WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 28 - OCTOBER 2

Monday will be a quiz on the homework packet and Middle Ages for B-2.  A-2 has their quiz on Tuesday.  I will collecting 7-3 and 7-4. This will then be followed by the Black Death. We then be looking at the other major institution of the Middle Ages: The Catholic Church.
We will be taking some note. These notes can be found here.

 

Wednesday and Thursday we will becoming monks and nuns and learning about the monastic life. We will be  illuminating manuscripts and listening to Gregorian chants with our vows of silence.

    

Here is a great Gregorian Chant.

Friday and Monday will find us looking at further at monks and nuns and other duties they carried other than illumination.


We will then discuss the Inquisition or "religious police" whose job it was to root out heresy and protect the Church.  This will lead into a discussion of punishment in the Middle Ages.

  



Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 21 - 25

Monday  B  classes will be in the library working on the Middle Ages project.

Tuesday will find A class working on the castle and going over the importance of castles. We will then start the video on Castles that is on the last page.

Wednesday is a half day.  Students in A class will finish the movie on Castles.  B classes will start the video on castles.

Thursday the A classes will finish the movie on Castles. We will be discussing the Fictional Character project for any questions.

Friday B class will be looking at the black death or plague. Then we will be going over a homework packet for a quiz on the following Tuesday.

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 14 - 18

We will also be conducting a item drive for soldiers abroad. Please give. It will last for the next 5 days!

Some items needed:

Game Books: (Crossword Puzzles / Word Search Books / Math Puzzle books / MAD LIBS / Logic Problems / Sudoku)

Yo-Yo's, Dominoes, Poker Chips & Mats, Dice

Board games (UNO, Othello, Checkers - travel size is great, too!)

magazines

• Lip Balm / Chap Stick / Carmex / Blistex
• Body Wash, Liquid Soap, Facial Cleanser
• Hair Gel (for female troops to pull hair back)
• Combs / Brushes / Bobby Pins (in original packaging, please)
• Deodorant (travel size)
• Shaving Cream in Tubes / Shaving Soap (No CANS of Shaving Cream!)
• Hand & Body Lotion / Moisturizer (travel size)
• Sunblock, SPF 45, Zinc, Vitamin E, Aloe Vera Gel
• Bug Spray / DEET / Skin-So-Soft
• Mouthwash (travel size)
• Breath Mints / Breath Strips
• Lozenges / Cough Drops
• Loufa Sponges / Buff Puffs
• Nail files / Emery Boards / Nail Clippers
• Feminine Hygiene Products
• Moleskin & Shoe Insole Cushions (gel kind is best)
• Eye Drops (i.e. Visine)
• Nasal Spray

Monday and Tuesday will find us brainstorming things we know about the Middle Ages. We will then take a few notes on the Middle Ages. The theme will be a 1000 years of little change and two main factors: the manor and religion.
Notes will be found here.

Students will be getting a vocab word to draw.

On Tuesday I will be collecting Honors class scrapbook.
On Wednesday I will be collecting CP1 scrapbooks.

Wednesday and Thursday We will be working on a map of the middle ages.
We will then look at castles and castle life. The castle reinforced manor life. We will designing our own castle.we will be watching a video on castles and castle life by David Macauley if we have time.
Students will also be getting a project on Medieval life.
Honors
CP1
CP2

Friday and Monday will find us in the library working on our Medieval project.

Friday I will be collecting HONORS class homework packet.

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 8 - 11

NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY = LABOR DAY

Students should be working on their Scrapbook. Honors is due September 15 CP1 is due the 16th

The scrapbook is done to give the students an idea of how history is gathered, how it is incomplete and bias.  This is how historians work and why the story changes.

On Tuesday and Wednesday we will work on the Nacerima and Rac activity. This will be followed by a world map activity checking the students knowledge of locations around the world.

Thursday and Friday we will find us brainstorming things we know about the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages are the baseline of the year. We will establish that for about a 1000 years society changed very little. Following the Middle Ages, we will be discussing topics in terms of revolutions.

The students will get a homework packet due next week.
Honors will be due on Thursday the 17th.
CP1 will be due on Friday the 18th.

We will be taking a few notes on the Middle Ages. The theme will be two main factors that dominated life: the manor and religion.
Notes will be found here.

This will hopefully get you in the mood for the Middle Ages

 Life in the late Middle Ages could be tough, but so were its sports.

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 1 - 3

Welcome to the NEW SCHOOL YEAR!

Tuesday will be getting acquainted with the Class Expectations and Syllabus. These sheets need to be filled out WITH AN EMAIL ADDRESS PLEASE! We will then do an activity to help students get to know each other.

HOMEWORK IS TO SIGN EXPECTATION SHEET AND GIVE EMAIL ADDRESS !

To get in the mood. Here is a good video about history class. Hope ours is not quite like this! Click on link below.

Seinfeld History Lesson


Wednesday or Thursday we will be looking at values and discussing how values relate to world history and how we see world history.

HOMEWORK: GET A 3 RING BINDER

        

Scrapbook Project assigned as first quiz grade of the quarter.
Honors  due September 15th

CP1 due September 16th

CP2  due September 15th