October 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Monday - Focus - CNN.Student News, Work on Create Your Own Country (three in a group) Test Grade, (Chrome Books Available) Follow 14 Criteria Sheet
Tuesday - Focus - CNN.Student News, Work on Create Your Own Country (Due Wednesday) Chrome Books Available
Wednesday - Focus - Presentations - Create Your Own Country, Take Notes Climograph Quiz, Constitution Quiz
Thursday  Focus - What are Climates?  Go over 11 Climates - Look at Handout, Start on Climate Map - Test Grade Quiz Different Kinds of Maps - Friday
Friday - Study Climograph Quiz and Constitution Quiz, Work on Climate Map use Atlases

September 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

Monday - Focus - Review Time Zone Challenge  (watch blog) , Go over Climographs (Look at different cities), pass out papers (grade checks), watch Real World Climates and the Seasons (DiscoveryEducation.Com 14 minutes)
Tuesday - Focus - CNN.Student News, Work on Latitude and Longitude Worksheet (pairs) use atlases, Homework - Keeping Time Review 1-8
Wednesday - Focus - Why is the U.S. Constitution so Important? Answer Questions 1-5 Discuss, CNN.Student News
Thursday - Focus - What is a Climograph?  Work on Climograph 1-5 (Check), Homework - Map Skill Review 1-10,  Watch CNN.Student News
Friday - Focus - CNN.Student News, Climograph Quiz, Newspaper - Journal - write summary

September 19, 20, 21, 22, 23

Monday - Focus - Study for Map Test, Take Eastern Hemisphere Physical Map Test, Watch CNN.Student News (Short Day)
Tuesday - Focus - What are time zones? Discuss,  Do Time Zone Maps 1-4 together - Discuss, Homework - Time Zone Math - 1-3 - Look at Blog
Wednesday - Focus - Watch CNN.Student News, Work on Time Zone Math 1-3 (watch blog), watch video - latitude, longitude, time zones Study Homework - Time Zone Maps - 1-4
Thursday - Focus = Check Time Zone Maps 1-4, What is a climograph?  What does it measure?  Look at different Climographs, Homework - Do the Earth's Atmosphere and Climates 1-5
Friday - Focus - Study for Time Zone Quiz, Take Quiz, Watch CNN.Student News, Work on Latitude and Longitude Activity - Pairs

September 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

Monday - Focus - Take Pre - Test - World History, Watch CNN.Student News, Read Junior Scholastic,  Read Junior Scholastic at end of class
Tuesday - Take Physical Map Pre-Test, Work on developing a physical Region map, watch CNN.Student News
Wednesday - Focus -  Work on Finishing Pre - Test Physical Study Map, Focus - What are Hemispheres, Prime Meridian, Equator, Lines Latitude, Lines of Longitude, Axis,  Do Map Skills and World Overview Physical Map Test - Study in pairs for Eastern Hemisphere Physical Map
Thursday - Focus - CNN.Student News, Tear - A - Continent
Friday - Focus - Why is the U.S. Constitution so important? (limits control of government), U.S. Constitution Group Activity - Six Groups, each group will answer five questions * Students will use a copy of the the U.S. Constitution to answer these questions questions