Week of October 15th - 19th

Welcome back, hope you had a nice restful weekend.

Monday - We began class with a warm-up of the Middle East. Listened to Chapter 16, sec. 2 audio and began a venn diagram of oil, religion, and the women of the Middle East. HW - finish the venn diagram and complete the "sequencing events" from section 1, page 26 of the IN-depth resource book, p. 26.

Tuesday - check homework; warm-up map skills; review vocabulary; Read "guided reading pages 140-141 HW "Getting Graphic" (created a graph of oil barrels per day from the Middle Eastern countries. In addition, students need to read the reading study guide and answer the questions.

Wednesday - Early release - We will read the Jr. Scholastic story on Iran, pages 11-15, followed by completing questions on map skills.

Thursday - Review HW From Tuesday. Will do a warm-up on latitude/longitude, We will check for understanding of lesson 2, by completing a t/f questionaire (page 27 of In-depth Review).Then we will read an article from InspireEd entitled "Farming Desert"

Friday - In lab began research on countries of the Middle East