Homework due Monday, 10/1

No homework (except makeup work) is due Friday, 9/28. We have CLASS PICTURES instead. Dress accordingly.

Due Monday:

1. Write your Community Service Goals and first Community Service Report. Make sure there is a complete paragraph for each activity. Incomplete reports will be returned.

2. Revise your paragraphs about Education and Inequality. Attach the SIGNED rough drafts to them.

3. Create an illustrated Bill of Rights. Do not write the complete text of the amendments -- give the main ideas. Use very neat graphics, color, and some sort of "icon" (pix) for each amendment. You will learn your Bill of Rights more effectively by working with them this way.

Homework due Wednesday, 9/26, and Thursday, 9/27

DUE WEDNESDAY
1. Read AJ, pp. 207-213.

2. Define all vocabulary for this section.

3. Answer all green comprehension check questions. There are 5.

4. Bring bag lunch, comfy shoes, and a jacket for the field trip to Philly. Arrive by 8:20! We return at 5:30.

DUE THURSDAY:
1. Finish the Scavenger Hunt sheet (4 pages) from the field trip, including the back.

2. Do the THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT worksheets.

THERE WILL BE QUIZZES AND TESTS SOON. PLEASE REVIEW YOUR NOTES!

Homework due Tuesday, 9/25

1. Do the worksheets on RATIFICATION.

2. For Thursday: do the worksheets on the THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT.

Homework due Friday, 9/21

1. Read AJ, pp. 203-205.
2. Answer all green comprehension questions, pp. 203, 204, and 205.
3. Answer #3-4, p. 205.

THERE IS NO HOMEWORK DUE MONDAY, 9/24 (HOMEWORK-FREE WEEKEND DUE TO YOM KIPPUR).

Homework for Thursday, 9/20

Read and answer the worksheets on the Constitutional Convention and compromises.

Homework for Wednesday, 9/19

1. Don't forget -- Amnesty meeting at lunch tomorrow (Wed.).

2. Tonight: do the newest packet on the Constitution -- the people at the Convention. Answer the questions where indicated. Please keep all of these worksheets and notes together in your binder.

3. Tomorrow: small groups create a graphic and a set of arguments for WHAT WAS THE GREATEST INFLUENCE ON THE CONSTITUTION?

Homework due Tuesday, 9/18

1. Read over the Action Sheet and nuclear warhood action letter given to you in class today. Explore some of the websites before for me information.

2. Write a one-paragraph position statement about the use of nuclear weapons in the world today and what our government's policy should be. You may use ideas from the Angelus Bell Follow Up sheet.

3. Turn in the paragraph with the follow up sheet tomorrow.

4. If you would like pizza for the Amnesty meeting on Wednesday at lunch, bring $2.

See the action at:
http://capwiz.com/wagingpeace/issues/alert/?alertid=10128026
Other websites:
http://www.wagingpeace.org/
http://www.ananuclear.org/
Here is a list of many organizations fighting nuclear weapons:
http://www.ananuclear.org/Issues/RelatedNuclearWebPages/tabid/81/Default.aspx

Homework due Monday, 9/17

1. Angelus Bell Follow Up Sheet (including writing on back)
2. WB, p. 82
3. AJ, pp. 200-201
4. Worksheets

Homework due Thursday, 9/13

1. Read AJ, pp. 197-198.
2. Do the Workbook, pp. 77-80.
3. Create a good visual diagram of how the Articles of Confederation are set up, and what powers they had (and didn't have).
4. If you didn't turn in your vocab. and questions from yesterday, please do so (it was supposed to be on the same sheet as today's homework).

1. Do a good deed -- or plan to do one -- and post your deed on this website:
http://www.mygooddeed.org/. Before you send it, copy the description and paste it into a Word document. Don't put your name on it.

2. Use the AJ textbook to begin exploring the Articles of Confederation. Read pp. 192-196, answering all of the green comprehension questions on the bottom of the pages (there are three questions). Do it on the same sheet as last night's homework.

Homework due Tuesday, 9/11

1. Prepare your three-ring binder with all work so far (yellow sheet, notes, new homework).
2. Read AJ, p. 187. Answer these questions:
WHY DID AMERICANS WIN THEIR WAR OF INDEPENDENCE?
HOW DID THE AMERICAN VICTORY INFLUENCE OTHER REVOLUTIONS?
3. Define the vocabulary on p. 192 of AJ.
4. Makeup Work?

Homework due Monday, 9/10

1. Study for a mini-quiz on Monday on the U.N. Millennium Development Goals. Review by going to this site: http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/mdgs/index.asp.

2. Based on the film clips about Nanavi (Benin) and Ken (Japan) you saw in class, write a thoughtful paragraph about INEQUALITY AND EDUCATION IN THE WORLD. Make it a reflective paragraph up to 8th grade standards with a clear beginning, middle, and end. Use specific examples from the Wide Angle shows (go to the website at: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/shows/school2/index.html). If you were absent, you may view the clips online.

3. Using the half sheet with Amnesty and Human Rights Day dates, plug them into your planner for each day. Store the sheet in your planner.

4. Read over the course description (yellow sheet, also included here below yesterday's assignment). Sign it where appropriate, share it with a parent, and ask him/her to sign it where indicated (not at the top). We will discuss it in class on Monday.

Homework due Friday, 9/7, at 1pm

1. A nice, thoughtfully written letter to your Newcomers buddy with lots of personal information and a welcoming attitude (typed or handwritten, no envelope).
2. A good draft of your bio-poem.
3. One or more pictures of you (include one which shows what you really look like).
All of this material will be mailed to Newcomers high school on Friday afternoon for matching to a buddy.