We are Half the Journey, Keep Going! / Estamos a Mitad del Camino. Sigue Adelante!

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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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January Log (Revised Topics)

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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

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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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

Study all exercises in book and notebook


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January Log (Revised Topics)

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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

* Lesson 3: Adverbs and Adjectives

- Adverbs and adjectives that are the same word.

Special event: Jeoparduy game

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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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January Log

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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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