Thursday

Here are the assignments for today:
1. Journal- What are the 5 most valuable things in your life?  Why do you consider them valuable?
2. CNN Student News
3. Use Inspiration 7.5
Create 50 bubbles about the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars
Click on the following for information:
Afghanistan

Iraq

4. Write a one page summary about Afghanistan and Iraq. Half a page for each country.
Make sure to use your 50 bubbles!!

5. Lunch
6. Compare and contrast essay
7. Clean Up

Wednesday

Half Day today 11:45

Here are the assignments for today:
1. Journal- If/when you go back to regular school, how are you going to do things differently?  Have you changed since you have been away from your comprehensive high school? Paper and pencil.
2. CNN Student News
3. PLATO Mathematics

Tuesday

Here are the assignments for today:
1. Journal- What reasons would you go to war for? If you were drafted into the military, would you go or go on the run? Paper and pencil
2. CNN Student News (5 notes. Paper and Pencil)
3. PLATO Mathematics 8:30-9:15
4. Vietnam Lecture/Movie. Finish Vietnam War Power Points
5. Lunch
6. Compare and contrast Vietnam with Gulf War
7. Clean Up

Monday

Here are the assignments for today:
1. How was your weekend? Paper and pencil
2. CNN Student News- 5 notes
3. PLATO Mathematics (8:45-9:15)
4. World History
pgs. 723-724
Read the section in the book: The Vietnam War

Also use: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War

Create a Power Point/Glogster/Spicy Node about the Vietnam War. Check out Spicy Node

5. Lunch
6. Goals
7. Guest Speaker
8. Clean Up

Happy Friday!

Pizza party @11:30 today. Don't eat a big lunch
Also, guest speaker today @12:00

Here are the assignments for today:
1. Journal-How was the sub? (Paper and pencil)
2. CNN Student News
3. PLATO Mathematics
4. World History
pgs. 551- 557
Answer Reading Check Points and Section Assessment
5. Lunch
6. Picnik- Easy online photo editing
7. Guest speaker

Wednesday

Yay!! Half day today!!! 11:45

Write an academic goal for today on the bored.

1. Journal- What are your pet peeves? What irritates you?  Paper and pencil
2. CNN Student News (5 notes)
3. PLATO Mathematics
4. World History
pgs. 520-525
Answer Reading Checks and Section Assessments #1-8
Hint: Use the internet to find your answers
5. Lunch

Tuesday

Here are the assignments for today:
1. Goal for the day- Create a goal for the day that you will most definitely complete and follow through on...Write it on a sticky note and put it on the white board.
2. Journal- Do you think that you keep your word? Do you do what you say? Or do you not finish the things you start? How can you become better at completing tasks? Paper and pencil

3. CNN Student News (5 notes, paper and pencil)
4. PLATO Mathematics (8:45-9:15)
5. Earth Science
pgs. 394-400
Answer Reading Checks and Section Assessment
6. Lunch
7. Educational Video
8. Lecture
9. Clean Up

Monday

Here are the assignments for today:
1. Journal- How was the sub and how was your weekend? 2 paragraphs/paper and pencil
2. CNN News- What is happening in Libya right now? Should we be involved? Create a glogster or a 4 slide PowerPoint
Use cnn.com or http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/libya/index.html


3. PLATO Mathematics 30 minutes
4. Lunch
5. PE
6. TBD

Tuesday

Here are the assignments for today:
1. CNN News. Go to cnn.com and read and watch videos about the latest happening in Japan. Blog 2 paragraphs about what you see and include links/web address from where you got the information.
2. Create a glogster.com about how nuclear energy works. Use http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energy.cfm?page=nuclear_home-basics
3. PLATO Mathematics
4. Lunch
5. PE
6. Nuclear Power Video
7. Clean up

Monday

Here are the assignments for today:
1. Journal- How was your weekend? (Post)
2. PLATO Mathematics (8:30-9:15)
3. CNN Student News (5 Notes)
4. Earth Science
pgs. 364-368
Answer Reading Checkpoints and Section Assessments
5. Lunch
6. PE
7. World History

pgs. 514-519

Reading Checks ans Section Assessment
8. Clean Up

Happy Friday!

Here are the assignments for today:

1. Researching the Internet-
Use the internet to determine your answers to these 2 questions:
a. Why are there not as many deaths in Japan, compared to the earthquake in Haiti?
b. How is the earthquake in Japan going to affect the world economy?

2 paragraphs. One paragraph for each question. Make sure to copy and paste the web address (url) that you get your answers from.

Use Microsoft Word. Spell check.

Some websites you might want to use:
cnn.com
channelone.com

2. PLATO Mathematics (9:00-9:30)
3. Earth Science
pgs. 352-355
Answer Reading Checkpoints and Section Assessment #1-7
4. Lunch
5. PE
6. Writing Assignment
7. Educational Film
8. Clean Up

Thursday

Here are the assignments for today:
1. CNN Student News (5 notes)
2. PLATO Mathematics (8:30-9:15)
3. Earth Science
pgs. 343-346
Answer Reading Checkpoints and Section Assessments #1-5
4. Lunch
5. PE
6. World History
pgs.507-513
Answer Reading Checks and Section Assessment
7. Clean Up

Pancake Wednesday

Half Day today. Excused at 11:45.

Here are the assignments for today:
1. Journal- What makes a good relationship? (Paper and pencil)
2. PLATO Mathematics (8:30-9:15)
3. CNN Student News
4. Earth Science
pgs. 336-342
Answer Reading Checkpoints and Section Assessment #1-7
5. Lunch
6. PE
7. Clean Up

Tuesday

Here are the assignments for today:
1. Journal- Why is the school system failing? 1/2 page
2. Jim the Poet
3. Lunch
4. Type poems onto blog
5. PLATO Mathematics
6. Business projects
7. Clean Up

Monday

Here are the assignments for today:
1. What is going to be the next big thing that you are going to buy? Did you save money for it? How long have you waited to buy it? (Post)
2. CNN Student News 5 notes (Post)
3. PLATO Mathematics (8:45-9:15)
4. Business Projects
4. Your Business Project:

—You are going to start a “business”

—Imagine you have a $10,000 budget

—Itemized budget-What are you going to spend your money on?

—Location

—Product or service

—Supplies or resources

—Why are people going to choose your business?

—Brochure

—PowerPoint 

5. Lunch
6. PE?
7. "We need to talk." --Tim
8. Read the article about Lincoln views on race:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_lincoln_colonization
9. Clean Up

Thursday

Here are the assignments for today:
1. How is this class preparing you for a job? If you feel it is not preparing you, how will you learn how to act and dress at a job? Hint: You are not going to learn it automatically. (Paper and pencil)
2. CNN Student News 5 notes
3. PLATO Mathematics (9:00-9:30)
4. Business Projects
5. Lunch
6. PE
7. Finish Business Projects
8. Clean Up

Tuesday

Just for your information about "Spice":

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/28/dea.synthetic.marijuana/


Here are the assignments for today:
1. Journal- Should students that are absent a lot get a gps ankle bracelet? Why?
2. PLATO Mathematics
3. CNN Student News
4. Your Business Project:

—You are going to start a “business”

—Imagine you have a $10,000 budget

—Itemized budget-What are you going to spend your money on?

—Location

—Product or service

—Supplies or resources

—Why are people going to choose your business?

—Brochure

—PowerPoint 

5. Lunch

6. PE

7. Your Business

8. Clean Up