Week of September 28th

Davis Dispatch
September 28, 2009

High School International Problems: NEWS NOTES EVERY DAY!!
Monday: G20 Powerpoint: Worldwide Economic Conference
Tuesday’s Homework: Complete work on Powerpoint assignments
Wednesday’s Homework: Continue working on Powerpoint assignments
Thursday: News Quiz – Discussion on the Global aspect of banking/commerce

High School Language Arts: **READ 20 MINUTES A DAY/VOCABULARY-SUMMARY
Monday: Peer editing…how do you do this effectively? Exercise with essays written on Thursday.
**Define and write one sentence for each of your vocabulary words for this week: compose, comprehensive, compromise, concede, concentration, concept, concert, concession, conclude, concrete BONUS: debut, offensive
Tuesday:The Revolt of the Evil Fairies" by Ted Poston Answer "First Response", "Talking it Over" 1-6 and "Plot" questions 1-3
Wednesday: Select a passage from your book that you are reading and write a review of your passage; character, setting, plot, theme, etc.
Thursday: Spelling test! Continue Peer Editing…


High School World History:
Monday: Class video showing of the “Just the Facts: The Reformation”. Class will complete a note-taking exercise while watching the video.
Tuesday Homework: Read pages 428-433 Answer questions 3-6 and "Writing about History"
Wednesday's Homework: Pre-read pages 434-439. Define the Terms, People and Places on page 434 as well as answer the question, "What, in your opinion, was the greatest accomplishment of the Scientific community during this time period?"
Thursday: Scientific Reformation classroom discussion

High School Leadership:
Monday: Community Service and Action Plan
Tuesday-Friday: Research possible activities for the class as well as individually!!

High School Cooking
Thursday: Bring your favorite “Fruity” based recipe as well as a one page review of the following video: http://www.learn360.com/ShowVideo.aspx?SearchText=fruit&GradeLevel=3360056&TagID=3341759&ID=148326 “Mass Production” Apples
Remember: username: johannad password: learn360


Middle School Language Arts: READ 20 MINUTES EVERY DAY/SETTING SUMMARY
Monday: In class 5 paragraph essay on “My favorite vacation spot!” **Define and write one sentence for each of your vocabulary words for this week: personal, expression, distracted, preference, jabbering, whirled, flicked, wristwatch, laughter, remember Bonus trickery, dainty
Tuesday: Read “Fifteen Minutes“ by Larry Callen and answer the questions included at the end of the story.
Wednesday : Read the author study and answer the questions.
Thursday: Weekly spelling test!

Middle School World History:
Monday: New and exciting species found in S. Asia http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33022805/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Tuesday: Middle East (SW Asia) Map exercise online: lcp-6212; lcp-6222; lcp-6232
Wednesday: SW Asia Physical Geography reading: Terms; oasis, petroleum, nonrenewable resource, standard of living, flammable, reserve, permanent, arable
Thursday: More on the Middle East

Middle School Cooking:
Thursday: In the classroom this week discussing kitchen safety!!