JANUARY is a month of TESTS for your class!

This Wednesday (January 11th) you have a TEST over ANCIENT GREECE.

The following Wednesday (January 18th) is the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE preamble test [remember - it's a BIG ONE - 100 points! You will need to write it out (unless you schedule a time with me ahead of time that week to verbally recite it to me at lunch) AND tell me the meaning of one (or more) of the sections - be able to explain it in your own words!]

And on Wednesday January 25th, you will have your MID-TERM!

It will consist of any of the vocabulary terms from the entire semester! It will also have a section on MAPS - we have had only two (Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, Greece, China and Rome).

MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE in case you lost yours.

JANUARY!

FINALLY we get to ANCIENT ROME, the EARLY REPUBLIC and EMPIRE - we will move quickly through the most influential period in ancient Western Civilization...we'll be ROME-in along!!! 

(that's a joke....get it?.....)

We will continue daily quizzes and every Wednesday a vocabulary QUIZ...[REMEMBER to go over your VOCABULARY from your reading each week]

NOTECARDS...you MAY use NOTECARDS on Wednesday quizzes, folks......MAN, you should really make them and use them.....you know!....

As we pass out maps in class you may get a copy on the blog, in case you lose yours.

• ANCIENT GREECE Map
• ANCIENT ROME Map

REMEMBER - READING QUESTIONS will be passed out each week and will be due at the beginning of class EACH MONDAY. Here are the reading assignments for JANUARY...

JANUARY
2 - Chapter 13 - Middle Ages
         • QUESTIONS - Chapter 13
9  -  Chapter 14 - Western Europe
         • QUESTIONS - Chapter 14

READING POSTPONED to allow studying for the MIDTERM
23  -  Chapter 15 - African Empires
         • QUESTIONS - Chapter 15
30 - Chapter 16 - American Empires
         • QUESTIONS - Chapter 16
Feb. 6 - Chapter 17 - The Renaissance and Reformation
         • QUESTIONS - Chapter 17

VOCABULARY FORMAT, in case you need one.

TAKING A STAND IN HISTORY

REGIONAL CONTEST DATE & LOCATION

• Saturday, February 25th
• Time: TBA
• Location: Western Washington University, Cheney, WA

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY - if you need another rubric CLICK HERE.
DUE: January 26, Thursday

IF YOU NEED TO SEE AN EXAMPLE, click here.

If anyone wants to look ahead, we have a PROCESS PAPER that will be due February 16.
The rubric is located HERE.

NOW we begin the PROJECT phase of NHD. For the remainder of January and February, on Thursdays, we will be working on the NHD projects in class.

SUPPLIES NEED TO BE BROUGHT THE FIRST THURSDAY OF JANUARY!!!