6th Grade: This week, 6th-grade students will wrap up Unit #3, Ancient Egypt and the Middle East, with an open-note summative quiz on Judaism on 2/12. The notes for this quiz can be found on the 2/6 and 2/7 slides posted on Google Classroom. After the open note quiz, we will start our study of Unit #4 Ancient India. We will discuss how geography impacted the early settlement of India, Hinduism/Buddhism, and the different empires that made an impact. 

 

7th Grade: This week, 7th-grade students will delve deeper into the formation of the Constitution. They'll explore the conclusion of the constitutional convention, examining the anatomy of its components such as the preamble, the articles, and the Bill of Rights.

 

8th Grade: This week, the 8th-grade students will complete Unit #4: A Union Challenged and Changed, and on 2/13, they will take a summative test. After that, they will start Unit #5: A Modern Nation Emerges, where they will explore how the nation undergoes transformation, businesses grow, working conditions change, labor unions form, and much more.

 

History Day: All students are required to continue working on their History Day project research. They should update their thesis statement with the research they have conducted so far. In addition, they will learn how to create an annotated bibliography in Chicago-style citations for their History Day project. Students must submit 3 sources and the updated thesis on February 19th.