8th Grade: The Electoral College

The Electoral College:
It takes 270 electoral votes to win the Presidential Election.

Keep tabs on where the election is going.

Pay attention to the "SWING STATES" and think about why these states are so important to the two presidential candidates.

7th Grade Videos

THE FALL OF ROME










Part 1: Decline


Part 2: Constantine


Part 3: Rome Negotiates with Barbarians


Part 4:The Barbarians Attack Rome

8th Grade Electoral College

The following are the VIDEOS we saw today from C-SPAN dealing with the ELECTORAL COLLEGE and electing a president.

Video 1

Video 2

7th Grade ITALY

The following is another VIDEO about ITALY.
Complete the 5 THEMES of GEOGRAPHY sheet (and history) that was used with the other clips about ITALY using this video.

Renaissance Art

BELOW are the videos we watched in class.


Religion and Culture

Venetian Architecture

Free Diving

Fashion Industry of Italy

The Alps

The Palio Festival

8th Grade C-SPAN video

The 2008 Presidential Candidates and their views on the Supreme Court.

(This goes along with the video sheet given out on Tuesday, October 28)

POWER POINT LECTURES ONLINE

All the class lectures that are on POWER POINT are now online.
So, if you are absent and need to make up the LECTURE sheet, or if you miss something in a lecture, you can go to the Class web page and find these lectures. They do not have the videos in them online, but many will have the answers to the various videos in the power point.

My roommate from my trip to China this summer (and teacher at Hutchison School in Memphis, Tennessee), John Stephany is back in China (and Japan this time) for two weeks. (I'm sorta jealous haha). He is keeping a blog of his trip there, and it is very informative and entertaining.

So check it out if you get a chance.

http://johnstephany.blogspot.com/

7th Grade CAVE ART project

Due Tuesday, October 21.

The following link will have all you need to work on the Cave Art. Including the INTERNET ACTIVITY as well as the PROJECT.

The project should help to understand EARLY MAN's HUMAN INGENUITY.

7th Grade Ongoing Project

The following link will help with the FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY project you have been assigned for this 9 weeks.

You will become the EXPERT on YOUR CITY and NATION!

Have the LOCATION section completed by the end of WEEK 1 (October 17)

Have the PLACE section completed by the end of WEEK 2 (October 24)

Have the REGIONS section completed by the end of WEEK 3 (October 31)

Have the MOVEMENT section completed by the end of WEEK 4 (November 7)

Have the HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION completed by the end of WEEK 5 (November 14)


Remember your 12 Current Events are to be ABOUT your assigned city and nation.

2nd 9 Weeks

8th graders need to review the major events and their dates that we have studied so far this year. We will be quickly adding new events to your LIST TO KNOW.

Thus far...

The Old World

1095- Crusades Begin

1215- The Magna Carta

1271- Marco Polo Visits China

1455- The Printing Press was invented

1492- Columbus set up continual contact between

the Old and New Worlds

1517- Protestant Reformation

1534- English Reformation

1588- The Spanish Armada Defeated By England

1649- English Civil War

1688- The Glorious Revolution

Colonial Period

1607- Jamestown Settled

1608- Quebec Settled

1619- First Africans, First English Women, First Representative Government

1620- Pilgrims Arrive On The Mayflower

1630- Puritans settle Massachusetts Bay Colony

1692- The Salem Witch Trials

1763- Treaty of Paris Ends the French & Indian War

Revolutionary Period

1765- Stamp Act

1770- Boston Massacre

1773- Boston Tea Party

1775- Lexington & Concord Start the Revolutionary War

1776- Declaration of Independence

1777- Battle of Saratoga Turning Point of the War

1778- France Enters The War

1781- The Battle of Yorktown Last Major Battle

1783- Treaty of Paris Ends The War

We will have "FAST 10" tests two or three times a week over these dates, and the new ones that will be added throughout our study.

REVIEW THEM EACH NIGHT & KNOW THEM!

PORTFOLIOS

Portfolios are due for ALL classes on Thursday, October 9!

Make sure that all your work from the 9 weeks is included, it should be in the order as it appears on the SYLLABUS. Any work that is in your folder that is NOT on the SYLLABUS, should go in the back of the PORTFOLIO. If you have a missing assignment, you may use one of these extra assignments as a REPLACEMENT, make sure you write what it is replacing at the top of the paper, and then place it in the location of the missing assignment.

Also remember that the PORTFOLIO counts as 50% of your final 9 weeks grade.

USA for AFRICA

Well, what is old is once again new.

Here is OLD SCHOOL relief for AFRICA.

USA for AFRICA

No More Kings

Hear the Declaration of Independence

Hear a READING of the Declaration of Independence below.

LIBRARY PAGE

Who is Using All The Oil?

Who in the world uses all the oil?

CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT

Darfur...what to do?

Our focus for IBO this year "Sharing Our Humanity"

What does this mean? What can you do?


Thanks to Jackson Ferrell for finding this clip for us!