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Hello everyone,

After a long year Social finals were written today and the class average for 8-1 was 65% and 68% for 8-2. Thank you to all the students who put in a great effort this year!

Our awards ceremony in on Thursday and report cards will be going home that day too.

Review Sheet

Hello Students and Parents:

I'm copying and pasting in my review sheet that was handed out to students in class today. A few students left their review sheet behind so here's what was on it:

Name: ___________ Class: _____
Grade 8 Social Study Guide

· The final exam is 200 questions multiple choice.
· Study your old Chapter tests as the final is based on them.

Renaissance
· Know your Renaissance vocabulary
· Understand what the Silk Road was
· Understand the Black Plague
· Art and Architecture of the middle ages
· When the Renaissance was
· The Hierarchy class system/feudal system
· Important people
· Understand religions of the time period and who the important religious figures were
· Be able to locate major city centres of Italy on a map
· Know your artists, scientists, writers, mathematicians
· Expansionism and Exploration
· Which countries had significant empires of the Renaissance
· Which diseases the Europeans brought to the colonies
· Which European explorers came to Canada


Japan
· Know your vocabulary of Japan
· Geography of Japan, locations of places on a map
· Ring of Fire
· Isolation and the Edo Period
· National Seclusion Policy
· Know the Feudal system of Japan
· The 3 metropolis’ of Japan
· Name of popular theatre and poet
· The 3 important Shoguns
· Religion of Japan
· Valuable commodities of Japan
· The Ainu People
· The Dutch
· China
· United States importance to Japan
· Civil unrest in Japan
· The Emperor
· Meiji Government
· Iwakura mission
· Countries Japan modeled itself after
· Fukuzawa Yakichi
· Samurai
· Dajokan


The Spanish and Aztecs
· Know your Spanish and Aztec vocabulary
· Spanish Soldiers
· Ancient Aztec books
· What were the uses of Jade, Gold, Turquoise, and Obsidian
· Huitzilopochtli and Quetzalcoatl
· Aztec and Spanish military force
· Spanish cottage industry
· Aztec currency
· Aztec farming techniques
· Where the Aztecs settled and why
· Human sacrifice
· Jaguar and Eagle knights
· Ruling monarchy of the Aztecs and Spanish
· Important people of the battle between the Aztecs and Spanish
· Causeways and Aqueducts
· Be able to locate important locations on maps of Mexico and Spain
· Who ruled Spain for 700 years
· Reconquista and the Spanish Inquisition
· Spanish animals that the Aztecs didn’t have
· Calendars
· Warfare of the two groups
· The downfall of the Aztecs
· Spanish conversion of the Aztecs
· Mixed blood Spanish and Aztecs

Thursday's class

Today we worked on trading cards. Each student was to complete 6 of them for any important person in their text book. We played a review game at the end of class.

*OUR WORLDVIEWS TEXT BOOKS ARE TO BE COLLECTED TOMORROW. PLEASE BRING FROM HOME.*
Students who still want to study from a text will be able to sign them out on a nightly basis.

Wednesday's Class

Today in class students continued working on their list of People of Importance. When they were finished they were to get the trading cards handout and choose 6 people from the Renaissance, Japan and/or Aztecs and Spanish to design trading cards for.

I informed them that I will be collecting text books on Friday. Students wanting to sign them out can do so on a nightly basis and return them the following day for studying.

Monday's Class

Today we corrected Chapter 9 questions and Fill in the Blanks that were assigned last week. There is a Chapter 9 Quiz tomorrow on these two sheets. After that we began writing down all the people of importance from our textbook and breaking them into three categories of Renaissance, Japan, and Aztecs & Spanish on a sheet of lined paper. We will continue working on this after the quiz tomorrow. This is the start of our final exam review.

Strike information

*ATTENTION PARENTS AND STUDENTS*
Support workers will be out of the building on strike on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. Students should bring a lunch as the cafeteria will again be closed. Please call my classroom at the previous number listed if your child is going to be away or send a note before/after the absence.

Thursday's Class

I was away this Tuesday at a workshop. Wednesday I gave students interim reports to tell them what their mark is in class. I asked them to get signed by parents and return to me. Students studied for their test yesterday which we had today in class. Tomorrow we will be marking the test. Next week we will begin reviewing for the final.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

PLEASE READ, important information enclosed:

Monday is an organizational day for teachers so there is no school for students.

Our support staff in the building is going on a sporadic strike; meaning they will go out on strike for a couple days and return on Thursday. This will begin next Tuesday and Wednesday. This means that students will not have access to cafeteria food and will need to bring their lunch. If your son or daughter is going to be away from Social-homeroom 8-2 please call 777-7770 ext 2020 to inform myself or send a note ahead of time if possible or when they return and turn it into their homeroom teacher.

Friday's Class

Today we were not able to correct yesterday's work as students were still completing questions. The Chapter 9 questions will be due on Tuesday and corrected in class. The grade 6 tour disrupted part of our period 3 Social class today.

Thursday's Class

Today in class the Moctezuma and Cortes cartoon are due today. We worked on chapter 9 questions from pages 303 to 315. We will be correcting these tomorrow in class.

There will be a test at the end of next week, probably Thursday on all of the Aztec Unit. We have a review class next Wednesday.

Monday's class

Students were told at the beginning on class they had until tomorrow to hand in their Compare and Contrast booklets.

Today everyone worked on a six panel cartoon explaining the events of Cortes and Moctezuma I meeting and the final fall of the Aztecs. We will continue to work on these tomorrow in class. Wednesday will the our annual sports day so there will be no social classes depending on the weather.

Friday's Class

Today we took notes from the LCD projector on the Compare and Contrast chart. I've told 8-2 that theirs will be on due on Monday and 8-1's will be due on Tuesday because of the fire drill that happened in class today. They are permitted to work with other students and share information to finish this booklet.

This week

We have been watching a movie this week which finished today. Tomorrow we will be completing our compare and contrast chart; which will be due on Monday.

Tuesday and Wednesday's class

Yesterday we completed a fill in the blanks sheet on the History of Spain.
It can be downloaded at: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcbdzc94_47gwtrm5g2

Today we corrected yesterdays work and began working on the Ch 8 Compare and Contrast Chart. it can be downloaded at: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcbdzc94_48cgz64vg3 . We will be working on this for roughly the next 2 classes.

Tuesday's Class

Today in class we completed a fill in the blanks sheet on the History of the Spanish and Aztecs. I have informed the class that we will be completing out study of the Aztecs by the end of the month and using June as our review time. That means there is only 10 classes left. There will be a test at the end of the month on the Aztecs.

Monday's Class

Today in class we worked on the following sheet. Students were to work in partners or alone to answer the questions using their text book. We corrected the assignment at the end of class and students handed in their work.
The assignment can be downloaded at:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcbdzc94_45dw5s6fhm

Friday's class

Today the Aztec Posters were due. Students could come in at lunch hour to put finishing touches on them if they needed.

We corrected the sheet that was completed in class yesterday and handed it in. The sheet is available for printing at:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcbdzc94_42fq6m3hc6

We also viewed the Powerpoint on the history and influences of spain and completed notes to go along with it.
http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dcbdzc94_308vp4q8c4

Tuesday's Class

Yesterday and today students worked on their poster project. Tomorrow will be the last class for the assignment. The poster will be due on Friday May 9

Thursday's Class

Today 8-1 worked on their Aztec Poster project in groups of 1-3 students.

8-2 Attended a drumming session with David Thiaw during their Social block.

Wednesday's class

Today both 8-1 and 8-2 attended a drumming class with David Thiaw; please visit his website for further information at http://www.davidthiaw.com/. David Thaiw has been coming to our school for the last several years to work with our grade 8 students. Not only do they learn about drumming but they also cover a wide variety of global events which are related back to the drumming. This is a wonderful opportunity for grade 8 students this week to attend on a daily basis with Mr. Thiaw. On Friday we will be having a presentation in the gym last period of the day.

Aztec Poster Project

For this project students are to make a poster on one aspect of Aztec life. They may work in groups up to 3 people. Some suggestions for posters are:

• Warrior life
• Gods
• Ritual Sacrifice
• Engineering
• Government
• Aztec Calendar
• Sports & Games
• Emperors
• Spanish Conquistadors
• Markets
• Cooking & Eating
• Farming
• Art

Please note:

• The poster must make 10 well thought out points
• Have at least 5 drawn images
• Be in color
• Have a title
• List all group members

*Students will be marked on this listed criteria

Monday's Class

Today 8-2 worked on their Aztec booklets. Students are starting to finish so they will be given one more class to finish their booklets and then they may come in at noon hour or afterschool if they are not finished them.

8-1 watched the Video that they missed on Friday. The link is available on Friday's post.

Tomorrow students will be getting introduced to the Aztec Poster Project.

Thursday's Class

Social 8-2 watched a PBS special called Secrets of the Dead:Aztec Massacre. This video can be viewed online at www.PBS.org just follow the links.

Social 8-1 worked on their Aztec booklets. Next week they will watching the movie and will have one more class to finish their booklets

Monday's class

Today in class we are continuing on our Aztec Book project. Students should be completing 2 books per class.

Next week we have special guest David Thiaw (pronounced Chow) coming to our school to drum, dance, and speak about his worldviews to our grade 8 students. They will be attending his drumming sessions once a day for all of next week. On Friday May 2 we will have a special presentation by David and students will demonstrate what they learned all week. Poor behavior will not be tolerated and students who cannot behave will have alternate assignments on respect provided to them.

Wednesday's Class

Today we continued working on the Aztec booklet project. I have had students request to take their booklet home to work on but I am saying no because I don't want them getting lost and not returned. I have told students if they do want to work on the booklet to download the pages they want to work on from my previous posting. If this is still a concern please email me and I can email you the attachment if you cannot download it. I'm estimating that we will still be working on this project into the middle of next week.

Tuesday's Class

Today students watched the film Engineering an Empire- The Aztecs. It is available at the Calgary Public Library under call letters DVD 909 ENG v.1 They had to write down 20 points from the video and answer the question: How would Mexico be different today if the Spanish had not arrived? This was taken in at the end of class today.

Aztecs Booklet

Students started this project last week. They will continue to work on it this week. The booklet is quite large so if they lose it or require another one they can print it from here:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dcbdzc94_19p4brn6ds&hl=en
Or here:
http://www.scribd.com/full/2535739?access_key=key-2e6ax2ayb0apgwnvg7sg
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2535739/Aztec-Book-Assignment

Updates Since Monday

I was away on Monday so I'm updating the blog for this week. B-Thrild is due now! Mapping Assignment is due this Friday April 11. Today we watched a video of Spain and started chapter 7 vocabulary.

Thursday's Class

Today we continued working on B-Thrild (see yesterday). This was the last full class students would have to complete it. It is due Monday April 7.

Students who were finished started on the Mapping Activity.

Wednesday's Class

On Tuesday students wrote their Chapter 6 Japan test. Students who were absent will be writing as soon as they return.

Today we worked on B-Thrild for Chapter 7.
*Please note that there is no sheet for this- students should be filling this out on lined paper

B-Bold Words (17 total)
T & H- Titles and Headings- Titles are in Dark Blue- Headings are in Light Green (Approximately 50 altogether)
R- Read the first paragraph on page 226 and summarize
I- Illustrations- briefly describe pictures, maps, and diagrams (Approximately 30)
L- Last Page- summarize into your own words
D- Discussion questions (write 3 based on what you have read)

Students who were finished early began working on the Mapping assignment for Mexico and Spain. They will be working on this tomorrow and finishing B-Thrild.

Monday's class

Today in class we handed back old assignments, students were given 15 minutes to study for the chapter 6 test tomorrow and we began working on B-Thrild for chapter 7.

Thursday's Class

Students worked on the Modernization chart all class today. They have until Monday after the break to hand it in.

Interim Reports will be handed out on Monday March 31 and Report Cards will be sent out April 18.

Enjoy your Spring Break!

Wednesday's class

Today in class we marked the questions that were assigned yesterday. Students were assigned a Modernization Chart that we will be finishing tomorrow.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcbdzc94_18dftk2qrk

Tuesday's Class

Today we took notes off the PowerPoint on Japan's Economics and Military Systems and Students also have questions to complete that they copied off the board; They are due tomorrow. The questions were:

Japan- Questions on Page 212-215

1. How was religion used to unify the people of Japan?
2. What were the new ideas of liberty and individualism?
3. Explain the sense of nationalism that emerged in Japan during the Meiji period.
4. Why were the peasants protesting against the government?
5. What was Japonisme?


PowerPoint
http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dcbdzc94_2f6jz5nfw

Monday's Class

In class today students assembled their poster assignments from last week. Their Changing Social Systems Chart is due tomorrow at the beginning of class. See last Wednesday's post for a link to the assignment.

Thusday's Class

Today we spent the entire class working on the poster project. Students need to have each section of their poster completed by the beginning of Monday's class.

Tomorrow is Diversity Day at our school so students will be attending various sessions throughout the morning followed by a assembly in the afternoon with some very special presentations by students and members of the community.

Wednesday's Class

Today we went over yesterday's chapter 6 questions and marked them.

After I assigned a poster project on pages 207-209 which we will be continuing tomorrow.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2265491/Ch-6-Changing-Social-System-Poster
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcbdzc94_0hs6bf8df

Tuesday's Class

Chapter 6 Questions were assigned are due tomorrow.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2265470/Ch-6-Questions

Monday's Class

Today B-Thrild was to be handed in. We worked on an Isolated Island activity which was due in class and played vocabulary bingo until the end of class. Please study your vocabulary words so you'll be better and faster when we play again.

Thursday's Class

Today was the last class to work on B-Thrild, it is due on Monday. I also assigned Chapter 6 vocabulary that we will be working on tomorrow in class.

Wednesday's Class

Today we continued working on Chapter 6 B-Thrild. See yesterday's entry for the handout. Tomorrow will be our last class to finish it.

Blood Shot

I've included a claymation video that myself and several other teachers had the opportunity of creating at a workshop I attended in December. Our theme was desensitization to media violence. Please visit http://www.reelyouth.ca/EPSteachers.html for 2 more videos with a social message

Tuesday's class

B-Thrild was assigned today for Chapter 6. Students were informed that they would not be given any more B-Thrild booklets for the remainder of the year and that they will write out the information on lined paper based on today's handout.

http://www.scribd.com/full/2215019?access_key=key-xpkgxa8gqskr7ykkaxo

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2215019/BThrild

*I have included 2 different formats of the handout-- if you are still having trouble downloading the document from Scribd.com try clicking on the download for Word document in the yellow box on the right hand side of the page.

Monday's class

Interim Reports that went home on Friday were to be handed in today and signed by a parent or guardian.

We watched a Dateline NBC newsclip today on lock down procedures as we should be have a practice lock down in April. Students wrote in their response journals about what they watched and we discussed as a class.

Friday's week in review

Interim Reports were sent home with students today. I've asked that they be signed and returned with the student Monday March 3, 2008.

Students had this week to make up any late assignments so I've told them they still have the month of March to bring up their marks for the next report card which is April 18. This is a temporary report card which only tells them their mark as of today in class.

In class today we marked the Chapter 5 exam and I will have it returned to students by Tuesday. Monday we will be starting on Chapter 6.

Chapter 5 Test Tomorrow!

Chapter 5 Test tomorrow is worth 80 marks. Be sure to study tonight!!!

This Weeks Updates

Today students have been informed of what work they are missing. Late work is due Wednesday February 27 and will NOT be accepted after that date!

Students worked on the Iwakura Mission Cartoon in class today, this will be due this Wednesday as well.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2169777/Ch-5-Assignment-Iwakura-Mission

Chapter 5 test will be this coming Thursday! Study definitions, PowerPoint, fill in the blanks activity, note-taking activity, and the Iwakura mission.

Wednesday update

I have to apologize for not getting work up sooner but I was away sick yesterday.

Yesterday I assigned Chapter 5 fill in the blanks handout. Here is the link if you are missing the assignment. Students spent time finishing this today. It is due tomorrow.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2096958/Ch-5-fill-in-the-blanks

I also assigned this chapter 5 note-taking sheet for students who finished early. We will be completing it tomorrow and it will be due on Friday. It is taking notes on pages 184-187.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2096972/ch-5-notetaking

Note for CC

Christina, I haven't posted the assignment yet as we will be doing it next week, don't worry I believe you are caught up on everything. Enjoy your weekend!

Ms. R

Article or Questions Due date

Yesterday's assignment (see below) will be due Tuesday February 19.

Enjoy your relaxing long weekend everyone!!!

Chapter 5 Article Assignment

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2066168/Chapter-5-Article-Assignment

This is the assignment that was given yesterday. Students worked on this today. There will be a small amount of time to work on it tomorrow and it will be due next week. **hint, hint-there may be a quiz tomorrow, study the Meiji PowerPoint.

Some students were struggling with this so I've provided the following alternate assignment if they are having trouble:

Answer the following 5W questions for 2 of the 4 countries or continent on Russia, Europe, China or USA using pages 166-171 of your text book. Answer in full sentences please:

1) Who was the outside influence?
2) What were the issues that created the crisis?
3) How did Japan respond?
4) Where was the crisis or influence taking place?
5) When did the events take place? Was it over a year or several years?
6) Why did the influence or crisis occur?

Chapter 5 Article Assignment

Today in class we finished slides 9-15 of the Meiji PowerPoint on Japan. Students were then given the article assignment based on the slides. No due date has yet been given as students have just begun and will continue working on it tomorrow.

Assignment Completion Statististics

I am posting completion stats for assignments. Parents and students please check that these assignments have been completed. Please feel free to contact me by email to verify if your child is missing an assignment.

Social 8-1
B-Thrild Worksheet --> 54% of class completed assignment
Comic Current Event --> 66% of class completed assignment

Social 8-2
B-Thrild Worksheet --> 76% of class completed assignment
Comic Current Event --> 56% of class completed assignment

Wednesday's class

Today in class we read page 165 together and students worked with their table groups to answer questions 1 and 2 on the page, questions were due in class.

We then viewed the PowerPoint on Meiji Japan from slides 1-8 and took notes.

We finished class by writing in our journals.

*PLEASE NOTE: Tomorrow is a half day as interviews are in the afternoon and evening. We will finish the PowerPoint and Ch 5 Vocabulary is due. Please call the school at 777-7770 if you would like to arrange an interview time.

Chapter 5 Vocabulary

Today we defined the 11 words from Chapter 5. Students were to write an example of the word and a non-example. This is what it should have looked like:

1) Consensus: a decision reached through common agreement.
Example: The class voted on whether marks should be deducted from late assignment and agreed they should not.
Non-Example: People could not come to an agreement.

This assignment is due this Thursday.

Chapter 5 PowerPoint on Meiji Japan

The following PowerPoint was created for Chapter 5. It covers pages 166-172 from our text book. We will be covering this content this week.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2049025/Meiji-Japan-Chapter-5
http://www.scribd.com/full/2049025?access_key=key-2l18sj0hbqbic3ow2isz

Week in Review

Today we marked the Comic Current Event in class. Due to students being absent this week it was decided through a vote that students who did not have their work finished could hand it in on Tuesday. There is no school for students on Monday so it will be due at the beginning of class on Tuesday.

Have a great weekend everyone!

B-Thrild

B-Thrild for Chapter 5 is due NOW! Please get this completed and handed in ASAP. Parents: B-Thrild are chapter summaries that are created by the students prior to beginning a new chapter. Each letter stands for what they are to write about from the chapter.

B- Bold Printed words
T & H- Title and Headings
R- Read the first paragraph of the chapter and summarize
I- Illustrations: briefly desribe each picture from the chapter
L- Last Page: read and summarize
D- Discussion Questions: write 3 questions that you came up with while skimming the chapter

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2063376/Ch-5-BThrild

Chapter 4 PowerPoint on Japan

The following is a PowerPoint I created based on the beginning of chapter 4. http://www.scribd.com/doc/2021090/Japan-Geography-and-the-Edo-Period

Our Worldviews Text

I Thought I would include a copy of what our text looks like so parents are aware of what their child is using for this class. The 3 sections covered are the Renaissance, Japan, and the Spanish and Aztecs.

Comic Current Event

For this project students were to find an article in the newspaper and answer the 5 W's for the assignment; who, what, where, when, and why. They were then to create a 6-8 panel comic strip which recreates the article. The assignment is due on Friday February 1. It will be evaluated on a rubric that students have created in class.

Report Cards

Report Card #2 will be going home Friday February 1, 2008

Ch 4 Test was January 23, 2008

The Chapter 4 test was written on January 23, 2008