DUE DATES for Oral Presentation/PowerPoint and CHINA LPS PROJECT

You have known about your oral presentation and PowerPoint presentation since Friday, March 20^th. In fact, you were given a very clear explanation and list of topics. The project is due—NO EXCUSES—on March 31^st.

You must do your presentation on Tuesday, March 31^st! See the sheet that I gave you. Make sure you only stick to the topic that you picked unless you have agreed to switch with another person.

Do not lose the rubric that I gave you! You must give it to me Tuesday when you present!

The first part of your LPS China Project is due on Wednesday, April 1^st.

New Spelling and Definitions Test

Greek Test #2 (“The Gift of Fire”)

Find the definitions for each of these words and be ready to write the test this Wednesday.  THIS THURSDAY INSTEAD (due to the Thai field trip on Wednesday).

1. Overthrew

2. Sacrifice

3. Withheld

4. Fury

5. Pandora

6. Misfortune

7. Sew

8. Zeus

9. Torment

10. Oblivion

11. Jar

Map of Ancient India Homework

You should be able to label the Map of India as follows (from the smallest to largest lettering):

Cities, Rivers, Seas and Lakes

LARGE AREAS OF LAND, OCEANS

COUNTRY NAMES

CONTINENTS

Now make sure you print neatly and clearly. Make sure that your labels are straight (unless you are labeling a river). Make sure that you have the proper sizing and capitalize when necessary. Cities, rivers, seas and lakes should only have the first letters of each word capitalized.

ESL: Find the definitions for the Spelling and Definitions Test this Wednesday

1. Democracy: citizens take part in a government by voting

2. Peninsula:

3. Settler:

4. Cultivate:

5. Surrounds:

6. City-state:

7. Metropolis: “mother city”

8. Urban:

9. Rural:

10. Greece:

11. Athens:

Samurai Spelling and Definitions Test on Wednesday for ESL Geography

Samurai Spelling and Definitions Test

Find the meaning of all the words and be prepared for your spelling and definitions test on Wednesday.

1. Primarily: mostly
2. Curve:
3. Considered
4. Isolated: alone and separated
5. Commit
6. Successfully
7. Saddle
8. Disgrace
9. Perfume
10. Armor
11. Troops
12. Firearms
13. Authority
14. Stealth
15. Assassin
16. Chopped
17. Avoid
18. Duel
19. Meditated
20. Ritual

Egyptian Food Feast

On Tuesday, March 3rd, we are celebrating the fact that we have finished our unit on Ancient Egypt by ordering food from a nearby Egyptian restaurant.  You have already placed your order so bring your money on Monday or Tuesday at the latest!  Our food will arrive (hopefully) by lunchtime on Tuesday.

ESL: Spelling and Definitions Test Tomorrow

“The Snow Wife” Spelling and Definitions Test

1. Violent: A violent man likes to hit and hurt people.

2. Revive: to make people conscious or alive again

3. Approach: to move towards something

4. Pining: to want something a lot

5. Perhaps: maybe

6. Stove: an oven that cooks something

7. Dismay: sadly lose courage or hope

8. Heap: a pile or quantity of something (e.g., a heap of rice)

9. Embroidery: sewing (stitching) thread onto material in a design, picture, etc.

10. Pale: white or lighter in color than usual (use as an adjective)

11. Celebrate: to party or honor something like a holiday, etc.

ESL GEOGRAPHY: Spelling and Definitions Test for Thursday, Feb. 11th

Here are the words that you did not understand based on our reading of a portion of the Japan Chapter.

1. National
2. Branch
3. Influential: to affect other things or people
4. Emphasizes: to stress something
5. Focus: to see or think about one main thing
6. Concepts: ideas
7. “To make little sense” means “not easy to understand”
8. Concentrate: to focus one’s powers, efforts, or attention
9. Enlightenment: a big realization—to know something new.
10. Koan

If I have not given you the definition, YOU must find the definition yourself.

Mummy Game

Go to this website to play this game at home to help you know about the process of mummification: http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/mummy.html

A New Semester

As you all know, technical difficulties, etc. did not allow me to access my blog and school email in the latter part of the first semester.  In many cases when I went to log on,  my password would not be accepted and I had to keep going through the process of getting new passwords that would not always work.  Another student who also uses this service has stated that they have had similar problems.  Regardless, I hope that I will be able to access this blog from now on.  If all goes well, you can check here for homework and other new updates like interesting websites and fun VDOs on YouTube.