Thank You & Homework & Lecture Slides

Gracias! to: IT Coordinator Mrs. Kucera for fixing my PC’s problems that were preventing log-ins.

HOMEWORK:

For Thursday:

Students need to bring in their Concept Review and their Sort the Meme assignments.

LECTURE SLIDES:

Revolutions in Worldviews

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Test # 3 Photos

 

Grades Updated & Lakeview Blog Aggregator

Grades have been updated this week to include the recent quiz on Cognition, Perception and Worldviews. Parents are invited to check their child’s progress at Parent Connect.

Mrs. Foellmer was kind enough to set up an RSS feed Aggregator blog for all 8th Grade LJHS blogs, organized by grade level, so that parents can get a quick summary of recent posts. A big thank-you to Mrs. Foellmer! Please see the link below:

8th Grade Team Blogs

Re-Post of Political Spectrum Lecture Slides

A student requested today that these slides be re-posted. I have agreed, though just FYI to those new to reading blogs: all old posts are archived and you may access them at any time either by clicking “previous entries” at the bottom of the page or using the calendar or archives in the sidebar.

Recommended Reading from the CCSD#66 Blogosphere

Blogs and wikis are potentially useful tools for enhancing communication because they have the capacity to be interactive – exchanging links and comments that contain information useful or interesting to the reader, blogger or (in the case of wikis) editor. In turn, repeated “virtual” interactions help build relationships that researchers term social networks which can also, when the members of the social network share a set of common professional goals, become a productive ” community of practice“.

In the interest of helping to encourage more interactivity and build an educational ”community of Practice” for District #66, I’ll be periodically featuring links to other teachers ( and someday, students) with interesting or important posts. Here is today’s round-up:

Mrs. Hayes – “What’s Happening in Reading????“

Miss Casey – “Washington, D.C. “

Dr. Tiede – “Strategic Planning Update“

Mrs. Onorato ( Ide ) -”October 5, 2007 Newsletter “

Miss Shahnasarian (Prairieview) -“Wild Week Wrap-Up“

That’s it!

FORMS OF GOVERNMENT & THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM – New Unit Vocabulary

We are starting a unit on the forms of government and the philosophies of the modern political spectrum. Below is our unit vocabulary by category:

Forms of Government & Related Terms:

Anarchy, Tyranny, Monarchy, Aristocracy, Oligarchy, Democracy, Republic, Dictatorship, State of Nature, Social Contract, Natural Law, Revolution, Right of Revolution, Sovereign, Popular Sovereignty, State, Nation, Rule-Set

Political Spectrum & Related Terms:

Anarchist, Radical, Liberal, Moderate, Conservative, Reactionary, Authoritarian, Totalitarian, Libertarian, Populist

Philosophers & Thinkers:

Aristotle, Plato, Polybius, Cicero, Machiavelli, Baron de Montesquieu, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, James Madison, Edmund Burke

New Social Studies Blog for Lakeview Jr. High

…. is cool.

This WordPress blog will replace the blogger site used last year for the 8th grade Social Studies class. This site is currently under construction.