Finals!

Post any questions for finals here!
Good luck and enjoy the summer.

last regular week!!

This is the last regular week of classes before FINAL exams!

Students should start looking for their textbooks, which will be due back on the day of their exam. Lost or damaged books will incur fines :(

This week students will complete their review games, get their review packets for the exam and learn about environmental issues through the help of an old friend (Dr. Seuss!).

Any additional questions about the final and items on it can be asked here on the blog.

Week of June 1

We're coming into the home stretch!!

Students will be working on their resume projects in the media center on Monday.

Resumes are due on Tuesday. !!!!

"Interviews" will be held on Tues, Wed and Thurs (if needed). Students should dress professionally to receive the full amount of points for their interview.
We will have our last geography quiz on Friday (Middle East and Central Asia).
Finally, on Thurs and Fri, students will be looking at current event topics.
Final exam review will start next week.



Reminder that all honors students will be testing after school this week on one of the days that they chose to take the test (either Tues, Wed or Thurs). Students should bring their packets with them.

Resume writing....

Helpful sites...

http://www.readwritethink.org/beyondtheclassroom/summer/grades9_12/Resume/OnlineSamples.html

http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson1110/Resume.html


http://www.quintcareers.com/teen_resume-writing_worksheet.html

http://jobsearch.about.com/od/teenstudentgrad/a/studentresume.htm

Week of May 26th

Tuesday/Wednesday - Finish watching the Power of One and assigned worksheet.
Thursday - Introduction to the resume project (final review)
Friday - Use of computers for resume project

Resumes will be due on Tuesday of the following week.

Check out the honors blog for testing dates.

Week of May 18

Congrats to all of you who participated in Relay for Life this weekend!! Hopefully we won't be too tired to learn ;)

Monday - Finish up presentations and summarize presentations
Tuesday - morning classes will finish presentations, Intro to South Africa
Wednesday - Apartheid primary source readings
Thursday - Geography quiz on Asia, complete notes on South Africa and apartheid
Friday - viewing of The Power of One

Week of May 11

this week we will be....

Monday : Finishing up the Cold War (quiz on the terms and people - Thursday)
Tuesday and Wednesday : Reading and preparing a class presentation on Independence movements in the 20th century.
Thursday : Cold War quiz, presentations
Friday : any final presentations, creating an independence mural

HW: bring in additional information for presentation subject