Monday, February 22, 2010

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Today in class students began working on the second part of their Unit 7 Vocabulary Squares. I have given them the definition for each word and students need to write:
  • two things each word is like
  • two things each word is not like
  • draw a picture

Vocabulary squares are due on Monday and the vocabulary quiz will be on Tuesday, February 23rd. The vocabulary quiz will include ALL of the vocabulary words from this unit.

New Vocab Review games are:
Vocab Part 2 Hangman
Vocab Part 2 Millionaire

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

PreAp take home Quiz
Today and tomorrow in class PreAp students will be working on a ToonDoo project on the 3 branches of government. Instead of taking their quiz tomorrow every PreAp student needs to take the above quiz by Thursday morning. Students may take the quiz as many times as they wish so that they can earn a good score.

Monday, February 15, 2010

Today in class students took notes on the Bill of Rights. We discussed the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution and how they are a written guarantee of our individual rights.

Tomorrow we will be completing an ActivVote Review to prepare for the Quiz on Wednesday. The quiz on Wednesday will cover the following information:
*Constitutional Principles
*Branches of Government
*Bill of Rights
*The Articles of Confederation (review questions)
*Vocabulary (review questions)

Students are reminded that this is a VERY difficult unit and make sure you are keeping up with your work and studying your notecards EVERY NIGHT!!!

Review games to help you on the quiz:
Battleship
Constitution Rags to Riches
Articles Rags to Riches

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

SNOW DAY EXTRA CREDIT



Well, another snow storm gives you a GREAT opportunity for some Extra Credit! I hope you enjoy playing in the snow, but I hope you take a little time to review some History! You got new notecards after your Articles of Confederation Quiz yesterday, so the Extra Credit will help you to start reviewing the new material.
In order to receive 5 points Extra Credit play the Battleship Game listed below on the Constitutional Principles. To receive the Extra Credit you must play the review game for at least 20 MINUTES. Remember in order to receive the extra credit you must log in when playing the game to your Quia Account! Have a safe and warm day... see you soon! :)
If you played the battleship yesterday (2/9/10) you can earn an another 5 points by playing for 2o more minutes!!!

Constitution Battleship

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Snow Day Update

Unit 7 Schedule Update and Vocab Retake Update


On Thursday students completed drawings of the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation. These need to be completed for homework.


The NEXT time students have school they will have a quiz in history. The quiz will include - Articles of Confederation Notes - Unit 7 Vocabulary - Declaration of Independence notes (from unit 6). There are several games below for students to review for the quiz and they also have purple notecards.

Unit 7 Millionaire
Unit 7 Practice Quiz

Unit 7 Vocab Retake: In order to retake the Unit 7 Vocabulary Quiz students must review their words by playing review games on quia for at least 20 minutes. After students have played review games they MUST take the vocab practice quiz and earn and 'A' on the quiz (you may take the quiz as many times as you need too). Once students have completed this review they may see me to get a lunch pass to retake the quiz. I will offer a retake for two days during lunch beginning the NEXT day we are in school.

Vocab Hangman

Vocab Matching

PreAP Vocab Practice Quiz

Regular Vocab Practice Quiz

Monday, February 1, 2010

On Thursday in class students began their notes on the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and on Friday they took their Unit 7 Vocabulary quiz.
Unit 7 Vocabulary quiz retakes will be held on Thursday during lunch. Any student that wishes to retake their vocabulary quiz MUST come for lunch on Wednesday to review.

On Tuesday students will complete drawings of the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and they will have a quiz on Wednesday. All students should be studying their PURPLE notecards and playing review games.

Unit 7 Articles of Confederation Review