OCTOBER
We will be phasing out of the BLOG in lieu of the Google Classroom Site. No, no...please no tears!
NOTE the original reading schedule has changed - please follow the assignments provided on the Classroom Site from now on.

GEO is now signing off of the BLOG, unless he comes back for a guest star role (you'll be told if you need to return back to the BLOG)...

So - start using the GOOGLE CLASSROOM SITE, unless told otherwise...

And for those of you who lost your reading assignment on The Atlantic World, it is on the blog below, or you can get it here too.

REMEMBER, I'll only pass out one copy - then it's up to you to get another one off YOUR PRINTER (no extra printing at school).....or...just don't lose it!...

AS EACH WEEK UNTIL THE GEO CHALLENGE FINAL...
Remember, you will take a quiz on MONDAY, and on WEDNESDAY.
I will award you the top of the 2 scores.


Here's your next clue to study:

SOUTH AFRICA
(From the Ivory Coast to the Cape of Good Hope)

bahati nzuri

AS EACH WEEK UNTIL THE GEO CHALLENGE FINAL...
Remember, you will take a quiz on MONDAY, and on WEDNESDAY.
I will award you the top of the 2 scores.


Here's your next clue to study:

NORTH AFRICA
(From the Mediterranean Sea to the Ivory Coast)

Yoo bọ si o

SEPTEMBER

Welcome back to the continuing SAGA of "Mankind's HIstory"!
You've been here before....we just couldn't go through ALL of man's history in one year. So we'll finish it up this year!

REMEMBER - you make history every day - you observe history every moment - as long as mankind exists, we will continue the symphony. It's now going to be viewed like a movie - frame by frame, we will explore each segment that made mankind who they are today.

So...here we go. One, two, three...ACTION!



This blogspot will be updated monthly!
(unless told otherwise)

Just like last year, your weekly reading assignments will go along with what we will discuss in class. They are all online and will also be available on the school network.

The files are password protected for copyright reasons - the password will be provided in class (and only in person - but its the same one as last year). Please do not share the password online or via email, texting, etc. - just face to smiling, gorgeous face.

READING QUESTIONS will be passed out each week and will be due at the beginning of class EACH MONDAY. 

YOU WILL NOT HAVE YOUR READING ASSIGNMENT HANDED OUT UNTIL ON WEDNESDAY's WORKDAY. Use your TUESDAY STUDY HALL to read the text - so you can work on the reading assignment on Wednesday in class. READ FIRST...then answer questions...

The assignments and their reading dates are listed below. The DUE DATE is the following Monday after the one listed (for example, your first reading is assigned September 4, but it is due the following Monday, September 10).

SEPTEMBER
4   - Martin Luther's 95 Thesis DUE Tuesday, 9/10
10 - Machiavelli's The Prince (EXCERPTS) DUE Tuesday, 9/18
17 - History of Mehmed the Conqueror (EXCERPTS) DUE Tuesday, 9/25
24 - Chapter 20 - The Atlantic World DUE Tuesday, 10/1
         • QUESTIONS - Chapter 20

OCTOBER
1  -  Chapter 21 - Absolute Monarchy DUE 10/8
8  -  Chapter 22 - The Enlightenment DUE 10/15
15 - Chapter 23 - The French Revolution & Napoleon DUE 10/22
22 - Napoleon's Civil Code (EXCERPTS) DUE 10/29
29 - Chapter 25 - The Industrial Revolution DUE 11/5

NOVEMBER
5  - Chapter 24 - Nationalist Revolutions DUE 11/12
[no reading during the holiday...you're welcome...]

26   -   Louverture's Final Proclamation DUE 12/3

DECEMBER
3    -  Chapter 26 - Democracy DUE 12/10
10  -  Chapter 27 - Imperialism DUE 12/17
17  -  Spend your time finishing NHD notecards
[no reading during the holiday]

JANUARY
7  -  Chapter 28 - Global Transformations DUE 1/14
14 - Chapter 29 - The Great War DUE 1/22
22 - Letters from the Trenches DUE 1/28
28 - Chapter 30 - Revolution and Nationalism DUE 2/4

FEBRUARY
4  -  Karl Marx - Communist Manifesto (EXCERPTS) DUE 2/11
11 - Chapter 31 - Years of Crisis DUE 2/19
19 - Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf (EXCERPTS) DUE 2/25
25  -  Chapter 32 - World War II DUE 3/4

MARCH
4  -  Winston Churchill's "We Will Never Surrender" Speech DUE 3/11
11 - Chapter 33 - The Postwar World DUE 3/18
18 - Chapter 34 - Colonial End DUE 4/2
[no reading during the holiday]

GLOSSARY!
READING QUESTIONS will be updated and posted monthly.
As apart of your reading you will also have VOCABULARY definitions. You can find those definitions in the reading.....OR....here is a GLOSSARY link for all the terms found in your reading.

You're welcome!
(even you Kaitlyn!)

Get ready to know your WORLD!
You will also be expected to know every nation on the globe in the GEO-CHALLENGE.
On the following months, you will be expected to know all the nations in each continent/region - there will be a test on the listed Wednesday of these months - and the tests will be ACCUMULATIVE (and will be on the Mid-Term and Final).
MAP WORKSHEETS will be passed out in class. You may obtain a copy of each by clicking on the corresponding region name below:

      OCTOBER - AFRICA - answer sheet
           Test date - Wednesday, October 31
      DECEMBER - ASIA - answer sheet
           Test date - Wednesday, December 19
      FEBRUARY - EUROPE - answer sheet
           Test date - Wednesday, February 27
      MARCH - N. AMERICA - answer sheet
           Test date - Wednesday, March 20
      APRIL - S. AMERICA - answer sheet
           Test date - Wednesday, May 1
      MAY - OCEANIA - answer sheet
           Test date - Wednesday, May 29 - It will be on your GEO CHALLENGE FINAL

Remember, ALL nations must be known by the FINAL.

IN ADDITION, the GEO-CHALLENGE also has an assignment where you and your table team will coordinate research to develop a presentation on a major CONTINENT/REGION of the world. These will be assigned on the first class date. You will be expected to:

• PRESENT your portion of the research to class, and
• Write an ESSAY on your research

Details of the assignment can be found in the assignment sheet and rubric, in case you lost the one given to you in class.

GEO CHALLENGE QUIZZES
In order to assist you in keeping up on the GEO CHALLENGE, weekly quizzes with specific areas will be given (once we have learned some nations) - nudging you to learn the names of the nations AND their spelling....

When we start those quizzes, you will take a quiz on MONDAY, and the same quiz on WEDNESDAY.
I will award you the top of the two scores.

FURTHERMORE...if you earn a 100% on MONDAY and WEDNESDAY quizzes for the semester, you do NOT have to take the GEO CHALLENGE FINAL [which will be ALL the nations of the world....yes spelled correctly]
More details will be discussed in class...

We will also be participating in

NATIONAL HISTORY DAY!

WOO HOO - it's back, you lucky people, you! (calm down, now) We will be working on projects on ANY historical subject, within the confines of this year's theme and the timeframe of the class - from the Fall of Constantinople (1453 AD) to the Present.

This year's theme is:

TRIUMPH & TRAGEDY

We will work on NHD each Thursday until the regional competition on Saturday, March 23, 2018.


This is a tentative date - the venue will be here at NI STEM this year so put that date on your calendars now!



More details will follow!

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