Friday, February 21, 2014

Friday 2/21

Happy Friday

Global Studies

1. Economic Online Spectrum  Summarize Cornell Notes

2. Free Market and Command Economy Quiz (Quiz Number 4)

3.  SharkTank?


Political Science

1.  Share what people contacted congress about

2.   Political Science Course Claims!  Review Claims and Read Some Marathon Writes

3.  Look at and discuss Poly Sci Claim Writing Rubric

4.  Look at examples of Evidence and Reasoning using Sport Announcers Videos

5.  Go over Schedule for Next week.  Plenty due next week.


Regional Studies

1.  Unit II Overarching Question

2.  Thesis Statement talk and work..check with the teacher..YOUR SECOND THESIS STATEMENT IS DUE MONDAY

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Thursday 2/20


For all you Dog People out There

Global Studies

1.  Economics Understandings and Vocab

2.  Economic Systems Reading and Videos

3.  Finish videos and your Cornell Notes


Political Science

1.  Copy this document Political Science Course Claims!

2.  Scroll down to semester two.  Highlight the claims that you can write about now after our "Legislative Branch" unit.

3.  After you highlight them...Rank the highlighted ones from easiest to write about to hardest.

4.  Pick you top one..on the same document..two a 3 minute marathon write about that claim.  Time yourself!!  Brainstorm..I will be reading some of these in class on Friday.

5.  Keep looking into contacting a congress member  Getting a Response from Congress.  Please create a doc labeled "Contacting Congress" and put your proof in there.


Regional Studies

1.  Unit II Overarching Question

2.  Finish up The Prince Stuff

3.  "The Prince"

4.  "SOAPSTONE for The Prince"

5.  Start to develop evidence to use for the thesis statement..overarching question..

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Friday 2/14

Happy Valentines Day!!

How Fast can you read?

Awesome Zombie Prank

Global Studies

1.  Ipad and Comparative Advantage  Please read this and answer the questions in red!!  This will be graded for quality.  Work on summaries with transition words.

2.  Take Quizzes..keep trying

3.  No Homework


Political Science

1.  Student Blogs

2.  Comment on a blog!!  A quality comment.  Learn something new.

3.  Keep looking into contacting a congress member  Getting a Response from Congress

4.  Committee work

Senate Bill Proposals and Floor Action Agenda

House Bill Proposals

House Floor Action Agenda

Scoring System for Congress Activity

House Committees

Senate Committees

Mock Congress Order of Events

Liberal and Conservative Review

Bill Proposal Categories


Regional Studies

1.  Unit II Overarching Question

2.  Watch this video and create a google doc labeled "History of Antisemitism."  Identify the times when people had harsh feelings or were against Jewish people.  Just number it!  USE THIS INSTEAD IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO USE A GOOGLE DOC.  I LOVE THIS APP.  IT WORKS WITH GOOGLE DRIVE...Video Notes...Seriously it is pretty awesome.  I will bring you some food next week if you use that app instead of a google doc.  try it out!!

3.  Antisemetic Propaganda Pictures

4.  Propaganda analysis Use this document to analyze the pictures

Thursday 2/13

How Fast can you read?

Awesome Zombie Prank

Global Studies

1.  Discuss Comparative Advantage Reading Homework

2.  Comparative Advantage Practice

3.  No Homework


Political Science

1.  Getting a Response From Congress

2.  Get those committees goingggggggggg...alsooooo bloggggsssss

Senate Bill Proposals and Floor Action Agenda

House Bill Proposals

House Floor Action Agenda

Scoring System for Congress Activity

House Committees

Senate Committees

Mock Congress Order of Events

Liberal and Conservative Review

Bill Proposal Categories


Regional Studies

1.  Unit II Overarching Question

2.  Start discussion on Antisemitism

3.  HW=Watch this video and create a google doc labeled "History of Antisemitism."  Identify the times when people had harsh feelings or were against Jewish people.  Just number it!



Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Wednesday 2/12

How Fast can you read?

Global Studies

1.  Review Exports Chart Analysis Practice

2.  Vocabulary..Protectionism and Tariffs

3.  Comparative Advantage Reading Homework

HW=Read and answer the questions in read in the Comparative Advantage Reading

Political Science

1.  Go over terms quiz..

2.  Review Mock Congress Reflections Questions

3.  Watch John Stewart and discuss Congress

4.  Homework is easy..copy this document and answer the two questions in red.  Simple.

Senate Bill Proposals and Floor Action Agenda

House Bill Proposals

House Floor Action Agenda

Scoring System for Congress Activity

House Committees

Senate Committees

Mock Congress Order of Events

Liberal and Conservative Review

Bill Proposal Categories


Regional Studies

1.  Unit II Overarching Question

2.  Discuss Voicethread

3.  Discuss Minnesota Starvation Experiment

4.  Read Why Dr. Mengele?

5.  Discuss..look up PETA