Tomorrow, the Renaissance students going to Stars & Strikes will be gone from 9:30 until 1:30.  Renaissance students staying back will be treated to a lot of fun activities.  Non-Renaissance students will have the opportunity to work on “catching up,” practice, organization, and some other fun activities.  We will have 4th period and PE/Connections!

If you are going to Stars & Strikes, remember to wear white-soled tennis shoes, if you have them.  If you do, you won’t have to stand in line for bowling shoes!  Also, try to wear your Renaissance shirts, since there may be some “surprises” for you!

Since the 7th & 8th grades are going to Stars & Strikes on Wednesday & Friday, schedules have been adjusted.  I’ve attached a copy of the schedules, so you can see when you’ll have each class. Wednesday & Friday schedule

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Oops….I just realized I didn’t write a blog for Friday.  My doctor was able to squeeze me into his schedule and I had to rush to his office at the end of the day.  Luckily, he gave me some antibiotics and I’m FINALLY started to feel better!!!

Today’s warm up asked about some examples of scarcity that you’ve experienced.  You had some great examples and we were able to determine that one of the outcomes of scarcity is usually that we come to more appreciate the things we have.  When we have a lot, we often take things, or people, for granted.

After the warm up, we began to read & discuss pages 102 to 107 in the book. 

For homework:  Be certain that you’ve read pages 102 to 107 in the book, and completed page 9 in your workbook. Make certain that you understand the information in that section.  We will work on projects tomorrow.

Enjoy your evening!

Oops….I just realized I didn’t write a blog for Friday.  My doctor was able to squeeze me into his schedule and I had to rush to his office at the end of the day.  Luckily, he gave me some antibiotics and I’m FINALLY started to feel better!!!

Today’s warm up asked about some examples of scarcity that you’ve experienced.  You had some great examples and we were able to determine that one of the outcomes of scarcity is usually that we come to more appreciate the things we have.  When we have a lot, we often take things, or people, for granted.

After the warm up, we read pages 102 to 107 in the book, and you worked with partners to complete page 9 in your workbook.

For homework:  Be certain that you’ve completed page 9 in your workbook  AND you understand the information in that section.

Enjoy your evening!

Yes, I know this is late, but a parent meeting & Builders Club has really thrown my timing off!  So….today you turned in your books, which look amazing, and we looked at how countries decide how to allocate their productive resources.

For homework, complete the worksheet you were given in class with an adult.  Then you’ll be able to get an adult perspective on resource allocation.

Have a good evening!

For a donation of $1.00 or more, you can wear a hat tomorrow.  Proceeds will go toward Cobb Flood Relief and Haiti!

Today your projects were due, so after they were turned in, you had a chance to play some of the games and offer critiques regarding what would make you want to buy them.  You also turned in your pages 13 & 14 that you did yesterday.

You don’t have any homework……How’d that happen??????

Enjoy tonight!

I apologize for not updating the blog for the past two days.  As I’m sure you saw today, I definitely wasn’t feeling up to doing very much from Sunday through Tuesday.  Sleeping and drinking plenty of fluids was about all I could do.  I would have much rather been with you, although my dog, Ivan, did enjoy my staying home!

Today in class, we worked on the final copy of your province/territory book.  Some things to remember:

• Your paragraphs should sound like an encyclopedia, not a personal letter.  Don’t use personal pronouns until you get to Author’s Notes!
• This is fact, not opinion.  The only time you should have an opinion is in the Author’s Notes.
• Be certain that ALL of the questions in each section of your research page are answered in your book. 
• Be certain each page is written in blue or black pen and pages 1 to 6 have hand-drawn pictures.  (You can type the words, but the pictures MUST be hand-drawn.)
• Check spelling, grammar, indentation, capitalization, and punctuation.  This should be your BEST work and will count as a test grade!

For homework:  Complete the final draft of pages 1 – 8 of your book.

Have a good evening!

Today you had a chance to take a Canadian physical map quiz to see what you need to study for Tuesday’s test.  Congratulations to all of  you who earned a 100% today.  Needless to say, you don’t have to take the test on Tuesday, since you already know it perfectly. 

After that, you were to work on your project. 

For homework:

1. Work on your project.  You should be able to give me a written update AND, if I haven’t seen your project, you should bring it in on Monday for me to see.

2. Study for your physical map test, if you didn’t earn 100% today!

Have a great weekend!

Today you had a chance to take a Canadian physical map quiz to see what you need to study for Tuesday’s test.  Congratulations to all of  you who earned a 100% today.  Needless to say, you don’t have to take the test on Tuesday, since you already know it perfectly. 

You then worked on writing the rough drafts for pages 5 & 6 in your Canadian province/territory book.

For homework:

1. Complete the rough drafts for pages 5 & 6 in your Canadian province/territory book.

2. Study for your physical map test, if you didn’t earn 100% today!

Have a great weekend!

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