Grades, Vocabulary and Notes for Chapter 8

This weekend, I submitted grades for the UIL grade check. This grade check marks the end of the 6th week for this 9 week grading period. There are only 3 weeks left for students to get their averages where they need to be. Today, each student was given the opportunity to hear their up to date average for my class and was given a list of what assignments, if any, they were missing. Please check with your student as to what they are missing and go online to view their grades. Time is quickly running out on this grading period.

In an effort to get the students an easy grade to raise their averages, I assigned the vocabulary from Chapter 8. The vocabulary assignment can be found below. The assignment is due on Wednesday.

Below the vocabulary assignment are the notes from Chapter 8, Lesson 1 over the Mexican National Era. Please make sure your student copies these notes or prints them out for study.

Chapter 7, Lesson 3 Notes

As promised, here are the Chapter 7, Lesson 3 notes. Students will need to copy/print these notes and have them ready when we do our review of Chapter 7 on Monday.

Chapter 7 - Lesson 2 Notes, Chapter 7 Vocabulary Builder

Today, we finished up discussion over the Chapter 7, Lesson 2 notes. The notes are below in case anyone did not quite get finished copying them. I also handed out a short worksheet which is due on Monday 11/23. Many of the students finished it up in class already.

We remain on track to have the test over Chapter 7 on Tuesday 11/24.

Internet Problems

For some reason, the Blogger server was unavailable to me until after 10:00pm. That being the case, I was unable to post the notes for Lesson 2. I'll get them posted tomorrow, no worries.

The vocabulary assignment for Chapter 7 was assigned today. The students had some time to work on it in class and some finished before leaving. The assignment is due Tuesday 11/18 at the beginning of class for those who did not complete it today. The vocabulary is posted below.

Please make sure your student gets this assignment done and turned in on time.

Chapter 7 - Mexico Becomes Independent

I started the day by giving the students their grades from the test they took last Friday. These grades have been posted and can be viewed online at this time. I did not give the tests back to the students yet as I had several kids absent who need to make it up. I don't want the tests floating around until everyone has taken it. Once the tests are returned, the students can do test corrections in order to raise their grades.

Next, we started our notes on Chapter 7 - Mexico Becomes Independent. We touched on all kinds of good stuff including the 7 Years War, the Louisiana Purchase, the Adams-Onis Treaty and the first Filibusters. I showed the kids a couple of short videos on these topics that can be accessed below. The Lesson 1 notes can be found below the videos.

Chapter 6 Test, Progress Reports

Friday, the students took their exam over Chapter 6 - Spanish Colonial Texas. The tests have been graded and the scores posted in the grade book.

Progress reports were handed out on Friday to most classes. I have one class that did not get them as I wanted them to concentrate on the test and not use up class time discussing the progress reports. The thing about progress reports is that they are obsolete by the time you, the parent/guardian receive them. I would encourage you to go to the EHMS school website and check the grades there. That is the way to get the most current and up to date grades for your student.

One more thing, just for fun, I gave the students a bonus question on Friday. If they got it right, they would have received five bonus points on their test. I put the picture below on the screen. They bonus question was "What is this animal?" For the answer scroll down below the photo.

Answer: A lamprey