"Life well spent is long."
----Who said this? (15pts Extra Credit)
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Friday, October 19, 2012
Weekend Homework
There will be two things that students should be working on this weekend they are as follows:
1. 3x5 Vocabulary Cheat Sheet/Study Vocab- There will be a vocabulary quiz on MONDAY 10-22-12. Students will be able to use a 3x5 index card to place any information they will like to help them on the quiz.
2. Discussion Question #5- DUE TUESDAY 10-23/12 Student must answer the following discussion question. Responses must be at least 1-page doubled spaced. Students must have the question written on their response (this does not count as part of their 1-page response)
Question # 5- What is the importance of Bully/Drug Awareness Week? How can the dominant "norm" of your society be a cause of bullying/drug use? How can it be a solution?
1. 3x5 Vocabulary Cheat Sheet/Study Vocab- There will be a vocabulary quiz on MONDAY 10-22-12. Students will be able to use a 3x5 index card to place any information they will like to help them on the quiz.
2. Discussion Question #5- DUE TUESDAY 10-23/12 Student must answer the following discussion question. Responses must be at least 1-page doubled spaced. Students must have the question written on their response (this does not count as part of their 1-page response)
Question # 5- What is the importance of Bully/Drug Awareness Week? How can the dominant "norm" of your society be a cause of bullying/drug use? How can it be a solution?
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Famous Quote of the Day
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." --- Who said this???? (Extra credit for the 1st three students to respond.)
Monday, October 15, 2012
Report Cards/ Parent-Teacher Conference Reminder
1st Quarter Grades are in and ready to go!!! ALL parents must attend a conference in order to receive your student's Report Card. Junior High Parent-Teacher Conferences are set up in a open-house format on the following dates:
Tuesday 10/16/12 4pm- 7pm
Wednesday 10/17/12 1pm-4pm
Thursday 10/18/12 4pm-7pm
Report Cards will be with your student's homeroom teacher but a conference can be held with all available teachers on the above days. If you can not make the schedule times, other arrangements must be made with your student's homeroom teacher in order to receive their report card.
Tuesday 10/16/12 4pm- 7pm
Wednesday 10/17/12 1pm-4pm
Thursday 10/18/12 4pm-7pm
Report Cards will be with your student's homeroom teacher but a conference can be held with all available teachers on the above days. If you can not make the schedule times, other arrangements must be made with your student's homeroom teacher in order to receive their report card.
Extra Credit Opportunity
In an effort to help students become more invovled and aware of the current Presidential Elections, students may earn extra credit for watching the Presidential Debate this TUESDAY 9/16/12
Topic: Town meeting format including foreign and domestic policy
Air Time: 9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Location: Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York (Tickets)
Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates
Participants: President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney
Moderator: Candy Crowley (CNN Chief Political Correspondent)
The second presidential debate will take the form of a town meeting, in which citizens will ask questions of the candidates on foreign and domestic issues. Candidates each will have two minutes to respond, and an additional minute for the moderator to facilitate a discussion. The town meeting participants will be undecided voters selected by the Gallup Organization.
In order to recieve extra credit students must provide a 3 paragraph summary of the debate.
1st paragraph- Summarize President Obama's argument
2nd paragraph- Summarize Governor Mitt Romney's agrument
3rd paragraph- Who do you feel won the debate? Why?
Topic: Town meeting format including foreign and domestic policy
Air Time: 9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Location: Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York (Tickets)
Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates
Participants: President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney
Moderator: Candy Crowley (CNN Chief Political Correspondent)
The second presidential debate will take the form of a town meeting, in which citizens will ask questions of the candidates on foreign and domestic issues. Candidates each will have two minutes to respond, and an additional minute for the moderator to facilitate a discussion. The town meeting participants will be undecided voters selected by the Gallup Organization.
In order to recieve extra credit students must provide a 3 paragraph summary of the debate.
1st paragraph- Summarize President Obama's argument
2nd paragraph- Summarize Governor Mitt Romney's agrument
3rd paragraph- Who do you feel won the debate? Why?
New Unit Vocabulary DUE TUESDAY 10/16/12
Unit 2: Chapter 1 The Renaissance Vocabulary (7th Grade)
- Renaissance
- Medicis
- Lorenzo de’ Medici
- Patron
- Christopher Columbus
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Humanism
- Humanities
- Francesco Petrarch
- Isabella d’Este of
- Donatello
- Perspective
- Women artists
- Gothic style
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Michelangelo
- Raphael
- Baladassare Castiglione
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- Engravings
- Vernacular
- Thomas More
- Utopian
- William Shakespeare
- Printing revolution
- Indulgence
- Recant
- Martin Luther
- Predestination
- Theocracy
- Annul
- Canonized
- Compromise
- Scapegoats
- Ghetto
- Heliocentric
- Hypothesis
- Galileo Galilei
- Gravity
Unit 2: Chapter 1 Age of Exploration Vocabulary (8th Grade)
*** Must provide a definition and sentence for each word.
- Christopher Columbus
- Casco Nunex de Balboa
- Ferdinand Magellan
- strait
- circumnavigate
- conquistador
- Hernando Cortez
- Montezuma
- plantation
- encomienda
- Bartolome de Las Casas
- mission
- penisular
- mercantilism
- John Cabot
- northwest passage
- Henry Hudson
- Samuel de Champlain
- coureur de bois
- Jaques Maguette
- alliance
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