Sunday, June 3, 2012

May 29-June 1, 2012

Geography
Tue. 5/29 -- Travel project on Australia and New Zealand.  Each student will research three places to visit in each Australia or New Zealand.  They must pick one cultural spot (art, music, museum, botanical garden) one historic spot (colonial history, gold rush, native history) and one national park.  The paper should be 200-250 words long and include a listing of two different sources.
Wed. 5/30 -- Notes on Australia and New Zealand.  Reading p. 698-701.  Make a list of 3-4 bullets for each section in the reading.
Thur. 5/31 -- Map of Oceania.  Video on sinking islands in the Pacific.
Fri. 6/1 -- Review for the test on MONDAY.

Ancient Medieval
Tue. 5/29 -- Disaster of the 14th century project
Wed. 5-30 -- Disasters of the 14th century project.  Notes on the Avignon Papacy and the Great Schism.
Thur. 5/31 -- Notes on the Black Death -- video on the Scourge of the Black Death.  Notebooks due.
Fri. 6/1 -- Notes on the 100 Years War,  video on Joan of Arc.
** some of these deadlines were altered for the seniors in these classes.

Anthropology
Tue. 5/29 -- Second Day on the cultural regions in North America.  Students are working on projects they began on the 25th of May.
Wed. 5/30 -- Review for the test on social structures.
Thur. 5/31 -- Test on Social Structures.
Fri. 6/1 -- Project on the Navajo.  Each student is getting one section to read on the Navajo from a ethnology bt James Downs.  Students will read their section and plan a page for a powerpoint.  Ms. Fenton will put the power point together and then students will present their sections to the class.   This is part of our larger unit on the Navajo for the final week of school.

June 4-8, 2011

World Geogrpahy
Mon. 6/4/ --  Test on SE Asia and Oceania.  A review time before the test is planned.
Tue. 6/5 -- Final Review of countries  Three days with a power point showing pictures of slides that will be on the final.  There are 24 in the review powerpoint and 10 of those will be on the final. We will see 8 slides each day as an introduction.
Wed. 6/6 -- Final Review of cities. 
Thur. 6/7 -- Final Review on physical features, map due.
Friday 6/8 -- Semester Final  for 4th period.  These semester finals are 10% of the semester grade.
Monday 6/11 -- Semester Final for 1st period.

Ancient Medieval
Mon 6/4 -- Review for High Middle Ages Test.  We will spend part of class on a few sheet and part on a review game.
Tue. 6/5 -- High Middle Ages Test. 
Wed. 6/6 -- Review Activity for the Final.  We will divide into groups and make a review for each unit we have studied.  Each team will review vocabulary, events and major legacies of each section.
Thur 6/7 -- Review master Jepordy
Fri. 6/8 -- Semester Final for 2nd period.
Mon 6/11 -- Semester final for 5th period.

Anthropology
Monday 6/4 -- Introduction to Navajo sand painting.  We will look at a short power point explaining bout sand painting and each student will start their own project. 
Tue. 6/5 --   Day 2 of sand painting.  Classroom project on the Navajo.
Wed. 6/6 -- Final Day of Sandpainting
Thur. 6/7 -- A Thief of Time.  This is a PBS Mystery (non-rated) based on a series of books by Tony Hillerman.  Students will look for examples of Navajo culture portrayed in the video.