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