I hope you have rested up and are ready to head back to school this week!
We only have 3 days of school this week, but we will still learn some new and interesting things!
(Just for fun, if you have read this I'd love for you to leave me a comment, just to say who you are and what class you're looking at. There may be some extra-credit in it for you...(or your student).
6th grade: This quarter we are going to take our focus from the native groups of North and South America and focus on the lives and motivations of the European Explorers and Colonists in the Americas, and what changed after the revolutions and independence movements in those areas.
For the first week of the quarter we will learn about some of the Europeans who chose to explore the Americas.
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7th grade: For quarter 3 we are going to move our focus to Ancient China, Japan, and the Koreas. One of the things we will be focusing on is the idea of cultural diffusion. (Don't know what that is? Don't worry...you will :)
We will begin our unit by looking at the geography of China and how it affected some of the early Chinese civilizations.
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8th grade: I am having a hard time containing my excitement about this quarter in World History!!! This quarter we will be studying the Middle Ages and all the fabulous things that go with it; feudalism, castles, knights, kings, chivalry, lords and ladies, uneducated peasants, manors, etc (and I bought 4 new historical figures over the break!) Be ready to do fun things like; create your own manor, analyze a 12th century document, write and perform a rap, and lots of over things!!!
So, where to start? This week we are going to look at the transition from the major civilization in Rome to the rise of Medieval Europe. It will be more fun than it sounds, I promise. :)
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Communications: We will begin quarter 3 with something Mr. Fenn and I decided everyone could work on: interview skills! We will spend 2 days working on how to ask people questions (and how to answer questions) in preparation for 1) our journalism unit, and 2) the rest of your lives :)
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Let's start this semester off strong! I am looking forward to seeing you all on Wednesday (and reading your comments below)!
KF
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