This week is going to be a blast!  We finished with our burly, incredibly intriguing mountain men and move on to the first parties that came through and to Utah.  We will be participating in interactive activities that you won't want to miss!

MONDAY: Intro to Western Movement, Fact or Fiction
TUESDAY: Fact or Fiction, intro Mormon Trail
WEDNESDAY: Newsday, Mormon Trail
THURSDAY:Mormon Trail
FRIDAY: The LDS Journey West

Welcome back from the break, I hope you had a great Halloween and weekend!  This week we will be taking an in depth look at Mountain Men, their culture, and their effect on Utah.

MONDAY: Culture
TUESDAY:Caches
WEDNESDAY: Newsday, Trading Cards
THURSDAY: Trading Cards
FRIDAY: Mountain Man Quiz


For the quiz make sure you know the following: motivation for mountain men, description, characteristics, rendezvous, caches, at least 2 examples of real life mountain men (Jed Smith, Jim Bridger, Antione Robidoux, etc)

We've made it to the end of the quarter!  This week we will be taking a test to see what you remember from the quarter and then will start into Mountain Men (one of my favorites!).  I will be handing out a study guide for the test in class, but if you lose it, I attached it below.  Also, the test is a mixture of multiple choice, true false, and matching.

MONDAY:Review for Q1 Test
TUESDAY: Quarter 1 Test!
WEDNESDAY: Mountain Men
THURSDAY: Percy Jackson!
FRIDAY: No School

Welcome back from break!  This week we will be diving into the early days of Utah and the explorers therein.  We will be having a short quiz on Wednesday and therefore are moving Newsday to Thursday.  Just a heads up, the end of the quarter is a week from this coming Thursday.

MONDAY: Escalante & Dominguez
TUESDAY: Finish Spanish Explorers, Choose Your Own Adventure!
WEDNESDAY: Quiz, Review
THURSDAY: Newsday
FRIDAY: Rise and Stretch


Note: The late work deadline is Thursday October 24th at 3:00.  No late work will be accepted after that time.

Welcome to our short week!  We will be working on our Artifact Box project.  We will have workdays Monday and Tuesday and will present Wednesday! I have added the Artifact Box rubric.

NOTE: NEWSDAY IS MOVED UP A DAY AND WILL BE DUE ON TUESDAY.

MONDAY: Artifact Box Workday
TUESDAY: Newsday, Artifact Box Workday
WEDNESDAY: Artifact Box Presentations (It's due!)
THURSDAY: No School - UEA
FRIDAY: No School - UEA

Welcome back after the long weekend!  We will not being having a Newsday because of the upcoming quiz.  This week we will be taking a quiz on the Native Americans in Utah and will be starting on our Native American Artifact Project.  I will post more about that when we get closer.  

MONDAY: Historic Tribes
TUESDAY: Historic Tribes/Review
WEDNESDAY: Native American Quiz
THURSDAY: Artifact Project
FRIDAY: R&S

For the quiz make sure you know what is on your Native American Notes: shelter, where they lived, what is unique or special about each tribe, definition of prehistoric and historic, etc.  

This week we actually get to begin diving into the actual history of our state!  We will take the test on geography and move on to the early people of Utah.  This week is also student-led conferences, feel free to stop by!

MONDAY: Geography Test!
TUESDAY: Prehistoric Native Americans
WEDNESDAY: Newsday, Prehistoric Native Americans
THURSDAY: Historic Native Americans
FRIDAY: No School (Student-led Conferences)

Hopefully, the students know that the brochure is due today, Monday September 23!  If they did not turn it in, they need to do so ASAP.  I will post the rubric below, in case it was somehow misplaced.  We will be finishing geography and hopefully reviewing Friday for the upcoming Geography Test on Monday September 30.  We have been discussing it daily in class, and the students know that they should begin studying for it.  Happy trails!

MONDAY: Brochure Due!, 3 Regions, begin 4 Factors of Climate
TUESDAY: 4 factors of Climate
WEDNESDAY: Newsday, Renewable vs. Non-renewable
THURSDAY: Geology
FRIDAY: Finish Geology, Review

REMINDER:  Your Geography test in coming up on Monday September 30! Topics include: geography packet (be able to identify regions, rivers, lakes, mountains, cities, national parks), 3 region notes, 4 factors of climate, resources (renewable vs non-renewable - know examples), and it would be helpful to review starters. 

This week we will be finishing our geography packets as well as working on our first project!  We will be making a brochure of Utah and using what we have learned to complete it.  We also have our first official Newsday due this Wednesday.

MONDAY: Class Newsday due! Finish mountains, review
TUESDAY:Intro Brochure/workday
WEDNESDAY: Newsday due!, Brochure Workday
THURSDAY: Brochure Workday
FRIDAY: Rise & Stretch

This week we will be finishing our 6 skills and will start working on our first Utah unit - geography.  There will be a packet handed out in class.  It will not be available on the website.  We will aslo discuss the events of 9/11.

MONDAY: Finish 6 skills
TUESDAY: Begin geography - rivers and lakes
WEDNESDAY: 9/11 discussion
THURSDAY: Geography - Political
FRIDAY: Class Newsday (due officially on Monday)