Mr. Lane

Week Overview 11-13

Book Fair this week in the 8th grade commons.

 

Monday 11-09

CW: Escape from Berlin /  Review chapter 13 (If you didn't finish this in class, you will need to finish the assignment at home.)

HW:  the Collapse of Communism

 

Tuesday

CW: Review homework / Communism in Europe reading and activity (group work)

 

Wednesday (Help session 8:15 for next weeks test- Bring your notebook and CRCT book to the study session.)

CW: Communism in Europe reading and activity (group work)

 

Thursday

CW: Computer Lab

 

Friday

CW: Computer Lab

Week Overview 11-06

 

Week Overview 10/06

Monday 10/02

CW: Chapter 12, section 3 workbook page 39 / Guidance is meeting with us during half of each period

HW: Finish class work

 

Tuesday

Student Holiday

 

Wednesday

CW: The Butter Battle and the Cold War Comparison Chart

 

 

Thursday

CW: Berlin Airlift / Chapter 13, sec 1 and 2 / workbook page 40 and 41 

HW: If you did not finish workbook pages 40 and 41, finish for homework.

 

Friday

CW: The Cold War ppt. and graphic / Review activity for Chapter 12 section 3

Week Overview 10-30

Most everyone did a great job on organizing this notebook. A tremendous improvement from the last notebook. Good Job! 

 

Monday 10-26

CW: The world at war and the after math / Reading graphic organizer answers - Download WWII reading graphic answers

HW:

 

Tuesday

CW: Rise of the Nazism page 166/ Global conflicts

HW: Finish finding the evidence in the text to support your answers

 

Wednesday

CW: Debate Global Conflicts / the Holocaust – Actions that lead to the creation of Israel

 

Thursday

CW: Review Test / Holocaust - Jews in Germany cloze / From WWII to the superpowers

 

Friday

CW: The Holocaust - The lives of the Jewish people in Europe / Student driven assessment

Week Overview 10-23

Week Overview 10-23

We spent time in Friday’s class organizing and making sure you had all the pages. Please make sure you keep them organized.

Test on Thursday

What to study? Download Test on Thursday 10-22 revised

Monday 10-19

CW: Review Europeat war pages 333 to 336 sticky notes on cause and effect review page R10 as a warm up. Treaty of Versailles

HW: Bring CRCT book / Study for test

Tuesday

CW: The impact of WWI on the Russian Revolution (a set up to WWII) / Review with CRCT book

HW: Study for test

Wednesday (Help session 8:15- please bring your questions as this is the best way to make sure you get what you need.)

CW: Review Game

HW: Bring AR book / Note book due at the beginning of the period- please get it together tonight, so it is ready to submit.

Thursday

CW: Test / Finish reading chapter 12 section 2 pages 336 to 338 and complete one sentence summaries on bolded headings.

HW: Finish summeries for homework

Friday

CW: WWII Power Point and note taking activity

Week Overview 10-16

Monday 10-12

CW: Note taking assessment / Russian Revolution / Questions 3 and 4 on page 322 in the textbook

HW:

 

Tuesday

CW: Russian Revolution - Epitaph Activity

HW: Finish class work- Epitaph Activity- Rename Nichols II, decide which is Nicolas's biggest problem, and epitaph needs on example on his rule, military defeats, and economic conditions of his country.  

 

Wednesday (Help session 8:15- Please bring your questions as this is the best way for me to help you study.)

CW: Anticipation Guide / Roots of War/ Flag activity / Review Flag / Frayer Model on words

HW: Frayer Model of key terms

 

Thursday

CW: Graphic organizer for WWI reading / Note taking for quiz

HW: History unit test 10-22 - This test will be over European exploration, Russian Revolution, WWI, and the treaty of Versailles.

  What to study?  Download Test on Thursday 10-22

 

Friday

CW: Open notes quiz / WWI PowerPoint on the war

HW:

Week Overview 10-09

You are going to get graded papers back again on Monday. Please recycle them or take them home, but do not leave them in your social studies notebook. Several students in each class turned in graded papers as part of their geography notebook. You should only have 3 entries in your notebook on Tuesday.

 

Monday (10-5)

CW: Review Geography Test and check notebook / The Colonization of Australia / Review rubric for exploration brochure

HW:

 

Tuesday

CW: Exploration Centers working on brochure due Friday - Please remember these points discussed in class:

• Page 2 on the 3 G's- This page focuses on the important role the 3 G's played in European exploration.
• Pages 4 to 6 must have travel routes and reasons for exploration
• Page 7 - The three important contributions Prince Henry made on European Exploration.
• Page 8 - This page should answer the two questions on the directions sheet.

HW:

 

Wednesday

CW: Exploration Centers working on brochure due Friday

HW: Brochure is due Thursday (This is your first quiz grade for the second nine weeks) / Bring blue workbook

 

Thursday

CW: Present brochure to your group/ Exploration Review / European Empires – Chapter 12, sec. 1 workbook page 37

HW:

 

Friday

CW: Russian Revolution introduction / Chapter 11, sec. 4 workbook page 36

HW: Finish Class Work - Chapter 11, sec. 4 workbook page 36

Week Overview 10-02

Monday 09-28 (Anti-Bully Week Kick Off)

CW: Review Unit – Student driven review

HW: Study / Bring AR

Review game -  Download Europe Geography Jeopardy

 

Tuesday- Sports Jersey Day (Help session 8:15 – please bring in questions that you have as this is the best way that I can help you with what you need.)

CW: Test over Geography of Europe / Read silently when you are finished with the test

HW:

 

Wednesday - Crazy Socks

CW: Background of European history / Push Pull Factors PowerPoint and Two Column Notes

HW: Read chapter 11 section 2 with map and guided reading activity (3 bullets for each sub heading- a total of 18) due Friday with map

 

 

It is important that your notebook stay organized. Many of you did not put page numbers or titles on your notebook pages. As of today, your notebook should only have page 1 on European exploration and the homework assignment due Friday.

 

Thursday - Backward Shirt Day

CW: Finish Push Pull PowerPoint and notespage 1 / Age of Exploration / The sun never sets on the British Empire maps and discussion- Download The British Empire 1921

HW: Trace the impact of the colonial powers of 1400's and 1500's and the expansion of the British Empire to 1921 map activity (pages 308, 311, and map of the British Empire). The maps goal is to show exploration of the three colonial powers between 1400's and 1500's (all arrows in the ocean) and the British Empire as of 1921 (all shaded area on land).

 

Friday - Cap Day

CW: Reading historical maps / Historical understandings CRCT book / one sentence summaries

HW:

Week Overview 09-25

Monday 09-21

CW: Culture Europe (12 min.) / European Culture CRCT book  / social studies page C in notebook.
HW: Study Guide on what to study for the test on Thursday in your notebook.

Download Europe Geography Unit 1 Notebook

 

Tuesday

School Closed

 

Wednesday (Help session 8:15 – Bring your questions as this is the best way to give you what you need.)

School Closed

 

Thursday (Test on Tuesday 09-29)

CW: Respecting Beliefs (15 min.) / European Culture CRCT book / religion word match

HW: Study for the test

 

Friday

CW: Review for the test / Europe Geography Jeopardy

HW: Study  for Tuesday's test /  Bring AR book

Week Overview 09-18

Week Overview 09-18

Monday 09-14 (Map quiz Tuesday)

CW: Europe’s environmental concerns group project (Bring CRCT book). As we have been saying in class, all products (letter, flip book, and poster) are due Tuesday at the end of class, so use your time wise. This is a project grade (see rubric for grading requirements).

HW: Study Map quiz

 

 

Tuesday (Bring CRCT book)

CW: Map Quiz  /  All products on environmental concerns due at the end of class

HW: None

 

Wednesday 09-16 (Bring CRCT book)

CW: Are you smarter than a European 5^th grader on geography using computers

HW: I have pulled a few of you aside to retake quiz for points added to your original grade please come in at 8:30 or during homeroom to retake it.

Thursday 09-17 (Bring CRCT book)

CW: Constitution Day lesson / Are you smarter than a European 5^th grader on environment using computers

HW: Test on 09-24 over Europe's geography.

 

 

Friday 09-18 (Bring CRCT book)

CW: Are you smarter than a European 5^th grader on culture using computers

HW Study a little each night is much better than trying to get it all in the night before a test. Study Guide on what to study for next week's test.

Download Europe Geography Unit 1 Notebook (Please note page C is to be done on Monday, so you will not have it in your notebook.)

Week Overview 09-11

This is our first group project please remember the procedures that we discussed in class about working in groups.

 

Bring your CRCT book and a highlighter all week if you have one.

 

 

Monday - Have a great Labor Day

 

Tuesday 09-08 (Bring a dry earse marker if you have one)

CW: Comparing the 4 countries of Europe (climate, location, landforms, resources, land use, population, GDP, vegetation). We will use the CRCT book for this three day lesson.

HW:

 

Wednesday (Help Session at 8:15)

CW: Environmental issues of Europe (PowerPoint presentation and note taking activity.)

HW:

 

Thursday

CW: Rubric and directions for this project / Europe’s environmental concerns group project(Bring CRCT book)

Group assignment schedule Download Group Assignments (Remember all assignments are due Tuesday.)

 

HW: Quiz on labeling next Tuesday / I highly recommend you to finish the letter and flipbook the night you worked on it in class since you will need Tuesday to finish the poster.

 

 

Friday

CW: Europe’s environmental concerns group project (Bring CRCT book)

HW: Study for quiz on Tuesday / Work on finishing your center work. All work due on Tuesday (letter and flip book).