Miss Kirby Tells All About Class

Frank Buckles salutes a color guard during Memorial Day activities at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Mo. Monday, May 26, 2008. Buckles, at 107, is the last known American World War I veteran. A Belgian World War II veteran lays a flower on a grave during Memorial Day ceremonies at the Henri-Chapelle cemetery in Hombourg, Belgium, Saturday, May 24, 2008. This 57-acre World War II cemetery contains the graves of 7,992 Americans. About one-third of those buried died in the campaign for the Hyrtgen Forest in November and December of 1944. Another one-third perished in the Battle of the Bulge from December 1944 to January 1945. The remaining one-third are soldiers killed in the advance into Germany in 1945 and aviators killed throughout the war. Graves of war veterans are decorated with U.S. flags on Memorial Day at the Presidio National Cemetery in San Francisco. Ted Stahr, dressed in Civil War garb, places a U.S. flag near the grave site of Civil War veteran Truman Head o...

US= Story boards are due MONDAY (this was an extended deadline)! Your workbook pages (listed in the previous post) are due Tuesday, 5/27 (for 1st, 3rd, & 5th periods) and Wednesday, 5/28 (for 6th period)...you will also have a test that day on Chapters 17 & 18. PacRim/IR= Your questions sheet on HIV/AIDS is due Monday. We will have a Quest on Disease this week...plan on having it Wednesday. This Friday the agencies you voted to give grants to are back for the presentation of those grants; we will talk more about that in class this week.

US= 1st, 3rd, & 5 th periods...you have a quiz on Monday (Chapter 17, sections 1-3). We will be moving in to Chapter 18. You should be doing your workbook pages (141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151, & 153). PacRim /IR= Your TB & Malaria worksheet is due on Tuesday. Please be sure to turn in your permission slips for the Friday field trip to UCI is due Tuesday as well (remember that you can write an essay for the contest to win $$$...due Tuesday also). You have a Map Test on Thursday...be sure to study!!!

US= Your final project of the semester is being assigned this week. Be sure to stay in contact with your group & up to date on your deadlines! Our next topic in class is "the Counter Culture"; we will be focusing on chapter 17. Quiz on Chapter 17 sections 1-3 this Friday for 6th period & Monday, 5/12 for 1st, 3rd, & 5th periods.. PacRim/IR= Study for your Hunger & Poverty Quest that is on Wednesday! Your Russia & CIS Map is due on Wednesday. Be sure to label all 14 countries and capitals neatly & don't forget to use color! Also we have a field trip to UCI on May 16th...due to the Catalina field trip on May 14th you will need to choose one. The teachers agreed that missing two "A" days would not be acceptable. Neither trip is required. There is not cost for the field trip to UCI...the key note speaker is Keith Morrison (an award-winning correspondent for Dateline NBC)! Glittery texts by bigoo.ws