Week of April 26, 2010

This is Current Event Week #4

Homework due Wednesday- (4/28)
Read the Quick Study Guide on pages 276-277
On page 278 answer matching questions #1-8 and questions 9-20 odd or even. I will assign odd/even in class.

Thursday (4/29) quiz on Chapter 8.

Home due on Friday (4/30)
13(1) The Renaissance in Italy p. 410-417
Identify the terms, people, and places in split page notes and answer the four checkpoint questions in comeplete sentences.
Part II
Answer the Italian bankers question on page 412, the Map Skills questions #2+3 on page 413, Thinking Critically questions #1+2 on page 415 and the Quick Write question on page 416.

Homework due next Tuesday- 13(2) The Renaissance in the North p.418-421.
Identify the Terms, people, and places in split page notes. Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences.
Part II
Answer the question on Durer on page 419, the two Thinking Critically question on page 421 and the two Thinking Critically questions on page 422.

Homework due next Thursday- 13(3) The Protestant Reformation p.423-427.
Identify the terms, people, and places in split page notes. Answer questions # 3-5 on page 427.
Part II
Answer Analyzing Art questions #1+2 on page 424, the biography question on Luther on page 425, and the Chart Skills question on page 426.

Week of April 12

This is week #3 for Current Events.

Review the Quick Study Guide on page 276. Quiz this week will be on Friday, and it will be on Chapter 8 (4) + 8(5) and the Mongols.

Book work due by Thursday.

8(4) Learning and Culture Flourish p.262-267
Identify the terms, people, and places in split page notes. Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences. Also, answer the biography question on page 263 and list the four inventions explained in the picture on page 264.

8(5) A Time of Crisis (p.269-273) List the terms, people, and places in split page notes. Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences. Also, answer #2+3 on page 271 and illustrate the three weapons which played a big part in the 100 Years War (picture 272).

Answer the two Thinking Critically questions on page 268.
Also, answer the three Thinking Critically questions on page 275.

Week of April 5,2010

This week is Current Event week 2.

Complete all the Chapter 8 homework assigned last week.
Some students still did not turn in last week's take home quiz. It is too late to get credit for the take home quiz unless you were absent, but the make up quiz for Chpt. 7 will be after school on Wednesday.

Home work this week.
Chapter 12 (2) the Mongol and Ming Empires (376-382)
Identify the terms, people and places in split page notes. Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences. Also, answer the biography question on Genghis Khan on page 377, and the Thinking Critically questions on page 379, and question #3 on page 380.

Material covered in class includes:
William the Conqueror and the rise of nation states.
The Crusades and its impact.
The Mongol Empire and Marco Polo.
The Bubonic Plague.

Quiz Friday on Chapter 8 and 12(2).