March 1, 2010

Wow! Start of another new month and plenty of work to do. Hopefully the snow will stop soon and spring will be on its way. I saw a large group of robins this weekend so that is a good sign spring is coming!

Geography

We are now studying South Asia and starting with Chapter 23. The Chapter 23 test is this Friday, March 5th. Be sure your map over southwest Asia is complete too. The Southwest Asia map test is on block day this week.

Science

Mr. Hess assigned some questions from the book that are due Tuesday, March 2nd. p. 789 #1-7; p. 800 #1-5, 7; p. 802 #3-8, 10, 13, 15; p. 756 # 3, 4, 6, 7; p. 762 #1-4, p. 764 #1-10, 14-17. Mr. Hess announced that we will be having the test over this unit before Winter Break next week. That means this unit we will due too. Keep up with all the the assignments. On block day Mr. Hess also assigned questions from Chapter 21, p. 708 #1-6; p. 732 #1-3, 7, 8, 10, 17, 18, 22.

English

We are finishing the end of Animal Farm. Your PowerPoint presentations will be presented on block day this week. Then we are moving on to Romeo and Juliet! Handouts to follow later in the week.