Ms. Finley

5/16/08

This was the last day to work on projects in school. Everyone must have their project completed by Monday. There will be no late work. I must have them all graded by Friday.

I am very pleased with all their hard work.

5/06/08

Next week we will only work on the project about two days. I hope that everyone works on it at home.

There will be a notebook quiz one day next week.

We had a map quiz, almost everyone got a 100, way to go!

5/06/08

I have decided to give a map quiz over the Canadian provinces. This will be Friday of this week. They have already worked on Canada and we'll be reviewing with blank maps in class every day at the beginning of each period.

We will use the rest of class to work on their business plans. I am very impressed with many of the project ideas  that have been shared with me.

4/05/08

I am so pleased that many of the students have worked on their research for the business project. Many are struggling with the licensing aspect. I will allow a for an educated guess where this is considered.

The homework will be the same for several days, gather all the monetary facts to write your plan. Not everyone is using the class time wisely, so I may be limiting the class aspect. I will try to get a lab sot hey can type it here at school. Remember we have two weeks from today.

5/01/08

Tomorrow a current event is due. The students have been told the directions several times. It is an easy A if everyone follows the instructions. Check Wednesday's blog.

We are going to use those current events to have a classroom dialog in class tomorrow.

4/29/08

It's the last day of the month and the last day of testing. I know that many feel as if the year is over, but we have several more weeks of school and more grade are to be given.

I have assigned a current event due on Fri. May, 2 they are to get a current article from a newspaper, magazine or the Internet. They will cut out or print the article and then summarize , in their own words. It doesn't have to be long. It can't be gory or gruesome, about sports or entertainment. We must be able to have a dialog over it.

We also discussed their projects and I'll send home the rubric tomorrow.

4/28/08

I am attaching a study review for tomorrow's CRCT test

Practice questions for the CRCT

Look in the table of contents for what pages the chapters and sections are on. Then locate the answers to these questions.

Chapter 10

Section 1

1.     What natural landform separates Europe and

Asia

?

2.     A body of water located along the southern coast of

Europe

?

3.     A large, flat area of land, usually without many trees?

4.     What landform does the country of

Italy

form?

We didn’t study ancient

Greece

this year.

Section 3

1.     What did they call an ordinary working male?

2.     Who took control of

Rome

in 45 B.C.?

3.     In ancient

Rome

what was the most powerful ruling body?

4.     Who made Christianity the official religion of the

Roman Empire

?

Section 4

1. What type of political structure was it when the nobles had the power over the peasants and serfs?

2. What document was created to limit the power of the kings?

3. What does the term Pax Romana mean?

Chapter 11

Section 1

1.     What famous painter painted the” last Supper”?

2.     What movement that occurred in the 16^th century changed church practices?

3.     Who was the German monk that criticized the Catholic Church?

4.     What did they call a series of military campaigns to reclaim the holy lands from the Muslims?

Section 2

1.     What explorer led the expedition to go around the world?

2.     What lands did Christopher Columbus reach in 1492?

3.     What is it called when one takes control of another country’s government and economy?

4.     What did Prince Henry become known for?

5.    

6.     What word means to navigate around the world?

Section 3

1.     What word describes a society where people can open their own businesses.

2.     What event occurred when the citizens stormed the Bastille?

3.     What is a labor force?

4.     Which movement, led by Galileo, did new discoveries change the world?

5.     What event led to the execution of more than 17,000 people in

France

?

Section 4

1.     Why was Ivan the Terrible so aptly named?

2.     What were some of Catherine the Greats accomplishments?

3.     Define the term Czar.

4.     What led to the Russian Revolution?

Chapter 12

Section 1

1. In 1900, what was the largest empire in

Eastern Europe

?

2. What type of government was had in

Western Europe

during the 1900’s?

3. Under Colonialism, what did most colonies supply to their countries?

4. What was a dual monarchy?

5. What does the term nationalism mean?

Section 2

1.     What conflict occurred as a result of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination?

2.     What type of political structure gives the power to a central government and the leader is a dictator?

3.     What conflict occurred from Hitler’s army invading

Poland

?

4.     This term means: any formal agreement between countries to unite for a common cause.

5.     The mass killing of Jews, disabled people and others by the Nazis.

Section 3

1.     What was the “Iron Curtain”?

2.     Explain what is meant by a puppet government.

3.     Who was Joseph Stalin?

4.     What was the Warsaw Pact?

Chapter 13

Section 1

1.     A period of improving relations between two countries is what?

2.     What word is used to describe media and entertainment slated toward communism?

3.     What term refers to someone who is removed from power?

Section 2

1. Who became the leader of the

Soviet Union

in 1985?

2. What type of European government has a Prime minister as a head of state?

3. What is the Duma?

Section 3

1.     What was the original purpose of the E.U.?

2.    

4/25/08

Parents we are almost done with testing, but Social Studies is last. I would like them to stay a bit more focused until Tuesday. We did a review that I made up today and will con tinue on Monday.

I will be giving them a rubric for a business project on Tuesday.

4/23/08

There is no homework and we will be reviewing over the next week.

8/21/08

It's the week we have all been waiting for! Make sure everyone is well rested Tuesday into Wednesday as the CRCT's begin. Eat breakfast, so you don't get the growls, everyone will hear.

We are doing a group rotation, each group of four makes up four questions each and then each group will rotate their questions so that all of the questions will be answered and they will have reviewed major topics for their test.

The project we will be starting after testing will need to be abridged , so that  the students can get it back in a timely fashion. Instead of it being  worth both a test and a quiz  grade, it will only be a test grade. I will give out the rubric next monday.