Moving On

Well, we're half way through with the school year as of today. Of course that's not counting the snow days we'll be making up in July. I hope everyone had a good semester and comes back ready for more learnin' next semester. Grades should be up on eSIS by tomorrow morning.

Have a great three day weekend.

Jan. 28

Adv. US History
2nd period:

CW:
prep time
Frontier House

HW:
Study
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4th period

CW:
Unit 6 exam

HW:
Text pp. 486-91; 494-98
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Psych

CW:
FINAL EXAM

Adv. US History

Focus:
Westward Expansion

CW:
groups will present notes on their Native American tribes
return old work
"mid-term"
participation evaluation (4th period)
essay prep/Frontier House

HW:
STUDY

This is too terrifying for words

What do you think?

Jan. 26-Finals Week

Adv. US History
Focus:
Westward Expansion

CW:
return old work
notes: The Far West
group activity in the library: Native American tribes

HW:
REVIEW NOTES FOR UNIT 6 EXAM
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Psychology (26-27)
Focus:

CW:
return/discuss Unit 4 exam
review for final exam
participation evaluation
return book

HW:
PREP FOR FINAL EXAM!

Adv. US History

Focus:
Westward Expansion

CW:
graded discussion: Chief Joseph
Frontier House

HW:
Text pp. 474-82

This has nothing to do with Chief Joseph

Once Roomba becomes self-aware it's all over.

Jan. 22

Adv. US History
Focus:
Westward Expansion II

CW:
test prep sheet #6
notes: Reluctant Conquerors
begin reading for graded discussion

HW:
review notes for Unit 6 exam
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Psychology (22-23)
Focus:
Abnormal Psych

CW:
Unit 4 exam

HW:
PREP FOR FINAL EXAM

Adv. US History

Focus:
Westward Expansion Part II

CW:
notes: Great Plains
video clip: Ghost Danec and Wounded Knee
video: Frontier House

HW:
Thomas Leonard reading from the reader: "Reluctanct Conquerors"

Obama Inauguration

Okay, if you were too shy, tired, etc. to speak up in class today about the new Obama presidency, now's your chance. What does an Obama presidency mean for you? SPEAK YOUR MIND!

Jan. 20-Inauguration Day

Adv. US History
Focus:
Westward Expansion Part II

CW:
notes: Frontier and the American Character
view the Obama Inauguration

HW:
Text pp. 458-61; 464-74
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Psychology (20-21)
Focus:
Abnormal Psych

CW:
discuss Kip Kinkel video and school shooters
discuss personality disorders
profile of a sociopath
discuss schizophrenia and listen to schizophrenia tape
diagnostic and therapy activities

HW:
PREP FOR FINAL UNIT EXAM OF THE SEMESTER

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

I hope you all are enjoying your three day weekend. In order to help you remember why you have today off from school, I have posted part of Dr. King's final speech. It was given on April 3, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. King was in Memphis assisting
striking sanitation workers. Unfortunately his words were incredibly prophetic because he would die from an assassin's bullet the next day on the balcony outside of his hotel room in Memphis.

See you tomorrow.

Adv. US History

Focus:
Reconstruction


CW:
notes: Undoing of Reconstruction
video: Jesse James

HW:
Billington reading in the reader: The Frontier and the American Character

Jan. 15

Adv. US History
Focus:
Reconstruction

CW:
notes: Radical Reconstruction
video: "Reconstruction: The Second Civil War"

HW:
Text pp. 444-45; 448-50
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Psychology (15-16)
Focus:
Abnormal Psych

CW:
TEST prep sheet #4
video: Kip Kinkel

HW:
Schizophrenia TQ
**UNIT 4 EXAM NEXT THURSDAY AND FRIDAY**

Adv. US History

Focus:
Reconstruction

CW:
Andersonville
video clip
Reconstruction simuulation
notes: Presidential Reconstruction

HW:
Text pp. 436-44

PSYCH STUDENTS

Jan. 13

Adv. US History
Focus:
Civil War

CW:
reading: Battlefield Tragedy
Civil War slang
notes: The Union Victorious
Lincoln's assasination
war letter: Sullivan Ballou

HW:
Text pp. 430-33; 435-36
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Psychology (13-14)
Focus:
Abnormal Psych

CW:
group assignment: eating disorders
video clip: "Thin"
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discuss: personality disorders
profile of a sociopath
school shooters: Columbine and VA Tech

HW:
review notes

Adv. US History

Focus:
Civil War

CW:
finish Glory
return old work
discuss DBQs
final grade discussion
register for PCC credit

HW:
Text pp. 417-21; 424-26

Jan. 9

Adv. US History
Focus:
Civil War

CW:
notes: 1863: The Turning Point
begin "Glory"

HW:
TEXT pp. 417-21; 424-26
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Psychology (9; 12)
Focus:
Abnormal Psych


CW:
discuss mood disorders
video clip: dealing with depression
TBA: either eating disorders or Tourette's Syndrome

HW:
TQ-Sociopathic behavior

Adv. US History

Focus:
Civil War

CW:
notes: Secession and War
North vs. South
Anaconda Plan
battlefield medicine
video clips
notes: Toward Total War
Civil War slang (if time)

HW:
Text pp. 413-16
**GLORY BEGINS TOMORROW**

Glory

Antietam: Then and Now

CIVIL WAR INFO: GAIN KNOWLEDGE AND PARTICIATION POINTS

I am going to discuss Andersonville next week. Here's a primer on this horrible POW camp from the war. Check out this photo of a POW from Andersonville. ***WARNING, THIS PICTURE IS GRAPHIC IN NATURE***

January 7

Adv. US History
Focus:
Disunion

CW:
finish DBQ

HW:
Text pp. 398-407; pp. 407-13
4TH PERIOD--EXPECT A READING QUIZ FROM ONE OF THESE READINGS
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Psychology (7-8)
Focus:
Abnormal Psych

CW:
finish discussion of labeling and its political consequences
discuss anxiety disorders
reading: OCD
video: OCD
video clips: exposure therapy for OCD sufferers

HW:
TQ-Mood disorders

Jan. 6

Adv. US History
Focus:
Disunion

CW:
return Glory film consent forms
DBQ-Part I

HW:
prep for DBQ essay: BRING BOOKS TOMORROW

Welcome to 2009!

Adv. US History
Focus:
Disunion

CW:
IA update
review notes
DBQ information
notes: The crime against Kansas Part II
notes: The election of 1856 and 1860

HW:
DBQ TEST STARTS TOMORROW
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Psychology (5-6)
Focus:
Abnormal Psych

CW:
REVIEW notes
discuss assessing mental disorders
Susan Smith and Diane Downs
video clip: Andrea Yates
discuss the DSM-IV and labeling

HW:
TQ-Anxiety disorders

SCHEDULE UPDATE FOR NEXT WEEK

After conferencing with Mr. Unis, we have decided to use Monday, January 5, as a wrap up day for Unit 5 on Disunion. That means I will lecture on the last McPherson reading and a textbook reading (pp. 390-94) on the 1860 presidential election. The DBQ will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. We will start Unit 6 on Thursday.

**PLEASE PASS THE WORD TO STUDENTS IN MR. UNIS' CLASS.**

See you all Monday.

Back to the Future

Welcome to 2009 students. 2009 tip #1: Watch out for marauding cybernetic robots stealing your food.

THS 2009 update #1:
MONDAY, JANUARY 5, WILL BE A "B" DAY. THAT IS ALL FOR NOW. MORE INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT TO EXPECT NEXT WEEK WILL APPEAR ON THE BLOG EVENTUALLY.