Welcome to my web page!
Mrs. Ansley
Room 204
Social Studies and Language Arts
This site is designed to keep my students informed about Social Studies and/or Language Arts.
I teach 2 blocks of Social Studies and one block of Language Arts. Some students will be in 2 of my classes, and some will be with me for Language Arts or Social Studies.
In Social Studies, you will hear the term "split the block". Students in Mrs. Spires's class and mine will have both Social Studies and Science Monday through Wednesday.
On either Thursday or Friday students will have a lab day for each of the courses.
For example, Thursday will be your Social Studies lab and Friday will be your Science lab. It might sound complicated, but soon it will be routine.
I will try and remind students of due dates, and give occasional hints about how to be successful at school. However, this site will not always have daily homework postings.
Social Studies Blocks 1 and 2
This course looks at ancient history. We will examine the early cultures of the world. Some of our focus will be about why they settled where they did, how societies were organized, and beliefs that they shared. We will look at those characteristics and look at how they influenced us.
Mastery of concepts will be achieved through a variety of learning activites.
Projects, class discussions and computer labs are just some of the activities in which we will be engaged.
Medieval times is the current focus of our lessons. Monday, groups will present their plan to either attack or defend a castle or manor. The purpose is to learn about the social system, way of life and the upheaval of everyday life. We are looking at how things changed after the fall of the Roman Empire.
Here are the websites we have used recently in the computer lab.
***extra practice
Language Arts - - block 3.
If you like variety, then this is the place for you!
Grammar, Spelling, reading, writing, discussions, research.......they're all a part of Seventh Grade Language Arts!
Each of my LA students should have brought home a paper that talks about independent reading and the blog we will use to talk about our reading.
If you haven't seen it, please don't hesitate to ask your student.
There is a blog in the works. I will update this information as soon as I can.
Our class visits the library most Tuesdays.
No Spelling for the week of March 15th due to Cosi visit and change of schedule.
Students should have turned in their written work for the 3 King Arthur stories.
We have been working on our research projects. We have completed the note taking process.
Outlines were due on Thursday the 11th.
Research should be complete, however students may add additional information to be sure the research questions have been
answered thoroughly.
These websites will be used the week of the 24th.
Conferences were held Thursday, February 25 and Thursday, March 4.
Seventh grade lunch is from 12:30 until 1:00 PM. Since it is so late, it is important that students begin their day with a good breakfast.
