Miss Kirby Tells All About Class

Here we are...the final week of the 1st quarter! ***Remember, you have until Friday to do the extra credit assignment that was given last week (scroll down to see the directions in the previous post). US= Your Chapter 3 Homework Packets are due this week (Tuesday 10/30 for periods 1, 3, & 5 and Wednesday for period 6) . You will also be taking your Chapter 3 Test on that day. Don't forget to be working on your Biography PowerPoints (many of you have already presented & are done) because your second (and final project of the semester) will be assigned this coming Friday (11/2) & the following Monday (11/5) . PacRim/IR= There are several of you who did not turn in your grad checks last week (that means ZERO out of 50 points) . If you bring it to me I may show some compassion & give you some points. On Tuesday you will receive the details about your Poem on Women that is due next Monday (11/5) . You will also have your Northern(ish) Half of Africa Map due on W...

EXTRA CREDIT ALERT! Think all extra credit is really hard or you have to go somewhere else to do it? Wrong, here is an opportunity to earn 10 extra credit points just for sending an e-mail! Here is the back story: US Marine Colonel Simcock, the commander of USMC Regimental Combat Team (RCT) 6 in Iraq, is asking for 6,000 positive emails to his Marines.That's one email for each Marine in his RCT command. COL Simcock is concerned about the effect of the negative barrage that those Marines are getting through the electronic media.So far, they've only mustered 2,000 emails. This is where you will come in...send an e-mail (I'll give the address in a moment, but first read what Col. Simcock relayed in an interview about what the troops hear on the news & how it impacts them). I'll tell you what, the one thing that all Marines want to know about -- and that includes me and everyone within Regimental Combat Team 6 -- we want to know that the American public are behind us...

Hello...here we are half way through the month of October! Grades are now accessible on-line (click on that link to the left...your password/code came on your progress report). US= A new Homework Packet was distributed this week (for Chapter 3...it is due on 10/30 & 10/31...notice it is a bit shorter) ! We are getting started on Chapter 3 on Thursday & Friday (plan on getting your Chapter 2 test back that same day and Chapter 2 homework packets will be passed back next week). PacRim/IR= We are still working on our Human Rights Unit...we have covered the basic different types of rights & will be focusing on case studies on minority rights on Wednesday. REMEMBER ....you have your southern half of Africa map quiz this Friday...be sure to study (they are not all lakes...some of them are countries) !!!

There have been a few glitches in the system with getting this year's grades posted on-line. It is my hope that by next Monday we will have everything worked out & you should be able to check your grades on-line by clicking the link to the left. Thank you for your patience! Club Invisible Children is back & we are raising money for Sacred Heart Secondary School in Northern Uganda through the Schools4Schools Program. Our club meets on Thursdays at lunch in the balcony of the Main Gym. We invite you to be a part of the change!

FOR ALL CLASSES: Remember that your Extra Credit write-up about last Tuesday's evening screening of the "Black is for Sunday" film (Invisible Children presentation) is due this Tuesday. Please see the previous post for the directions. You all have another extra credit opportunity next week (Tuesday, October 16 th ) by attending Peer Court after school in portable #9 from 3:15-5:15. To earn the extra credit (and even some community service hours) you must be there the entire time! To get the extra credit answer the following about each case (there will be a maximum of 4 cases): a- What was the case about? (i.e. what are they in trouble for doing?), b- What was the jury's decision & did the judge change anything?, and c- Did you agree or disagree with the outcome? Why? Additionally some of you will have the opportunity to be jurors and ask questions (if you end up being chosen for that please answer the above questions for your case only AND write about what th...

Hi folks...an extra credit opportunity for all classes is to attend tomorrow evening's (October 2 nd ) Invisible Children Screening (different than what is being shown at the school assembly during the day) at 7pm in the main gym and turn in a write-up. Your write-up should include a paragraph on each of the following: What did you see? What did you learn? How did are you/ are you not changed by this? why? This write-up is due on or before Tuesday, October 9 th . Pac Rim/IR= Study for your South America Map test that is this Friday (October 5 th ) US= Be working on your homework packets for Chapter 2!