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		<title>Pretty Good Books &#8211; Extra Credit Option</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to encourage students to engage in the reading of meaningful books &#8211; and to throw some help to students who have struggled recently with the concept of deadlines  - I am starting the Pretty Good Books Extra Credit Option for 8th grade Social Studies. Students will be eligible, if they so choose, to read [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ljhs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1529564&amp;post=450&amp;subd=ljhs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Unit: Gilded Age&#8230;.Age of Imperialism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This unit is focused on the industrial revolution of the 19th century and the emergence of America as a great power in the world. There are components on economics, American and world history.     Categories: Economics, History, Ideas, student information, units, World histor<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ljhs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1529564&amp;post=445&amp;subd=ljhs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update on Political Spectrum Project Research</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 8th grade has been working hard on their political science research project. During the first phase, students individually research subtopics in a general political category (ex. &#8220;Vladimir Lenin&#8221; and &#8220;Saul Alinsky&#8221; under &#8220;Radicals&#8221;). The students are doing 40 note cards and a bibliography of sources and will have had 7 class periods in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ljhs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1529564&amp;post=440&amp;subd=ljhs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Political Spectrum Lecture Slides II</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lecture slides     Categories: History, Ideas, Political Science, slideshare, student information<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ljhs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1529564&amp;post=437&amp;subd=ljhs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Critical Question Mapping</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Critical Question Mapping is a &#8220;technique for fast learning&#8221; developed by scientist and innovation consultsnt Dr. Terry Barnhart.  In critical question mapping, a group led by a facilitator generates the questions that need to be answered in order to accomlish a strategic goal or objective. Then the mass of questions are organized into coherent groupings [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ljhs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1529564&amp;post=430&amp;subd=ljhs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lecture: Forms of Government</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Partially finished lecture focused on the contributions of the ancient Greeks and Romans and then the French Revolution to our understanding of government and the political spectrum. Will be continued this week.    <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ljhs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1529564&amp;post=427&amp;subd=ljhs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unit Vocabulary: Forms of Government &amp; Political Spectrum</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#38; 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, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ljhs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1529564&amp;post=424&amp;subd=ljhs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forms of Government include the Iron Fist of Tyranny!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students have begun learning about Forms of Government: Anarchy Aristocracy Monarchy Oligarchy Democracy Republic Tyranny<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ljhs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1529564&amp;post=422&amp;subd=ljhs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>QUIZ</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday we have a short quiz on Perception, Cognition and Worldviews. Students should use their two practice quiz sheets to study. The quiz format will be the same.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ljhs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1529564&amp;post=419&amp;subd=ljhs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>8th Grade Worldview Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students are working on a worldview project this week and next in Social Studies that will culminate in a poster or 3-D object that illustrates and explains the 8th grade LJHS worldview. Time has also been allotted in class for purposes of planning and coordinating among group members, designing the project, checking for progress, using computers and other collaboration. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ljhs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1529564&amp;post=417&amp;subd=ljhs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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