Miss Kirby Tells All About Class

The last week before break...don't slack off, you've got work due in class this week! US= You have your first project of the semester due on Thursday, 4/2 (for odd periods) and Friday, 4/3 (for even periods). Also due that day are your workbook pages (117, 119, &121) AND you will be taking a Quest (longer than a quiz, but shorter than a test) on Chapter 14 and the Civil Rights Movement. Don't forget that classes will also be visiting counselors to register for next year's classes (Wed., 4/1 for even periods & Thurs., 4/2 for odd periods). If you have not already turned in your blue registration form you must bring that to class to be prepared to meet with your counselor. PacRim/IR= You have your first project due on Wednesday, April 1st. Be sure to have your poem, visual, & bibliography ready to turn in on that day. We will be wrapping up out unit on Human Rights with apartheid this week & taking a Human Rights Quest on Friday, April 3rd.

Extra Credit Alert for ALL CLASSES: You all have an extra credit opportunity (Tuesday, March 24th) 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 questions 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 the jury experience was like...hard, easy, confusing, etc.) This write up on Peer Court will be due 1 week after the event (Tuesday, March 31st). US= We are starting a new unit on the Civil Rights Movement & this time we wil

US= You have your chapter 12 & 13 Homework Packet due this week (Tuesday, 3/17 for odd periods and Wednesday, 3/18 for even periods). Don't forget that you will have a test on the 1950s & the Cold War that same day. I have posted a Study Guide on School Loop for you. PacRim/IR= We are continuing with our Human Rights Unit. On Wednesday, 3/18 you will be receiving your first project assignment of the semester. More details will follow! There is an EXTRA CREDIT opportunity for all classes at the Newport Beach Public Library on evening of Wednesday, March 18th.You have a chance to meet two heroes of humanitarian relief work in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - Drs. Julie and Michael Van Rooyen. Please attend this lecture to learn about the extraordinary work being done by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative in the third world. The Van Rooyens' lecture "Attacking the Epidemic of Gender-Based Violence in Central Africa: Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and the

Speaking of change...did everyone change their clocks this past weekend? It's time to spring forward! Did you turn in all of your work? Do you have a zero entered in the grades because you did not turn in a paper after you were absent? I will give you until Friday, March 13 to get those papers turned in. US= We are finishing up with the Cold War & moving on to other topics that impacted the US in the 1950s. Be sure to keep up with your work...there is a test next week (March 17h & March 18 th ). Due to time constraints the first project of this semester was not given out last week, but you will be getting it this week. Don't delay on getting that started! PacRim /IR= We will continue to look at Human Rights this week we will be focusing on Minority Rights. Please be in class as we will have a couple of group activities that cannot be replicated at home! Just for fun...this week our first period U.S. History class has a unique opportunity to take a virtual field trip a

US= You have received a new Homework Packet, be sure to get started on that...also you will receive your first project assignment of the second semester this week (thus the shorter homework packet this time around). Start thinking creatively for that project & be sure to ask early if you have questions! PacRim /IR= We will be continuing with our new unit on Human Rights this week. You have your Asia Map Test on Friday, March 6 th ; don't forget to study! Just for fun...did you go to Walk the Walk at the House of Blues??? Check out hurley .com  for pictures & video from the event or E.J. Kehoe's photography site for more photos from that night.