Wednesday

Today we will finish our work on the First Peoples of Canada (hopefully.) Students will share their research and will take notes on other's research. We will have an open note quiz on Friday. Also there is a current event due Friday.

Here is the note sheet:
First Peoples

Happy Constitution day!

Today is national Constitution Day!

Today we will get a brief overview of the Constitution after our quiz on Canada.

Can you find Nunavut on a map? Our 7th graders can.

A current events assignment is due today.

Parents

Here is a form that I sent home for you to read and sign. It is due on Friday.

Parent Form

Monday's Class

We did three things in Monday's class:

1. We went over the syllabus. If you want to see a copy it is pasted below. It lets the students know my expectations for the year.

2. I modeled a current event assignment for them and assigned a current event assignment due on Friday.

3. We began to look at the political geography of Canada.

Attachments:
Map of Canada

Syllabus

Current Events

Your first current event assignment is due this Friday--September 17. Remember it has to be about the elections in Michigan. A good place to find stories about this is mlive.com under politics or just click on a story listed on my blog. Please take your time and have an acurate summary filled out.

Here is a current events sheet in case you lost yours:

Current Event Template

Extra Credit

There has been much talk about whether we should even rebuild the city of New Orleans after hurricane Katrina, today I want you to explore that question. This week we talked about why cities are where they are and New Orleans is a perfect example of this. For extra credit (10 points.) I want you to answer these three questions in complete sentences. I would assume you will need to do a little research.

1. Explain this statement: "New Orleans has a perfect situation and a horrible site."

2. In early American history why was New Orleans so important?

3. What is another American city that exsists for the same reason as New Orleans? (You will need to know why New Orleans exsisits.

Monday February 8

Today we played a little game to see how cities grow. All the students had 5 trading cards and they needed to get one of each type of card. They all started in outlying parts of the room but by the end they were all in the big city trying to get their business deal done.

It really shows real life--big cities just don't happen randomly. They are always the effect of their location, resources, industries or a combo of the three.

No homework today.