Hausdorf's Hemisphere

I had difficulty uploading the powerpoint. It may have been that video link in it. It will be available tomorrow evening. Sorry, we’ll adjust accordingly. Thank you all.

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SS6CG4b: Explain how governments determine citizen participation: autocratic, oligarchic, and democratic.

After recovering from olympics, today students were introduced to the Greeks. There was a station activity set up. The stations were Government, Education, Great Men, Olympics, Alexander the Great, Geography, and Athens/Sparta.

This is a two day activity. Tomorrow, we will finish and go on to the Romans.
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The entire sixth grade was out and putting on their best performances today as they participated in our Field Day Events. Great job to all participants!
HOMEWORK- practice Eastern Europe countries/capitals using sheppardsoftware.com

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Today students took the Western Europe Map Test, except for 4th period (due to lunch). We had also had a special guest from Australia speak to our class about a variety of topics. Jake is a soccer player from Australia visiting and playing some games in our area. He was very informative and did a [...]

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  Today students participated in part 2 of Risky Business (capitals) and Airport Review Session. The answers the review session are here: Review Session Material and the journal entry is also on this powerpoint. We had a very good review day.
Please make sure you practice using every resource available: your practice map, Europe Risky Business powerpoint the [...]

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Today students completed an awesome review session. First, welcome back! Second, the warm up prompted students to think of political Europe, then we played “Risky Business” for review, then we focused on a differentiated lesson, called “Airport Review Session”. Read the powerpoint below and find out more details. We will finish that tomorrow.
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Please be sure to use your time off wisely and practice the countries and capitals of Europe. The test will be moved to Monday.
Don’t forget your bar graph is due when you return to school.
Create Your Population Bar Graph
HOMEWORK- keep practicing and finish the population bar graph

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NO SCHOOL ON TUESDAY (practice the countries all day and create one awesome bar graph!)
WESTERN EUROPE MAP TEST MOVED TO FRIDAY

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Today was a very interesting day. Despite all the weather distractions, students were fairly focused on their mission to develop a skill and compare European country populations.
Using pages 264-268 (Data File), students were to compare the population of the 18 Western European countries, then display this information in a student created bar graph. I went [...]

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SS6G8b
 What country in Europe flies this flag? (first correct email wins)
After completing todays warm up questions, students handed in the scavenger hunt assignment from yesterday ( I read many of these in class and I was impressed with many students), then a Western Europe political practice map was given to each student.
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