrase/clause Quiz F : Spell Post Test TEST Vocab/Spell Puzzles
Jan 23- March 10	Second Half of Trimester #2		Nation Reports (CIA World Fact Book)
Week #20 Jan 23-27		Ch 4: Sentences M : Simple/Compound Sentences 96-98 Tu: Complex Sent 99-100 W :Classify Sent 100 Th: Ch 4 Review F : Ch 4 Test Spell Post Test
Week #21 Jan 30- Feb 3
Week #22 Feb 6-10
Week #23 Feb 13-17
Week #24 Feb 27- March 3
Week #25 March 6-10

The spelling words for each week are found on the Weekly Assignment web page

Please make sure your child is in their seat by the bell!
Please monitor student homework by signing the weekly assignment sheet we send home every Monday!

Grade Level Links
Teachers Check This Out!!! -
Computer Activities for Today
What can I do on a computer? (many, many links!)

KidsKonnect - Great Site Created by Educators - Alppppphabetical & Topical Subject Listings


Cloze Activities	AAAMath	Birds	Astronomy	Groundhog Day
	Brainboosters	Mammals	Explorers	Valentines
	Deductive Reasoning	Matter	Flags	History of Valentine's Day
	Flashcards	Habitats/Biomes	Geography	Valentine's Stories
	Figure This	Human Body	Back to Plimouth - a webquest	Valentine Crafts
	Harcourt Brace	Plants	Texas Independence Day	Valentine's Sites
Essays & Other Writing Topics	Math Mayhem - Multiplication	Inventors	Juneteenth	Pilgrim Life Adventure - webquest
	Money	Oceans	Six Flags of Texas	Thanksgiving Webquest
	Multiplication.com	Volcanoes	Barbara Jordan	The First Thanksgiving - a webquest
	Multiplication Tables	Simple Machines	Great Houstonians	Life on Plymouth Plantation - awebquest
	Mult. Game - 1 Player		Barbed Wire Museum	The History of Thanksgiving - Myths, audio interviews...
	Mult. Game - 2 Player		History of Barbed Wire
	Spacey Math		Whitehouse for Kids
	Sum Sense - Multiplication
	Sum Sense Division
	Time
	Word Problems
	Word Problems

Printable Crafts for Kids	Translate any web page to many languages	Keyboarding	Text-to-Speech	Internet Safety