Thursday, February 23, 2012

Assignments/Homework Week of February 27th -- March 2nd 2012

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*Coteaching Classes:

United States History 1 (Periods 1 & 3):
See Ms. White's Homework HelpLine Blog for updated classwork and homework.
-Review vocabulary and notes daily.


Geography 8 (Period 4):
See Mr. Wartman's Homework HelpLine Blog Geography 8 for updated classwork and homework.
   Current Event-- Get an article excluding accidents, police blotter, and follow the instructions on the current events paper provided to you. ****DUE March 30th
*Don't forget- Portfolio Assignments need to be completed and turned in at the end of each marking period. Do these assignments as soon as they are assigned so that you do not get behind!
 Africa Chapter vocab -Due 3/5/12
Political Map Quiz Africa Tuesday 3/6/12
Geography 7 (Periods 5 & 7):
 See Ms. White's Geography Homework Helpline Blog for updated classwork and homework!  Class notes found here.... http://nswhitegeography.wikispaces.com/Class+Notes
*See Ms. White's Wiki Space as well for notes and other cool stuff!! http://nswhitegeography.wikispaces.com/
to student's hand out regarding requirements of project.
Africa Map Quiz column 2-Friday
US State Map Quiz- Tuesday 3/6/12
Chapter 4 test- 3/29/12

Consumer Economics (Period 2)
See Ms. Kolva's Homework Helpline Blog for updated classwork and homework!http://lkolva.blogspot.com/

Quiz Wednesday
Test-Friday

Presentations/projects are due! check with Ms. Kolva on what date you are presenting, please remember you need to have an activity/review slide that the class participates in.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Assignments/Homework Week of February 20th -- February 24th

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*Coteaching Classes:


 *NO SCHOOL   Monday, February 20th *


United States History 1 (Periods 1 & 3):
See Ms. White's Homework HelpLine Blog for updated classwork and homework.
-Review vocabulary and notes daily.

Ch. 8 Notes

Geography 8 (Period 4):
See Mr. Wartman's Homework HelpLine Blog Geography 8 for updated classwork and homework.
   Current Event-- Get an article excluding accidents, police blotter, and follow the instructions on the current events paper provided to you. ****DUE February 24th 2012
*Don't forget- Portfolio Assignments need to be completed and turned in at the end of each marking period. Do these assignments as soon as they are assigned so that you do not get behind!

Tuesday- Final Day of Presentations *see below for info****
Wednesday- JEOPARDY REVIEW: Middle East STUDY STUDY STUDY
Thursday- Chapter Test  Middle East
Friday- February Current Event Summaries are DUE TODAY !!!




PROJECTS DUE THIS WEEK WITH PRESENTATIONS!!!!!!!

Middle East Projects--students picked topics, they now need to create their booklet containing 5 subtopics from their chosen topic and write about each. They must also do a presentation on their topic. Date to be set in February 13th - 19th week. Continue on with your research and refer to the assignment/project instruction sheet to ensure you are on task. In addition, you may stay after school and work on the computers or get help from Mr. Wartman or myself, you just need to ask.

Project Requirements--   DUE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 13th - 21st

  Booklet needs to consist of the following----

p.1   Cover page- your name, date, period, title of project, and picture
p.2     topic #1 --must include 2 typed paragraphs (12 point font, single spaced) about your topic and also a picture
p.3      topic #2 --must include 2 typed paragraphs (12 point font, single spaced) about your topic and also a picture
p.4      topic #3 --must include 2 typed paragraphs (12 point font, single spaced) about your topic and also a picture
p.5     topic #4 --must include 2 typed paragraphs (12 point font, single spaced) about your topic and also a picture
p.6     topic #5 --must include 2 typed paragraphs (12 point font, single spaced) about your topic and also a picture
p. 7  Work Cited page---please include at least 3 sources that you used for your project, 1 must be a book
* the project must include not only research about your topic but also personal opinion on the topic..so a good idea is to make p. 6...topic #5 called "Personal Opinion"--then you would write 2 paragraphs about how feel about the topic, likes/dislikes, agree/disagree, etc. If you don't choose to make personal opinion a  topic then you will need to write throughout booklet a few sentences about how you feel on each subtopic.
Presentation- 5 minutes long with some visual, powerpoint suggested- about your topic.



Geography 7 (Periods 5 & 7):
 See Ms. White's Geography Homework Helpline Blog for updated classwork and homework!  Class notes found here.... http://nswhitegeography.wikispaces.com/Class+Notes
*See Ms. White's Wiki Space as well for notes and other cool stuff!! http://nswhitegeography.wikispaces.com/

Project Presentations***
Cultural Traits Project Due Dates--
Each group picked a country, your group must now draw maps, the flag, develop 1-2 page paper per topic on your country-(paper needs to be in bulleted format), powerpoint presentation with all topics, and create a cover page for your country's booklet. Refer to student's hand out regarding requirements of project.

2/21- 2/24 presentations

Consumer Economics (Period 2)
See Ms. Kolva's Homework Helpline Blog for updated classwork and homework!http://lkolva.blogspot.com/

Presentations/projects are due! check with Ms. Kolva on what date you are presenting, please remember you need to have an activity/review slide that the class participates in.

Please get all back work in to Mrs. Kolva....we are 1/2 way through the marking period.

Test Friday!

Friday, February 10, 2012

Assignments/Homework Week of February 13th - 17th

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*Coteaching Classes:


 *NO SCHOOL Friday February 17th     &     Monday, February 20th *


United States History 1 (Periods 1 & 3):
See Ms. White's Homework HelpLine Blog for updated classwork and homework.
-Review vocabulary and notes daily.

Ch. 8 Notes- Federalist/Republican poster assignment-you pick sides! Due Wednesday!

Geography 8 (Period 4):
See Mr. Wartman's Homework HelpLine Blog Geography 8 for updated classwork and homework.
   Current Event-- Get an article excluding accidents, police blotter, and follow the instructions on the current events paper provided to you. ****DUE February 24th 2012
*Don't forget- Portfolio Assignments need to be completed and turned in at the end of each marking period. Do these assignments as soon as they are assigned so that you do not get behind!


TEST---Middle East on Thursday!!!!

PROJECTS DUE THIS WEEK WITH PRESENTATIONS!!!!!!!

Middle East Projects--students picked topics, they now need to create their booklet containing 5 subtopics from their chosen topic and write about each. They must also do a presentation on their topic. Date to be set in February 13th - 19th week. Continue on with your research and refer to the assignment/project instruction sheet to ensure you are on task. In addition, you may stay after school and work on the computers or get help from Mr. Wartman or myself, you just need to ask.

Project Requirements--   DUE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 13th - 21st

  Booklet needs to consist of the following----

p.1   Cover page- your name, date, period, title of project, and picture
p.2     topic #1 --must include 2 typed paragraphs (12 point font, single spaced) about your topic and also a picture
p.3      topic #2 --must include 2 typed paragraphs (12 point font, single spaced) about your topic and also a picture
p.4      topic #3 --must include 2 typed paragraphs (12 point font, single spaced) about your topic and also a picture
p.5     topic #4 --must include 2 typed paragraphs (12 point font, single spaced) about your topic and also a picture
p.6     topic #5 --must include 2 typed paragraphs (12 point font, single spaced) about your topic and also a picture
p. 7  Work Cited page---please include at least 3 sources that you used for your project, 1 must be a book
* the project must include not only research about your topic but also personal opinion on the topic..so a good idea is to make p. 6...topic #5 called "Personal Opinion"--then you would write 2 paragraphs about how feel about the topic, likes/dislikes, agree/disagree, etc. If you don't choose to make personal opinion a  topic then you will need to write throughout booklet a few sentences about how you feel on each subtopic.
Presentation- 5 minutes long with some visual, powerpoint suggested- about your topic.



Geography 7 (Periods 5 & 7):
 See Ms. White's Geography Homework Helpline Blog for updated classwork and homework!  Class notes found here.... http://nswhitegeography.wikispaces.com/Class+Notes
*See Ms. White's Wiki Space as well for notes and other cool stuff!! http://nswhitegeography.wikispaces.com/

Thursday Asia Map Quiz Column 4....
POWER POINTS for Culture project due by Thursday on the WIKI**

Students will be working on their projects all this week during class time. They need to be developing their powerpont presentation as a group. They will present the projects next week.

Cultural Traits Project Due Dates--
Each group picked a country, your group must now draw maps, the flag, develop 1-2 page paper per topic on your country-(paper needs to be in bulleted format), powerpoint presentation with all topics, and create a cover page for your country's booklet. Refer to student's hand out regarding requirements of project.

2/21- 2/24 presentations

Consumer Economics (Period 2)
See Ms. Kolva's Homework Helpline Blog for updated classwork and homework!http://lkolva.blogspot.com/

Presentations/projects are due! check with Ms. Kolva on what date you are presenting, please remember you need to have an activity/review slide that the class participates in.
Also..votech projects...see me for help with creating the pie chart..I have a sample.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Assignments/Homework Week of February 6th -10th

HomeWork  HelpLine     
*Coteaching Classes:

United States History 1 (Periods 1 & 3):
See Ms. White's Homework HelpLine Blog for updated classwork and homework.
-Review vocabulary and notes daily.
Prepping for ch. 7 test; complete study guide and review for test every night.
TEST Tuesday!!

Geography 8 (Period 4):
See Mr. Wartman's Homework HelpLine Blog Geography 8 for updated classwork and homework.
   Current Event-- Get an article excluding accidents, police blotter, and follow the instructions on the current events paper provided to you. ****DUE February 24th 2012
*Don't forget- Portfolio Assignments need to be completed and turned in at the end of each marking period. Do these assignments as soon as they are assigned so that you do not get behind!

QUIZ Middle EAST Capital Quiz--Thursday!


Middle East Projects--students picked topics, they now need to create their booklet containing 5 subtopics from their chosen topic and write about each. They must also do a presentation on their topic. Date to be set in February 13th - 19th week. Continue on with your research and refer to the assignment/project instruction sheet to ensure you are on task. In addition, you may stay after school and work on the computers or get help from Mr. Wartman or myself, you just need to ask.

Project Requirements--   DUE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 13th - 21st

  Booklet needs to consist of the following----

p.1   Cover page- your name, date, period, title of project, and picture
p.2     topic #1 --must include 2 typed paragraphs (12 point font, single spaced) about your topic and also a picture
p.3      topic #2 --must include 2 typed paragraphs (12 point font, single spaced) about your topic and also a picture
p.4      topic #3 --must include 2 typed paragraphs (12 point font, single spaced) about your topic and also a picture
p.5     topic #4 --must include 2 typed paragraphs (12 point font, single spaced) about your topic and also a picture
p.6     topic #5 --must include 2 typed paragraphs (12 point font, single spaced) about your topic and also a picture
p. 7  Work Cited page---please include at least 3 sources that you used for your project, 1 must be a book
* the project must include not only research about your topic but also personal opinion on the topic..so a good idea is to make p. 6...topic #5 called "Personal Opinion"--then you would write 2 paragraphs about how feel about the topic, likes/dislikes, agree/disagree, etc. If you don't choose to make personal opinion a  topic then you will need to write throughout booklet a few sentences about how you feel on each subtopic.

Geography 7 (Periods 5 & 7):
 See Ms. White's Geography Homework Helpline Blog for updated classwork and homework!  Class notes found here.... http://nswhitegeography.wikispaces.com/Class+Notes
*See Ms. White's Wiki Space as well for notes and other cool stuff!! http://nswhitegeography.wikispaces.com/

CHAPTER 3 test-Friday
Cultural Traits Project Due Dates--
Each group picked a country, your group must now draw maps, the flag, develop 1-2 page paper per topic on your country-(paper needs to be in bulleted format), powerpoint presentation with all topics, and create a cover page for your country's booklet. Refer to student's hand out regarding requirements of project.

Paper (1-2 page consisting of your topic(s) bulleted information)- Due 2/10/12
2/21- 2/24 presentations

Consumer Economics (Period 2)
See Ms. Kolva's Homework Helpline Blog for updated classwork and homework!http://lkolva.blogspot.com/

Presentations/projects are due! check with Ms. Kolva on what date you are presenting, please remember you need to have an activity/review slide that the class participates in.
Also..votech projects...see me for help with creating the pie chart..I have a sample.

TEST Wednesday!