Family Digest · Quarter 3 · Week 27
Decline of Rome & Q3 Synthesis
Why empires fall; Q3 culminating project.
6.RP.A.3
6.EE.B.7
6.SP.B.5
W.6.7
MS-LS4-3
C3 D2.His.16.6-8
ELA this week
- Monday: Read on Roman decline; central idea (RI.6.2).
- Tuesday: Plan culminating project: 'Why did Rome fall?' (W.6.7).
- Wednesday: Draft culminating essay/project.
- Thursday: Revise culminating essay/project.
- Friday: Publish culminating essay; portfolio entry.
Standards
RI.6.2
W.6.7
Math this week
- Monday: Q3 cumulative review: ratios, percent, geometry.
- Tuesday: Q3 cumulative review: data and statistics.
- Wednesday: Q3 cumulative assessment.
- Thursday: Cumulative review feedback & corrections.
- Friday: Cumulative review wrap-up; share strategies.
Words to know
ratios
percent
geometry
Science this week
- Monday: Patterns in fossil record reveal evolutionary change (MS-LS4-3).
- Tuesday: Q3 cumulative review: ecosystems and heredity.
- Wednesday: Q3 cumulative assessment — written portion.
- Thursday: Q3 lab practical — fossil dating or pedigree station.
- Friday: Q3 portfolio sync; reflection on the half-year.
Standards
MS-LS4-3
Social Studies this week
- Monday: 50 years, 50 emperors; inflation, plague, civil war.
- Tuesday: The Tetrarchy; splitting the empire to govern it.
- Wednesday: Goths, Vandals, Huns; Adrianople 378; sack of Rome 410.
- Thursday: 476 CE: Romulus Augustulus deposed; what 'fall' actually means.
- Friday: Present 'Why Rome Fell' projects; compare with Han collapse.
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 Roman decline".
- 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 "Plan culminating project: 'Why did Rome fall?'".
- 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 "Draft culminating essay/project".
- 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 "Revise culminating essay/project".
- 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 "Publish culminating essay".
- 6.Ask your child to teach you tonight's idea in 60 seconds: "Show me one example of q3 cumulative review: ratios, percent, geometry." 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.