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"The clear light that belongs to October was making the landscape radiant." ~Florence Bone

This week's Schedule: Monday–  Late Start  B  day Tuesday – A day Wednesday– B day Thursday– A day Friday– B day U.S. History=   B Day classes have the Chapter 1 Test on Monday, 10/2...your comp book with completed timeline & study guide are due on your test day.  Look at last week's post for more review items. You will receive your Chapter 2 Study Guide and Civil War Map in class this week and they are due on your test day...(due dates will be posted later this week). Be sure that you start reading Chapter 2, so that you can be working on those items when you get your comp books back later this week & then you won't be waiting until the night before to do all of the work!  You are accountable for what is in the textbook as well as what we cover in class. A.P. Euro=  Your Chapter 14 & 15 Study Guides (with maps) are due on test day, which is Thursday, 10/5!   If you have questions please be sure to ask in advance so I can help you!   Mak

“September was a thirty-days long goodbye to summer, to the season that left everybody both happy and weary of the warm, humid weather and the exhausting but thrilling adventures." ― Lea Malot

This week's Schedule: Monday– Late Start A  day Tuesday –   B day  Wednesday– A day Thursday– B day (Back to School Night) Friday– Minimum A day U.S. History=   I should have seen ALL your signed forms by now! Your Chapter 1 Study Guide and "Events Leading to the American Revolution" Timeline are due on your Test Day...Friday, 9/29 (for A day classes) & Monday, 10/2 (for B day classes).  These items MUST be completed in your composition book! Be reading the textbook because the test is coming up quick...you are accountable for what is in the textbook as well as what we cover in class. There will be map questions on the original 13 colonies (which became the first 13 states) on your test! Here is a  link  to some directions for a way to quiz yourself based off of the textbook on-line. Check your School Loop email for a message with more specifics. :) Also, you can write out the Preamble to the Constitution for extra credit on the test. Here is a  li

"I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air." --Nathaniel Hawthorne

Friday is the first day of Autumn! This week's Schedule: Monday– Late Start  B day Tuesday – A day Wednesday–  B day Thursday–  Extended Lunch A day (for Club Rush) Friday– B day U.S. History=   I should have seen ALL your signed forms by now! Your Chapter 1 Study Guide and "Events Leading to the American Revolution" Timeline are due Friday, 9/29 (for A day classes) & Monday, 10/2 (for B day classes).  These items MUST be completed in your composition book! STUDY GUIDES ARE ALWAYS DUE ON TEST DAY! WE HAVE A TEST ON 9/29 & 10/2. Be reading the textbook because the test is coming up quick...you are accountable for what is in the textbook as well as what we cover in class. There will be map questions on the original 13 colonies (which became the first 13 states) on your test! Also, you can write out the Preamble to the Constitution for extra credit on the test. Here is a  link  to the School House Rocks song. A.P. Euro=  Your Chapter 12 &am

“One of the worst days in America’s history saw some of the bravest acts in Americans’ history. We’ll always honor the heroes of 9/11. And here at this hallowed place, we pledge that we will never forget their sacrifice.” —President George W. Bush at the Pentagon in 2008

This week's Schedule: Monday– Late Start  A day Tuesday – B day Wednesday–   Rally  A day Thursday– B day Friday–  A day U.S. History=   Please bring your signed forms (Syllabus & Academic Honesty Policy) and your 100-page composition book to class (on Monday, 9/11 for odd periods and Tuesday, 9/12 for even periods).  Everyone needs to bring their composition book to class on Wednesday & Thursday this week...if you don't have one, see me ASAP! There will be a U.S. Map Quiz/Test on Thur sday, 9/14 for even periods & Friday, 9/15 for odd periods; check your school loop email for helpful links sent last week .  Also, this week you will receive a Chapter 1 Study Guide (and those of you who did not get a textbook will be getting those this week too). A.P. Euro=  You have a reading quiz on Monday, 9/11 (based on the reading that has been assigned...please keep up with the reading schedule).   Please bring your 100-page Composition book to class on M

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." -Theodore Roosevelt (26th President)

This week's Schedule: Monday– Labor Day, no school Tuesday – A day Wednesday–  B day Thursday– A day Friday– B day U.S. History=   Before the end of the week you will receive a United States Map worksheet, please work on completing that.  There will be a U.S. Map Quiz next week (Wednesday, 9/13 for odd periods & Thursday, 9/14 for even periods).  We will be checking out textbooks and jumping in to some early American history this week.  Also, you will receive your class syllabus which should be shared with your parents and then once signed, kept in your binder to be checked. Be sure that you get a College Ruled Composition Book to have just for our class by next Monday (9/11) or Tuesday (9/12). A.P. Euro=  Please go over your Syllabus and Reading Schedule forms with your parents, sign them, & bring them back to class. Please keep up with the reading schedule (you were given in class). There will be a Quest  (longer than a quiz, but shorter than