Hausdorf’s Hemisphere

After your warm up, DG 17, we proceeded to go over Cornell notes (refresh the memory) and make sure you know how to do the notes in Social Studies. Some classes continued with landform charades. If you did not finish the notes for Section 2, Climate and Vegetation p. 14, you will have about 15 minutes tomorrow to finish. Remember the country/capital quiz is Friday. Keep reviewing with the website below. Keep checking stock information as well.

Behavior has been an issue that has been addressed. Points will be taken off for blurting out, off task, talking, gum/candy, and disrespect. These behaviors are unacceptable and are frequent, so please make sure you are taking care of your business.

HOMEWORK- review countries/capitals

www.sheppardsoftware.com

After the warm ups, a mind up and a video clip, you worked on personification part two. When you have finished giving the 12 features human qualities, you get a partner and combine resources, then you create a charade to go along with your personifications. We will watch these tomorrow. Also, go to the website below and practice your countries and capitals of Latin America, this includes the Caribbean. Your quiz is on Friday and I told you this yesterday, so continue practicing every evening.

www.sheppardsoftware.com

HOMEWORK- practice with Latin American countries and capitals.

Tomorrow, I’ll be in the Maclab for stock game purchases, after 8 am.

After creating your own caption for the picture as part of your warm up, you then read an article "Pressures on the Amazon" and answered the ten questions on the back. This will be one of our upcoming topics to debate when we get to the rainforest. You were to start your personification activity part one after you finished the article on the Amazon. Part two will be tomorrow. We also played a quick game of "country identification" on sheppardsoftware.com

Chaperone letter going home soon…keep checking your stocks. I will be in the Maclab on Wednesday morning around 8am for teams to buy stock.

HOMEWORK- NONE

After showing you how to navigate the gcee.org (stock market page), we reviewed quickly with a short game and then took the DG quiz and the Lesson 3 quiz. You met as teams to discuss future purchases.

HOMEWORK-none

Continue researching stocks, letter to chaperones going out soon about the field trip…SLIPPER day on Wednesday of next week.

After your warm up, DG 16 (quiz tomorrow) you got into your partner groups and worked on your vocabulary activity. You had to write a newscast script using all eleven words from Lesson 3. We went over the pronunciations and how to use the words. We will finish watching the newscasts tomorrow, to serve as a review for the test. After the vocabulary test, you will complete the "Introduce Yourself" activity.

HOMEWORK- please review Lesson 3 vocabulary and the DG

Stock will be purchased in the Maclab at 8:30, please make sure you bring your research/information on which stocks you are purchasing.

After your warm up, DG 16 (1-4), you took a pretest on Latin America. I wanted you to read each question very carefully, because you will see these questions again at the end of this unit on the post-test, and that will be for a grade. After the pretest, you had an incredibly difficult word search, for most. I wanted you to focus on technique and the how-to strategy we discussed in class. You also passed your Journal entries, except 3rd- due tomorrow.

HOMEWORK-NONE

Practice your Latin American countries and capitals with the link below.

www.sheppardsoftware.com

Field Trip Update- We are currently trying to eliminate a bus to save money, so we may need chaperones to carpool or meet us there. This would help the cause tremendously. Feb. 23rd is currently the potential field trip.

After you created your warm up essay question from the video clip, you were to discuss it with a neighbor, to get some feedback. Then you were to copy and answer questions 1 and 2 on page 9 (Questions to Explore). We reviewed with sheppardsoftware.com and I played some of our favorite Latin America music, thanks Mrs. Harpin. After you had that complete, in the form of an exit ticket, you were to meet with your team to discuss your stock purchases. I checked vocabulary  to make sure you finished 3A, 3B, and 3C. There was no homework.

It looks like we may use the computer lab in the morning to take care of stock business. I will let you know for sure by the end of the week.

Tomorrow is the Latin American pre-test, and you should bring a pencil, it will be on scan-tron. I wrote this on the board in blue under homework.

HOMEWORK- NONE

We started Vocabulary today, please make sure you bring your purple vocabulary book all week. You completed Exercises 3A, 3B, and 3C today, tomorrow we will go over the correct answers. Friday will be your Lesson 3 test. Please make sure you are keeping up with this part of the class, we will have a test every other Friday starting this Friday.

I also gave out some STOCK MARKET GAME forms today and talked a little bit about that. We will spend one day a week, approximately 20-30 minutes, working in your teams. More to follow…

Tomorrow, we’ll look at more physical geography of Latin America, starting with Chapter 1.

HOMEWORK- finish vocabulary exercises

After the DH 3 quiz, I talked about the Stock Market Game. Today, you picked your teams and learned a little about what to expect. I’ll have more information each week about it. The game officially starts on Monday. Stay tuned for more. You were also given a journal prompt, which is below in the link provided, all classes except 3rd period are responisible for turning the entry in on Monday. Basically, I wanted your thoughts on the Stock Market Game. The website that has all the information pertaining to the game is www.gcee.org

Download stock_market_game.ppt

HOMEWORK- journal due on Monday, except 3rd period.

After your warm up, DH 3, we reviewed briefly and took the quiz on physical features of Latin America. I don’t think the quiz was difficult from your feedback, so I’ll try to get them graded and back to you as soon as I can. I am enjoying the Indiana Jones stories, so please be patient with me. I explained the ATLAS ACTIVITY to all classes and most of you started this activity, you will need to finish that tomorrow and hand it in by the end of class. I will be out tomorrow so please accomplish your tasks and have a super day.

BE SURE TO BRING IN EUROPE/RUSSIA TEXTBOOK ON FRIDAY.

HOMEWORK- study for DH