Governments

This six weeks we have been covering all things GOVERNMENT!  The students have been gaining knowledge through readings and activities.  Students will be learning about the decision making process next week!  Hopefully this will help them learn not only how governments make decisions but how they can make decisions as well.  :)

Government Pictowords

Last week we read about the RISE OF DEMOCRACY.  The students were then given a pictoword assignment.  They had to create a pictoword (drawing and a word combined) for oligarchy, democracy, monarchy, and tyranny.  The picture needed to represent the definition of the word and be intertwined with the word.  Here are some great examples of some of the students work!  (Sorry some of the pictures are blurry).  REMEMBER THESE ARE DUE TOMORROW!!

GOVERNMENT!!!

The past two weeks we have been learning about the different types of governments!  We will have a test over the governments on Friday, January 26th!  Students need to study their foldable and the reading.  They need to know what each government is about and the advantages and disadvantages.  Students created a government foldable and participated in an activity in which they walked around the room and identified various governments of the world.  Here are a few examples of what we learned the past two weeks!

Monarchy

Dictatorship

Presidential Democracy

Single-Party State

Theocracy

Semester Exam schedule

We will begin taking semester exams tomorrow the schedule is listed below.  I will begin grading passports tomorrow as well.  Please make sure you study for your exam AND bring back your passport.  I have posted a Jeopardy review game on my website for reveiw purposes as well.  GOOD LUCK!!!

       WEDNESDAY                                                    THURSDAY

1^st   8:40-10:00     EXAM                                   3^rd  8:40-10:00     EXAM

2^nd  10:05-11:25   EXAM                                   4^th 10:05-11:25   EXAM

LUNCH   11:30-12:00                                         LUNCH 11:30-12:00  

3^rd 12:05-12:45   CLASS                                    5^th 12:05-12:45   CLASS

4^th 12:50-1:35     CLASS                                    6^th 12:50-1:35     CLASS

5^th 1:40-3:00       EXAM                                     7^th 1:40-2:40       CLASS

6^th 3:05-3:45       CLASS                                    8^TH 2:45-3:45       CLASS

                                                     FRIDAY

                                        6^TH 8:40-10:00     EXAM

                                        8^TH 10:05-11:25   EXAM

                                        7^TH 11:30-12:45   SACK LUNCHES IN ADVISORY  

WELCOME BACK and HaPpY NeW YeAr!!!

Welcome back everyone!  I hope you all had a wonderful winter break!  I know I did!  We will be jumping right in today and begin preparing for your semester exams!  I know that many of you need a refresher of all of the knowledge and information you have learned so far this year.  We will be taking semester exams January 11th - 13th.  I will post the exam schedule as soon as I get it.  I am so glad to have you all back and I am ready to get going! 

Historical Change Project

Students were given information about their historical change project.  We will be working on the project during class. Students will begin researching their projects in the classroom tomorrow and will be graded on their classroom research Wednesday, December 7th.  Students will be completing research in the computer lab on Thursday and Friday of this week.  I will be grading their research in the computer lab on Friday, December 9th.  We will be putting posters together on Monday, December 12th and Tuesday, December 13th.  We will begin presenting our projects on Wednesay, December 14th.  Information about the project can be found on my website - Historical Change Project Information.

WELCOME BACK!

Welcome back everyone!  This week we will continue our discussion over change!  We will also be discussing the changes in technology.  We will have a test this Friday, December 2nd!  I have placed a jeopardy review game on my website.  We will be playing the game in class on Thursday but I suggest that you all use it to review! 

CHANGE

This week we have began our discussion over change!  Change can occur in all societies.  Students have been learning new words such as cultural diffusion, cultural convergence, and cultural divergence.  They will continue to see these words throughout the six weeks so it is important that they become very familiar with them!  I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving break!  See you when we get back!

CBA Adjustment

Due to the length of the CBA we will begin the exam tomorrow after we go over the review.  Students will be given the remainder of the class period tomorrow and the entire class period on Friday to complete the exam. 

CBA FRIDAY!

This week we will finish up our discussion of human geography with migration.  We will also begin preparing for the CBA.  The CBA will be given on Friday and it covers everything we have covered this six weeks.  I will also be grading passports for a major test grade.  STUDY HARD!!!!