24 December 2008

Additional Research Opportunities posted

SPARTANS,

The third candle has been lit and the Additional Research Opportunities optional assignment has been posted. As indicated on 18 December, the assignment is posted on www.schoolandteacher.net on our class page on the calendar date 19 December. Check it out and read CAREFULLY.

Buena suerte,

Mr. Todd

22 December 2008

Additional Research Opportunities, Option 5, PHI Research

Season's Greetings, SPARTANS,

I hope all of you are enjoying your break. I am working on posting your "Additional Research Opportunities" (ARO), as well as your Option 5 Vocabulary on schoolandteacher.net within the next couple of days.

Remember that if you are planning on pursuing any of the ARO, you need to contact me first for approval. Additionally, any ARO must relate to the IB HOA curriculum, specifically Options 1-7 (up to the Great Depression, roughly 1929-1939). If you visit a museum, you must save and include your admission ticket. If you do not follow these directions, you risk not earning any credit for your work. I explained all of these requirements when I introduced this assignment, but I want to make sure you remember them.

If you did not get the chance to submit to me your ONE Practice Historical Investigation (PHI) Plan of Investigation/research question, please do so as soon as we return from break, or email me over break. I will do my best to respond as promptly as I can. You should be doing research over break a bit, as well. Remember, the next DEADLINE is January 13.

Pace yourself on your work, and enjoy your time off from school.


Happy holidays,

Mr. Todd

07 December 2008

Weekend HW and Cam Library meeting

SPARTANS:

Remember that your homework for the weekend is to familiarize yourself with Chapters 23 and 24 in The American Pageant. I do not expect you to read every word, but know the subjects of the chapters and sections.

Also, in review: we are meeting at the Camarillo Public Library at or before 3pm today, 7 December. The library is near the hospital and police station in Camarillo, on the end of Las Posas where is loops around near Lewis Road.

Here is a website: http://www.vencolibrary.org/

Click on "Camarillo Library" then scroll all the way down to the "Directions" section for a map.

We will meet in the community room, inside the double brown doors inside the library. There should be a sign. We are meeting with Ms. Alyson Kaye.

See you there (or on Monday),
Mr. Todd