Government LEQ

In class, you created a list of things that you will need to do to organize an effective government. This is combination of lists from period 2 and period 4. These are all pretty darn good things that you'd have to do. Good work.

HOW DO YOU ORGANIZE AN EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT?

1. Write a constitution or document that organizes government
2. Who is the leader
3. Have elections
4. Determine what kind of system of government the country will have
5. Who will enforce laws
6. Will it be a theocratic or secular government
7. Have an educated citizenry
8. Organize the economy
9. Create symbols for the government

Southwest Asia Notes Revisited

Southwest Asia Notes

Here are the notes one more time....it might be worth reviewing them as you continue to work on your individual country projects from this region.

SW Asia Project

Hey gang.  Just wanted to give you the online version of our project for SW Asia.  You will have to log on with your school Google ID but is is a pretty useful site.  Check out the "Helpful Links" page if you get a chance.

https://sites.google.com/a/southwesternsd.org/southwest-asia/

Any question....let me know.

Mr. Lawhead

SW Asia Trip

Here is a preview of some of the places we will be learning about in SW Asia.

Southwest Asia Learning Map

Southwest Asia Learning Map

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Southwest Asia Notes

Southwest Asia Notes

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Nice Job Students!

The 29th Combat Aviation Brigade sent a HUGE "Thank You" to the Team 3 and Team 4 World Geography students who sent holiday cards to the soldiers serving in Afghanistan. The students in Mr. Sgrignoli and Mr. Lawhead's class made holiday cards at the end of our Southwest Asia Unit. They sent us a few wristbands, a plaque (picture to follow), and a commemorative coin. Just goes to show what that doing a nice deed does pay off. Thanks again for all the hard work and great cards you made for our brave soldiers!

SW Asia Test

***IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT***

Your SW Asia Test might not happen! We may decide to do an act of kindness instead. If the exam does take place, it will be an open note style test. That means you would be able to use any notes, worksheets, or anything out of your composition book that you've completed during this unit of study.

Enjoy! Any questions, see me on Monday.

Exploring Southwest Asia PowerPoints

Your FINISHED powerpoint projects will be due by the midpoint of Monday's class. We will then work on presentation skills for the remainder of the Monday.

If there are problems, please let me know.

Can you??????

If I gave you a blank map of the Southwest Asia region, could you label each country, capital, and all the physical landmarks?

If not, good luck on your quiz Tuesday!

Class News for the Week November 8th

BIG week for all of you! Your Southwest Asia project is what most of the week will be spent on. Get ready to research Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday are when we will be putting the projects together. Our goal will be to have the project finished by Friday.

You will also have two map quizzes this week - STUDY!

Any questions, let me know.

Class News for the Week of March 15th

This week we finish our work on SW Asia. Our projects will be due at the end of class on Monday and we will present both Tuesday and Wednesday. THE EXAM WILL BE THURSDAY. If everything goes perfect, we should be starting our unit on Western Europe on Friday.

In preparing for our exam, be sure to review both maps, vocab, our graphic organizers on religion and the countries, and the learning map. This test is a doozy....don't put off studying!

Thanks Mrs. Poust!!

A big thanks to Mrs. Poust for coming into room 215 the other day to help us with a difficult topic - Israel and Palestine. Using our Talking To The Text and the post-it-notes, we made this difficult issue a bit easier. Thanks again and hope to see you again.

Class News for the Week of March 8th

Hey gang! Welcome to our first full week in March. We will be working on our projects for SW Asia and finishing the unit by Thursday. That means be ready for a chapter EXAM by Thursday or Friday. Keep reviewing your maps and information that we have covered before the start of our projects. We will also take our March 50 States test this week - probably on Friday. Any questions, please let me know.

Spampy proves me wrong!

Old Spampy proved me wrong by getting a perfect score on the SW Asia Map Quiz online. I lost the bet and wore my pink shirt with pride! Here is hoping that you all do the same by getting on this site and using the online map quizzes to the right. Good luck!

Interesting Article

Interesting article on the TweenTribune website about what countries we "like" and "dislike." Especially interesting considering what unit we are starting with.


http://tweentribune.com/content/americans-canada-dislike-iran

Class News for the week of February 22nd

Hey gang. Get ready for another week packed full of work. We will start the work by finishing our unit on Culture - test is TUESDAY. We are also starting our first major unit on a specific region - Southwest Asia!!! I think you will enjoy this region as long as we keep an open mind and realized that our customs and culture ISN'T THE ONLY ONE!!

As usual, if you have any questions please let me know.

SW Asia Test Corrections

Unhappy with your test grade for the Chapter 18 - SW Asia test??? You do have the ability to hand in test corrections to get partial credit for incorrect answers. Here is what you have to do:

1 - Get a piece of lined paper
2 - Number the paper with the questions you got incorrect
3 - Fill in the correct answers
4 - Hand in to Mr. Lawhead along with you exam

SW Asia Exam

In preparing for the SW Asia Exam, please think about doing the following...

1 - Use your learning map to review the LEQ's. These will be the short answer questions on the exam.

2 - MAPS, MAPS, MAPS!!! Review the physical and political maps of SW Asia because they WILL be on the exam.

3 - Guided Readings 1-4. We answered specific questions for a reason!

Take a look at that info in order to get a head start for this big exam. Good Luck!!!

Quiz Reminders!!!

Please remember to prepare for the quizzes!