Merry Christmas

I hope all my students and their families have the opportunity to enjoy this holiday season. I am blessed to have all of you in class and I am looking forward to a great refreshing break.

Merry Christmas to you All!

SS and LA Posting

Here is a free opportunity for students in my Social Studies and Language Arts classes. Any student, who independently or with the help of a parent, discovers and reads this blog, will be given a free late homework pass. All that needs to be done is for the student to print off this page and submit it to me before Christmas vacation. This will allow me to give the student their free reward and monitor how many students/parents are using this on a weekly basis.

Happy Holidays.

Civics/Constitution Online Investigation Day 2

Day #2: Individual Constitution Investigation and Quizzes

During class time, students are only allowed on the listed sites below. Failure to follow this instruction will result in a zero score, loss of computer use and an after-school detention.

Please keep in mind, ALL Interactive Civic Sites are valuable in gathering knowledge about our government for today's class, our unit test review and the future.

Step One: Take time to tour this online and interactive resource .
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/timeline/flash/cw.html

Step Two: Read Sections from the Preamble through Amendments 11-27. After each section, take the online quiz found under the quiz menu tab. Good luck and aim for a perfect score on each quiz!
http://www.phschool.com/curriculum_support/interactive_constitution/

Step Three: Explore these valuable online Constitution resources.
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/ncc_edu_Studying_the_Constitution.aspx
http://ratify.constitutioncenter.org/constitution/

Online Civics Investigation

Students and Parents, this posting is for Thursday's online civics investigation. Students should follow the steps outlined to complete the assigned classwork. This will also serve as a valuable review for our Constitution/Civics Test.

Interactive Online Civics Investigation
Day One. Investigation and Challenge

Students are only allowed on the listed sites below. Failure to follow this instruction will result in a zero score, loss of computer use and an after-school detention.

Read 3 Branches of Our Government (Found at site below):

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/teacher_lessons/3branches/1.htm

Challenge 1: Compete against the computer or the person next to you. Record scores on the challenge 1 records sheet when finished.

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/teacher_lessons/3branches/3bgovt.htm

Challenge 2: Access the following
Log onto the first link and then open another tab for the second and 3rd links to find the answers needed.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/constitution_day/activities/index.asp?article=scavenger_ques

http://ratify.constitutioncenter.org/constitution/

http://www.constitutioncenter.org/ncc_edu_Studying_the_Constitution.aspx


Challenge 3: Try to get all these Constitution Questions answered correctly:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/constitution_day/activities/quiz/index.asp

Any extra time…..explore freely here! Or any of the other sites used today.

http://www.congressforkids.net/Constitution_index.htm

Students should make sure to answer the assigned classwork as they travel through this online investigation. The completed work needs to be turned in at the end of the hour.

Also!!!!!! If students have their own headphones, please bring those to class tomorrow, Friday, Dec. 9th. Students will be able to listen to some of the planned online investigation for Friday.

LA Plans for Week of 12-5

Monday: DOL and Persuasive Writing Notes. Hwk: study 4 quiz
Tuesday: DOL. Persuasive Writing Notes. Quiz rescheduled for Wed.(quiz from Monday's notes) Hw. study 4 quiz
Wednesday: Dear Santa Letter
Thursday: Graphic organizer/ establish position for persuasive writing.
Friday: Position, Thesis statement, 3 Arguments for persuasive paper. Hwk: Rough draft of persuasive essay due Monday.

SS Plans for Week of 12-5

Monday: Students are reviewing for Chapter 8 Test. HWk. Study 4 Test
Tuesday: Chapter 8 Test
Wednesday: Introduction to Chapter 9 The US Constitution Hwk. Vocab due Thurs.
Thursday and Friday: Online Constitution Investigation