9 Weeks Testing, Chapter 9 Vocabulary Builder Make-Up

Today, students continued with their 9 weeks exams. Today's exam was history/geography. Exams will continue tomorrow with the math test.

Many students still owe me make-up/late work. One of themes common assignments missing is the Vocabulary Builder Worksheet over Brazil. I have printed copies of this assignment three different times for students who keep losing it. I am not going to make any more copies. What I have done is attach the worksheet below. Students can print it themselves at home and bring it in by Thursday (the last day I am accepting work this grading period). If, for some reason, printing the worksheet is not an option, students can look at the paper online and simply write their answers to each question on a piece of notebook paper and turn that in to me.

Chapter 9 Open Notes/Book Take Home Test

Today, the students continued working on their test covering Chapter 9 (Brazil). This was an open book/notes test that they started yesterday. Students had the entire class period yesterday and today to work on the exam. Any students not finished as of the end of the class period today were instructed to take the test home and complete it for homework.

Please check with your student and ask about this test. It is vital that, if it was taken home, it be returned on time at the beginning of class tomorrow. Students can simply not recover from a "0" on a major test.

Pearl Harbor Remembrance, Chapter 9 - Lesson 3 Notes and Take Home Test Tomorrow

Today, I took a few moments to discuss the significance of the Pearl Harbor attack with the students. I showed them a brief video that featured a bit of footage from the attack and part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's address to Congress and the nation asking for a declaration of war on the Empire of Japan. Below is a link to FDR's address to the nation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK8gYGg0dkE

After viewing the video, we continued on with the notes for Chapter 9. Below are the notes for Lesson 3.

Tomorrow, the students will begin taking the test over Chapter 9. The test will be a bit different this time around as it will be an open book/notes test. Students may use whatever resources they have to work on correctly answering the questions. Please make sure your student catches up on the notes from this chapter and brings all of their materials to class tomorrow.

Chapter 9 - Lesson 2 Notes, Vocabulary Builder Assignment Due Monday

Today, students continued "catching up." All had at least one, and most had several, assignments that they needed to catch up on.

By the end of the period, I collected the Chapter 9 vocabulary assignments (part 1 and part 2) and many of the vocabulary builder worksheets. Students also worked on copying the notes for Chapter 9 - Lesson 2. The notes are below for any students that did not get them copied completely in class today. They will be a valuable asset on the take home test next week.

*HOMEWORK ALERT* - The Chapter 9 Vocabulary Builder worksheet is due on Monday at the beginning of class.

Vocabulary Assignments Due, Make-up / Late Work Clock Ticking

Today, the first half of the Chapter 9 vocabulary was due. The second half of the chapter vocabulary will be due on Friday 12/4/15. The vocabulary assignments and instructions can be found in the previous post.

Time for this grading period is quickly running out. That means students need to get any late or make-up work completed and turned in ASAP. Please question your student as to whether or not they owe me any assignments.

Grades, Vocabulary Assignments and First Set of Notes Over Brazil

This weekend, I submitted grades for the UIL grade check. This grade check marks the end of the 6th week for this 9 week grading period. There are only 3 weeks left for students to get their averages where they need to be. Today, each student was given the opportunity to hear their up to date average for my class and was given a list of what assignments, if any, they were missing. Please check with your student as to what they are missing and go online to view their grades. Time is quickly running out on this grading period.

In an effort to get the students a couple of easy grades to raise their averages, I assigned the vocabulary from Chapter 9. This chapter has an unusually high number of vocabulary words so I decided to break the vocabulary assignment in half and make it two grades, the theory being two good grades will raise a low average faster than one good grade. The vocabulary assignments are below. Please do each assignment separately as they are two individual grades.

Below the two vocabulary assignments are the notes from Chapter 9, Lesson 1 over Brazil. Please make sure your student copies these notes or prints them out for study.

Chapter 8, Lesson 3 Notes

As promised, here are the notes from Chapter 8, Lesson 3. The students need to copy or print these notes and have them ready for review on Monday.