Week+of+April+26

​media type="custom" key="6685343" Week of April 26 TAKS WEEK

__Monday, April 26, 2010 (I am out today for jury duty.)__
 * 1. Pass up So. America & Brazil Map Quiz Worksheet.**
 * 2. Do Focus. Open the Power Point Slide Show. Remember to view in SHOW mode ====>** [[file:4-26-10 So.Cen.Map.ppt]]
 * 3. Spend about 5-10 minutes on Sheppard's Software reveiwing So. America map. Map test will be Next Tuesday.**
 * 4. Watch this 5 min. video clip on the Galapagos Islands and answer the questions on your own paper:**

** You may need to Run the "Add On" to view it. Click on the Yellow tab at the top to run the Add On. Wait for the clip to load. You may watch on full screen by double clicking on the video. **
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 * 4. Label the Mexico and Central America Maps (on front table). Lightly color water blue. Place under maps tab when you are finished.**
 * 5. If you did not finish watching the video "Children of the Amazon" click HERE and answer the Quiz questions (quiz sheet on front table). Place Video Quiz in your binder uner Daily tab.**
 * 6. You may view the other videos about So. America when you finish all of the above.**
 * If you were absent last Friday, this is what we did in class:**

__Last Friday April 23, 2010__ 1. Do Focus. Finish So. America and Brazil Map Quiz worksheet. Will be graded on Monday. 2. Use Sheppard's Software to label South America Map; click on "countries" "Level L"; no coloring. Then place in binder under Maps tab. 3. Do the So. America and Brazil Maps Quiz (on front table). No coloring. Place in binder under Daily tab. Due Monday. 4. Watch the video "Children of the Amazon" HERE and answer the Quiz questions (quiz sheet on front table). If you do not finish the video & quiz sheet, you may finish on Monday.

__Tuesday, April 27, 2010__ Math TAKS Testing -- **No Social Studies Classes today.**

__Wednesday, April 28, 2010__ L.A. TAKS Testing --** No Social Studies Classes today.

__Thursday & Friday, April 29-30, 2010__ ​ (Blocking: Thurs.SS Ramsey, Johnston, Holland; Fri.SS Edwards, Young, Smith) 1. Do Focus using this map site HERE. So. America and Central America Map TEST next week. 2. Practice Latin America Map HERE 3. Class Discussion: Child Labor in Ecuador (//Time Magazine//); graph banana imports. 4. View and discuss Power Point on the Mayas. 5. //Using Journal Clues to Track the Expedition// worksheet. Need map pencils.