Ms. Michele Ellenwood - Middle School Social Studies

Hello! My name is Michele Ellenwood and I am the Middle School Social Studies teacher. This is my 20th year with Merryhill School. I started my teaching career in kindergarten, then spent a few years in first grade before moving to middle school. I am the 6th grade homeroom teacher so please email me if you have any questions about what we are learning about. I look forward to teaching your student this year.

Updated Friday 11-15-2024 05:36pm

Classroom Notes

Weekly Objectives

5th Grade

Student can identify the beliefs, experiences, perspectives, and values that underlie their own and others’ points of view about civic issues.

Student can describe ways in which people benefit from and are challenged by working together, including through government, workplaces, and families.

Student can identify core civic virtues and democratic principles that guide government, society, and communities.

Student can identify examples of the variety of resources that are used to produce goods.

Student can explain why individuals specialize and trade.

Student can use maps and photographs to explain relationships between locations of places and regions and their environmental characteristics.

Student can explain how cultural and environmental characteristics affect the distribution and movement of people, goods, and ideas.

Student can explain how human settlements and movements relate to the locations and use of various natural resources.

6th Grade

Student can explain how economic decisions affect the well-being of individuals, businesses, and society.

Student can explain how the relationship between the environmental characteristics of places and production of goods influences the spatial patterns of world trade.

Student can explain how global changes in population distribution patterns affect changes in land use in particular places.

Student can analyze the combinations of cultural and environmental characteristics that make places both similar to and different from other places.

7th Grade

Student can compare historical and contemporary means of changing societies, and promoting the common good.

Student can analyze connections among events and developments in broader historical contexts.

Student can classify series of historical events and developments as examples of change and/or continuity.

8th Grade

Student can explain specific roles played by citizens.

Student can examine the origins, purposes, and impact of constitutions and laws

Student can explain the origins, functions, and structure of government with reference to the U.S. Constitution, state constitutions, and selected other systems of government.