Mr. Fishback's Classroom

Changes for the new Semester There will be a few changes to normal classroom procedures and assignments. First, there will be no more required reading (Reading Sheet #9 will be the last). I received too many emails from parents about students forging their signatures for me to trust that students are actually doing the reading. From now on, students will be doing a current event. They will find a news article (in print, or online is fine). They will turn in a hard copy of the article and write a summary of events on a provided worksheet in complete sentences. They will need to turn in 6 each quarter, and can turn in up to three a week. We will also being doing our vocabulary ...
Posted Feb 10, 2012 8:21 AM by Mr. Fishback

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May 10, 2012; May 11, 2012 Today (May 10) students continued working on their timeline projects. They should finish their rough drafts tonight if they have not completed it in class. Tomorrow, I will have a ...
Posted May 10, 2012 11:50 AM by Mr. Fishback
May 9, 2012 Today, we began our timeline project (finals due Tuesday of next week). We are ordering events leading up to the Civil War in their sequence on the timeline. Students will ...
Posted May 9, 2012 8:58 AM by Mr. Fishback
May 8, 2012 Today, we continued watching the History Channels "Westward," a movie about westward expansion leading up to the Civil War. This will help students in their timeline research later this week ...
Posted May 8, 2012 9:38 AM by Mr. Fishback

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Propaganda Honors Option This honors option coincides with our Propaganda creation assignment. Instead of a poster to sell their project, students will create a television commercial. [Up to 5 Honors Points] Details below ...
Posted Jan 10, 2012 7:36 AM by Mr. Fishback
Anne Frank honors option The next honors option is attached to our Anne Frank unit. Students will get a copy of the Diary of Anne Frank (available in our school library or public libraries ...
Posted Nov 29, 2011 2:17 PM by Mr. Fishback
November Honors Option: NaNoWriMo Every year, I participate in an event called NaNoWriMo, which is a strange abbreviation for National Novel Writing Month. Participants spend the month of November writing a novel of 50 ...
Posted Oct 19, 2011 7:56 AM by Mr. Fishback

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