September 11

U. S. History students completed their study of chapter 13 and will have a test tomorrow. Government students read a biographical reading on Thomas Paine and completed a worksheet about the Constitutional Convention. There will be a quiz tomorrow on the Constitutional Convention. All Government students need to go onto My Big Campus and complete the first discussion assignment by this Friday. Your login information is as follows: username-- your student number in iNOW, password-- last four of SSN twice. If you are a wiki administrator, please create your wiki by tomorrow so that your group members can begin requesting membership. You must accept them then change their status to "organizer." If you need assistance from me on creating your wiki, please see me before or after school.

September 10, 2012

U. S. History students today took notes entitled "Conflict with Native Americans". These notes can be found on the class wiki and on my CHS webpage under the "presentations" link. We will finish chapter 13 tomorrow and you will have a chapter test Wednesday. Please be prepared. Due to school picture day on Thursday we may not have a chance to re-test. Government students took notes entitled "Compromises at the Constitutional Convention." These notes can be found on the wiki and the webpage. You will have a quiz tomorrow on the Articles of Confederation. Please try to log in to My Big Campus. Let me know tomorrow if your login information isn't working. Wiki administrators need to start the wikis so that the group members can request membership. Once your group members request membership, you must accept their request then make them organizers. I have put your first assignment into MBC. You have until Friday to complete this assignment.

Friday, September 7

U. S. History students took a quiz today. Monday and Tuesday we will finish Chapter 13, and your chapter test will be Wednesday. Don't forget your Westward Wxpansion Map is due Tuesday. This is a homework grade. Those of you who missed the "Boom or Bust" video and video quiz must turn in a one page report on the California gold rush by Thursday. Government students had a bellringer and turned in their bellringers for a grade. We also read an excerpt from "Coomon Sense" and copied lecture notes entitled "The Articles of Confederation". These notes can be found on the "presentations" link on my Carver webpage or on the class wiki.

Notice for Government students

Government students please look at the Carver webpage "forms" link to view the rosters and group administrators for the 2012 Presidential Election Wiki project. You are now all listed in My Big Campus. In order to login, use your student number as the login name (that is the “S” number next to your name in iNOW). Their password is the same one they use to log onto the network. If you don't know your iNOW student number, please see me ASAP. Beginning on Monday, I will have all of you enrolled in the proper class perios in MBC and will have your first online discussion posted. Remember this is a new requirement from MPS. THIS IS NOT AN OPTION. You must complete 20 hours online in order to receive credit for completing this requirement. Those of you who have limited Internet access at home, please remember that I am at school by 7 am and I will stay until 3:30 for anyone who wants to use classroom computers. Also, the library is open from 7- 3:30 daily.

September 6, 2012

Government students, your homework is due tomorrow. If you have not yet evaluated one of the DNC speeches, make sure you do it tonight. Please look under the "forms" link on my Carver webpage to see your wiki group assignments. U. S. History students took notes entitled "Life on the Great Plains". These notes can be found under the "presentations" link on my Carver webpage, or on your class page on the wiki. We also did readings entitled "The Hard Life of Farmers" and "The Prairie Schooner". Today's bellringer was "The Frontier Closes". Because it is on SMART software, it's not online, so you'll have to get it from a classmate. The quiz originally scheduled for today has been pushed to tomorrow.

September 5, 2012

My apologies for neglecting to congratulate the members of the CHS football team for their tremendous victory over Prattville on yesterday's bloc post. Way to go, Wolverines! If you missed class today: U. S. History students did a bellringer entitled "Analyzing Historical Maps" and watched a documentary entitled "Boom or Bust" about the mining history of the west. If you were not in class you have until next Thursday to turn in a one page report on the subject of mining in the western U. S. in the 1800s. That is the ONLY way to make up this grade. U. S. History classes also have a homework assignment in which they have to construct a vertical bar graph tracing the growth of the gold mining industry. This is due the day after you return to class. There will be a Chapter 13 Section 2 quiz tomorrow. Government students did a vocabulary activity, a political cartoon, and a guided reading activity. All of these items are on the absentee bulletin board in class. We did not turn any of these items in. We also did Bellrinerg #4 entitlled "Government in a British Royal Colony". Do not forget that you must complete your speech analysis of a speech given during the Democratic National Conventiom amd turn it in by Friday.

September 4, 2012

If you missed class today , Government students were given another speech analysis to perform - this time on the Democratic national Convention. We also Went over the wiki project. You can find this assignment on the wiki or under the "forms" link on the Carver webpage. Bonus DNC question: what is the theme of the convention? Double bonus: what was the theme of last week's Republican national Convention? U. S. history classes wrote notes entitled " Miners and ranchers". These can be found on the class wiki and on the carver webpage. We also did guided reading 13-1 and turned it in. You will need to get this assignment off the absente bulletin board and turn it in ASAP.