1.  Mr. Keating’s 6 th Grade Social Studies

2.  Located in Southeast Raleigh  Named after John Ligon  Built 1953  Started out as a High School

3.  Turn in HW  Take your seat and look at two boards: The HW board (to the left behind my desk and the board in the front of the room)  Get out necessary materials  Sharpen pencil if necessary  Copy down HW  Complete Warm up

4.  R- respect others and yourself  O- own your action  A- apply positive leadership  R -respect our school

5.  Grading will be done using a point system (not based on 100%), instead percentages will be based upon the number of questions that are part of the assignment  For example if you take a quiz with ten questions and you get two wrong you will get an 80%. On your quiz it will be represented as a faction.  8/10  Projects will have a rubric

6.  Points will be weighted into the following averages:  Homework 10%  Classwork 90%

7.  1 Day Late – 20% off  2 Days Late – 30% off  3 Days Late- 40% off  4 Days Late – 60% given for the assignment with the comment NHI on powerschools

8.  An accordion file folder (please have 12 sections)  Paper (loose leaf)  Something to write with

9.  Attire  Communication with teachers – if emailing you MUST use your student assigned WCPSS email  Ligon’s website will include a link to the class website and my email  No cell phones in class, must be kept in your locker

10.  Unit 1: Geography  Unit 2: The Americas  Unit 3: The Fertile Crescent and Ancient Egypt  Unit 4: Ancient Greece  Unit 5: Ancient Rome  Unit 6: Ancient Eastern Europe  Unit 7: Islam and expansion  Unit 8: The European Middle Ages, The Renaissance, The Reformation  Unit 9: Ancient Africa  Unit 10: Ancient South Asia  Unit 11: Ancient China  Unit 12: Ancient Japan and the Koreas

11.  There are the following “Teams” in the room:  Washington Capitals  Ottawa Senators  Minnesota Wild  Dallas Stars  Buffalo Sabres  Columbus Blue Jackets  Tampa Bay Lightning  Edmonton Oilers  St. Louis Blues  Phoenix Coyotes  Los Angeles Kings

12.  Directions: talk to the people who are part of your team and introduce yourself. Tell them the following information:  Name  Family information  Your hobbies  1 interesting fact about yourself Use your conversation to create a list of 4 things that describes you. EACH person on your team must include one thing about them