Start the Year with all your Energy! / Empiez el Año con toda tu Energía!

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Continuous Evaluation Criteria

25%  Classwork 
25%  Book and notebook
25%  Speaking
25%  Homework

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January Contents by Subject, Grade and Level.

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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

Special event: Jeopardy game.

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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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Unit 10.- Human and Animal Encounters

* Lesson 1: Adjectives

- Adjectives with "how" and "what...like"
- Using nouns as adjectives

* Lesson 2: Adverbs of manner and adjectives

- Adverbs used to modify action verbs
- linking verbs + adjectives

Special event: Jeoparduy game

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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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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 

Special event: Jeopardy game

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