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.