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Evaluation Criteria January:
15% Book and Notebook.
15% Classwork, Oral Practice.
70% February Exam
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February Contents by Subject, Grade and Level
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GUIDE TO FEBRUARY EXAM. Grade: 1st., Sec II, III
Chapter 1.- A Geographer's World
Section 1.- Studying Geography
* Definition of geography, landscape, social science
* Definition of local, regional and global level on how geograqphers look
at the world
* Geographer's tools: definitions of a map, a globe, satellite images
* Map elements: title, legend, scale, compass rose, locator map
* Globe elements: Equator, parallels, Prime meridian, meridians,
hemispheres
Section 2.- Geography Themes and Essential Elements
* The five major themes: Definitions of location, place, movement, regions,
human-environments interactions
Section 3.- Branches of Geography
* Definition of branches
* Definition of Physical geography and Human geography
* Definition of Cartography, Hydrology, Meteorology (physical)
* Definition of Economic geography, Urban geography (human)
Chapter 2.- Planet Earth
Section 1.- Earth and the Sun's energy
* Definition and diagram of:
- solar energy - revolution - tilt - axis
- rotation - the seasons - latitude - tropics
Section 2.- Water on Earth
* Definition of the five water types ( freshwater, glaciers, surface water,
groundwater, water vapor)
* Definition of water cycle
* Definition and diagram of the water cycle process (evaporation,
condensation, precipitation, runoff)
Section 3.- The Land
* Definition of landforms, crust, continents, lava, earthquake
* Definition of plate tectonics and continental drift theories
* Definition of the three land movements:
- when plates collide
- when plates separate
- when plates slide
Study all notes in book and notebook.
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Chapter 2.- Planet Earth
Section 2.- Water on Earth
* Water and the People
* Water problems
* Water benefits
Section 3.- The Land
* Landforms
* Earth's plantes
* Continents
* Theory of plate tectonics
* Plate movements
* Lava and earthquake
Special event: Jeopardy game.
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GUIDE TO FEBRUARY EXAM. Grade: 1st. Sec IV, V
Unit 1.- All about you
* Personality adjectives (antonyms)
* Present simple: affirmative and negative statements, questions
* Present continuous: affirmative and negative statements, questions
* Verb + -ing and infinitive forms
* Modifying adverbs: very, pretty, slightly, a bit, quite, rater, too
Unit 2.- Winning and Losing
* Sports: names and images
* Collocations with play, go, do
* Past simple: affirmative and negative statements, questions
Unit 3.- House and Home
* Vocabulary: Urban and rural landscapes. Name and image
* Vocabulary: Prepositions of movement (across, over, past, through, along)
* Grammar: Quantifiers some, any, much, many, a lot of, a little, a few
* Grammar: Articles a-an-the
* Grammar: Extreme adjectives
Unit 4.- Lights, camera, action
* Vocabulary: Adjectives describing movies. Definition and examples
* Grammar: Comparative and superlative adjectives
* Grammar: Comparative and superlative adjectives
Unit 5.- Shopping
* Grammar: Present perfect
* Grammar: Present perfect and past simple
* Grammar: the use of "for" and "since"
Study all exercises in book and notebook
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Unit 5.- Shopping
* Vocabulary shopping and money
* Present perfect; use of "for" and "since"; use of "been" and "gone"
* Present perfect questions "How long...?" and "Have you ever...?"
* Verbs for shopping
Special event: Jeopardy game
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January Log (Revised Topics)
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Unit 5.- Shopping
* Vocabulary shopping and money
* Present perfect; use of "for" and "since"; use of "been" and "gone"
* Present perfect questions "How long...?" and "Have you ever...?"
* Verbs for shopping
Special event: Jeopardy game
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GUIDE TO FEBRUARY EXAM. Grade 2nd. Sec II, III, IV
Unit 8.- Travel
* Lesson 1
- Simple past of verb "be": affirmative, negative statements
- Past time expressions wtih last, yesterday, ago
* Lesson 2
- Simple past of verb "be": yes / no questions
- Simple past of verb "be": Wh- questions
* Lesson 3
- Simple past: affirmative statements with regular verbs
- Simple past: negative statements with regular verbs
- Notebook: list of regular / irregular v erbs.
Unit 9.- Achievements
* Lesson 1:
- Simple past Wh- questions
- Questions with Who, What
* Lesson 2:
- Past time clauses with before and after
* Lesson 3:
- Past progressive with verb "be"
- Past progressive with action verbs
- Simple past vs past progressive
Unit 10.- Human and Animal Encounters
* Lesson 1:
- Modifying nouns with adjectives
- Adjectives for animals
* Lesson 2:
- Adverbs of manner versus adjectives
- Adverbs and adjectives with the same form
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Unit 10.- Human and Animal Encounters
* Lesson 1: Adjectives
- Adjectives with "how" and "what...like"
- Using nouns as adjectives
- Using nouns as adjectives
* Lesson 2: Adverbs of manner and adjectives
- Adverbs used to modify action verbs
- linking verbs + adjectives
- linking verbs + adjectives
* Lesson 3: Adverbs and Adjectives
- Adverbs and adjectives that are the same word.
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GUIDE TO FEBRUARY EXAM. Grade: 2nd. Sec. V, VI, VIII
Reading and "in other words" vocabulary from the following lectures:
Unit 1.- Finding your own place
* Growing together
* Kids like me
* Familiar places
* Reading strategy: Visualize, determine importance
Unit 2.- Water for life
* The secret water
* Water at work
* Reading strategy: Analyze plot, main idea and details
Unit 3.- Natural forces
* Volcano
* Fleeing Katrina
* Reading strategy: Cause and effect, viewpoint
Unit 4.- Creepy classics
* Frankenstain
* Film Fright
* Reading strategy: Character development, analyze media
Unit 5.- The drive to discover
* The forgotten treasure
* Mysteries of the ancient past
* Reading strategy: determine theme, main idea and detalis
Independent lecture: The Count of Montecristo
* Data about the author
* Chapters 1 to 4
* Reading strategy: characters attitude and actions, event sequence
Study all notes and exercises from book and notebook
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Unit 5.- The Drive to Discover
* Lecture: The forgotten treasure (Folk tale)
* Review on reading strategies for comprehension and lexis:
- Determine theme: finding the main message
- Key words
- Academic vocabulary
Independent Lecture: The count of Monte Cristo, 4th. Chapter
Special event: Jeopardy game
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GUIDE TO FEBRUARY EXAM. Grade: 2nd, Sec. V, VI, VII
Chapter 1.- Interactions of Living Things
Section 1.- Everything is connected
* The five levels of environmental organization (definitions):
organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere
* Definition and examples of biotic and abiotic examples
* Definition of Ecology
Section 2.- Living things need energy
* Definition of producer, consumer, photosynthesis
* Main producers in a prairie dog and a salt marsh ecosystems, in oceans
* Classification, definition and examples of consumers:
carnivore, herbivore, omnivore (scavengers)
* Definition and examples of decomposers (materials they produce)
* Description of food chain, food web and energy pyramid
Section 3.- Types of Interaction
* With the environment
- Definitions of limiting factors, carrying capacity
* Between organisms
- Definition and examples of competition, predation, (predator, prey),
symbiosis
- Definition and examples of symbiotic relationships: mutualism,
commensalism, parasitism (parasite, host)
Chapter 2.- Cycles in Nature
Section 1.- The cycle of Matter
* Definition of water cycle process (evaporation, condensation, precipitation,
transpiration)
* Definition of carbon cycle
* Definition of carbon cycle process (decomposition, combustion)
* Definition of concepts: organic molecules, photosynthesis, respiration
* Definition of nitrogen cycle
* Importance and % of nitrogen in the atmosphere
* Definition and two elements that create nitrogen fixation
* Minerals cycled through the environment
Chapter 3.- The Earth's Ecosystems
Section 1.- Land biomes
* Definition of land biomes in terms of location, temperature, rainfall,
animals and plants, important features:
- Temperate deciduous forest (definition of deciduous)
- Coniferous forest (definition of evergreen trees)
- Tropical rainforest (definition of canopy)
- Grassland (Temperate, savanna)
- Desert
- Tundra [Polar (definition of permafrost), Alpine (definition of tree line)]
Section 2.- Marine Ecosystems
* Definition of plankton
* Definition of the three temperature zones: Surface, Thermocline, Deep
* Definition of the four marine zones: Intertidal, Neritic, Oceanic, Benthic
* Definition of estuary, coral reef, Sargasso sea and Polar Ice
* Notebook: Analisys questionnaire.
Study all notes, questionnaires and diagrams in book and notebook.
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Chapter 3.- The Earth's Ecosystems
Section 2.- Marine Ecosystems
* Marine Ecosystems
* Ocean temperature zones (Surface zone, Thermocline, Deep zone)
* Ocean zones (Intertidal, neritic, oceanic, benthic)
* Marine ecosystem diagram
* Estuary and coral reef
* The Sargasso sea and Polar ice
* Estuary and coral reef
* The Sargasso sea and Polar ice
Special event: Jeopardy game
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