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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This same thing just happened to my dc with his 5th grade history test. I don't think it is enough notice, especially since there was no weekend time given. For those of you suggesting that op's child needs to work on her study skills and review the materials more frequently, my child doesn't have "materials" to be reviewing at home - no textbook, not even photocopies of pages of a textbook, no handwritten notes. The teacher orally teaches the material, including using the promethian board, online materials, etc. and the kids listen, discuss and complete worksheets (not bashing the worksheets, they are often thoughtful ones). But he doesn't have anything that he could review each night. The teacher sent home a one page worksheet for the kids to review for the test. This is MoCo btw. [/quote]

Why doesn't he review his worksheets?[/quote]

I'm guessing you do not have an elem school student in mcps.  These worksheets as stand alone are not useful as "study materials" for the events leading up to the Revolutionary War.  For example, the most recent one was how the patriots vs the loyalists felt about the intolerable acts - another was what was the turning point event leading to the rev war and why. As I said above, these are thoughtful worksheets and I love these more in depth assignments than memorizing history facts, but they don't cover all of the things they were learning about the Revolutionary War event.  The unit test will encapsulate both kinds of knowledge, the straight facts and the reasoning - my son has nothing from which to study the straight facts. [/quote]

So buy a used copy of a basic elementary U.S. History textbook like "The History of Us" on Amazon.com and read it at home. Or encourage the county to raise taxes so MCPS can afford enough textbooks to send one home with every kid. Anything but whine on DCUM.[/quote]

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