Ms. Finley

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.

4/16/08

Sorry , I have been unable to blog in the afternoon, so I'll do it this morning. We are trying to finish up those concepts we haven't gotten to or need to be reinforced for the CRCT. We will finish up Canada today and then begin a quick study of Australia and the Pacific Rim countries.

There will probably be very little homework for the next two weeks unless we didn't have time to finish during class-time.

After the CRCT's we will begin a business, economics project that will take us throughthe end of the year. I will give a rubric in a week or so. This will be worth a test and quiz grade.

4/3/08

We took a test today and overall the grades look good. I'll try to have them graded by tomorrow, so that you don't have to wait through Spring Break.

If you didn't complete the province facts, they are due tomorrow. I probably won't have them back until after vacation.

3/31/08

Can you believe it! Tomorrow is April fools day. As we have told the students there is a lot of work to do this week. We are breezing through Canada. We will be going to the media center to gather facts .

The study guide was originally due on Wednesday, but since I oopsed, it can be shown to me on Thursday, just before the test.

Since it is mainly definitions, we don't need to review the answers.

3/28/08

There is no homework, however the Study guide is due on Thursday.

3/27/05

Attached you will find the study guide for next Thursday's test. I have broken it down into the chapters of the book. The majority of the test will be fill in the blank with a key provided. There will be a section that has a map with corresponding questions and a graph with questions. There is know easy way to study for the map and graph. Follow the pointers I have put on the study guide.

Study guide for S.S. test – cumulative over

Latin America

Be able to define or fill in the blank these terms:

Chapter six:

1.     El Nino

2.     Hieroglyphs

3.     Tributaries

4.     Montezuma

5.     deforestation

6.    

Machu Picchu

7.     Columbian Exchange

8.     Chinampas

9.     Altahualpa

10.  Tropical Zone

11.  Francisco Pizzaro

12.  Hernan Cortes

For part two you will be looking at a map and having to answer questions based on it. Know you north, south, east and west. There will be five questions.

Chapter 7

Terms and names:

1.     Peninsulares

2.    

Gadsden purchase

3.     Encomiendas

4.     Father Miguel Hidalgo

5.     Treaty of Guadelupe

Hidalgo

6.     Ejido

7.     Benito Juarez

8.     Day of the dead

9.     Hacienda

10. Vicente Fox

11.  Pemex

12. Diego Rivera

13. maquiladora

Part two will be a bar graph based on the population of

Mexico

. You will have five questions.

Chapter 8: know these terms and names:

1.     Mulattos

2.    

Panama

3.     Malnutrition

4.    

Guatemala

5.     Fidel Castro

6.     Dependency

7.     Jose Marti

8.     Coffee ( know where it is grown)

9.     Ladinos

10. single-product economy

11. 

West Indies

( know what islands are included)

12. Sugar Cane

13. Communism

Chapter 9: know these terms, names and places;

1. Pan-American

2. Jose de San Martin

3. Alberto Fujimori

4. Free-trade zone

5. Economic indicators

6. Organization of American States

7. Urbanization

8. Inflation

9.

Sao Paulo

10.

Rio de Janeiro

11.

Brasilia

12. Carnival

13. Simon Bolivar

14. Guerilla warfare

15. Quechua

3/26/08

The blog wasn't working at school , so I'm sorry it is being posted so late.The students were given two seperate worksheets, they are to read both and summarize both, as well as completing the 5 questions over the FTAA.

There will be a study guide given for next Thursday's test tomorrow.

3/25/08

No homework.

I have assigned a test over Latin America on 4/3. We will be going back to the where we started with Latin America. This will also act as a review for the CRCT's. I will give a study-guide to them on Thursaday, a week before the quiz.

3/19/08

Study for Friday's quiz. I posted the items that need to be studied on yesterday's blog. I have added six more definitions, the students have these in their notebook. here they are: PEMEX, nationalize, Frida Kahlo, single product economy, Free trade zone, economic indicators.

3/18/08

We are in the last grading period and we have a huge amount still left to cover.

Please remind the kids that they need to stay focused so they can absorbed all this new information.

There will be a quiz over the definitons and workbook pages, on friday. I will list those now.

1. Economics       9.  inflation                        Pgs. 185-189  text, wkbk. pgs. 52.&53

2. Budget            10. interest                          pgs. 190-194 text, wkbk. 54 &55 

3. capital          11.   services                          pgs. 208-213 text, wkbk. 60 &61

4. competition   12.  Stock market                  pgs. 230-242 text, wkbk. 68 &69

5. debt             13. Demand

6. recession      14.  Depression

7. exports

8. imports