This semester brought a new addition to the Blue Days. Mrs. Clark and her husband relocated back to her hometown of Dallas, Texas. Katherine Laskey has come in to co-teach on these days. Ms. Laskey comes with 13 years of experience in the Miami area and the last five being in a co-teaching environment. She spent a year in Newton County before accepting the position here. She is a dedicated teacher and has brought lots and lots of new ideas to incorporate in the classroom. If you need to contact her, you may reach her at Katherine.Laskey@cobbk12.org.
Through this week we completed the maps and started working on a "Physical Features" map assignment where students found the direction (N,S,E,W) and countries that each of the important locations are found.
The students discussed a series of Power Point slides showing many of the areas featured on their maps and why it is important that they know each of them. The full Power Point is below. We will use it throughout this unit. This section stops at the slide covering the Sahel. Also, the second slide shows all the important physical features highlighted during this unit.
We ended the week studying the cause and effects of desertification in the Sahara and the Sahel. These assignments need to be scanned into the computer so that I can add them to the blog. I will be working on this over the weekend and will have those added on an upcoming post.
In the coming week, we will work on the issues of water pollution and the unequal distribution of water, plus how physical characteristics affect how people live, work and travel.
IMPORTANT: Martin Luther King Day is Monday. This is a holiday, please do not come to school. We won't be here.
IMPORTANT #2: Student led Conference Week will be coming up Mon, Jan 26 - Fri, Jan 30. Parents and Guardians should have or will receive an invitation with the appointment time. Please return the attached sheet. Conference week will be early release each day. Please make arrangements.
Our Students of the Week for Silver Days are Takoyia M (S3) and Jessline T. (S4) and for Blue Days is Ramiro C. (B2). You all are determined to succeed in the class and your efforts are very appreciated.
Great job to all our competitors in the classroom National Geographic Geography Bee. You all did a fantastic job! We especially congratulate the pod 7A winners: 1st - Yenab S. (B3), 2nd - Jalen B. (S4), and 3rd - Christopher W. (B2).
A Thought to Remember: "What Dr. King understood is that if just one person chose to walk instead of ride the bus, those walls of oppression would not be moved. But maybe if a few more walked, the foundation might start to shake. If a few more women were willing to do what Rosa Parks had done, maybe the cracks would start to show. If teenagers took freedom rides from North to South, maybe a few bricks would come loose. Maybe if white folks marched because they had come to understand that their freedom too was at stake in the impending battle, the wall would begin to sway. And if enough Americans were awakened to the injustice; if they joined together, North and South, rich and poor, Christian and Jew, then perhaps that wall would come tumbling down, and justice would flow like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream." - Barack Obama (From the same pulpit at Ebenezer Baptist Church where Dr. Martin Luther King preached.) January 21, 2008.
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