Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Half way there!

Alright, 3rd quarter is here and that means the school year is half over. Hard to believe isn't it! Today we cleaned out our folders to start totally fresh for our next unit.

Over the next few weeks we will be discussing US history. This unit covers the 1900-1999. (I know, that's a lot of history!) What I do to make it more manageable is break things down by the decade. We started today with 1900-1910 and we just try to hit the major highlights.

The students do have an informal assignment for tonight. I'd like them to talk to you about when your family came to the US and share any stories you might have.


Wednesday, January 20, 2010

End of second quarter

Friday is the last day of second quarter. (Although, most of the middle schoolers are going skiing or swimming, so I suppose we could say Thursday.) Here is a list of what the students need to turn in before end of the quarter.

Careers Assignments:
-Task One, I Make it Happen, Task Five
-Career Interview
-O'Net internet test results printed
-Two jobs printed
-3 extras (things we have done in class, but did not hand in)
-Career outline
-Career brochure / book

**Most of this has already been turned in, the outline and brochure are due tomorrow. We have been working on these in class for the past few days.**

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Careers Unit

We have been working on our careers unit for the past week. So far the students have worked in class on a few interest surveys to see what type of career they might be interested in. They also have an online assignment which needs to be completed in a study hall, after school or at home. This is an online survey which will tell them what areas they are successful in and what careers might be a good fit for them. They need to print their test results and choose two careers to print as well. These are due Monday.

It is very important that they have this information Monday because we will be using it next week to create an outline and project.

The students have a pink sheet of paper with all the instructions for the online test.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Awesome Projects

Here are some pictures of the DC projects. They were awesome!!