Week of 14-18 September

Freshman World

Monday: Today we will be talking more about leadership and Julius Caesar. Your homework will be to complete the 4 questions on the excerpt about Caesar and his life in Rome.

"This crown is not nearly as comfortable as I thought it would be."

Tuesday: Today we will be learning about Rome itself, to include some of its history as well as its geography. Our notes are available right here. For homework, students will read a short article about the geography of Rome and complete a complementary worksheet about the different geographical features that helped Rome survive. Also, students will need to bring in their textbook to class tomorrow!!!



Wednesday: Today students will look at the geography of Early Rome, and then we will work in groups on a map of Rome. For homework, students will complete a Scavenger Hunt in their textbooks. Below we see a reenactment of Julius Caesar's speech to his troops before he crossed the Rubicon and took over Rome.

Thursday: Happy Constitution Day! Today we'll be finishing our discussion on the geography of rome and looking at Rome from SPACE!!!!! We will then look at the Roman Creation Myth of Romulus and Rome and analyzing it before we do some more work on our notes. Tonight for homework, students will read an excerpt from the famous epic Aeneid by Roman poet Virgil and answer some questions.




Friday: Today students will be watching CNN Student News for the starter, and then finishing our discussion on Roman mythology from yesterday. We will then look at the first written laws the Romans had in place, called the Twelve Tables. We will then keep working on the notes from earlier this week. Homework will be this Rome Unit Packet, due on Friday, 25 September.

WHAT!?!? HOMEWORK FOR THE WEEKEND!?!?

Sophomore Modern World

Monday: Today we will be discussing more ideas of the Enlightenment. Do you notice any underlying themes in these radical new ideas? For homework, students will complete a two-page worksheet on philosophy and the Enlightenment, available here. This worksheet is due on Wednesday!

Pay close attention, my lords and ladies, and I will
demonstrate how one properly folds a paper airplane.

Tuesday: Today we will finish our notes on Enlightenment and discuss how these ideas spread across the globe and took form in places like America and France.We will also have a debate about government and the ideas of Thomas Hobbes vs. John Locke. We will also discuss a new game in class and how it works. For homework, students must complete last night's homework, due tomorrow!



Wednesday: Today students will review the Enlightenment, do some group map work with the help of their books, and begin discussing the French Revolution. Here are the notes! For homework, students will complete a worksheet on 21.2 and the works of Voltaire, available here.



Thursday: Happy Constitution Day!!!! We will be watching a movie from the History Channel on the French Revolution today, and following along with a Question Guide. For homework, students will complete a packet on the French Revolution.

Friday: Today we will finish watching the movie and having our guided discussion from yesterday. For homework, students will complete at least 10 questions from the Movie Short Answer Questions (not the fill-in-the-blank one!). Students may choose any 10, and please write neatly!



Junior USII

Monday: Today we will discuss more of 9/11, and then take a jump back! We're going to start a short review unit on the Civil War and Reconstruction before we dive into the US after the Civil War. Students will receive a Word Quest Packet in which they will find each word in the book, define it in their own words, and define it visually by drawing a picture to represent the words.

No, no that Civil War!!!




Tuesday: Today we will be watching a quick Crash Course on the Civil War, and discussing the major events and reasons behind the Civil War, including the causes and underlying themes. We will then work on our Key Terms packet definitions, and try to complete them in class. For homework, students will complete the visual definitions on their Key Terms packet. And cue John Green...

Wednesday: Today we will complete the vocabulary packet we've been working on, and for homework, students will complete the visual representations for each vocabulary word. 

Thursday: Happy Constitution Day everyone! Today we will begin class by looking at the importance of the Constitution, and taking a quiz to see what we know about it. Then we will be doing a group activity where each group will look at Summary Cards for big events of the Civil War, analyze them, and discuss why they were so important. Here are some of the events! 

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Friday: Today we will be finishing up our activity on the major events of the Civil War and looking at some pictures that corellate with the events we discussed on Thursday. We may also watch some CNN Student News!