MAP QUIZ

Last week I had you label maps to prepare for the quiz this week.  Today we will have our map quiz.  Please clear your desks of everything except your map.  There is to be no talking or sharing information during this quiz.  When finished, bring me your quiz and wait at your desk for everybody to be finished.

Return Text Books

Instructions for returning your text book:

• Bring your history book up to the Mr. Griffith.
• Wait for Mr. Griffith to verify that your number is correct and checks off your name.

-------- When you received your text book, this was the instructions --------

Instructions for getting your text book:

• Pick up a history book from the front of the classroom (without a number on the side)
• On the inside front cover you will find a number that begins 1 4 _ _.
• Sign your name on the line next to the appropriate number on the check-out sheet.
• Open the inside cover of the textbook again and neatly write [in ink]
• Your name on the first line where it says "Issued To".
• In the "Year Used" line, write "15-16".
• Look through the book for writing, tears, and other damage.  Make a note of that.
• In the "Issued" box (under "Condition") write, "New" or "Good" (depending).
• Remember, you are responsible for the safety and condition of your textbook.

Movie: It's a Wonderful Life

"It's a Wonderful Life" is a movie that was released almost 70 years ago -- in 1946.  It's about an angel who helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.

At this time of year I show this movie for several reasons:

1. It's a good study of someone who has dreams of what they want to do but situations in life move them in another direction.
2. It's a good example of how finance in a savings and loan situation works.
3. It showcases the early part of the 20th Century in a small town, including:
1. How a small town can get caught up in a national crisis.
2. The banking crisis and a "run" on a bank.
3. It does a good job of showing how our great grandparents (and great-great grandparents) weren't really so different from us. Whether we [or they] are willing to admit it or not.
4. It shows how a good, intelligent, hard-working person can still suffer from depression.
5. It reminds us that we don't always know the difference we are making in others' lives.

There aren't a lot of requirements for this movie other than paying attention and completing a simple worksheet for the first and second halves of the movie.  If you would like another copy of the worksheet, you can download it. (Here)

I'll be showing it in class, but here's an online version that you can watch:

And now you know where this meme came from:

Make-Up Work, Study for EOC, and Map Worksheet

Today we will pass out grade sheets and discuss EOC's.  We will also do some review for the EOC exams and work on a map worksheet.

On your map, locate and label:

Morocco Algeria Tunisia Libya Egypt Saudi Arabia Yemen Oman United Arab Emirates (UAE) Israel Jordan Syria Iraq Iran Afghanistan Pakistan India Turkey Georgia

Azerbaijan Russia Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Kyrgyzstan Greece Ukraine Spain Portugal Mali Niger Chad Sudan Nigeria Arabian Sea Black Sea Red Sea Persian Gulf Mediterranean Sea

Practice EOC Exam

Today we will be taking a practice EOC Exam for U.S. History. There are 30 questions. You don't have to use a #2 pencil, but please mark your answers clearly. Please do your best on this test, because your score will be for points -- although I will grade on a curve.

We may need to begin by NEATLY numbering the questions before we receive the answer sheet.  The first 28 are one question per page.  Question 29 has a photo taken in Great Britain in 1941.  Question 30 is about Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois.  Skip the writing assignment (Question 31).