Family Digest · Quarter 3 · Week 23
Han China — Empire in the East
Confucian governance and a contemporary of Rome.
6.SP.B.5
6.RP.A.3
RI.6.2
RI.6.6
MS-LS3-1
C3 D2.His.2.6-8
ELA this week
- Monday: Read on the Qin & Han transition; central idea (RI.6.2).
- Tuesday: Compare Han & Roman government structures (RI.6.6).
- Wednesday: Vocabulary: Confucianism, mandate, dynasty, bureaucracy.
- Thursday: Plan compare-and-contrast paragraph: Han vs. Rome (W.6.2).
- Friday: Draft & publish the comparison paragraph.
Words to know
Confucianism
mandate
dynasty
bureaucracy
Standards
RI.6.2
RI.6.6
W.6.2
Math this week
- Monday: Summarize numerical data sets in relation to context (6.SP.B.5).
- Tuesday: Mean absolute deviation (MAD) intro.
- Wednesday: Compare two data sets using MAD or IQR.
- Thursday: Percent in trade: gold, silk, spices.
- Friday: Mixed practice: data summary and ratio.
Words to know
gold
silk
spices
Standards
6.SP.B.5
Science this week
- Monday: Genes and traits — DNA as the code (MS-LS3-1).
- Tuesday: Model DNA → protein with bead/string activity.
- Wednesday: Mutation as a change in genetic code; sickle-cell case study.
- Thursday: Investigation: 'mutation telephone' — copy errors in writing.
- Friday: Mini-quiz on genes and traits; portfolio entry.
Standards
MS-LS3-1
Social Studies this week
- Monday: Qin Shi Huang's brief unification; Han Gaozu founds a long dynasty.
- Tuesday: The civil service exam idea; rule by educated officials.
- Wednesday: Paper, the seismograph, the wheelbarrow, advanced metallurgy.
- Thursday: Farmers, merchants, scholar-officials; preview of the Silk Road.
- Friday: Why 'Han' became the name of China's majority ethnicity.
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 Qin & Han transition".
- 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 "Compare Han & Roman government structures (RI".
- 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 "Vocabulary: Confucianism, mandate, dynasty, bureaucracy".
- 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 compare-and-contrast paragraph: Han vs".
- 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 & publish the comparison paragraph".
- 6.Ask your child to teach you tonight's idea in 60 seconds: "Show me one example of summarize numerical data sets in relation to context (6." 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.