Chapter Review/Exam

I will not be in today or tomorrow, Friday.  Please study for your unit exam tomorrow and turn in your journals.  I will not be able to check this until Saturday or Sunday.

The exam will look like all the other exams we have taken this year.

Exam questions:

Essays

• Compare Egypt, India, Greece and civilizations we have studied
• Differences between Hinduism and Buddhism 

Maps

• Know the ten current countries that surround India today
• Know where the mountain ranges are
• Study where the rivers flow and the bodies of water they flow into

Analysis

• Study the caste system, there will be 2 questions about the caste system so know what order they go in and also what person is in each level
• Study the social pyramid in your text

Vocabulary

• Study all of the vocabulary from the unit

History Fair Winners

Just a reminder that History Fair is tomorrow, Thursday March 21st.

Here are the 2013 Finalists in no particular order
Alberto C.
Cielo P.
Samantha T.
Joseph H.
Tyler L.
Cade P.
Jessica M.
Jessica T.
Gabrielle G.
Kelly P.
Jimena C.
Alex L.
Melissa G.
Kevin R.
Daisy S.

Congratulations on writing excellent papers, having solid presentations, and making creative looking boards.

Journal--Day 2 and Day 3

Day 2

Today the high king advised that all people will have to pay more taxes

• How does this impact your caste/varna?
• What has it been like historically in your caste?
• How do you feel and what does the future look like?
• Do higher or lower caste people talk about you?

Day 3

• Create a timeline from the time you woke up until you went to bed
• List all the activities that you did for the day within your caste
• Include pictures of your life if possible
• Describe your emotions and feelings as you went through your day and if others treated you poorly

Answers to your Questions

When is the History Fair project due?

• Typed, final copy of your research paper is due tomorrow, March 15th
• We will NOT be able to print tomorrow in class, come prepared please!
• Your board is due completed by March 19th

What and how will we be graded?

• The board presentation is worth 100 points
• The fair judges will use the same rubric as I use in class
• The paper has a separate rubric

What journal entry are we on?

• Journal entry 2 should have been completed already
• Journal entry 3 will be started in class tomorrow.

When are we doing Science again?

• In order to finish this unit on India, we will only be doing Humanities until Spring Break
• We will start the Plate Tectonics unit, "Tectonically Speaking" after break

Caste System--Journal #1

Day 1

·      How do you fit into your caste? What level?

o  Who are you? What is your family like?

·      Describe what a typical day looks like

·      What job do you have?

HISTORY FAIR--Sessions, Papers, Boards

If you receive a rough draft back from me with comments and corrections you can now type out your final draft.

FINAL TYPED DRAFT is due Friday March 15th, no exceptions.  Any paper received after this will not be graded nor entered in the History Fair.

I have boards available for $5.  When they are gone, they are gone.  You can go to any office store and by them at a similar price and size

History Fair Sessions

• Sessions to work on papers on the following dates:
• Tuesday March 12th at 3:00 pm, Thursday March 14th at 3:00 pm.  
• There will be a session to work on the History Fair BOARDS on Tuesday, March 19th at 4:00 pm and Wednesday March 20th at 3:00 pm
• If you attend, you must receive a permission slip from me
• The HISTORY FAIR IS Thursday March 21st!

Assignments Due

This is a reminder that the History Fair rough drafts were due on Monday, March 4th

Humanities--Outline notes due Monday March 11th
Science--Current events due Tuesday March 12th

History Fair

For those of you that received your rough draft back today due to citing errors, please take note.  On page 8 of your packet, it will go over how to properly cite information in a paper.  There are 3 examples listed:

How does this actually look in the paper?

In-Text Citations: Author-Page Style

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author's last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author's name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:

v  Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263). 

v  Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth, 263).

v  Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

This week and ISATs

We will be conducting ISAT testing a little different the next 2 weeks.  Each morning, starting tomorrow, Tuesday March 5th, students will take 1 portion of the ISAT standardized test.  We will keep with a regular schedule after that until all the tests are completed.  Please make note of the letter on pink paper that came home.

There is also a calendar coming home to help with making healthy choices while outside of school.  You can earn points by completing simple exercises and eating well!

Humanities
We will start a unit on Ancient India

Science
We will be starting a unit on Plate Tectonics



HISTORY FAIR rough drafts were due today!!!