World History Commercial

COMMERCIALS ARE DUE FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 3rd, 2010!!!

World History Students,
Your project assignment is to create a travel commercial for the Sumer Civilization from your textbook. You must use iMovie for this project and highlight key aspects of Sumer Civilization. Your goal is to convince your viewers to move to Sumer and live there.

You may do this project by yourself, with a partner, or in a group of 3. Every person in the group must be on camera at some point during the commercial. The goal is to take the material from the textbook and notes and make a creative project. Feel free to infuse humor into your project, but it must, as always, be school appropriate. A due date will be announced in class and then posted on this blog. Have fun and be creative.

Geography

Geography Students,
Your landform scavenger hunt is due Wednesday, September 1st. Remember, the assignment is to look at pages 34 & 35 in your book and find pictures of the landforms online and put them together in a keynote presentation. On each slide, you need to paste the URL web address where you got the picture, and tell me where in the world that landform is.  Example: With a picture of a mountain, you should tell me that mountain is in Colorado.

U.S. History Colonial Project

U.S. History-13 Colonies Project (100 points)

1. You may complete this project by yourself, with a partner, or in a group of 3. 

2. You must pick a set of colonies and complete a project on it. (Southern Colonies,                           New England, Middle Colonies)

1. In the project, you must present information about the creation of each colony in that region, famous colonists, colonial government, the environment in those colonies, economic climate, and the culture of each colony (religion, cities, etc.)

1. You may present the project in many different formats including: speech presentation, podcast, enhanced podcast, video, or keynote presentation. You are free to brainstorm another kind of project and run it by me. If it’s acceptable, you can do it.

1. There are no time restrictions on this project. You must, however, cover all the information asked of you.

New England Colonies: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island

Middle Colonies: New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania

Southern Colonies: Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

United States History

United States History- There is a quiz on Friday over Chapter 1, Sections 2 & 3.  You are expected to know the main themes, concepts, and ideas of those sections.

Geography Class

Geography Students,
Here are the 5 themes of geography I wanted you to use for your city of interest. You'll finish up working on these and then informally present to your classmates.

1. Location
I. Absolute
II. Relative

2. Place
I. What is it like?
II. What is there?

3. Region
I. What area does it belong to?
II. How would you group it?

4. Movement
I. Linear-Measurable distance
II. Time-How long does it take to get there?
III. Psychological-How far away do you think it is?

5. Human/Environment Interaction
I. How are people there using the environment?

Multiple Intelligence Test

Social Studies Students,
Below is the link to the online multiple intelligence test. Remember, this is a helpful theory and not a lock-tight proven fact. Once you click on the link and go to the webpage, you need to click the button that says, "Take a Test" in the top right hand corner of the page.

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/index.htm

After taking the test, you need to write 1 half page on your thoughts about the theory and how you propose applying it to your learning. Your half page is due Friday, August 27th when you come to class.

You need to print it off and hand it to me, attach it to an e-mail, or hand write it and turn it in to me.

Mr. B

Syllabus Assignment

Social Studies Students,
Your syllabus needs to be signed and dated by you and your guardian and returned to me by Wednesday, August 25th to receive the full 25 points. After a grade has been recorded, I will give it back to you and it is your responsibility to return it at the end of the year for the remaining 25 points. If it's not returned to me complete by Wednesday, you will get an Incomplete for that assignment and cannot get a grade from me until it is completed.

*Due to the early out, 7th and 8th hour U.S. History syllabi will be due on Thursday, August 26th.

Mr. Burkhart

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Mr. Burkhart