The Day We’ve Been Waiting For . . .

Ok . . . so maybe it is not the day you’ve all been waiting for, but, nevertheless, GreenBizz is finally here.  Yes, this week will be GreenBizz intensive.  You seniors have been working hard all semester for this moment.  So, take a deep breath and embrace the stress and excitement of this week.  Everything culminates on Thursday where we will be completely immersed in this project. We will get on a bus early Thursday and head over the DVC for the morning competition.  After the morning competition, we will have a few hours before we head over to the Centre Concord to prepare for the evening.  I’m excited to see all of you shine.

Some of you juniors may be thinking this does not apply and who cares.  However, this does apply to you.  GreenBizz is the culmination of all the presentation skills that we started working on when you are sophomores with the History of Our Families Project and Legacy of Imperialism.  We are continuing that work this year with the IDentity project and the spring semester project (yet to be titled).  Next year you too will be in the cyclone of stress, work, and excitement.  So, I encourage you juniors to come out on Thursday and see what all of the fuss is about!!

This last week in History we finished the Women’s Rights Movement. Unfortunately, we are a little behind.  So, that means we need to pick up the pace. This next week we need to examine the Hispanic American Movement, the Native American experience, and the Asian American Movement. This week will be heavy lecture during class time so you really want to be present, both mentally and physically. I will be handing out the outline of the material for the final exam on Friday so you can begin to study next weekend. Don’t forget — your History Scrapbook, which is part of the IDentity Project, is due on the day of the final exam — January 27.

In Economics we will obviously be preparing for GreenBizz.  The lab will be open on Monday from 9:00 – 3:00 for those of you that want to come in to continue your work. We have our last mentor meeting on Tuesday.  The focus of that meeting will be your presentation and the Innovation Fair.  On Friday we will be finishing our discussion of Monetary Policy and you will be given time to work on a guided reading reviewing the concepts discussed.  I will also be giving you an outline for the final exam so you can begin to study next weekend.

Tests:

U.S. History — Final Exam 1/27

Economics — Final Exam 1/28

Homework

U.S. History

1/20 — Cesar Chavez Article and Guided Reading

1/21 — Ch. 5 section 1 guided reading

1/22 — Ch. 23 section 1 guided reading

1/25 — Asian Americans Then & Now

Economics

1/19 — Mentor Meeting

1/21 — GreenBizz