9 Weeks Testing and Chapter 8 Vocabulary Builder Make-up

Today, students continued with their 9 weeks exams. Today's exam was history/geography. Exams will continue tomorrow with the math test.

Many students still owe me make-up/late work. One of the common assignments missing is the Vocabulary Builder Worksheet over Chapter 8. I have printed copies of this assignment three different times for students who keep losing it. I am not going to make any more copies. What I have done is attach the worksheet below. Students can print it themselves at home and bring it in by Thursday (the last day I am accepting work this grading period). If, for some reason, printing the worksheet is not an option, students can look at the paper online and simply write their answers to each question on a piece of notebook paper and turn that in to me.

Chapter 8 Open Notes/Book Take Home Test

Today, the students continued working on their test covering Chapter 8 (The Mexican National Era). This was an open book/notes test that they started yesterday. Students had the entire class period yesterday and today to work on the exam. Any students not finished as of the end of the class period today were instructed to take the test home and complete it for homework.

Please check with your student and ask about this test. It is vital that, if it was taken home, it be returned on time at the beginning of class tomorrow. Students can simply not recover from a "0" on a major test.

Pearl Harbor Remembrance, Chapter 8 - Lesson 3 Notes and Open Note / Take Home Test Tomorrow

Today, I took a few moments to discuss the significance of the Pearl Harbor attack with the students. I showed them a brief video that featured a bit of footage from the attack and part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's address to Congress and the nation asking for a declaration of war on the Empire of Japan. Below is a link to FDR's address to the nation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK8gYGg0dkE

After viewing the video, we continued on with the notes for Chapter 8. Below are the notes for Lesson 3.

Tomorrow, the students will begin taking the test over Chapter 8. The test will be a bit different this time around as it will be an open book/notes test. Students may use whatever resources they have to work on correctly answering the questions. Please make sure your student catches up on the notes from this chapter and brings all of their materials to class tomorrow.

Chapter 8 - Lesson 2 Notes, Vocabulary Builder and SFA Brochure Due on Monday

Students worked on several items today during class including vocabulary, notes, the vocabulary builder worksheet and the SFA brochure.

The vocabulary builder worksheet and the SFA brochures are due on Monday at the beginning of the period. Please make sure your student completes these assignments. The SFA brochure is especially important as it is a summative grade and will count as the equivalent of a chapter test. It will be difficult, if not impossible, for a student to recover from a "0" on a summative grade.

The notes from Chapter 9 - Lesson 2 are below. Students will need these notes to complete their take home test over Chapter 9 next week. I have also reattached the instructions for the SFA brochure assignment (below the notes).

Stephen F. Austin Colony Brochure Assignment

Yesterday, I assigned the students the "Stephen F. Austin Colony Brochure" assignment. This is a VERY IMPORTANT assignment as it will count as a summative grade (the equivalent of a test grade). That being the case, the brochure needs to be done well and completed on time. A poor summative grade will really hurt the student's average. If the assignment is not turned in, resulting in a "0," it will be almost impossible for the student to recover before report cards come out.

Fortunately, the opposite is also true. If students do a good job on the brochure, it can help their average IMMENSELY. This is precisely why I have assigned the brochure. Some of the students really need a high summative grade in order to pull their overall grade up prior to report cards/grade check.

The brochure is due on Friday 12/4/15 at the beginning of the period.

Full instructions for the brochure are below.