The Falls!!

Here are the answers to the two questions that you were to answer as a homework assignment.

1. The picture you are looking at is a small boat named Maid in the Mist taking some tourists near the giant falls known as Niagara Falls.

2. First, I must tell you that there are two sets of falls...an American side and a Canadian side. The Canadian Horseshoe Falls drops an average of 188 feet into the Lower Niagara River. The height of the American Falls ranges between 70-110 feet.


Here are a few sites on the falls:

1. This is a live webcam of the falls - http://www.fallsviewcam.com/

2. This site is a digital library of the falls - http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/start.asp?db=images

3. This site includes a picture and true story of how they turned off the falls! http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/cepa/pubs/nov99/story16.htm

Canada Tests

There will be a Canada test this week. It will focus on the map of Canada, especially the provinces and territories. There will be one retake available for students.

Study hard!

Canada Assignment #1

Post a comment to receive your homework grade about the picture below. Answer these two questions to receive full credit.

What is this a picture of and how far do you think the drop is?

O Canada

Canadians express their national pride during a hockey game. Watch carefully...the guy singing actually stops and lets the crowd finish the song!!!

CANADA!!!!!!!!

We will be studying our neighbor to the north for the next week or two. Below is a colorful version of their political map.




Over the past two years, we have come up with a pretty clever and very easy to remember story to help you remember the location for each province. Hope you are ready for this!

Russia Tests Are Coming Soon!!!

Your Russia Political Map and Russia Vocabulary tests are coming up very soon. Be able to both locate and describe the locations on the map. For vocabulary, be able to describe how each term relates to the information we are covering.

Bloggers Update

I know that everyone is anxiously awaiting student posts but we have to get into a lab before that happens....here is why. You need to have a Google accout (i think) and I need to invite you to post (i think). We will get this figured out and use this to our advantage!

TEAM 6 BLOGGERS!!

As part of the course we will now have one or two students per week guest blog about a topic that we are covering in class. Justice K.(9-1), Josh O. (9-3) and a student from 9-2 to be named later will be our guinea pigs and help us try and turn this site into a useful resource. They should have their posts on the site by Tuesday night. Keep your eyes peeled!

SOVIET UNION

Most of you probably don't remember the Soviet Union and the hate that was between the Soviet Union and the United States. Well, here is a good a pretty good reference site for background information on the Soviet Union.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union

If you click on the link below, you will see a YouTube clip of a parade in the Soviet Union during the Communist Era.

I will also try and add the Soviet National Anthem. In the meantime, skim the reference site and try to get an overall feeling for what life was like in the Soviet Union!

RUSSIA

If anyone in any of our sections knows somebody from Russia, has a relative in Russia, has Russian arifacts, or has anything cool related or about Russia please let me know so we can share it with the classes. These chapters are much easier to tackle when we have personal connections to the country we are studying.