Family Digest · Quarter 3 · Week 20
End of the Republic — Caesar, Crisis & Civil War
The fall of the Republic and the rise of one-man rule.
6.SP.A.1
6.SP.A.2
RI.6.3
W.6.1
MS-LS2-2
C3 D2.Civ.5.6-8
ELA this week
- Monday: Read on the Gracchi; how individuals shape events (RI.6.3).
- Tuesday: Vocabulary: dictator, civil war, proscription, triumvirate.
- Wednesday: Read Caesar's account of his Gallic campaign (RI.6.6).
- Thursday: Plan argument: 'Was Caesar a tyrant or a reformer?' (W.6.1).
- Friday: Draft & revise argument essay.
Words to know
dictator
civil war
proscription
triumvirate
Standards
RI.6.3
RI.6.6
W.6.1
Math this week
- Monday: Statistical questions vs. non-statistical (6.SP.A.1).
- Tuesday: Describe distributions: center, spread, shape (6.SP.A.2).
- Wednesday: Find mean, median, mode of small data sets.
- Thursday: Range and interquartile range (IQR) intro.
- Friday: Mixed practice: measures of center & spread.
Words to know
center
spread
shape
Standards
6.SP.A.1
6.SP.A.2
Science this week
- Monday: Predator-prey patterns continued; population modeling.
- Tuesday: Investigation: simulate predator/prey with paper-clip 'predators.'
- Wednesday: Predator-prey simulation data; graph populations.
- Thursday: Cooperative behaviors in animal groups.
- Friday: Mini-quiz on interactions; portfolio entry.
Social Studies this week
- Monday: Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus; land reform and political violence.
- Tuesday: The first Roman civil war; armies loyal to generals, not Senate.
- Wednesday: First Triumvirate; Caesar in Gaul; 'the die is cast.'
- Thursday: Calendar reform, Senate expansion, citizenship grants; growing tensions.
- Friday: Brutus, Cassius, the assassination, and the second civil war.
Ask at the dinner table
- 1.Ask: "Who is the main character or speaker in what you read today, and what do they want?" Then have your child read aloud one favorite sentence from "Read on the Gracchi".
- 2.Ask: "Who is the main character or speaker in what you read today, and what do they want?" Then have your child read aloud one favorite sentence from "Vocabulary: dictator, civil war, proscription, triumvirate".
- 3.Ask: "Who is the main character or speaker in what you read today, and what do they want?" Then have your child read aloud one favorite sentence from "Read Caesar's account of his Gallic campaign (RI".
- 4.Ask: "Who is the main character or speaker in what you read today, and what do they want?" Then have your child read aloud one favorite sentence from "Plan argument: 'Was Caesar a tyrant or a reformer?' (W".
- 5.Ask: "Who is the main character or speaker in what you read today, and what do they want?" Then have your child read aloud one favorite sentence from "Draft & revise argument essay".
- 6.Ask your child to teach you tonight's idea in 60 seconds: "Show me one example of statistical questions vs." Teaching it back is the fastest way to lock it in.
How to help at home
Read together. Spend 15 minutes on any text — fiction, news, even recipes. Talk about new words.
Show your thinking. When you do math in real life (cooking, shopping, budgeting), narrate it out loud.
Ask "why" and "how." For science and social studies, open-ended questions matter more than right answers.
Celebrate effort. Six hours of school is a long day. Notice the work, not just the grade.