Wow! I can't believe we are at midterm of quarter 1 already! This school year is FLYING by! :)
We had a wonderful and patriotic morning this past Thursday as the whole school joined together to celebrate Honduras' Flag Day:
This next week is going to be a busy one, as work winds down for the midterm grading (progress reports will be sent out on Monday, September 19) and gears up for our Discovery School Independence Day Celebration on Tuesday, September 13. (More details to come!)
Last week was a week of projects in my room, and they are all coming due on either Monday or Tuesday. Please check with your student to make sure they have them finished and ready to turn in on the due date. Remember that in my class, 25% is deducted for the first day an assignment is late, and 50% after that. Once grades are recorded at midterm (Friday), all missing work becomes a "zero" in the gradebook and cannot be made up.
Also, please check over your students' work and ask them where they got their information. According to the school's policy, plagiarism, or the direct copying of someone else's work (especially from Internet sources), is a serious offense, and will result in an automatic grade of "zero" on that assignment or project. Multiple offenses will lead to further disciplinary action. Help us stamp out plagiarism by reviewing with your students the work they have been assigned and the sources they use to complete it!
This Week's Deadlines (from last week's work)
Monday:
9th grade: French Explorer's packet, including completed map, "create," and "write" components (30 pts)
Tuesday:
6th grade: Make-a-Map Project (please double-check all rubric elements have been included. We will be presenting these maps to the 5th graders on Tuesday, so EVERYONE needs to have their maps ready on this day. Please note that the presentation is worth 10% of the project grade, and students will not have the opportunity to make those points up if their project is not complete on Tuesday. (30 pts)
8th grade: Hammurabi's Code paragraphs due (40 pts)
(apparently 7th grade had the weekend off :)
This Week's Activities
6th grade: Hopefully each of you spent some time this weekend working with the Latitude and Longitude games I posted on Friday. Remember to bring a signed note from your parents after you have spent 30 minutes or more working on these skills! The notes are due by Friday so I can give you extra credit on Friday's Maps and Charts and Graphs Quiz. In order to be ready for this quiz, we will be working with bar and line graphs and pie charts on Monday-Wednesday of this week. We will play a review game on Thursday, and will have our quiz on Friday, September 9. Remember notes are allowed on this quiz, and review questions will be posted on this blog Thursday night. It is your responsibility to prepare your own notes card, not just to copy my questions and answers from the blog.
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7th grade: I enjoyed reading your feedback about the past two weeks' assignments, and I'm glad you enjoyed them. Overall, your quiz scores were good, but I would continue to review the 5 Themes of Geography for Friday's Themes, Elements, and Religions quiz. This week we will conduct a brief review of the 7 Elements of Culture (you should remember these from last year) and will spend the rest of the week comparing the five major world religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. We will have a review game on Thursday and the quiz on Friday, September 9. Remember notes are allowed on this quiz, and review questions will be posted on this blog Thursday night. It is your responsibility to prepare your own notes card, not just to copy my questions and answers from the blog.
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8th grade: I hope you have been learning a lot about the laws of Ancient Mesopotamia. Not one student e-mailed, called, or BB'd me with questions this weekend, so I am making the assumption that you are not having trouble. with the assignment. Feel free to bring any questions you do have to class on Monday. We will begin the week with the end of Mesopotamia, and then have a culminating DBQ, which will hopefully complete your knowledge of this first civilization. We will have a review game on Thursday and the quiz on Friday, September 9. Remember notes are allowed on this quiz, and review questions will be posted on this blog Thursday night. It is your responsibility to prepare your own notes card, not just to copy my questions and answers from the blog.
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9th grade: From exploration to colonization we go! On Monday we will look at the effects of the Age of Exploration on the areas of the world which were explored; the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Tuesday and Wednesday we will look at the results of this exploration and colonization, the Columbian Exchange, Triangular Trade, and slavery. We will have a review game on Friday and the quiz on Monday, September 12. Remember notes are allowed on this quiz, and review questions will be posted on this blog Sunday night. It is your responsibility to prepare your own notes card, not just to copy my questions and answers from the blog.
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As you have probably realized, each of my classes has a quiz on Friday or next Monday. These quizzes will factor into the midterm grade, and will be part of 40% of the total class grade. Please remind your student to study, and to take advantage of my offer to use notes on their quizzes.
It will be a busy and challenging week for most students, but we will all be rewarded with fun and games at the Independence Day Celebration, and a well-deserved 3-day break on September 14-16 to celebrate Honduras' Independence Day!
I hope you all have an excellent week! Please remember that all students' grades are available online at engrade.com. Please contact me if you need you students' code for my class, or instructions on how to use engrade. (They have a great video tutorial on their home page, and you can also click here to link to my previous blog post about the engrade system.)
KF
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7th grade: I enjoyed reading your feedback about the past two weeks' assignments, and I'm glad you enjoyed them. Overall, your quiz scores were good, but I would continue to review the 5 Themes of Geography for Friday's Themes, Elements, and Religions quiz. This week we will conduct a brief review of the 7 Elements of Culture (you should remember these from last year) and will spend the rest of the week comparing the five major world religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. We will have a review game on Thursday and the quiz on Friday, September 9. Remember notes are allowed on this quiz, and review questions will be posted on this blog Thursday night. It is your responsibility to prepare your own notes card, not just to copy my questions and answers from the blog.
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8th grade: I hope you have been learning a lot about the laws of Ancient Mesopotamia. Not one student e-mailed, called, or BB'd me with questions this weekend, so I am making the assumption that you are not having trouble. with the assignment. Feel free to bring any questions you do have to class on Monday. We will begin the week with the end of Mesopotamia, and then have a culminating DBQ, which will hopefully complete your knowledge of this first civilization. We will have a review game on Thursday and the quiz on Friday, September 9. Remember notes are allowed on this quiz, and review questions will be posted on this blog Thursday night. It is your responsibility to prepare your own notes card, not just to copy my questions and answers from the blog.
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9th grade: From exploration to colonization we go! On Monday we will look at the effects of the Age of Exploration on the areas of the world which were explored; the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Tuesday and Wednesday we will look at the results of this exploration and colonization, the Columbian Exchange, Triangular Trade, and slavery. We will have a review game on Friday and the quiz on Monday, September 12. Remember notes are allowed on this quiz, and review questions will be posted on this blog Sunday night. It is your responsibility to prepare your own notes card, not just to copy my questions and answers from the blog.
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As you have probably realized, each of my classes has a quiz on Friday or next Monday. These quizzes will factor into the midterm grade, and will be part of 40% of the total class grade. Please remind your student to study, and to take advantage of my offer to use notes on their quizzes.
It will be a busy and challenging week for most students, but we will all be rewarded with fun and games at the Independence Day Celebration, and a well-deserved 3-day break on September 14-16 to celebrate Honduras' Independence Day!
I hope you all have an excellent week! Please remember that all students' grades are available online at engrade.com. Please contact me if you need you students' code for my class, or instructions on how to use engrade. (They have a great video tutorial on their home page, and you can also click here to link to my previous blog post about the engrade system.)
KF
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