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World History 8 Assignments

Instructor
Mr. Robert Ardeno
Term
17-18
Description
World History 8 begins with Islamic and African Civilizations. We will then discuss the Empires of Asia and the Americas. Studies on the Middle Ages as well as the Renaissance and Reformation will be taught. We will end the course with studies of the Early Modern and Modern World.

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Monday-Section 3-Read pages 672-675
              Video on the Berlin Wall
               Vietnam Era Music will be played for the students
               Discuss and show video on the Kent State massacre
Tuesday-Review questions
               Read page 675
               Discuss Ronald Reagan and the assassination attempt
               Read pages 676-677
               Music about 9/11
Wednesday-Section 3 quiz
                    Chapter review worksheet
                     Vocab review
Thursday-Chapter 23 Final Exam
Friday-Movie

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Monday-Field trip to Flight 93 Memorial
Tuesday-Video Hitler and Stalin-Roots of Evil
Wednesday-Section 2 quiz
                    Discuss Operation Valkyrie
                    Movie-Valkyrie
Thursday-Movie Valykrie
Friday-Finish the movie Valykrie

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Monday-Video on the Industrial Revolution-The students will also fill out a video form
Tuesday-Starting Chapter 23 today
               Timeline questions
               Read pages 662-665
               Discuss trench warfare and weapons of WWI
               Section 1 quiz
Wednesday- Discuss WWI
                     Video on WWI
                     Study guides will be given for the next test which will be the Final Exam
                     Homework will be Chapter 23 vocab sheet
Thursday- Homework is due today
                 Read pages 666-668
                 Discuss WWII
                 Review the study guide answers
Friday-Discuss Hitler
           History packet on Hitler's rise to power
           Video on speeches of Hitler
 

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Monday-Vocab builder section 3
              Section 3 quiz
              Chapter review worksheet
              Vocabulary review
Tuesday- Chapter 21 test
Wednesday- History packet on Napoleon
Thursday-Video biography on Napoleon
Friday-History packet on the Industrial Revolution

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Monday-History Packet on the French and Indian War
Tuesday-When The Forest Ran Red Video
Wednesday-Section 3
Read pages 622-625
Map activity
Thursday-Review questions
Read page 625
Read and discuss the Bill of Rights
Friday-Read pages 626-627
Discuss Bastille Prison
Review section 3 answers

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Monday-Video-All About the Enlightenment
Read pages 616-618
Homework-Chapter 21 Vocab Sheet
Tuesday-Periods 3 and 4 PSSA Testing
Period 5 Movie
Wednesday-Periods 3 and 4 PSSA Testing
Period 5 Movie
Thursday-Collect Homework
Review Questions
Read Pages 619-620
Vocab Builder Section 2
Review Section 2 Answers
Section 2 Quiz
Friday-Final Session with Mrs. Sypin

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Monday-Guest Speaker-Mrs. Sypin
Tuesday-Periods 3 and 4 -PSSA testing
Period 5 -movie
Wednesday-Periods 3 and 4-PSSA testing
Period 5 - finish movie
Thursday-Periods 3 and 4 -PSSA testing
Period 5- Discuss the Holocaust-Holocaust Remembrance Day
Friday-Guest Speaker-Mrs. Sypin

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Monday-No school
Tuesday-Chapter 20 test
Wednesday-Chapter 21
Time Line questions
Read pages 612-615
Vocab builder section 1
study guides
Thursday-Review questions
Section 1 quiz
Video
Homework Chapter 21 vocab sheet
Friday-Collect homework
Guest speaker-Mrs. Sypin
 

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Monday-Great Voyages Postcard Project
Tuesday-Section3 
Read pages 597-598
History packet on the Atlantic Slave Trade
Wednesday-Video and video form on John Brown
Thursday-Read pages 599-601
Chapter review worksheet
Vocab review

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Monday-Read pages 593-595
Discuss what circumnavigate is
Video on Christopher Columbus
Tuesday-Review questions
Map activity
Read page 596
Section 2 quiz
Wednesday-Review section 2 and 3 notes
Great Voyages of Discovery Project
Thursday-Project
Friday-Project is due
Guest speaker-Mrs. Sypin

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Monday-Chapter 20 Science and Exploration
Discuss pages 582-583
Time Line questions
Read pages 588-589
Study guides will be given
Homework-Chapter 20 vocab sheet
Tuesday-Mrs. Herold will be in to finish scheduling
Wednesday-Review questions
Read pages 590-592
Review Section 1 questions
Thursday- History packet on the Scientific Revolution
Friday-Mrs. Sypin will be here to start her drug prevention program

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Monday-History Shorts packet on the Reformation
Tuesday-Video on the Reformation with a video form
Wednesday-Movie-Luther
Thursday-Movie-Luther
Friday-Act 80 Day

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Monday-See test results of Chapter 18
Discuss Black History
Video on the Montgomery Bus boycotts
Tuesday-Chapter 19 The Renaissance and Reformation
Timeline questions
History packet on the Renaissance
Wednesday-Video on the Renaissance with a form
Thursday-History packet on the Reformation
Friday-Mrs.Herold will be in to help the 8th graders with scheduling for next year.

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Monday-Review study guide
Discuss the Black Death
Tuesday-Continue our study on the Black Death
Wednesday-Video on the Black Death
Video form will be used and graded
Thursday-Read pages 546-549
Section 5 quiz
Chapter 18 vocab review
Friday-Chapter 18 test

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Monday-Finish Chapter 18 study guide
Read pages 528-530
Video on the Crusades
Tuesday-Review questions
Read pages 530-532
Discuss the Knights Templar
Vocab builder section 2
Section 2 quiz
Wednesday-Read pages 540-542
Video on Joan of Arc
Thursday-Video biography on Joan of Arc with a video form
Friday-Review study guide
Discuss The Black Death

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Monday-Chapter 17 test
Tuesday-Chapter 18 The Later Middle Ages
Time Line questions
Read pages 524-526
Chapter 18 Vocab sheet is homework
Wednesday-Review questions
Read pages 526-527
Vocab builder section 1
Study guides will be given
Thursday-Finish study guides
Read pages 528-530
Video on the Crusades
Friday-Review questions
Read pages 530-532
Vocab builder section 2
Section 2 quiz

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Monday-Review questions
worksheet on weapons on the middle ages
Read pages 508-510
worksheet on people of the middle ages
Tuesday-Read page 511
worksheet on tools of the middle ages
vocab builder section 3
section 3 quiz
review study guide
Wednesday-Video on Castles on the middle ages
Video form
Thursday-The students will have a guest speaker from California University. She will be discussing the Upward Bound Program
Friday-Chapter 17 test is today

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Monday-Review questions
Read pages 503-504
Biography on Leif Erickson
Map activity
Tuesday-Video on the vikings as well as a video form
Wednesday-vocab builder section 2
section 2 quiz
study guides will be given as well as section 1 thru 3 notes
Thursday-Section 3 
Read pages 506-507
video on the Knight and video form
Friday-Review questions
worksheet on Medieval weapons
Read pages 508-510
worksheet on Medieval people

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Monday-Discussing martin Luther King Jr. and watching the movie Selma.
Tuesday-Finishing the movie Selma
Wednesday-Chapter 17 Section 2 today. We will be reading pages 500-502 and the class will be assigned chapter 17 vocab sheet for a grade.
Thursday-Review questions. Reading pages 503-504. Biography on Leif Erikson. Also will be working on a map called Invasions of Europe.
Friday-Video on the Vikings

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Monday-Chapter 16 midterm exam
Tuesday-Starting Chapter 17 -The Early Middle Ages
Reading pages 496-499
Vocab builder section 1
Wednesday-Review questions
quiz section 1
video
Thursday-Section 2
Reading pages 500-502
Vocab sheet -Chapter 17
Friday-Review questions
read pages 503-504
Biography and map activity

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Monday-Off
Tuesday-Off
Wednesday-Act 80
Thursday-Review questions
Read pages 481-483
Video
Friday-Section 3 quiz
Chapter review worksheet
Vocab review
Chapter 16 midterm is Monday, January, 8,2018

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Monday-Primary source
Aztec game worksheet
Section 2 quiz
Homework Chapter 16 vocab sheet
Tuesday-Collect homework
Start section 3-Read pages 479-480
Worksheet Inca agriculture
Wednesday-Activity day

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Monday-Video on the Ancient Maya with a video form
Study guides will be given and students will complete the entire study guide today
Tuesday-Today the students will work on a Mayan Name Assignment. They will be given a rubric and shown examples of the assignment. They will have 2 class periods to complete the assignment.
Wednesday-Mayan Name Assignment
Thursday-Projects are due today
We will be starting section 2 of chapter 16 and discussing the Aztecs
Friday-We will be finishing section 2 today and discussing the impact the Conquistadors had on the Aztecs.

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Monday-Collecting Japan Collage project
Starting Chapter 16 The Maya, Aztec and Incas
Read pages 468-470
Tuesday- Review questions
Read pages 470-472
Worksheet Mayan Writing
Wednesday-Read page 473
Video - Maya Messages in Stone
Worksheet Mayan Math
Thursday-Discuss Pearl Harbor
Video on Pearl harbor
Friday-Finish video
 

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Wednesday-The students will be working on a collage. It will be on Japan. This project will be completed in three class periods. It is due Monday, December 4th.
Thursday-Japan Collage
Friday-Japan Collage

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Monday-Review vocabulary for tomorrow's test
               Vocab builder section 3
               Section 3 quiz
                Map activity
Tuesday- Chapter 15 test is today
Wednesday-Discuss the history of Thanksgiving
                     Video will be shown as well

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Monday- Read pages 444-445
Vocab builder section 1
Section 1 quiz
Section 1 and 3 notes
Tuesday- Video Discovery Atlas Japan Revealed
Wednesday-Section 3-Reviewing Chapter 15 study guide
Reading pages 454-455
Discussing the Samurai 
Thursday-Video Samurai Japan and completing a video form
Friday-Review questions
Read pages 456-459
Geography worksheet

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Monday-Review questions, map activity, read pages 442-443 and chapter 15 vocab sheet will be given.
Tuesday-Chapter 15 vocab sheet will be collected and graded. We will also have a guest speaker today. Mr. Shumaker from the American Legion will be here today to talk about his experience being in the military.
Wednesday-Mrs. Sypin will be here today to continue her alcohol prevention program.
Thursday-We will be discussing Veterans Day and watching a video on the marines.
Friday-No school today

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Monday-We will be starting Chapter 15 Japan. We will be reading pages 440-441 and completing a map activity about Japan.
Tuesday-We will finish reading section 1 pages 442-443. A map activity will also be taught as well a vocab sheet will be given.
Wednesday-Mrs. Sypin will be here today. The vocab sheet will be collected and graded.
Thursday-The students will work on a history packet called Japan Moves Into Modern Times.
Friday-The students will work on internet research about Japan and Eastern Civilizations.

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Monday-Video biography on Genghis Khan along with a video form
Tuesday-Review section 3 and 4 of the study guide. Finish reading pages 427-430. Chapter review worksheet as well as vocab review.
Wednesday-Chapter 14 test
Thursday-Starting Chapter 15 Japan
Friday-Guest speaker-Mrs. Sypin

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Monday-Discussing Chinese inventions,section 2 quiz, video on China
Tuesday-Reading pages 420-423,vocab builder section 3, section 3 quiz and completing Chapter 14 study guide
Wednesday-Reviewing section 3 and 4 of the study guide, reading pages 424-426,biography on Genghis Khan
Thursday-Video biography on Genghis Khan with a video form
Friday-Guest speaker-Mrs. Sypin

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Monday-We will be starting Chapter 14 China
Tuesday-Study guides will be given for Chapter 14
Wednesday- Chapter 14 vocab sheet will be given for homework and will be collected on Thursday
Thursday-Mrs. Sypin will be here today
Friday- We will be discussing Chinese inventions

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Monday-We will be finishing Chapter 13 Section 4. Tomorrow will be the test over chapter 14.
Tuesday- Chapter 13 test
Wednesday-We will be stating Chapter 14 China. This chapter normally takes a couple of weeks to complete. Then a test will follow.

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Monday we will be working on our Africa Country assignment. We worked on it Thursday last week as well and it will be due tomorrow.
Tuesday through Friday we will continue our studies of Africa. Next week will be Chapter 13 test.

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This week we will be studying Chapter 13 African Civilizations. The students will be given a study guide and they will also have homework this week. A quiz will be given at the end of section 1. Once section 1 is complete we will work on a project titled African Country Assignment. This will be done in class.

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Monday the students will watch a video on 9/11/01
Tuesday we will finish section 4 of Chapter 12 and review for tomorrow's test.
Wednesday - Chapter 12 test
Thursday and Friday we will be working in Chapter 13 Africa

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 Tuesday I will be collecting Chapter 12 vocab sheet that was assigned on Friday for homework. Tuesday through Thursday we will be working on Chapter 12 The Islamic World. Friday the students will begin to watch the movie Flight 93 and finish the movie on Monday.

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 Monday and Tuesday we will be discussing classroom polices and procedures. Starting on Wednesday we will be starting Chapter 12 The Islamic Empires At the end of the chapter there will be a test.