Happy Friday...today with finished the 80's episode "A New World"...interactive materials were handed out in class and glued in notebooks.


IF YOU WERE ABSENT IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO GO TO THE LINK ON THE BLOG..."ABC: THE CENTURY" ....FIND THE EPISODE...WATCH IT AND TAKE NOTES BY MONDAY! 

CHECK TODAY'S POST FOR SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS ON WHAT'S COMING UP NEXT WEEK!

GRADES ARE UPDATED/POSTED!!!!!

HAPPY FRIDAY, MAY 29

"Each puff of smoke inhaled from a cigarette contains 4 billion particles of dust!"

"CAPTAIN VIDEO" IS BACK...

NB'S OPEN...80'S..."REAGAN REVOLUTION"...GLUE PRESIDENTS AND REAGAN REVOLUTION INTO YOUR NB... TAKING NOTES...(and loving it!!!)

 "A NEW WORLD"

NOTE: These "Interactive Notes" will be the last quarter grade...but have information that will be on the semester Final Exam!

I will post Semester Exam this weekend...stay tuned!!!

Homework over weekend:

A. Organize all 2nd Semester materials...remember you have a 50 Point/10-item Portfolio Assessment...Friday, June 5!

B. Study through your notebook and assignments/tests.

C. Work on your "Oral History" 50 Point Bonus projects...turned in no later than Monday, June 8!

D. Be nice to people!!!!

 

THURSDAY, MAY 28

"Frogs drink through their skin!"

Nice Job last night for those who came to for Argo!

Pick up NB's ...open them to new page:  "The Last Hurrah!"

Interactive Notes: Presidents and 3 crisis chart...

Notes:  "Starting Over: 1970-1079"

Homework:  Read 3 Crisis and fill out chart in NB by tomorrow!

If you are absent...you must go to blog and go to ABC "The Century" Link and watch the video at home...get notes...

Tomorrow: Friday...1980's...

I WILL BE BUSY GETTING VIETNAM TESTS, PHOTO ESSAYS, AND ARGO BONUS POINTS IN POWER SCHOOL BY FRIDAY!

ORAL HISTORY PROJECTS (BONUS) ARE DUE MONDAY, JUNE 8

WEDNESDAY, MAY 27

"The most requested "care package" item by U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia was "toilet paper!"

VIETNAM TEST

Turn in Photo Essays

OPEN NOTE TEST...SCANTRON!!!!

TURN NB's in when you finish...open to Korea/Vietnam Maps...name on that page

2% Bonus:  "Argo" @ 6:00 in Performance Hall

must have Permission slip signed to get in.

BIG DAY TOMORROW!

WED. 5/27

VIETNAM PHOTO ESSAYS DUE - 20 POINTS

CH. 19 - 40 M-C QUESTIONS...VIETNAM...OPEN NOTEBOOK ...40 POINTS

INTERACTIVE NB: VIETNAM 60 POINTS

A. KOREA/VIETNAM MAPS
B. CH. 19-SECTIONS 1-4
C.QUOTES/DEAR AMERICA
D. NOTES/APPROACHING THE APOCALYPSE

TOMORROW NIGHT 6:00 PM.. 2% BONUS...PERFORMANCE HALL

"ARGO"...MUST HAVE PERMISSION SLIP SIGNED BY PARENT TO GET IN!

Tuesday, May 26

"After a 3 week  vacation, your IQ can drop by as much as 20%"

WELCOME BACK!

VIETNAM STUFF...NB, PHOTO STORY...TEXT TOMORROW

Today:  VIDEO NOTES...Title Page: 

"Approaching the Apacolypse..1970's"

Taking Notes...

(2%) BONUS MOVIE NIGHT:  WEDNESDAY, May 27   6:00ish in Performance hall..."ARGO"...

Signed Permission Slips required!

MORE INFO Tomorrow

Have a great Memorial Day Weekend!  Be Safe! and Be Nice To All People!!!  Maybe even fly a flag!

Check previous post for specifics...everything is due Wed. 

Today we watched an "All in the Family" episode called "The Draft Dodger!"

ON TUESDAY WE ARE WATCHING A VIDEO ON THE 70'S...IN YOUR NOTEBOOKS!

THURSDAY, MAY 21

"The Great Salt Lake is 6 times saltier than seawater!"

Finish Gulf of Tonkin Hindsight Activity..."were they shooting at flying fish???"

VIETNAM PHOTO ESSAY...CH.19 NB...and TEST...NEXT WED.

WEDNESDAY, 5/20

"Shakespeare's daughter was illiterate!

GET WITH PARTNERS...

GULF OF TONKIN HINDSIGHT ACTIVITY

SHORT SCHEDULE TODAY...DUE AT END OF PERIOD!

HOMEWORK TONIGHT SHOULD INCLUDE ANY/ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:

1. Ch. 19, section 1-4...complete and colorful...Study these notes...40 M-C Test over Ch. 19
2. Vietnam Photo Essay...9 pics..(3 of which are Homefront)  that tell the story of U.S. Involvement in Vietnmam ...1964-1975...not due until next Wed....but you can get started!
3. Oral History Interviews...ongoing...due in June.

Tomorrow: You finish with your group the Gulf of Tonkin Hindsight activity.  

See you whenever!

TUESDAY, MAY 19

"Where were you (yesterday) when St. Helen's Blew?"

*Ch. 19 stuff...Interactive    
 NB's...50 Points
*Test  40 Multiple-Choice
 Questions...40 Points
*Vietnam Photo Story...20 Points  
 Due Friday

Today/Wednesday: Gulf of Tonkin "Hindsight" activity

Happy Monday! 

Today was Academic Catch-up...Those present worked on Ch. 19, sect 4.

Ch 19...all four sections (plus maps and Dear America quotes) will be worth 50 Points...Due Thursday

Ch. 19 Vietnam Test Thursday ???

Tomorrow I will assign the Vietnam War Photo Essay = 50 Points due thisThursday

We will be in activity mode the rest of the week!

A. Gulf of Tonkin Hindsight Activity
B. Tunnels vs. Search & Destroy
C. Draft
D. POW "tap code"

MONDAY, MAY 18

"It take 4000 grains of sugar to fill a teaspoon!"

ACADEMIC CATCH-UP:

        TEXTBOOKS REQUIRED!


NB's Open...Glue Sticks OUT!!!...

Ch. 19. Section 4: Read the section then answer the questions for the entire period!

CHA-CHING...3% Bonus

FRIDAY, MAY 15

"57% of Americans barbecue year-round!"

1. Finish "Dear America" today.
2. Discuss Ch. 19...sections 1,2, and 3...

3. Discuss "Oral History Project: 50 Extra   Credit Project"

 

MONDAY is ACADEMIC CATCH UP

SHOW UP WITH TEXTBOOK AND SPIRAL...YOU WILL BE WORKING THE ENTIRE PERIOD....SILENTLY...FOR 50 MINUTES ON CH. 19, SECTION 4.

3% EXTRA CREDIT WILL BE AWARDED AS YOU LEAVE THE CLASSROOM

TODAY WE DID THE VIETNAM (TUG-O-)WAR ACTIVITY!

FUN STUFF!!! WHO WINS: "The Elephant or the Tiger????"

HOMEWORK TONIGHT:  CH. 19, SECTION 1...INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK...ALL 6 QUESTIONS COMPLETED!

WE START WATCHING "DEAR AMERICA: LETTERS FROM VIETNAM"

WILL GIVE YOU BONUS INTERVIEW TEMPLATE...DUE JUNE 1...50 BONUS POINTS

WILL GIVE YOU VIETNAM STORYBOARD TASK...

CH. 19, SECTIONS 2-3 DUE FRIDAY

MONDAY: ACADEMIC CATCH-UP...3%...BRING TEXTBOOK...SECTION 4

HOMEWORK FOR MONDAY NIGHT

Today we Quizzamed you on Assassinations...20 Points...and then lectured/discussed the who's who of Vietnam War

GET ALL YOU MAPS DONE/COLORED/LABEL...START ON CH. 19 SECTION ONE...REVIEW QUESTIONS. The Vietnam War

Make a Title Page for the Notebook...make certain to put section title in your notebooks as well..DUE WEDNESDAY

Tomorrow: we go outside for a BLUE vs. RED Tug-0-War activity...even if it is raining!!!!!!!

MONDAY, MAY 11

"Sponges form an amazing 99% of all marine species!"

HAPPY MONDAY...

ASSASSINATIONS QUIZZAM - 20 POINTS  - NOWZA!

LECTURE: VIETNAM ...WHO'S WHO... Check Maps...

ASSIGN CH. 19 Section 1: pp. 596-603 - "The War Develops" ...Section Review Questions, glued and answered in your NB's by tomorrow. Do all 6 items.

TOMORROW:  Tug-o-War outside..."Red" vs. "Blue" Team

HOMEWORK OVER THE WEEKEND:

1. HAVE MAPS OF VIETNAM COMPLETED AND COLORED...GLUED IN NB!

2. STUDY...REVIEW THREE ASSASSINATIONS...QUIZZAM ON MONDAY

3. HAVE A WONDERFUL AND MEANINGFUL MOTHER'S DAY!

FRIDAY, MAY 8 2015

"What event occurred on in date in 1945?  How many years ago is that?

HAND BACK ASSIGNMENTS

FINISH ASSASSINATIONS

VIETNAM MAPS?????  READY TO GO L...MONDAY WE START!

YOU COULD BE THINKING BONUS...INTERVIEWS??? WILL PROVIDE SPECIFICS MONDAY...WILL NOT BE DUE UNTIL END OF QUARTER...50 POINTS

WEDNESDAY, MAY 6

"Human DNA and jellyfish DNA are 90% identical!"

ASSASSINATION...cont'd...."TOO MUCH HISTORY???"

JFK -  November, 22 1963
(Malcolm X -1965)
(Wayne Armstrong lost in Vietnam, Oct. 7 1967)
MLK- April, 4 1968
RFK - June 5, 1968

VIETNAM MAPS...BRING TEXTBOOKS TOMORROW

TUESDAY, MAY 5

"More steel is used in the U.S. to make bottle caps than to make cars!"

ASSASSINATION:JFK November 22, 1963!

Homework:  Cut-paste "Korean & Vietnam Wars" map...label...color...and fill-out Venn Diagram for tomorrow's NB check!

1. MONDAY, MAY 4
2. "What has 18 legs and catches flies?...A baseball team!!

FINISH KOREAN WAR DOCUMENTARY

THEN...

...ASSASSINATIONS!!!

FRIDAY, MAY 1

"The World's best-selling cookie is the Oreo!"

Switching gears...getting ready for 60's and Vietnam Ear

NB's OPEN...KOREAN WAR INTERACTIVE...glued in...watch "Korean War" video

1960's ...Assassination NB check on MONDAY

WE GOTTA LOOK AT AMERICA's "FOGOTTEN WAR!"