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Email me your baseball cards when you finish!  :)

Amy_Taylor@roundrockisd.org

World History STAAR on Wednesday the 8th

The World History STAAR Test is Wednesday the 8th!  Please make sure you prepare tonight and tomorrow. 

Please watch these short review videos:
World History - http://vimeo.com/3142016
U.S. History - http://vimeo.com/3233804

If you like playing the review games, here is a link:
http://www.quia.com/pages/taks10.html

You've been working hard all year, now it's time to show off your knowledge. You will do great on the test, you have everything you need to be successful. Take your time, read through the questions carefully, use the process of elimination and make your best educated guesses. Remember, our goal isn't to just pass, it's to earn level II or higher! Get some rest and make sure to review the nights before!!!

World History Baseball Card Project

•There are 52 people you need to know for the World History STAAR Exam

•You are going to make a baseball card for each person

•Create the cards in PowerPoint and when you are finished print it as a handout with 9 slides on each page

•You must include the following information on each card

          –Name

          –Years they were alive

          –2-3 sentences of why they were important

          –Picture

•Your cards do not all have to be identical in layout, you can switch it up as long as all of the required information is present

•This will count as a major grade! (= 2 Test Grades)

1.       Thomas Aquinas

2.       Archimedes

3.       William Blackstone

4.       Simon Bolivar

5.       Napoleon Bonaparte

6.       Robert Boyle

7.       John Calvin

8.       Chinese Student Protestors in Tiananmen Square

9.       Winston Churchill

10.    Copernicus

11.    Marie Curie

12.    Baron Charles de Montesquieu

13.    Thomas Edison

14.    Albert Einstein

15.    Elizabeth I

16.    Eratosthenes

17.    Galileo

18.    Mikhail Gorbachev

19.    Indira Gandhi

20.    Mohandas Gandhi

21.    Hammurabi

22.    Adolf Hitler

23.    Thomas Hobbes

24.    Thomas Jefferson

25.    Justinian

26.    John Locke

                27.    Las Madres e la Plaza de Mayo

28.    Nelson Mandela

29.    Karl Marx

30.    Golda Meir

31.    Benito Mussolini

32.    Isaac Newton

33.    Louis Pasteur

34.    Pope John Paul II

35.    Pythagoras

36.    Ronald Reagan

37.    Oscar Romero

38.    Franklin D. Roosevelt

39.    Jean Jacques Rousseau

40.    Natan Sharansky

41.    Adam Smith

42.    Joseph Stalin

43.    Mother Teresa

44.    Margaret Thatcher

45.    Hideki Tojo

46.    Queen Victoria

47.    Voltaire

48.    Lech Walesa

49.    James Watt

50.    William Wilberforce

51.    Woodrow Wilson

52.    Mao Zedong

DUE: May 2nd or 3rd in class or finish at home 

and turn it in May 6th or 7th!

Unit 10 Test

Wow, this Unit Test just keeps getting bumped back!  First for our STAAR ELA exams and now the no school day on Wednesday!

The new dates are B-Day will test on Friday, April 12th, and A-Day will test on Monday, April 15th!

Please be ready, because next week starts a new grading period, so this will play a big role in setting your overall grade.

This test is over WWI, Russian Revolution, Global Depression, and WWII.  You will get a study guide two class periods ahead of time.  Also, this is Ch. 23-26 in your textbook.  :)

It's almost summerrrrrrr!  Hang in there, you've worked hard all year, don't blow it at the end.  You have all summer to relax.

WWII Maps

Here are the finished WWII maps in case you did not finish in class.  They will be due after our Easter break.  :)  CLICK ON EACH MAP to make it bigger.

Map of Europe Pre/Post WWI

Here is the key if you did not finish your map assignment in class!  Your completed charts will be due next class.

CLICK ON THE IMAGE 

to make it larger

NCAA Tournament Challenge

Want to compete for a free lunch???

Play along with myself and other students by filling out a NCAA Basketball Bracket.  I will buy the winner lunch!  Plus it makes it more fun to watch and follow along.  :)

Go to the ESPN Tournament Challenge website

If you don't have an ESPN account, you will have to sign up, but don't worry it's free.

So sign up, or log in, and then join our group.

Group Name: Taylor's Class
Password: MNHS

And then fill out your bracket!  It has to be done before the first tip-off on Thursday.

GOOD LUCK!!!

WWI Map

Here is the WWI map from our Glencoe World History textbook if you did not finish coloring in yours during class.  CLICK ON THE MAP to make it bigger.

The three that aren't on this map are:

Libya = Allied Powers
Egypt = Allied Powers
Iceland = Neutral

Don't forget the fill-in-the-blank section on the front.  The word bank is at the very bottom of the page.

Spring Break!!!

Have a wonderful and safe spring break!

Unit 9 Tests have been entered in the gradebook.  The test was out of a total of 80points.  This will be your progress report grade.  We are already halfway through our 5th grading period!  Only one and a half to go...

If you haven't tested yet, your test is in the learning lab.  Please take it as soon as possible upon returning.