Grades are updated and posted.  Items not in the grades yet include the KNOW books, the Enlightenment Posters and movie extra credit.

*ALSO --> several of you have taken advantage of the opportunities at tutorial to improve your quiz scores - good job.  However, several of you need to finish and/or correct/do correctly the activity.  Updated/improved quiz scores will not be put in the grade book until they are fixed.

Sorry for such a late post.  Were are already done with 4 weeks of school and so far so good.  We now have grades updated and have done three quizzes, a project and we are well into our 2nd packet, which will be due next week.

Opportunities for improving scores:
TUTORIAL --> improve your quiz scores!
Extra Credit Reading worksheets - get them while you have the opportunity.

*MAKE SURE to complete your work on time and get that stamp!

Schedule for Finals Week and the study guide for the final exam available below.

Study guide questions and answers are due on the day of the Final Exam.  It is highly recommended and encouraged to start preparation for the Final tonight and over the weekend.

Grades are updated.  All that has to be added are quiz re-takes, make-ups, the last packet and quiz (due tomorrow!) and the Renaissance Cereal Box projects.  Of course there is the FINAL EXAM!

I apologize for this late posting.  I have been out for a while as my mom is very ill and in the hospital.  I have just returned to school this week and am playing catch-up on everything.  I am in the process of grading and updating student grades before Finals week.  Thank you for your understanding.


GRADES are updated for today but are not totally up to date.  Still have to do our recent packet as well as quiz re-takes and make-ups.

REMINDERS --> this week's packet with its 6 assignments are due next week & their will be one more quiz.  Also next week is the study-guide for the final.
                        ---> Quiz re-takes --> next week only.  Create a study guide with your graded quiz, study, then re-take it for a better score.  Points for the study-guide too!

Wow does time go ...

So, we are down to the last few weeks before finals!  We have next week, the short week of Thanksgiving, then 2 full weeks and then it is finals.

Today's quiz was on the Renaissance.  We started our RENAISSANCE CEREAL BOX PROJECT today.  They are due one week from Monday, in other words, Monday the 24th of November is the due date.  The project directions are attached below.



A word on quizzes ... low scores - not good.  There is a need to focus and study more as well as pay attention more in class.  Students have been notified of opportunities for tutorial and re-takes on quizzes.  Such opportunities are up to the student - it's their responsibility to take care of business.

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ROME QUIZZES --> opportunities for re-takes if you failed the quizzes.  You know who you are.  Tutorial tomorrow and Friday only for this re-take opportunity.

THIS FRIDAY --> QUIZ --> on the Dark Ages/Middle Ages and Islam.  Quiz will be open packet.  PACKETS ARE DUE AS WELL on Friday.

PROGRESS REPORTS --> the 2nd one is next week and the grades that are posted now are pretty much the grades that will go on the Progress Report.

QUIZ tomorrow covering material from last week and this week --> late Roman Empire, Christianity & Rome, the "Fall" of Rome, the "Dark-Ages" / Middle Ages.

Attached here is the study guide that you can download.  Friday is Halloween & we will take a break from the material to do something special for that day.

Next week we will finish up the Middle Ages & Feudalism, Islam, and get on to the RENAISSANCE.

Tomorrow's quiz is postponed to next week.  There is some more material I want to cover before the quiz.

Here is tonight's homework on Judaism & Christianity & their impact on democracy.  See attached.

We are already well into week #10, and we only have 7 more weeks until finals!  The remaining time will go by quickly as we have Halloween, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving and then Finals.

This week we are finishing up Rome, starting Christianity & the Dark Ages.  There will be a quiz on Friday covering this week's material.

Grades are updated and posted online.  D & F grades have received warning notices that have been sent home this week.  2nd Progress Report is in a couple of weeks.