Have a nice summer!

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.