Hausdorf’s Hemisphere

The special day is almost at hand, here is the website for the personalized stories…

http://northpole.com/Den/PersonalizedStories/

I hope Holiday Break is going well, where’s the snow??

Today students finished the Chart/Graph assignment, then got their tests back. We looked at a couple of websites for holiday family fun. Below you will find these. Ask your parents to share in the experience.

Then we had the sixth grade party, and watched “Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium”. which was awesome.

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HOMEWORK- none

Today students reviewed silently, then with a partner, then I randomly selected to review for the Soviet Union test, afterwards, students were to complete the Holiday Chart and Holiday Bar Graph reading assignment. This assignment will be considered a HOMEWORK grade, due tomorrow by the end of class, you will have some time to work on this in class, be aware we will be on an early release schedule.

holiday survey bar graph

Christmas Sales chart

Don’t forget, 2nd Period is taking the Soviet Union Warm Up Quiz tomorrow.

HOMEWORK- FINISH the bar graph, chart assignment, 2nd Period: review Soviet Union Warm Up

The EU is for you!

Today students, except for 3rd, took the warm up quiz, then took a few notes on the European Union, except for 3rd, then played vocabulary bingo.

Please make sure you review your vocabulary, and use the practice sheet below to help you prepare for tomorrow’s test.

chapter 13 vocab practice blog

HOMEWORK- review the vocabulary tool you made, and study the notes you’ve taken in class, use the practice sheets above if needed

EXTRA: Official site of the European Union

http://europa.eu/index_en.htm

Who was this Soviet leader?

Today students copied the rest of the warm up questions for the Soviet Union, soviet union warm up blog (QUIZ TOMORROW), then reviewed the vocabulary from chapter 13 and section 3 of chapter 12 in several different ways, with a partner, hot potato, and random questions. 1st and 2nd Period worked on a little content with a holiday twist.

MAKE SURE YOU’VE READ SECTIONS 1 AND 2 OF CHAPTER 13, pp. 353-366

Thursday is the Soviet Union Test, tomorrow we will review the vocabulary and talk about the European Union.

HOMEWORK- review the warm up questions, read sections 1, 2, and review the vocabulary tool you made

EXTRAS:

Soviet Leaders: http://www.guidetorussia.com/leaders-soviet-union.asp

Cold War Timeline: http://www.guidetorussia.com/cold-war-timeline.asp

What happened in 1960 to increase tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union (according to the timeline above)?

Today students handed in the 2 graphs from Friday’s lesson, then focused on vocabulary of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

Students were to make a t chart with 2 columns, one for the key terms and the other for the definitions, the key terms are on the following pages: p. 342, p. 353, p. 360, and p. 367. There are 23 terms total, students are to find the defintions for each, then we are going to use these for tomorrow’s vocabulary activity.

I would encourage students to have read, section 1 of chapter 13 by now, maybe even section 2.

TEST IS THURSDAY over chapter 13

HOMEWORK- FINISH DEFINING THE TERMS

Advisement folks, don’t forget to bring your cartoon of yourself, and if you want to bring food and juice for Tuesday’s meeting, please do.

Thanks!

As I have been saying in class, make sure you’ve read section 3 of chapter 12, and to get a foundation, read chapter 13.

The test on Thursday will be over information from these topics.

Also, there are a few more grades to enter:

1. Soviet Union Warm Up Quiz on Tuesday
2. Content Quiz: European Union
3. Homework: chapter 13
4. Test: Soviet Union

Assignments subject to change depending on many variables.

Today students started with the Soviet Union warm up questions, then created two illustrations to show information shown on page 365 in the textbook, as instructed in class. The bar graph is for the natural resources of Russia and the pie graph is for land usage. Please check the word document below for my specifics. This is a HOMEWORK grade and it is due on Monday.

Skillbuilder Assignment page 365

On Monday, turn in the graphing assignment, then we’ll go over notes

HOMEWORK- finish the graphs

Sizzling Canine?              

Today students handed in the journal entry from yesterday after the test. Tests were handed back to students in all classes except 1st period, finish that tomorrow, and then we got started with our lesson. Today was to serve as an introduction to the Soviet Union. We look at the vocabulary words from section 3 of chapter 12, and used them in a synonym activity.

Students had to create a t-chart, then create 10 synonyms for each vocabulary word and other important words in this section, except Joseph Stalin, then write the word itself. This was due at the end of class, counting as a classwork grade.

HOMEWORK- none