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5/14 Early History Artifact & 5/16 Comparing Class Notes

5/14 and 5/15 Homework: Bring in an artifact to bury on Wednesday or Thursday. It should represent the early history of your country – Mozambique, Zimbabwe or South Africa. Include a description of what it is and how it connects with your country’s history. This description should be at least a paragraph long (5+ sentences). [...]

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5/11 Early History of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa

01 HW Ancient History

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5/9 Gathering Evidence – Geography

Our second piece of detective work – geography of Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe. 01 Gathering Evidence This is an in-class assignment. If you were absent on Wednesday or Thursday, you must complete this for homework. Use the Internet as your guide.

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5/7 Three African Countries

This is the first real assignment of the Africa unit. We’ll take Monday and Tuesday in class to work on it and it’ll be due on Friday, May 11th. All work will be done on Google docs. 01 Three African Countries

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5/2 Run to the Board

This is a pre-assessment to see what you know about Africa. Due Friday. 01 Run to the Board

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4/30 Microeconomics Final Assessment – All Concepts, Rubric, Intro & Conclusion

Everything you need to finish the project is here. The due date has been extended to Wednesday, May 2nd or Thursday, May 3rd. Concepts Only – USE 2012 13 Final Rubric

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4/20 Items List with Points

05 Items Checklist

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4/18 Final Assessment – Opportunity Costs & Economic Incentives

The homework is to continue working on the final assessment. Keep plugging away at the concepts using Google docs. You were given Scarcity and Market vs. Command Economy on Monday/Tuesday. Here are the next two concepts: Two More Concepts Also, remember that mini-grants and advertizements are due to me no later than noon on Friday. [...]

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4/16 Introduction to the Final Assessment & Bonanza Information

A lot is going to happen in the next two weeks in Social Studies. Not only will we be covering the final microeconomics concepts, but we will be preparing for Trader Joe’s Big Bartering Bonanza, which will be held on Tuesday, April 24th and Wednesday, April 25th around lunchtime in the gym. I am introducing [...]

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4/13 Choice of Product

04 Choice of Product

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