Friday April 5, 2019

Classwork: Today we entered the Stock Market game.  Kids were given codes and $200,000 to buy stocks with one other person and use Yahoo Finance. 

Homework: please talk to your parents about the Stock Market.  Get some good tips on what to buy!

Friday March 8, 2019

Classwork: Students have been studying the importance of analysing Primary Source documents in history.  We have studied the Conquest of the Incas by the conquistador Francisco Pizarro and compared it with the Conquest of the Aztecs by Hernando Cortes.  

We have studied the textbook account for both Conquistadors.  

Homework: Please discuss the conquest of the Aztecs with your parents.  

Important Vocab words to know:

1. Conquistador
2. Moctezuma
3. Hernando Cortes
4. Dona Marina
5. Quetzacoatl
6. Meztizo
7. Cuantemoc

Think about how such a small team of Spainards were able to conquer empires.  Discuss the power of disease in these cases. 

Friday May 18, 2018

Classwork: We will go to neighborhood 4 today.

Homework:  Please discuss why it's important to become wealthy in life.

Thursday May 17, 2018

Classwork: We went to Neighborhood 3, which was not at the bottom but also not Middle Class.  It was a standard of living score of a 2 or 2.5.  It was considered "working poor".  The people lived in a tenement building.

Homework: Discuss with your parents what the four terms are and the neighborhoods you have visited!

Wednesday May 16, 2018

Classwork:  Today we went to Neighborhood 2 of Mexico City which turned out to be more middle class.

Homework:  If you STILL did not finish your Chapter 16, lesson 1 questions, YOU WILL HAVE LUNCH DETENTION.

TUESDAY MAY 15, 2018

Warm up: Students were given time AGAIN to finish their Chapter 16 Lesson 1 questions.  I pointed out the answers in the text for anyone that needed help.  IF STUDENTS ARE NOT FINISHED FROM THIS DAY ONWARD, THEY WILL HAVE LUNCH DETENTION. 

CLASSWORK: After review of the four vocab words:

• standard of living
• urbanization
• rural decline
• spatial inequality

We proceeded to team up with one partner for our imaginary taxi cab rides to Mexico City.  We went to our first neighborhood which displayed a low standard of living.  We received 3 data points, and then with a partner, had to determine the location of where we were in Mexico City.  We also read pages 144 and filled out the answers to these two question:

What are challenges Mexican farmers face? 

Why do farmers migrate to the city?

These answers contain the answers to our vocab terms.  

Homework: YOU MUST HAVE CHAPTER 16, LESSON 1 QUESTIONS FINISHED BY TOMORROW OF YOU GET LUNCH DETENTION.  THE BOOK HAS BEEN UPLOADED FOR YOU.  NO EXCUSES.

Monday May 14, 2018

Objective: Students will understand spatial inequality, rural decline, urbanization, and standard of living, by studying Spatial Inequality in Mexico City chapter 19 of the Geography Alive text.


Classwork:  Students were read pages 141-143 text that gave definitions to the four main vocab words:

• spatial inequality
• urbanization
• rural decline
• standard of living

We made pictures and symbols associated with each one to help us understand each term.  Many examples were given.

Homework: STUDENTS HAVE TO HAVE CHAPTER 16, LESSON 1 QUESTIONS DONE.  THE PAGES HAVE BEEN UPLOADED AND CLASSTIME HAS BEEN GIVEN BOTH FRIDAY AND MONDAY.