Homework for the week of February, 2, 2009

Current Event due 2/3
Pro/Con WWI 2/4
Geography due 2/6

WWI packet and map skills sheet are due Tuesday February 3!!

Social Studies

We will be watching some WWI video footage and continuing our discussion of this time in our Nation. We will have some group work on the Influenza epidemic, the Red Scare, and Labor disputes.

OUR FINAL UNIT TEST WILL BE ON WEDNESDAY FEB.18TH
STUDENTS MAY USE THEIR NOTES AND THAT IS ALL!!
Lit.Skills

The entire week will be spent reading from their independent reading books and taking AR tests.

Trivia
due 2/6
What baseball legend hit Yankee Stadium's first two World Series home runs?
{don't forget you need to answer this is two paragraphs}

Homework for the Week of January 26, 2009

Current Event due Tues.-1/27
Geography due Friday.-1/30

Social Studies

We will be finishing up our classroom discussion of WWI this week. There will be some reading from our text as homework and good notes are expected for all our reading and class lectures.
We will have a closed book test on WWI when we have finished the entire unit. Students will be allowed notes but that is ALL!!
Students will receive a packet on Thursday to reinforce what we have been studying in class. They will have one day to work on this at school. The rest of the work needs to be completed at home. It will be due on Tues. Feb.3rd.

Lit. Skills

We are watching the original version of, Raisin in the Sun, with Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee this week. Students need to continue with their AR reading and taking the tests. THE PARENT/GUARDIAN READING FORM IS DUE ON FRIDAY, JAN. 30!!

TRIVIA
due Jan. 30th

In two paragraphs answer the following question:
What tennis breakthrough was made by Lili de Alvarex on center court at Wimbledon in 1931?

Homework for the Week of January 19, 2009
NO SCHOOL MONDAY IN HONOR OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING
HISTORY CLASS

Current Event due 1/20
No Geography this week.

We will begin WWI on Wednesday. We will have readings to do in class and at home. Pages 702-722 will be covered in our history books. We will also read from our supplemental book, The Age of Extremes. We may have questions to answer at home if class time does not permit.

LIT. SKILLS

We will finish reading the play, Raisin in The Sun. We will watch the original version of the play when we have completed our reading. Students need to continue reading their AR books at home and have their completed AND signed form returned on Jan. 30th. The students know it is their responsibility to take AR tests before school or during lunch as we finish this unit.

TRIVIA
In two paragraphs answer the following:
How did the ancient Romans keep dry when it rained at the Colosseum?
Due 1/23

Homework for the Week of January 12th

Current Event due 1/13
Geography due 1/16
We will be reading and discussing Chapter 20 in our History books.
There will be reading homework from this chapter several nights this week. We will have in class review questions to answer and those will become homework if they are not finished during the allotted time.

Trivia due 1/16
In two paragraphs answer: What European capital is located in the crater of an extinct volcano?
Lit. Skills
We continue reading A Raisin in the Sun in class. There are questions and writing activities that are assigned when we finish each act. These are usually worked on in class and due the next day.
Progress Reports go home on Friday!!

Welcome Back!
Homework for the week of Jan. 5th

-Current Event due 1/6
-Check Your Progress, 1 & 2, on page 659 of our History books due 1/7 AND READ pages 660-665 by the end of the week.
-DBQ due 1/9
NO GEOGRAPHY THIS WEEK :-)

WE WILL BE WATCHING AN EDITED VERSION OF IRON JAWED ANGLES THIS WEEK.

Trivia-due 1/9
In two paragraphs answer this question;
Where was Billy the Kid, the notorious Wild West outlaw, born?

DO NOT FORGET THAT I ACCEPT LATE WORK!!