This week...

Monday*: Pol Pot documentary
Tuesday*: Pol Pot documentary; written summaries due (if you were absent for the film you are exempt from this assignment.)
Wednesday: Finish Power Point notes/lecture that we started on Friday (Ch18Sec4: "War in Southeast Asia")
Thursday: 15-point map quiz (Asia), Nystrom Atlas classwork activity #52a: "The Vietnam War Ends an Era". (I also handed out review guides for next week's Cold War Unit Exam.)
Friday: Independent reading, key terms, section assessment questions for Ch18Sec5: "The End of the Soviet Union"; Power Point notes/lecture on this section on Monday.

Next Tuesday we will have a review game.
Next Wednesday will be your Cold War Unit Exam. Since there is no mid-term in this course, this is the test that I consider to be the "mid-term"-- it's worth a lot of points (between 50 and 60) but it isn't "weighted" like your final exam will be.


*I was not in school on these days.

Korea and Vietnam...

Work we completed this week:

• Finished watching "Korean War Stories" and went over answers to the questions that accompany the film (worth 10 points.)

• Took a quiz on Chapter 18, Section 3 (worth 10 points.)

• Color-coded a map of Asia, which can be found here. There will be a 15-point quiz on this map next Wednesday.

• Read Ch18Sec4 ("War in Southeast Asia") and fill in the key terms from the worksheet which can be found here.

• Started Power Point notes for the above mentioned section. See me for a copy of the Power Point; the file is too large to post here.

REMINDER: There will be no current events quiz on Monday.

Lucky you...

There will be no current events quiz tomorrow. We'll start off class by finishing the Ch18Sec3 notes (for those classes who still have to finish them) and then watch two segments of the PBS documentary "Korean War Stories" so we can discuss the answers to the questions that accompany the film.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Ch18, Sections 2 and 3...

Monday we took a current events quiz and then worked on a Ch18Sec2 OPEN BOOK quiz. If you are on home bound, I can send this home for you. It's worth 10 points.

Tuesday we went over the answers to that "quiz" (really, a class assignment) and then worked independently, reading Ch18Sec3 ("Communism Spreads in Southeast Asia"), defining key terms in our notebooks, and answering questions #3, #4, and #5.

On Wednesday we will go over the answers to those questions and then work on a Nystrom Atlas activity #43a ("American Troops Fight the Korean War"). We should have time at the end of class to go over the answers to this worksheet.

Thursday and Friday will be spent half on lecture/Power Point notes, and half on watching the PBS documentary Korean War Stories. There are questions that accompany the documentary, but they won't help if you are not here to see it. See me when you return (if you are on home bound) and we can set up a time for you to watch it and answer the questions.

Have a good weekend! Don't forget to read the articles for the current events quiz!

Current Events

In this news this week,

• A gunman drove from California to D.C. and opened fire in a Pentagon metro station. (there are two separate links there, one to a video and one to an article in case you have trouble viewing the video.)
  

• Iraqi voters brave the blasts to make it to the polls this week.

• Toyota is still trying to dig itself out of a hole.

• The cold spell in Florida caused a tomato shortage.

• Here is an interesting story about female Marines in Afghanistan.

After the current events quiz on Monday, we will have a quick review of Ch18Sec2 ("The Industrialized Democracies after WWII") and then an open-book quiz. These two scores will be the last grades in Skyward before progress reports go out (they are due at 3:00 p.m.)

Hope you all are having a good weekend -- get out there and enjoy that sunshine!

~Ms. S.

Next week

Here is a link to next week's notes for those of you on home bound. Hope you are recovering-- we miss you!

Ch18Sec3 Communism Spreads in East Asia

The week in review.

Monday: we took the Cold War mid-unit exam. If you missed this, you will have to make it up upon your return (or via your home bound teacher.)

Tuesday: We went over the answers to Monday's exam, took a current events quiz, and started the notes (The Cold War Unfolds) (Some classes had already started these.)

Wednesday: We finished the notes for Ch18Sec1, studied for the 10-point quiz on that section, and wrote the key terms for Ch18Sec2 ("Industrialized Democracies") in our notebooks.

Thursday: 10-pt quiz on Ch18Sec1. Went over answers. Students showed me their Ch18Sec2 Key terms so I could put 5 points in Skyward. Started notes for Ch18Sec2 which can be found here.

Friday: Discussion and lecture on Ch18Sec2, with a concentration on 1950s and 1960s American life. There will be an OPEN-BOOK quiz (which will count as a classwork grade for 10 points) on Monday following the regular current events quiz.

update

Sorry I have not updated the site; it's been a very hectic week. Tonight by 8:00 p.m. the site will be updated with the rest of this week's assignments and notes.

Thanks,
Mrs. S.

Current Events Quiz Tomorrow...

We will have the current events quiz tomorrow; links can be found below. Please remember to read the articles carefully, as the new format involves fill-in-the-blank/short answer style questions rather than the old multiple choice.

On Tuesday, we will begin class by going over the answers to Monday's Cold War Mid-Unit Test. Next, we will take the current events quiz and talk about the past week's happenings. Finally, we will spend the last ten minutes or so finishing up the Power Point for Chapter 18, Section 1.

Now for the links...

• Here are two articles pertaining to the disaster in Chile. Please read the articles carefully.

• It seems that my fear of whales is not so unfounded, after all.

• Remember when I told you about this site? It seems I was not being paranoid in my distrust.

• What's going on with the health care bill?
  

• Finally, here is an article about some of Hempfield's best and brightest! Way to go, students! And thanks again to the Army War College Eisenhower Fellows for being so gracious in answering all of our questions.