Before the holidays, I informed students that they would have to plan and carry out a presentation based on an event or a famous person from Ancient Greece or Rome. I've experienced some technical issues on my end , plus I don't think that having students plan and present as planned in the next week or so would be fair to them in terms of giving them enough time to do a great job, so I have switched the topic of the presentation to a famous person from the Renaissance and th

We are just about to start learning about the Renaissance. This means we'll be switching to a new workbook: History of the World 2. (It is a follow-up to the workbook we used before the holiday, but the new book is red, not blue.) A test on Chapter 1 will happen on Wednesday, January 28. On Tuesday, February 3, Wednesday, February 4 and Thursday, February 5, students will do an autobiographical presentation on a famous person of the Renaissance period. There will be at l

We have already started our next unit: Energy Production . The major test for this unit will happen on Tuesday, February 3. The next two Geo Masters test dates are as follows: Tuesday, January 13 and Tuesday, January 20. (There will be at least one more Geo Master test before the end of Term 2, but I have not settled on a date yet.) There will also be a small, in-class assignment on the topic of energy. Details will be available soon...