Tuesday, November 19

Any Government student who missed today's test will need to make it up after school on Thursday.

Their Eyes Were Watching God, chapter 1

In chapter 1 of Their Eyes Were Watching God, we are introduced to Janie, who is our main protagonist. Chapter 1 is one of only two chapters in the book that take place in the present. The other chapters are all Janie telling the story of her life to her best friend Phoeby. The book is Janie's story written from an auto-biographical perspective. We are introduced to the insights she has picked up over her lifetime about who she is and what she considers important in life. The opening line of the book reads: “Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.” Analyze this statement. What do you think Hurston meant by this? The men and the women of the town have very different reactions to Janie's return to Eatonville, Florida, where the story is set. Describe their reactions. You must respond to to both questions in order to recieve full credit for this post. Each online discussion will be worth forty points. The online portion of discussion constitutes half of your participation grade. You will have until Friday to respond to this topic.

Monday, November 18

U. S. History classes copied a chart on Roosevelt's Progressive Legislation. This chart can be found on the class wiki page. Students completed and turned in Vocabulary activity 18. This assignmnet is on the absentee bulletin board. You have until Friday to submit it. Students also did a geography in history acivity. You must ASK me for this assignment. It is not on the absentee bulletin board. Your test on chapter 18 will be this Friday. This test is almost all vocabulary. There is a study guide online on the class wiki. If you did not bring your copy of Their Eyes Were Watching God to class today for the book check, you need to bring it in immediately. You currently have a test grade zero. The first blog post on the book will go up tomorrow. You are required to participate in this blog. This constitutes half of your participation grade for our work with the novel. You must post original answers as well as respond to your peers. Government students have a test tomorrow on Unit 2. There is a study guide online on the class wiki. The Create a State project is due this Friday. If you have not performed your part of the group project I have informed your team NOT to put your name on the project. You will receive three zeroes for this major grade. Psychology students completed and turned in a graphic organizer in which they labelled the parts of the brain. You must ask me for this assignment. You have until Friday to submit it. Your test on Module 8 is scheduled for this Friday.

U. S. History Reminder!!

All students MUST have the book "Their Eyes Were Watching God" in class on this Monday, November 18. This is a TEST grade! You also must join this blog. A lot of our book discussion will take place through online literature circles using the blog.

Wednesday November 13

Psychology students will have a test tomorrow on Module 6. Government students did a bellinger, Guided Reading 7-1 and Vocabulary activity 7, as well as a Supreme Court case study. These assignments can be found on teh absentee bulletin board. Only Vocabulary activity 7 needs to be turned in. You only have two more days of group work before your project is due next Friday. Your unit 2 test will be next Tuesday. I will have a study guide online on the wiki by this Friday. U. S. History students began working on a women's suffrage skit. You will be performing these in class this Friday. Also, your women's suffrage prezi must be emailed to me by Friday at alyxandra.price@mps.k12.al.us

Friday, November 8

U. S. History-- students watched a documentary on the Progressive Era. If you were not in class, you must write and submit a one page report on that topic by next Friday. Government students did bellringer #5 and turned in bellringers. They also did chapter summary 6 and a political cartoon. These are located on the absentee bulletin board. We took notes entitled "The Work of Congress, part 2". These are on teh wiki.

Wednesday, November 6

U. S. History students took notes entitled "The Progressive Era". These notes are located on the class wiki. We also read a biograhical excerpt on Robert M. LaFollette and did a guided reading activity. Both of these are located on the absentee bulletin board. WE did not turn them in. Please remember that your women's suffrage prezi project must be submitted by next Friday. In order to submit you must hit the "share" button, then hit "copy link". Send the link to me in an email. Government students did bellringer #4, and guided reading 16-2. The guided reading is on the bulletin board. We did not turn it in. Psychology students began working on their vision boards. If you did not bring your materials today, please do so tomorrow.

Tuesday, Nov. 5

Psychology students need to bring foam board and magazines to class tomorrow for the vision board project. U. S. History students took chapter 16 test and did chapter 18 vocabulary. The vocabulary can be found on the class wiki. You will need to make up the test Thursday after school. Government students did a bellringer and Vocabulary activity 6. This is located on the absentee bulletin board.

Monday, November 4

Psychology classes took notes entitled "Early Adulthood". These notes located on the class wiki. Students need to bring magazines and a piece of foam board to class on Wednesday for a project. U. S. History classes were given a new project today. This is the women's suffrage prezi project. A description of it is on the class wiki. Just scroll to the bottom of the U. S. History page. They will need to use the website www.prezi.com to complete this project. The project is due November 15 and must be submitted to me through email at alyxandra.price@mps.k12.al.us . Also Chapter 16 test is tomorrow. There is a study guide on the class wiki.

Friday, November 1st

U. S. History classes did guided reading activity 16-3 and turned it in. We read Supreme Court case study Plessey v. Ferguson. Both of these assignments are on the absentee bulletin board. They also took notes entitled "Race Relations in the Gilded Age". These notes are on the class wiki. There will be a quiz on Monday. On Monday you will also receive your next project. We will be using www.prezi.com to create a presentation on a woman suffragist. There is a link to the website to the right of this page. You will recieve your person on Monday. Your chapter 16 test will be Tuesday. Government students watched a video on the legislative branch. If you missed class today, you have until next Friday to write a one page reposrt on Congress. We also did a bellringer and Unit 2 vocabulary. The vocabulary terms are due Monday. They are on the class wiki. The library schedule for group projects for next week is as follows: 2nd period-- Monday and Friday. 3rd and 7th periods-- Monday and Thursday.