Wednesday

Well, we are past the middle of the week and still going strong. Love these short weeks. Anyway, today in social studies we worked on Longitude and Latitude for the second day as we move toward Friday's assessment over the same. If you are not getting the locations correct when we practice, please let your teacher know or figure out what is going wrong. You don't want to find out on Friday during the assessment. Mrs. Cobb's class finished up with the Interactive Notebook pages and discussed them. Mr. Hogue's class completed that previously. We worked on flash card vocabulary for a bit as you are able to make use of them writing your paragraph. Lastly, Mr. Hogue's class began a writing assignment which is to write a paragraph response to the question of "Why did the Greeks colonize?" Remember, in order to score high on this, a writing assignment, or an assessment response you have to write your *Main Idea (the answer to the given question), *Details (that support your answer), and *Vocabulary use (the vocabulary that we are working on at the time). Remember also, your answer could be correct but because of lack of details and or vocabulary use may not earn a high grade. And if you remember correctly there are more than one reasons they colonized. Mrs. Cobb's class will start the day off with this tomorrow. We will have a screen cast showing examples of a low grade, medium grade, and high grade response. Your response will not be for a grade. It is only practice and an opportunity for you to see how your work falls in line with what we expect a response to be. Mr. Hogue's class should bring completed paragraph or longer response to class as you will need it on hand for the review work. Homework: Study for latitude and longitude quiz on Friday and bring a headset if you have one to listen to videos in class tomorrow.


Below is a copy of the video clip we viewed today demonstrating how a written response will be scored in social studies.

Sample Paragraph to Demonstrate a Scoring Rubric for Social Studies

Semester Pre-Test and Latitude/Longitude Practice

Welcome back from a hopefully fun three-day holiday break. Today we took the pre-test for semester one content in social studies. This assessment was taken in the computer lab and should reflect what you know ahead of what we are studying. If you did poorly on this pre-assessment, that is OK as it is just an indicator of what you may already know. We will take a post test at the end of the first semester shortly after winter break to see your improvement. We also began work on latitude and longitude coordinates. You were assigned the Mentor Mob collection of short video clips (August 30 post) to view over the weekend and tonight I am posting a short "quick" quiz to cover those videos. You have to view the vids in order to score well on the quiz. This quiz will not count for a grade but will test you on your recall of the vids. The post will be directly after this one and will require you to take it on Edmodo. You will learn your score directly after submitting it. Each day we will have a warmup using longitude and latitude coordinates to locate locations on a map. Friday there will be a "real" quiz to test your skill on said coordinates. Each day at the start of class you should test your skill so we may trouble shoot any problems using the coordinates. The name of today's quiz is Latitude and Longitude Quick Quiz and is posted on Tuesday, September 3 in your PERIOD CLASSES not in all classes.

Social Studies Acuity Pre Test Semester One

Please click on your social studies teacher and follow the prompts. Please do not write on the test paper as other students will be using the same papers.

Mr. Hogue's Classes

Mrs. Cobb's Classes

Friday Holiday Weekend

Hey everyone. A three day holiday weekend is upon us. Today in social studies we completed the Interactive Notebook pages 168-170 and shared the correct responses. Students in Mr. Hogue's class also began working on making flash cards from the grid sheets as the vocabulary terms were listed for chapter 25 on the Focus Sheet. Students were given one of these in class and it is posted here as well in case you have misplaced yours. The flash cards are not due Tuesday. We will work with them in a few days. Today a Mentor Mob of videos was posted around 3:30 for students to view over the long weekend. There are 9 videos here but they are all very short at a couple of minutes each. The topic is longitude, latitude, and time zones. Tuesday we will post a quick quiz on Edmodo to follow up for practice and a "real" quiz will be on or about Friday of next week. If you are familiar with using longitude and latitude, these will be review. If you are not, follow along carefully and have a good jump on next week's activities. The Mentor Mob of videos is posted below.

Mentor Mob Latitude/Longitude

Begin Reading Notes Chapter 25 Geography of Greece and its Settlements

Hello! Today we completed our Geography Challenge discussion of the answers. Please note that Mr. Hogue posted yesterday a copy of the questions in case you didn't have them. In Cobb's class we were able to problem solve some about tech issues related to Edmodo. Those students who haven't turned in their response should do so tomorrow or make arrangements to watch it as soon as possible. Students then discussed a pre-reading handout (green) and then completed it as a class. Some classes were then able to work on the reading notes with their partner for chapter 25. We will continue to work on them tomorrow. The only homework was to check Edmodo tonight.

Greece Geography Continued

Today, students completed the Geography Challenge for Greece and discussed the responses. We also shared student responses to the video clip that was pushed out last night. Those were collected. Some classes, time permitting, viewed CNN Student News current events or part of it.

 If you did not turn in your responses or had Internet issues viewing the video clip, no worries, you can view it tonight and write your response to be turned in Thursday. Also, if your class did not finish or even watch CNN Student News, you can do so at this site http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/. It is linked below as well and is a ten minute clip available each day.

Current Events - CNN Student News

Geography Challenge - Greece

Tuesday we began work on the Geography Challenge for Greece. We will wrap up the challenge in class tomorrow so don't worry about finishing this up at home. But, for tonight, we have pushed out a video clip on the colonization of Greece and your assignment is to view the video and write a 1/2 page minimum response. A written response should have important facts/information and your thoughts. It does not have to be very long. The 1/2 page is just a guide.