March 26, 2012

Monday - Government/Economics of Australia
Tuesday - Review economics
Wednesday - Review for test
Thursday - Australia TEST
Friday - CRCT practice test

Monday - April 2 - Spring Break

Monday - April 9 - CRCT Review Week
Tuesday - April 10 - Progress Reports

Monday - April 16 - CRCT

March 13

Monday - Furlough Day
Tuesday - Review Canada's History and Map
Wednesday - Location, Climate, Natural Resources
Thursday - Environmental Issues
Friday - Government and Economics of Canada
(majority will be a review of terms students have already learned) - Map Quiz

Monday - UNIT TEST!!
Tuesday - Begin Australia Unit

Quiz tomorrow!

All students have definitions for the following terms:

Branches
Suffrage
State
Province
Communism
Bicameral
Unicameral
Head of State
Head of Government
Revolution

They will have a fill-in-the-blank quiz tomorrow.  This grade will be on their progress report coming home Tuesday, January 31st.

Week of Jan. 23

Monday - Wrap up language comparisons, culture
              - Discuss government terms (this should be a review from 1st nine weeks)

Tuesday - Work in groups to research four countries governments
               - Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, United States

Wednesday - continue research on governments in Computer lab

Thursday - Make group poster about governments/Project grade

Friday - Government term/Vocabulary Quiz
            - QW - Compare/Contrast governments of Latin America

Hopefully:
Monday 1/30 - Revolutions
Tuesday 1/31 - Revolution
Wednesday 2/01 - Review
Thursday 2/02 - Review
Friday 2/03 - Test


Vocabulary -

Branches
Suffrage
State
Province
Communism
Bicameral
Unicameral
Head of State
Head of Government
Revolution

What will your student have to know about each country?

What type of government does (country name) have?
What is the capital?
Describe the executive branch.
Describe the legislative branch.
Describe the judicial branch.
Does (country name) have a national holiday?  What is it?
How old must a citizen be before voting?
When did (country name) gain independence?
How many political parties does (country name) have?