December 8-12, 2014

World Geography
Mon. 12/8 -- DVD -- Discovery Atlas on China -- questions to complete with the video.  We will discuss the region of East Asia. 
Tue. 12/9 -- intro -- Reading on the Three Gorges Dam p. 628-630; worksheet on the history of China.  p. 635-639 in the text.  Finish with watching a short segment of the Tianamen Square coverage from CNN.
Wed. 12/10 -- Korea worksheet (quite short about 25 minutes to finish).  Video on North Korea called "Inside North Korea"  No video questions.   REVIEW YOUR MAP FOR THE QUIZ.
Thur. 12/11 -- QZ: East Asia Map. Japan history timeline -- four people per group.  Each person will complete one part of the timeline - we will have hand-outs in class to read.  Each timeline needs four dates and one illustration.  The sections will be taped together.   If you are absent get one essay and complete one segment of the assignment. 
Fri. 12/12 -- VD Living Treasurers of Japan (intro).  Web notes on Japan 651-655.  Web notes have student use each sub heading to take notes in a graphic organizer. Pages 651-655.  Students need four history notes, four economic notes, Three culture notes and three "life today" notes. 

Economics
Mon. 12/8 -- Finish cartoons on types of unemployment.  Review for the Economic Policy Test.
Tue. 12/9 -- Quick review game before the test.  Test on Economic Policy.
Wed. 12/10 -- Library -- Corporation PowerPoints or HSPB.
Thur. 12/11 -- Same thing.
Fri. 12/12 -- GDP maps -- look up GDP for various countries and create maps of wealth from around the world.  If you are at home, print an outline map (blank) for a continent) and label 10 countries. If you use the World Fact Book look up : Per Capital GDP; internet users; male life expectancy.  Make a table on the back of the paper with this information. Color your map according to the per capita GDP: 50-40 K = Blue; 40-30 K = Red; 30-20 K = Yellow; 20-10 K = Green; 10-5 K = Purple and less than 5,000 is Orange.  K= thousand.
 Corporation projects and HSBP are due today.

Art History
Mon. 12/8 -- Early Italian Architecture notes; video clip on Brunelleschi's dome in Florence.
Tue. 12/9 -- People of the Renaissance graphic organizer.  Northern Renaissance art cards due. 73-79.  BROWN.
Wed.  12/10 -- Finish the graphic organizer.  Watch video on early Florence and the Medici family. 
Thur. 12/11 -- EIR painting and sculpture notes.  Handout on Linear perspective in art. 
Fri. 12/12 -- Quiz on Early Italian Renaissance art (open note).  DVD on Botticelli's Birth of Venus.  Brief discussion of Savanarola.   EIR cards are due on Monday 80-89.

 

December 1-5, 2014

World Geography
Mon. 12/1 -- Worksheet on Indian history p. 567-572.  Review activity for the quiz on south Asia.
Tue. 12/2 -- QZ: South Asia map; Graphic organizer on the religions of South Asia -- Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism.  The graphic organizer will be similar to the one completed on the three religions of SW Asia. 
Wed. 12/3 -- Movie: Gandhi.  Questions about Gandhi and non-violent resistance.  Discussion.
Thur. 12/4 -- Read pages 578-579 about Cyclones in South Asia.  Notes on issues in South Asia from population and weather to political issues in Pakistan.
Fri. 12/5 -- Read p. 606-607 about East Asia.  Map of East Asia -- if possible; read about floods p. 640-641.  The map is due today!

Economics
Mon. 12/1 -- Inflation skits.  If you are absent -- Read pages 361-367. On page 367 do questions 2, & 5 Define: Demand pull inflation, Cost push inflation, Wage-Price Spiral inflation and Excessive monetary growth inflation.
Tue. 12/2 -- Notes on Demographics and building wealth.  Questions about business cycles.  Get a copy of my questions, I do not like the questions in the book.
Wed. 12/3 -- Library research the economic status of one country.  I have a list and copy of the directions.  We will look at measures such and GDP and growth to determine which countries would be fun to live in. 
Thur. 12/4 -- Economic Current Event DUE.  Library for research on the Corporation Project.  Juniors who are waiving consumer economics will work on the career research requirement for graduation.
Fri. 12/5 -- Quick PowerPoint on the definitions associated with unemployment.  Student pairs will make a cartoon set showing the differences between the five types of unemployment.  The assignment can also be done solo -- you need a cartoon theme, definitions, pictures and word balloons.  I often have unemployed Santas, elves and reindeer. p. 372-373 in the text for the five types.

Art History
Mon. 12/1 -- Review day, slides and questions from the review sheet.  Remember the essay is on cathedrals and their role in the Middle Ages.
Tue. 12/2 -- Romanesque and Gothic test, notebook #5 Due
Wed. 12/3 -- Analyzing painting -- review how we look at paintings and then a group work on several examples.
Thur. 12/4 -- The Renaissance in the North -- notes.
Fri. 12/5 -- Map of Italian city-states in the Renaissance and a little history for Milan, Florence, The Papal States and Venice.  It's always fun to color a map  on Friday :)

 

Changes due to Snow Day 11/20

World Geography
Thursday  11/20 -- Snow Day
Friday 11/21 -- Library day for research paper.  4th period will have their outlines due today.  5th period will get their outlines back.  5th period is on schedule for papers to be due on Tuesday 11/25.
Monday 11/24 --  4th period will have the Computer on Wheels in the room to do research.  The outlines will be returned with helpful comments.  The Global Issues Paper will be Due Tuesday, 11/25, but I will accept papers late on Wednesday without a penalty.  Essentially the extra day is only for people who are here on Wednesday.  This will apply to both periods because they missed a work day.
5th period --  CBA Paper questions and map of India.
Tue. 11/25 -- Global Issues Papers (CBA) due by 3:30 p.m.  Each school day the papers are late they will loose one letter grade.  I stop at taking off 25 points.  Worksheet on the environments of South Asia. PowerPoint notes and pictures of South Asia (will return to the maps today).
Wed. 11/26 -- Half Day due to Thanksgiving.  [I will take papers without a late penalty until today.  SEE ABOVE]  DVD India Revealed. 

Economics
Thursday 11/20 -- Snow Day
Friday 11/21 -- Test on Banking and Finance.  
Monday 11/24 -- Introduce GDP and per capita GDP. Diagrams on John Keynes and the output expenditure model.  Video and discussion on Keynes
Tue. 11/25 --  Library -- Measuring GDP in the US and looking at the Consumer Price index.  Review Keynes for the quiz.
Wed. 11/26 -- Keynes Quiz. -- It is open note and multiple choice. 

Art History
Thursday 11/20 -- Snow Day
Friday 11/21 -- Lecture on Gothic Italy -- notes to finish the big set of art cards.  PowerPoints are due by Saturday at noon.  You may e-mail them to me.  Jonnie.Fenton@rsd.edu
Mon. 11/24 -- High Middle Ages History -- Day 1 -- Graphic organizer and notes on the history of the high middle ages -- Joan of Arc to the Black Death.
Tue. 11/25 -- Group Work comparing the 12th and 14th century.  AC: 61-72 Gothic Due -- A BIG SET this time.  Plan ahead!
Wed. 11/2 -- Review sheet out for the holiday.  QZ: on Romanesque and Gothic art -- slide based quiz and you can use your cards! -- 20 minutes :)
Monday 12/2 -- Test Review Day
Tuesday. 12/2 -- Test on Romanesque and Gothic -- Notebook #5 Due.  * I will make a new calendar with adjustments included!

November 17-21, 2014

World Geography
Mon. 11/17  -- Global Issues paper -- Day 1 -- I will carefully go through the requirements of the paper and bibliography.  Students will sign-up for topics and do one reading about their topic.  This paper is the state CBA on Human-Environment interaction.  It is due on Tuesday 11/25 by 3:30 P.M.  If you miss school this day, plan on coming in before or after school for help!
Tue. 11/18 -- Global Issues Day #2 -- Library for research
Wed. 11/19 -- 4th period -- Introduction to South Asia and map of South Asia.  5th period -- Global Issues Day #3 -- outline due. 
Thur. 11/20 -- 4th period --  Global Issues Day #3 -- outline due.  5th period -- Introduction to South Asia and map of South Asia.
Fri. 11/21 -- Global Issues Paper Day #4 -- this is the last school work day.  You will need to finish the paper at home.  It is due on Tuesday 11/25 by 3:30 p.m. The paper is worth 100 points.

Economics
Mon. 11/17 -- Catch up in room day, review for the test.
Tue. 11/18 -- Guest speaker -- Steve Scott, VP at DA Davidson in Kennewick.  He will show you how to analyze stocks using a sheet of valueline data. 
Wed. 11/19 -- Review day 2
Thur. 11/20 -- Test on Banking and Finance
Fri. 11/21 -- Notes on GDP and GNP, continent maps.  If you are going to be gone pick up a map and set of directions.  Briefly you will choose 10 countries on your map (pick up a map)  and look  up the per capita GDP, televisions/thousand and life expectancy male.  Make a table on the back of the map.  Color the countries according to the per capita GDP -- Above 40,000 = BLUE; 40,000-30,000 = RED; 30,000-20,000 = Yellow; 20,000-10,000 - Green; 10,000-5,000 = Purple and less than 5,000 = Orange

Art History
Mon. 11/17 -- Cathedral Project Day 1 -- library to work on PowerPoint.  AC 55-60 DUE today. -- Romanesque period.
Tue. 11/18 -- Lecture on Gothic Art and regional art styles. 
Wed. 11/19 -- Library Day 2 for the PowerPoint 
Thur. 11/20 -- History of the High Middle Ages.  Lecture on the High Middle Ages and the disasters of the 14th Century.
Fri. 11/21 -- Discussion on the regional styles of Gothic.  Lecture (short) on Late Gothic Art.  Maybe a little bit of a video -- PowerPoint on Cathedrals due.
 

November 10-14, 2014

We have a very special schedule this week

Monday -- Veteran's Day Assembly Schedule:  45 minute periods
Tuesday -- No School -- Veteran's Day  - A Big THANK YOU to all Veteran's
Wednesday -- Regular Schedule
Thursday -- Half day for parent teacher conferences (Middle School) -- periods 1,2,3 only
Friday --   Half day for High School Parent Teacher Conferences 1-3 p.m.  -- periods 4,5,6 only

World Geography
Mon. 11/10 -- Review Day for the test -- Planning the essay and review activity.  The essay will ask students two write about 3 issues in Africa that slow economic development -- we have discussed environmental problems (deforestation, desertification, poaching, Niger delta oil) poverty and debt load, education and brain drain and various health issues.
Tue. 11/11 -- No School
Wed. 11/12 -- Africa test with a longer essay.
Thur. 11/13 -- World Geography will not meet today
Fri. 11/14 -- Semester map review day -- we will review our maps so far and plan for the semester final.  Students will pair up and complete maps within a set amount of time. 

Economics
Mon. 11/10 --  Worksheet on how to read a stock report.  We will also use the risk assessment (due last Friday) to complete an investment portfolio for each student.  The choices in the portfolio must match an investment goal (retirement) and their level of risk tolerance.
Tue. 11/11 -- No School
Wed 11/12 -- Library for stock research
Thur. 11/13 -- Library to write a stock profile -- both parts are due on Monday 11/17.
Fri. 11/14 -- Economics will not meet today.

Art History
Mon. 11/10 -- Finish the cathedral map and discuss.  Review the calendar and challenges for this unit -- YES we have a test the Monday after Thanksgiving.   Begin vocabulary work on cathedral vocabulary.  We will look at slides to see the vocabulary words in action!
Tue. 11/11 -- No School
Wed. 11/12 -- Finish the cathedral vocab projects -- Review cathedral vocabulary at the end of class.
Thur. 11/13 -- Quiz on Cathedral terms.  Lecture on Romanesque Art. 
Fri. 11/14 -- Art History does not meet on this day.

November 3-7-, 2014

World Geography
Mon 11/3 -- Powerpoint and notes on the history of Africa.  We have a sheet to complete during the lecture.  Finish the Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe video from Friday.
Tue. 11/4 -- Environmental issues in Africa -- video and notes on each issue.  We will look at biodiversity on Madagascar, the drying of Lake Chad and the Ndoki park (poaching).  Students will take notes -- if you are absent you need to borrow someone's notes and copy them.
Wed. 11/5 -- Reading National Geographic article on Aids,  Students will read pages 461-467 and complete the worksheet on economic and health issues in Africa.  Due today.
Thur. 11/6 -- CLOSE reading on Ebola news from West Africa.  Discuss reading and issue.  Form groups and brainstorm a list of four issues/problems in Africa and details about each issue.  If you are absent -- choose three issues/reasons why African economies are typically poor.  Look at the human environment interaction on page 424, your notes from the video on the environment, and Africa today issues on pages 461-467.  For each reason provide 5 supporting details (facts) to explain why this issues hurts economies in Africa.
Fri. 11/7 -- Review sheet for the test.  [The test is Wednesday 11/12.]

Economics
Mon. 11/3 -- Federal Reserve chart and structure.  The charts shows the organization of the Federal Reserve and the major duties of the Fed.  Watch "Eye of the Storm" -- which is old but highlights the Fed's role in supplying money in times of disaster.
Tue. 11/4 -- Tools of Monetary policy: lecture with a graphic organizer to complete.  Fed video "The power of Money" and how the Fed controls inflation by raising interest rates or spurs the economy by lowering interest rates. 
Wed. 11/5 -- Open note quiz on banking history and the Fed.  Read pages 289-294 and take notes > what are financial intermediaries and describe the four basic investment considerations.
Thur. 11/6 -- Types of Financial assets -- making a three pocket organizer with different types of investment ranked according to their level of risk.  Economic Current Event #1 DUE.
Fri. 11/7 -- Finish project -- Discuss type of investments.  RISK ASSESSMENT due today.  http://njaes.rutgers.edu/money/riskquiz/

Art History
Mon. 11/3 -- Notes and pictures on the Mini-unit on Islamic Art.  Cards 49-54 due today.
Tue. 11/4 -- Review for EMA test.
Wed. 11/5 -- Test over early Christian, Byzantine and EMA art.  -- It is a three page test so it will not take the entire period.  Notebook #4 DUE.  Cathedral map after the test.
Thur. 11/6 -- Video: Cathedral
Fri. 11/7 -- History of the 11-12th century -- notes on the "Age of Faith"


 

October 27-31, 2014

World Geography
Mon. 10/27 -- Worksheet on pages 424-437 -- Human environment interactions in Africa.  PowerPoint on the regions of Africa -- reviewing the physical map and discussing the varied environments of Africa.
Tue. -- Political map of Africa.  I will take time to explain how the Africa quiz will be organized so students will know how to approach their study time.  Go over the SW Asia Test.
Wed. 10/29 -- African tribes -- books from the library.  If a student is absent they will need to go to the library to check out a book on an African tribe.  There is a worksheet to go along with the book.
Thur. 10/30 -- Parade of Flags for Africa -- map review again!
Fri. 10/31 -- Quiz on Africa map, Video on Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. There are questions to go with the video.

Economics
Mon. 10/27 -- Money and Monetary systems worksheet.  We will learn about commodity money, the gold standard and greenbacks :) Go over the economics test from Friday.
Tue. 10/28 -- FRBSF module on Invest in what is next -- on-line unit and feedback forms.
Wed. 10/29 -- Video: Modern Marvels, The US Mint,  with questions.
Thur. 10/30 -- Watch a bit of "It's a Wonderful Life" PowerPoint on the history of banks.  Begin a timeline on bank history either solo or with a partner.
Fri. 10/31 -- Finish the time line. Watch 60 minutes "Your bank has failed" which shows the FDIC closing a bank. 

Art History
Mon. 10/27 -- Christendom graphic organizer and floor plan of St. Gall monastery from Switzerland.  What is the role of the church and monasteries in Europe in the Middle Ages?  How does this role show itself in the art of the period?
Tue. 10/28 -- Early Middle Ages lecture.  About 25 minutes from a video on Vikings.  AC: 42-48 are due (Early Christian and Byzantine --Yellow set).
Wed. 10/29 -- Medieval Fusion art activity.  We will look at types of migratory period art and show how ideas/styles from one group move and are blended to create a new style in the early Middle Ages.
Thur. 10/30 -- Carolingian art lecture. 
Fri. 10/31 -- Library -- research assignments on Islamic Art. >> There are art cards 49-54 due on Monday and be prepared to comment on your piece of art during the lecture.