Monday, April 14th

We got a lot accomplished today.  We discussed this week's vocabulary and reviewed the Cold War information we began before the break.  Students will have assessments on both Friday so they need to study the vocabulary and their Cold War notes.  Then we spent some time going over what's going to be on the test and discussed the depth of understanding I'm expecting from them.  Students have all of their handouts and notes from today.  Additionally, I attached today's notes below from the morning and afternoon class.  There are some very slight variations since discussions can go down varying paths with different classes; however, the general ideas are still the same.

After reviewing the test material, we read a passage on the Space Race.  That information will also be on Friday's Cold War assessment.  Lastly, students worked on their moon landing 3D maps as I read Messenger.  In the afternoon class we finished the book and we will do some concluding work with analyzing the literary elements of all three novels.  The morning class will finish the book on Tuesday.

This week's vocabulary 

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What is the Space Race and which countries were involved?

How would different people, in theory, react to a communist government?

 This is what will be on the Cold War assessment