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The Week of September 8:

Tuesday, September 8- 

Intro to class, seating charts, syllabus, rules, getting to know you

Wednesday, September 9-

7.H.1.1.1 Temporal Thinking

guided notes with example timeline and vocabulary (AD, BC, etc), create personal timeline, hand-out vocabulary.

Vocabulary activities and handouts:

https://quizlet.com/88117764/week-1-flash-cards/

Note Taking sheet:
https://docs.google.com/a/hamiltonschools.us/document/d/1bNpG0crJXXv1FwJFDn6546UEJavdLHwjgIVfrea32CE/edit?usp=sharing

Thursday, September 10

Finish notes/activity from Wednesday on Temporal Thinking.
Review for vocab quiz tomorrow.  

Friday, September 11-

CNN Student News, quiz each other on vocab., take vocab. quiz, Patriot Day Activities, What does it mean to be an American? Random acts of kindness challenge.

Week of May 25

The Week of May 25

Monday- No School!!  

Tuesday- Map of Africa, Intro to Africa scavenger hunt, Geography skill- create a climograph

Wednesday- Good News,  Women’s Roles in Africa Video 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEeNnA5r0ew

The girl effect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e8xgF0JtVg

Thursday- Article of the week: Read through Africa website and take notes on each topic.

http://www.africanculturalcenter.org/index.html

Technology is it worth it debate.

Friday- CNN Student News, Climate issues (Desertification and Deforestation) with a partner create a slideshow showing 3 slides of desertification and the causes in Africa and 3 slides of Deforestation and the causes in Africa,

G5- Humans and environment

Week of May 18

The Week of May 18

Monday- CNN Student News, Governments Styles

Tuesday- Good News, DBQ, Economic Styles Economy Activities (Traditional, Command, Market)

Wednesday- Geoguessr.com, Finish economic styles, Begin trade simulation

Thursday- Article of the week (Lizzie’s morning), Finish trade simulation, effects of Technology activity

Friday- CNN Student News, Impact of trade activity (comparing economies)

E1, E2, and E3- Economies and governments

TERMS TO USE: Economic interdependence, circular flow model,

Week of May 11, 2015

Monday- Citations for DBQ

Tuesday- Good News,  DBQ

Wednesday- Geoguessr.com, DBQ

Thursday- Article of the week-NORTH KOREA, DBQ

Friday- CNN Student News, DBQ Due

Finish up a few topics from last week (Religions, Conflicts, One Child Policy, OPEC, Three gorges Dam).

SKILLS: 

Write an argumentative essay using historical documents.

use citations of historical documents correctly

G 4.3 - Patterns of Human Settlement

G5- Humans and environment

P3- Identify and analyze a public issue

Week of May 4

We made through the M-Step!!!

This week we will be finishing the Middle East, the five major religions, and beginning southeast Asia.  The topics that will be covered include:

Monday- CNN Student News,  What is OPEC, Oil in Saudi Arabia activity **GRAPH GDP

Confucius, Maps of China (comparing landforms and population)

Tuesday- Good News,  One Child Policy Activity,

Wednesday- Geoguessr.com, OCP,China Essay-DBQ Background Essay

Thursday- Article of the week-NORTH KOREA, Three Gorges Dam avtivity,

Friday- CNN Student News, Doc. C,D

G 4.3 - Patterns of Human Settlement

G5- Humans and environment

P3- Identify and analyze a public issue

Week of April 27, 2015

                                                  M-Step Testing for 7th Grade

Monday- Friday (Each day has a different schedule so we will not write out the topic for each day)

CNN Student News, Rap Finish (some Present ?), Begin Asian religions

Hinduism Video, Hinduism activity and Gandhi

Article of the week, Buddhism Video, Buddhism worksheet

CNN Student News, Finish Buddhism, practice test

W3.2  Explain how world religions or belief systems of Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism and Islam grew and their significance. (Islam is included here even though it came after 300 C.E./A.D.)

W3.2.2- Locate the geographical center of major religions and map the spread through the 3rd century

G 2.2-Human characteristics of a place

G 4 - Forces of cooperation and conflict

Week of April 20, 2015

The Week of April 20

Monday- CNN Student News, Compare 3 religions, Story of Israel and Palestine and current conflicts (fact sheet, opposing viewpoints, Circle of life article), comparing two areas chart

Tuesday- Good News, Iran and Nuclear Energy Article with questions, Current event update of Iran,

Wednesday- Geoguessr.com, Afghanistan- notes and forced marriage article, and Iraq scavenger hunt, uprising in Egypt

Thursday- Job Shadow Day

Friday- CNN Student News, Middle East Review sheet, Middle East Rap- Weekend Rap- test (figurative language), Finish conflicts in the Middle East, Article of the week- Boko Harem (ties with ISIS),

W3.2  Explain how world religions or belief systems of Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism and Islam grew and their significance. (Islam is included here even though it came after 300 C.E./A.D.)

W3.2.2- Locate the geographical center of major religions and map the spread through the 3rd century

G 2.2-Human characteristics of a place

G 4 - Forces of cooperation and conflict