My U.S. History classes have been working on Nuclear War Projects for the last two weeks. The students were assigned a topic to look up and were told to make a poster of what they found out. Most of the projects have been completed and they can be seen in the school library once they have been graded. The students who are done have done a great job on them. Here is a short list of some of the topics chosen for their projects: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Project Blue Book, Area 51, Mount Pony, Mount Weather, Cheyenne Mountain, White Sands Missile Range, Manhattan and the Green River Missile Launch Complex.
Within the next two weeks the 7th graders will be using the front of their history book and begin learning about the thirteen original colonies.
8TH GRADE
The 8th graders did a fantastic job on their IL Constitution Test with only one person failing the test. Since then we have spent a week and a half covering the holocaust. Assignments during the week and a half: a worksheet;bar graph & map; survivor assignment; doctor of Auschwitz assignment and a vocabulary worksheet dealing with prejudice, racism, stereotype, etc.
The students will have four tests coming up:
Nov. 18 (Wednesday) State Location Test
Nov. 25 (Wednesday) State & Capital Test
Dec. 4 (Friday) State Abbreviation Test
Dec. 9 (Wednesday) 25 Largest U.S. Cities Map Test
I gave the students a packet which included information for all four tests last week. They also have a map in their planner on page 135 that can help them study for their state location test. On page 134 of the planner their is a list of abbreviations and state and capitals of the U.S. Also, at the beginning of the year I gave the students a sticker to put in the back of their planner with the state abbreviations and state and capitals on it.
In class for the next couple of weeks we will be working on packets that deal with state location, state abbreviations and state and capitals.
