TEST on CHAPTER 24 on FRIDAY 1/27
WARNING: THERE WILL BE SEVERAL BASIC QUESTIONS ON PROHIBITION. I WILL ALSO INCLUDE EXTRA CREDIT QUESTIONS ON THE FAMOUS ENTERTAINERS WE DISCUSSED!
We are currently studying section 3 of chapter 24 on the Roaring 20's. Students need to take notes on the focus questions and study their vocabulary.
Grades for your chapter 23 (WWI) test are posted.
Many students scored poorly and were told to
"Restudy, Retest...REQUIRED!"
I suggested that students who did not pass this test
see me by Jan 18 for a retest. The sooner the better!
Those students who did not see me yet for a retest by Jan 18 have committed themselves to a promised date for retest. Please keep your promise.
THURSDAY Jan 5, 2012 : Took test on Chapter 23: World War I.
Try:
http://www.firstworldwar.com/
SECOND SS HONORS CHALLENGE:
See Honors Support on right hand side of this blog.
I distributed the new study guide for chapter 23 World War I, so students should be studying the vocabulary and answering the focus questions in class and for HW as we read the chapter together in class.
We watched "ClassZone" animated history about new weapons used in WWI and saw a few BBC videos about World War I.
To Get to ClassZone on your own, try the following steps:
A) go to www.classzone.com
B) Choose "Middle School Social Studies" and the state of "Maine" followed by "Find Your Book"
C) Select American History: Reconstruction to the Present
D) Choose "Animations"
E) Select Chapter 5: Trench Warfare... Or any other item you'd like to explore
Good Luck. Tell me if you got this far and what you saw!
We also saw an animated explanation of World War I movie at WWW.BRAINPOP.COM
The username is: biddms and the password is: brainpop (This tends to work best before 5:30 p.m.!)
Heads Up! I'd like to highlight three new links on the right hand column of this blog:
A) The Citation link to help student to cite work in any class
B) The Newspaper link to explore entire historical newspapers from around the world for free online.
I suggest using New York City newspapers labeled "FREE"
For instance, find the New York Tribune (FREE) and type in a famous date like
June 28/29, 1914 to see how the news looked when the Arch Duke of
Austria-Hungary was assassinated.
June 28/29, 1914 to see how the news looked when the Arch Duke of
Austria-Hungary was assassinated.
Or try August 1/2, 1914 to see how the 1st World War started with
Germany's declaration of war.
Germany's declaration of war.
(Note, I typed in both the day the event happened,
and the day the newspapers probably learned about it!)
and the day the newspapers probably learned about it!)
C) The Date link to find out precisely how long ago certain things happened.
ENGLISH: We are now working on the eight parts of speech:
NOUNS, ADJECTIVES, PRONOUNS, VERBS, ADVERBS, CONJUNCTIONS, PREPOSITIONS AND INTERJECTIONS.
EASY WAY TO REMEMBER IS NAPVACPI
I AM ALMOST DONE GRADING THE DESCRIPTIVE WRITING ASSIGNMENT. WILL POST IT BY FRIDAY.
Task : (40 Points) See Rubric Below for FULL DETAILS: Rubric
____ of 20 SHOWING not just TELLING.
Use descriptive sentences to show the action rather than just “tell” the action to the reader.
Example: Not “He was angry.” Rather: “The veins in his forehead bulged blue as he clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.”
____ of 2 Paragraph Changes after:
Speaker Change, Scene/Setting/Time Change OR IDEA CHANGE.
____ of 2 Avoid Run on sentences
(The sentence ran on for a long, confusing time)
____ of 2 Avoid Sentence Fragments
(Sentence was missing a subject or verb)
____ of 2 Capitalization (Names, Places, Sentence starts, “I”)
____ of 2 Spelling (Right word, right spelling)
____ of 2 Verb Tense Error (Supposed to be all in past tense)
____ of 1 Punctuation of Dialogue (, “” .) & General Punctuation . , ? !
____ of 1 Required Font (Helvetica), Type size (14 font) Spacing (1.5)
SAVE AS: “Your last name”, “Your First name” “RED”
____ of 1 Use two (1 or 2) spaces after each period.
____ of 5 HIGHLIGHT the best section of your descriptive scene.
(10 - 15 consecutive lines ONLY. Blocked. About 1 paragraph.)
