HW due Friday -- Students must have four citated sources appropriate to their research topic with some notes on each source. Many students have copied materials to work on at home. Classes have also been introduced to online resources that launch from the JHMS media center site, and will be using those. Please, no Google or Wikapedia yet.
Today in class, students will be watching, discussing and practicing modeled note-taking using CNN student news. Today's story deals with the Blackwater appearance in Congress.
Then we move on to the age of exploration. Students will work in pairs to create a manipulative booklet that organizes the origins, names, time periods, causes and locations of the many explorers to the "New World". These range from Portuguese to Vikings and, of course, deal with Chris Columbus as well.
Thanks!
Mr. Wells