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Bring in Gala donations (check your email) - Due Dec 19

Christmas concert costumes for Grade Five:  hats, scarves, mitts, any cold weather gear at the school by December 20^th

PALS Jeffery's Lunch - Thursday, Dec 15

Homework:

SS – chapter 4 test, Dec 14

(see topics and guide below)

ELA - Quotation Mark test - Dec 19

-direct/indirect sentences

Math - translations worksheet, both sides

Practice translations (slides) and try rotating (turning) shapes by playing Tetris:

 https://tetris.com/play-tetris

- press UP arrow to turn shapes

- LEFT and RIGHT arrows slide shape left and right

- DOWN moves shape down super fast

Chapter 4, page 54 - 67

-        Vikings/Norse - map

-        Eric the Red

-        Leif

-        Thorvald

-        Basque

-        Renaissance

o   Invention

o   Northwest Passage

§  Spices

§  Riches

-        Catholic vs Protestants

o   Spread religion

o   Pope decided land claims in New World

-        Empires – countries from Europe’s coast that explored

o   Claimed land/people/riches FOR their homeland

o   New settlements were COLONIES

o   France, Spain, Portugal, England, Netherlands

o   MAP

-        Explorers (from/go/story)

o   Columbus, Diaz, Cabot, Frobisher, Drake, Verrazano, Hudson

o   MAP

-        Cartier

o   3 trips (what happened on each trip)

o   France

o   How he claimed the land for France

o   Relationship with the Indigenous (Wendat), Donnacona

o   Canada “Kanata” means village

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