The interview times are up!

2:30 pm – Period 2

3:00 pm – Period 4

3:30 pm – Period 6

 

Please make sure to go to MPR at your assigned time. If you ABSOLUTELY cannot be there at your scheduled time, please email me ASAP and I will arrange an alternate day and time.

 

 

 

Final interactive notebook check!

Quiz on Manifest Destiny. 

 

Please use the 5 reading summaries to review for the 10-(T or F)question-quiz.

 

The reading study guides will also be due on this date.  Answers must be in complete sentences and there should be at least one annotation per paragraph. 

 

For those students participating in Astro Camp, please make sure to check in with Ms. Hernandez Avalos this weekend to get the notes and assignments completed in class.

 

  

Quiz:  Jackson's Policy Toward Native Americans 

Read 374-378

Reading attached :)

Lewis and Clark Journal Due 

Hi all,

 

Grades are due this weekend and I just want to make sure you take a look at your gradebooks for all your classes.  Make sure it all looks accurate.  

Read pages 313-317

Prepare to write your response paragraph on Washington Farewell Address and its modern day implications.  Please bring notes and any additional readings you may find helpful. 

 

I have assigned the NEWSELA articles if you want to read over them again.  

Read pages 293-297.  

 

 

Please complete during class April 9th, print at home and turn in on Wednesday April 11.

Constitution Folder Due:

 

You need to turn in all of your Constitution work.  This includes:

1. Folder with preamble hand written and annotated on the cover and the principles of the Constitution handout completed and pasted in the inside cover.

2.  For Article 1 you need:  the completed study guide, article annotated and the textbook summaries annotated and with questions answered.

3.  For Article 2 you will need:  the completed study guide with Article included, annotated and all questions answered. 

4.  For Article 3 you will need:  the completed study guide, annotated Article and the Article 2 and 3 textbook summaries annotated and with all questions fully answered.

5.  For Articles 4-7 you will need:  the textbook summaries completed and annotated and annotated articles (4,5,6).

6.Lastly, you should also have the annotated handout on the Electoral College and How a bill becomes a law. 

 

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Period 2:  Do not forget to bring in your field trip slip for this Friday's 8th grade picnic. 

Dear all,

 

I wanted to invite all of you to an informational meeting on the Spring Break 2019 EF Tour to Costa Rica that I am leading.  All CCUSD students grades 6-12 in the 2018-2019 academic year are invited!  Come learn about the details of the trip, students that register by March 31 will get a $100 discount off the total cost of the trip.  Meeting will be held Tuesday March 20th in Mrs. Wilcox's classroom (211) starting sharply at 6:30pm.  (Please note the location has changed)

 

Please let me know if you have any questions:

 

 

Quiz Articles 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 of the Constitution!

Don't forget to invite your parents to Open House! 

 

More information on school website. 

Collage: Bill of Rights

In pairs or independently, you're going to create a collage of the Bill of Rights. Collage should include:

1. A clearly defined section for each of the ten amendments of the Bill of Rights.
2. Each section must have the name of the amendment, a short description and at least one image that represents it.
3. The title of the collage must be "The Bill of Rights."

Rubric:

1. Meets minimum requirements: 4 points

2. Clarity and professionalism: 4 points

3. Shows understanding of the amendments: 4 points

4. Artistic quality: 4 points

 

Collage due at the end of class on Wednesday, March 21.

Take this survey!

 

We will be retaking as a class the quiz for the Preamble and the first article of the Constitution.  We did not do well as a class.

 

You need to know:

- 7 principles of the Constitution

- Preamble 

- Article 1:  Legislative branch 

 

Quiz: Article 1 of the Constitution, Preamble, 7 Principles of the Constitution. 

 

 

 

 

Extra Credit Opportunity

 

Please download and print the in the appropriate language.

 

You must complete assignment thoroughly, thoughtfully and neatly to receive credit.

 

Please remember you will either get 5 points (assessment category)  or 10 points (homework category).

 

Read Sections 1 + 2 of the First Article of the Constitution. On the margin write any connections to the 7 principles of the Constitution discussed in class. 

In class assessment.

 

Students will create a political cartoon on the Ratification process of the U. S. Constitution.  Students should understand what was needed to ratify the Constitution, what the federalists and the anti-federalists advocated for and lastly some of the elements of effective political cartoons to make their own political cartoons. 

 

Students will have all of Wednesday class to complete their political cartoons.  (4th and 6th periods will complete the assessment in pairs)

 

Students should be using their in class notes, textbook, and primary source documents to review.  Feel free to also watch a few tutorials online on the Ratification of the U.S. Constitution, Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists and the Federalists Papers. 

 

Spanish vocab:

1.  Ratificacion

2. Federalista

3. Anti-federalista

4.  Federalismo

 

 

Hello students! 

 

We will finally be taking the quiz on the Constitutional Convention and the Articles of Confederation.  

 

We will also be doing a modified version of our debate activity.  Just bring everything that you have up to now.

 

Please see prior posts to remember how to prepare for the test.

 

Email me with any questions or concerns.

Quiz on Monday. 

Please review the Articles of Confederation ( strengths and weaknesses) and the Constitutional Convention, especially the Great Compromise and the Three-Fifths Compromise.  (221-233) 

 

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I am still pretty sick, but if I get a chance this evening I will try to post a few more items for review.  In the meantime, you may use your notes, homework and textbook.  

Read pages 221-225 and answer 1-4

Read pages 226-231 and answer 1-4 

Read pages 221-227

Dear students and families,

 

Please enjoy this well deserved Winter Break.  Thank you for all the amazing wishes, cards and gifts.  I am truly blessed to work with such a caring and generous community.   

 

Today, Friday December 22, is the last day of the first semester! I will be updating grades over the Winter break.  NO more work is ACCEPTED for this semester, unless you have a valid absence and you made prior arrangements.  I do get a week after the break to finalize my grades.  I will take that week to correct or update any issues.  

 

I know we have some amazing, but easily stressed students, please try not to stress/think about this class over the break.  All final test results will be discussed upon return. 

 

Lastly, I wanted to inform all families that at this moment donations of the following items are welcomed:

 

1.  Facial tissues (we are down to zero)

2.  Wipes for cleaning surfaces

3.  Book donations - look for an awesome book you have read and no longer read and consider donating to our classroom library! (Buying new books is against the rules!)

 

Now really lastly!

Here's the tutorial for the African Finger Snap I mentioned in class.

 

If your parents, are okay with it finish watching Queen of Katwe.

 

Take lots of care, enjoy your family, go for walks, go to a museum or two or three, watch good movies, talk about them with you parents!  See you in two weeks. :)

 

Don't forget project is due this Friday.

 

By Friday you should have completed:

1.  Google slide presentation or equivalent and should be shared with Ms. Hernandez Avalos

2.  Project planning sheet

3.  Source analysis

(THE ABOVE ARE TURNED IN IN DIGITAL FORM, PLEASE READ PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS CAREFULLY)

4.  Study sheet (handout) to accompany your presentation. 

(YOU NEED 1 PRINTED COPY OF THIS HANDOUT ON FRIDAY Dec. 8)

 

Read pages 135-140 and answer questions 1-4 on page 140.

 

 

Please print the table talk menu (in color, if possible) AND the rubric for the socratic seminar. 

 

More resources on how to prepare to come in the following days.

 

Make sure you are printing in the appropriate language. :)

Interactive Notebook Check 1

Finish NEWSELA article on Colombian Exchange.  Make sure to take the quiz and do at least 10 annotations (highlight 5 main ideas and write 5 questions that would help you understand the concept of Columbian Exchange better.

 

Read pages 85-89 and answer question 3 parts a, b, c.  Make sure to write your name and correct student number.  Also, make sure to answer the questions in complete sentences.

Quiz:  Colombian Exchange 

No homework.

Use annotation guidelines to annotate NEWSELA article assigned in class.

 

If possible, talk to your family about the article.  What do they know about it?  What do they think about it?

 

Be ready to participate in a discussion tomorrow.

 

Quiz has been postponed to this date.  

 

Please  review pages 32-37.

 

 

Quiz on pages 32-37

Project will be presented in class @1:00pm.  Practice doing this verbally so that you feel comfortable with it.

 

1.  Finish your pop-up project, just don't cut and paste, we will do that together on Wednesday. (10 pts.)

     a.  Pick 4 things you would like to share about yourself, ie. your favorite food, music, sport and 

      use that as the title of each quote.

     b.  On each quote then write a short 1-2 sentence description about your choice.

     c.  Draw yourself in the appropriate silhouette.

     d.  Illustrate something you mentioned in your writing in the big rectangle or choose a picture

      from home and paste it there (this is the only place you should be pasting things on).

     e.  Make sure to make it neat, colorful and professional.  We will be sharing them and some of  will go on the board!  Do NOT try to make the pop-up at home, we will put it together in class on Wednesday.  

(Completed example from previous year attached)

 

 

2.  Bring your materials to school.  

     Let me know if you need help securing any of the required supplies.

(Handout attached)

 

3.  Bring the sign syllabus to class.  (5)

      Please take the time to read and discuss the syllabus at home.  Let me know

      if you have any questions or concerns. 

(Syllabus attached)