Welcome to the Civics Homework Page! For your convenience, I will make sure that the homework page is kept up to date, so parents and students will always know what is due when. Please check the page regularly.
I have an email address, which I will check regularly, so please feel free to contact me electronically. My address: landersmichiel@gmail.com
For Civics, I need you to bring the following materials to class:
Civics book, paper in a three-ring binder, composition notebook, something to write with, and your planner.
HOMEWORK
***NOTE**** From now on, homework will be given in complete, grammatical sentences. Errors, misspellings, or incomplete sentences will have points deducted. You will have the opportunity to fix the errors and get it graded again.
For the Congress Chapter, we will do a project. The groups are as follows:
#1: Cale Astorg, Liz Ruscitto, Adam Sereno, Emily Koerber: you will cover Alan Mollohan
#2: Paul Fichtelman, MK Porter, Madonna Lott, Ryan Keller: you will cover Robert C. Byrd
#3: Daniel Collie, Bobby Casto, DJ Conner, Christina McAbee: Senator Rockefeller
#4: Meghan Burge, Arienne Miller, David Albert, Scott Dye:
MAY 12-16
TUESDAY, MAY 13: Election Day. No School. For extra credit, visit your polling place as your parent votes. Get an "I voted" sticker for 1 extra credit point, and then write something that you didn't know before about voting for another point.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 14: We will finish our project on Congressmen. Be prepared with your information, and what you need to make a poster or write a report.
Read Chapter 9, section 4: "How a bill becomes a law."
THURSDAY, MAY 15: We will go over how a bill becomes a law and take a quiz THAT DAY. Prepare well beforehand.
FRIDAY, MAY 16: TREK
THURSDAY, MAY 15:
WEDNESDAY, MAY 7: Chapter 9, section 3 questions due. Vocabulary is extra credit. We will cover this chapter today.
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN SCHEDULE!!! Due to Grandparents' Day and a TREK meeting scheduled on Friday, Mrs. Harris and I will have the group TREK meet on Thursday. We will finish the photo book and my 8th graders can help the others make the progress graph. There will be no quiz on Thursday. There will be no 1st period on Friday. Quiz and etc. will resume on Monday.
THURSDAY, MAY 8: Quiz on Chapter 9.3. After the quiz, we will work on the Congress project in class. be sure to have your materials gathered and ready to use. You will be graded on your contribution to your group.
FRIDAY, MAY 9: TREK. Hopefully, Mrs. Harris and I will have worked out the bugs to put the collected photos into book form. If you would like a book for yourself, we can arrange for you to purchase one. For Monday, Read Chapter 9, section 4.
TUESDAY, APRIL 29: We will cover Chapter 9, section 1.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30: Quiz on Chapter 9, section 1. Read Chapter 9, section 2.
THURSDAY, MAY 1: We will mail our letters and cover chapter 9, section 2.
FRIDAY, MAY 2: TREK.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23: Due today, Chapter 9, section 1 questions and vocabulary. That means that you are to read that section as well.
THURSDAY, APRIL 24: WAC final due today. You should give me two copies and they need to be Double Spaced.
FRIDAY, APRIL 25: We will be in the computer lab working on our TREK photos.
MONDAY, APRIL 14: We will finish Ch. 7, section 2. Journals are due today.
TUESDAY, APRIL 15 AND WED APRIL 16: SAT 10 testing. Please be sure you get plenty of rest for this.
THURSDAY, APRIL 17: WAC rough draft due. We will also take a quiz on Ch. 7, sec. 2. For homwork, read ch. 7, section 3.
FRIDAY, APRIL 18
MONDAY, APRIL 7, We will work on committees for our third party. We will make final decisions on platform.
Journals due.
TUESDAY, APRIL 8: We will finish up the third party platform and our PR committee will get the word out. Each person in the class must turn in a press release to me (this is your test grade) announcing the third party and what it stands for. Press release will be due Thursday. Use your notes from the committee and party meetings to highlight goals and planks in the platform.
Homework due for Wednesday: Read Ch. 7, section 1.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9: We will review 7.1. Homework due for Thursday: Read ch 7, section 2. do questions and vocabulary.
THURSDAY, APRIL 10: We will meet in the computer lab for TREK. Bring pictures to begin our photograph album project.
FRIDAY, APRIL 11: Golden Horseshoe. Good luck to MK, Liz, Madonna, Meghan, and Adam!!