October 19 through 28th

Here is the work that is due and will be due in the next week:

1.  Growth of Big Business Questions and graph--this will be due by October 28th.
2.  Students who missed Geography tests need to make them up.
3.  Student need to make sure they completed their quiz on the Great Strikes last Friday, October 21st.

This week, October 24 through 28th students are doing the following:

1.  They have started their Cornell Notes on the great wave of Immigration to the United States.
2.  They will be in the library writing down information on their Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire data collection sheet.
3.  We will be watching the documentary  Minuk, the Lost Eskimo and taking a short quiz on it.  The story of Minuk is about a "push" example of forced immigration to the United States.


Next week, we will be doing the following:

1.  Turning in Cornell notes on Immigration
2.  Writing a letter about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Frie
3.  Learning about Hull House and reading Shaun Tan's book, The Arrival

This should "wrap up" our unit on immigration. We will now move to a new unit and learn about those people who were already here....the Native Americans.

Here is the Geography Key for the countries.  Students can cross compare how they did on their answer chart to figure out what countries they do not know.

1.  Brazil
2. South Africa
3. Saudi Arabia
4. Iraq
5. Iran
6. Israel
7. Egypt
8. Sudan
9. Argentina
10.  Colombia
11. Cuba
12. France
13. England
14.  Poland
15. Russia
16. Iceland
17. Afghanistan
18. Pakistan
19. India
20.China
21. Japan
22. Vietnam
23. Mongolia
24. New Guinea
25. Indonesia
26. New Zealand
27. Nicaragua
28. Costa Rica
29. Guatemala
30. Mexico
31. Congo
32. Canada
33. Somalia
34.  Mozambique
35.  Zimbabwe
36. Ireland
37. Sweden
38. Venezuela
39. Chile
40. Spain

October 10th through 18th

This week we took in the first homework assignment.  I had warned students that this one was on the few NO LATE assignments, so I have graded and recorded students' marks and also put in zeros for those student who failed to do their homework.  I will not take late work on this assignment.

All students have a geography list of countries and landforms for a multiple choice test they will be taking on the 17th or 18th.  Students do not have to write out the country name.  They will be handed a map with numbers and four choices to choose from.  Students were also given a map front and back to help guide them where the countries and landforms/oceans/rivers are.  We do not do a ton of geography in this class: but we do test twice a semester so students have a general idea of where countries are in the world.  HAPPY STUDYING during your FOUR DAY WEEKEND.

However, all students are welcome to read and extra credit novel to gain the points back in the extra credit column.  I am also offering extra credit until October 15th if students want to watch the movie Newsies.

This week we have learned about the Robber Barons, how Andrew Carnegie endowed Salem's own public library, and how many of the Robber Barons made their money by withholding wages and other benefits from their workers. 

Students have discussed how things become obsolete, or how companies change products to keep up with competition.  Students also took a look at the labels in their own clothes and put sticky notes on the map to see where most of the textile manufacturing is now taking place.

We also learned about Vertical and horizontal integration....and took a look at some container ships during storms....over 90% of world trade uses one of the five sizes of containers.  It's now cheaper for companies to buy their raw materials rather than produce them as Carnegie did in the days of the Robber Barons.