REMINDER: No School Friday, May 14th
"Friday School" for those students specially assigned by teachers will be held in the cafeteria from 9am-12pm. Students who have not completed western novel reading and response sheets, autobiographies, and Outsiders essays by Thursday, May 13th, will be assigned to "Friday School."
Ellis Island Reminder: Please continue to plan your costume for your immigrant profile.
Autobiographies, Outsiders essays, and biography reports are past due. If you have not finished yours, visit C-4 during lunch, resource or after school, to edit and neatly type your final copy. Final pieces must have a centered, specific title that refers to something about you, a centered byline, and it must be typeset in double-spaced, 12 point text. Biography reports have additional formatting requirements - check your guideline sheet or check with Ms. Barnes. We are continuing to hold biography presentations - prepare and practice yours if you have not yet presented.
Western Novels:
Students should be finished reading their western novels by the end of this week, Thursday, May 13th.
Vocab: section 11b
definitions due 5/12; sentences due and quiz 5/13
judicious
mediate
milieu
outlandish
overbearing
pert
quirk
regale
shiftless
taint
SOCIAL STUDIES
We are continuing to study Westward Migration via the text, lectures, PowerPoint presentations, and other resources. This week students took notes on The Mexican-American War and did reflection work on one of President Tyler's speeches. Students were assigned to read pg. 579-584 in the textbook and answer the odd-numbered questions.
Crossword - due Monday, May 17th
Quiz - Westward Movement - Monday, May 17th
Unit test and quote collage - due Tuesday, May 18th
Social Studies Vocab:
Manifest Destiny
Louisiana Purchase
Sectionalism
Polk
interest
bias
Tecumseh
Santa Anna
Matamoros
Austin
Lone Star
Guadalupe Hidalgo
