Friday, March 7, 2014

March 10-14, 2014

Ancient Medieval
Mon. 3/10 -- Begin three-day project on Hinduism and Buddhism.  We will review the religions in class on Monday and then create a poster on them during Monday-Wednesday.  If anyone is absent more than 1 day of the project they will do an alternate assignment.
Tue. 3/11 -- Poster day 2
Wed. 3/12 -- Poster project due today by 3 p.m.  Quiz on Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity.  the quiz includes basic facts about the religions and students will match the facts to the correct religion.
Thur. 3/13 -- Introduction to China. Notes on the early dynasties.  Discussion of the Chinese zodiac and learning to write a few Chinese characters.
Fri. 3/14 -- Ms. Fenton will be gone.  DVD on Engineering in China.  Takes notes on the Great Wall and the Tomb of Shi Huangdi.  Sketch the building and take 6 bullet notes on each.

Economics
Mon. 3/10 -- Mini-lecture to review vocabulary words and introduce different types of taxes.  Complete a chart on taxes that includes tax base, type of tax and effectiveness of tax.
Tue. 3/11 -- Quiz: vocabulary 9.1 (tax vocab from Friday). Matching quiz with one short answer question. Read pages 246 and 251-253. Review questions p. 256-257. Reviewing main ideas 17-23, 27 Choose 28 OR 34.
Wed. 3/12 -- Introduce the Federal Budget -- income and spending.  Discuss the budget process.  Watch part of IOU USA on government debt.
Thur. 3/13 -- Federal spending pie charts.  We will convert some data on Federal spending into pie charts and do some preliminary investigation on the purposes of that spending.  Get directions on the pie chart -- it is not hard, but you will convert percentages into degrees of a circle. Planning and discussion for the mini-congress
Fri. 3/14 -- Ms. Fenton will be gone.  Library research for the mini-congress.  Do you waste your time because the assignment and in-class discussion are on Monday.

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