Around the World - Across the Years

Journal Entry - There are five major themes in geography. These are listed on page 10 in your “Ohio” book. The themes are explained on pages 11 and 12. Find and write down the topic sentence from each of the paragraphs describing the themes to form a new paragraph defining the five themes.

Today we read & discussed pp. 13-19 in our “Ohio” book.  We will be doing the activity on p. 20 tomorrow.

Parent letter for 9th period extension students
Journal Entry - Turn to page 11 in your Ohio book. Answer the “Place Questions” at the bottom of the page in paragraph form using complete sentences.

History - Today we closely examined the comments of John McCain and Hillary Clinton on C-SPAN regarding what the United States should do about the situation in Iraq.  We organized all of this using a Debate Organizer from Time for Kids.

Journal Entry - 1. Supporters of keeping the US in Iraq believe.                2. Opponents of keeping the US in Iraq believe.  3. My opinion on the situation in Iraq is that…

Journal Question - Based on what you know, how would you explain the fact that at first the English settlers at Jamestown had conflict with Powhatan’s Indians?

History - We read Ohio: It’s Neighbors Near & Far, pp. 251-254. We discussed editorials and then we watched video clips from CSPAN of Senators John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama weighing in on the situation in Iraq last Tuesday. We discussed the differing viewpoints of the three senators.

Homework - Talk to your parents about what they think we should do about the current situation in Iraq.  Be ready to write about your opinion in the morning.

Journal Question - What would you recommend the United States do about the current situation in Iraq? Why?

We will be starting daily journal entries on Monday in history.  You can see an example under class notes.

Well, we are in test prep mode now in Reading class!  You can see that over on the right side of the screen is a link for my reading students to go to online OAT test practice.  I have assigned my students two practice tests in reading and two practice tests in math.  If you are not in my reading class, you can still go here and take a practice test - I just won’t be tracking your results.

History - We are continuing our study of different types of governments.

Extension - We have begun working with readers’ theater scripts from American history.  We are also reading Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold. 

History = We finished comparing monarchy, dictatorship, & democracy.  Then, we grouped characteristics from these three types of government into columns.

Reading = We began going over a practice OAT test we took just before spring break.

Today in History class we began a discussion on monarchy, democracy, and dictatorships.  We are working on classifying descriptions of government as one of these three forms of government.  8th period had pp. 226-227, 1-12 for homework.  They are to answer the questions in complete sentences.

Reading - We read and discussed Time for Kids.  Discussion centered around super delegates.  Homework = comprehension quiz.

Extension - We are reading Twenty and Ten.

Have a great break!  I will try to add some more content from our class this year over break, so check back from time to time.

History - We began today by continuing our discussion of the basic beliefs of Christianity. Then, we began to examine the origin, founder, and teachings of Islam.

Reading - We continued our practice OAT tests.