Neolithic Essay / Mesopotamia Blank Packet

• The Neolithic Essay is due this Friday 10/1
• You must share the essay in Google Docs with hahnlanoce@gmail.com

HERE is a blank copy of the Mesopotamia packet given today in class.

Neolithic Revolution: Turning Points Essay

Outline due: tomorrow, 9/27
Essay due: Friday, 10/1

**We will be working on the essay in class this Tuesday and Wednesday.

Click HERE for a blank copy of the essay assignment.

While working on the outline tonight, be sure to use your packet (and our notes) to help you fill in the details. Pgs. 18 and 19 of your packet have very useful information for Part B of your task.

Ogg Chronicles- T-Chart

Over the weekend, you should finish your t-chart comparing whether life during the Neolithic Age was positive or negative.

For a copy of notes, click HERE.

Have a great weekend!

9/22/10 - Today in class/homework

Today in class we finished watching the moving about the Paleolithic Era. For homework, finish page 16 in the packet (PEGS of the Paleolithic).

Paleolithic Homework Assignment

Rd. pg. 8-9 in the textbook. Make a PEGS chart for the Hunters and Gatherers of the Paleolithic Age. Chart should be on a separate piece of paper. Create the four boxes and identify the PEGS.

No Weekend Homework, But...

If you have any extra school supplies or will have a chance to get some, Key Club is collecting school supplies to donate to students who cannot afford them.

If you can bring in anything that you have; folders, notebooks, binders, pen/pencils, etc. it would be greatly appreciated.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Become a Follower of the Blog!

Today in the computer lab, BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE, become a "Follower" of the class blog.

• To the right, click the button that says Follow.
• Then choose a way that you want to follow. You can use your own personal Gmail, Yahoo, Aim, Twitter, or OpenID accounts to do so. Follow the steps.

*****You CANNOT use your student Gmail accounts for this because they end with @bmchsd.org rather than @gmail.com

Essay Due Date

Today in the computer lab, students should have completed the rough draft of their summer essay assignment. If not, students should be working on this assignment from home.

Tomorrow, students will share with one classmate and complete a peer-editing assignment.

At the end of class tomorrow, students should have completed their peer-editing and will have be expected to have finished their essay by Friday.

Grading will begin on Friday afternoon.

Summer Essay Assignment

Last night for homework, student were to complete the "boxing out" chart for their summer essay assignment. If you did not finish that, you must complete that tonight.

Today we spent time in the computer lab and will be there both tomorrow and Thursday as well. In the computer lab you should have started a new Google Doc for your essay and have shared it with us.

***If you did not finish with the introduction and first body paragraph, you should work on that tonight. You can access this document by going to the Bell-Merr Homepage, click student email, sign in (same username and password that you use to log into the computers at school), click documents at the top of the page, then click on the document that you began in class and work on it.