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September 5th• 1st thru 3rd Periods: Elaborate on the time period that you

want to learn about this year and why?

• 4th: Elaborate on how a proactive, can-do attitude leads to greater achievements?

• 5th: Elaborate why the Europeans explore the world’s oceans and colonize the Americas?

• 6th: Analyze the challenges related to teaching and how teachers meet them?

• 7th: Compare and contrast the assumptions about the roles of men and women in our society?

September 6th• 1st – 3rd: Do you believe that issue like those of the 1850 still exist

today?

• 4th: What actions will you take this week to influence those around you?

• 5th : Elaborate what you expect to achieve this year in this class?

• 6th & 7th: What positive or negative influences can a transition person have on you?

September 7th• 1st thru 3rd: What motivation brought might you add why

many immigrants came to the United States in the late 1800s?

• 4th: What actions will you take this week to influence those around you?

• 5th: Elaborate how the early civilization played an effect on our society today.

• 6th & 7th: What actions will you take this week to influence those around you?

September 10th• 1st thru 3rd: Elaborate on the effects on the Native Americans

to the “Americanization” of the Native American children.

• 4th: Analysis why people who synergize see differences as strengths, not weakness.

• 5th: During the 1600 and 1700s elaborate why people came to the United States? Do you believe those reason are different today?

• 6th: No journal! Presentation to elementary!

• 7th: Elaborate on the different theories that Freud has the human personality developing as the result of our having to try to strike a balance in our lives.

September 11th• Elaborate why Americans consider

September 11th to be a great American historical point. Do you believe it is as significant event as December 7th or the American Revolution? Why or why not?

September 12th• 1st – 3rd: Elaborate on what the “pursuit of the American dream”

means to immigrants? Do you think immigrants found what they are seeking? Why or why not?

• 4th: Elaborate how accurate the self assessment was or was not.

• 5th: During the 1600 and 1700s elaborate why people came to the United States? Do you believe those reason are different today?

• 6th: Identify and elaborate at least three personal qualities that you fee an effective teacher should have. Explain why each is important to teaching success.

• 7th: Compare and contrast free will and predetermination

September 13th• 1st thru 3rd: What role did schools play in the Americanization

movement to assimilate immigrants?

• 4th: Elaborate how people might learn differently?

• 5th: Justify why exploration was so important in the 1600’s to the European countries?

• 6th: What role did schools play in the Americanization movement to assimilate immigrants?

• 7th: Thinking about your life, do you ever consider that your life is like a book consisting of chapters that you write as you go. Why or why not?

September 17th•All Classes: Elaborate the intent, meaning, and importance of the Declaration of Independence?

September 18th• To All Classes:

What are the pros and cons of the United States Constitution?


What is the important main idea of the Declaration of Independence and elaborate why you believe this?


Elaborate whether the Constitution is still a viable document in our society today?

September 21st• 1st thru 3rd: No Journal! Good Luck on Quiz!

• 4th: Elaborate why specific jobs interest you and other do not?

• 5th: No Journal! Good Luck on Quiz!

• 6th and 7th: How would you defend the Bill of Rights?

September 24th• 1st thru 3rd: Elaborate how industrialization improves the

standard of living of rural and urban Americans?

• 4th: Elaborate the hardest thing about looking for the right college for you.

• 5th: Elaborate on how religion and virtue contribute to the growth of representative government in the Americas?

• 6th: Elaborate on the difficulties English language learners have and how classroom teachers can help them.

• 7th: Some people are attracted by Freud’s ideas, while other find them slightly ridiculous. Elaborate where you stand?

September 25th• 1st thru 3rd: Benchmark Test! Good Luck!

• 4th: What are some things that a potential employer might look at when hiring you?

• 5th: Benchmark Test! Good Luck!

• 6th: Elaborate whether you think Intelligence Testing is really important.

• 7th: Elaborate whether Dr. Freud’s idea that we do things that unconscious or they simply things that we are taught over time.


• 4th: Elaborate on what you are looking at in a College or Technical Program.


• 6th: What is your opinion to offer auditory learners music or other means to learn?

• 7th: How do you think intelligent testing falls under the various theorist?


• 4th: What are important issues to you?


• 6th: No journals! Enjoy!

• 7th: No journals! Enjoy!

September 28th• 1st thru 3rd: No Journal! Enjoy the Junior-Senior Breakfast!

• 4th: Elaborate on one of the qualities that you consider as your best quality and why?

• 5th: Justify why it is important the voices of the people be heard?

• 6th: Do you notice a difference in visual things in bright or dark colors and why?

• 7th: What causes us to grow the most in intelligence: education or peers and why?

October 2nd• 1st thru 3rd: In opinion does that government have any control

over big business or does big business influence the government more than the average citizen?

• 4th: Elaborate on one of the qualities that you consider as your weakest quality and why?

• 5th: Justify why your document was important to the foundation of the United States?

• 6th: Placing yourself in the position of someone that has no sight or very little sight, how hard is it to learn?

• 7th: Elaborate how peers might effect our ego.

October 3rd• 1st thru 3rd: Elaborate how the automobile affect the standard

of living in the United States in the early 20th Century?

• 4th: Elaborate how our family and peer’s effect whether we pursue an education beyond high school?

• 5th: Elaborate why Europeans explored the world’s oceans and colonize the Americas?

• 6th: Justify the relevance of education in today’s society?

• 7th: Elaborate on what development theory is?

October 4th• 1st thru 3rd: Justify whether you think that the reason for

immigration has changed today from the 1900s, why or why not?

• 4th: State three objects that you hope to accomplish out of the college transition class this year.

• 5th: Elaborate what you imagine life to be like during the colonial times?

• 6th: No journal! Work on note cards for tours!

• 7th: Justify what you think is the greatest human characteristic that a person has?

October 5th

•A+ KNIGHTS HAVE A SAFE AND WONDERFUL

HOMECOMING!

October 8th• 1st thru 3rd: How did the automobile affect the standard of

living in the United States in the early 20th century?

• 4th: Elaborate how is the best way to prioritize your time?

• 5th: How do you prioritize political, economic, religious and social reason for the establishment for the thirteen English colonies?

• 6th: No journal! Work on note cards for tours!

• 7th: According to cognitive theory, why do young children think differently than teens?

October 9th• 1st thru 3rd: No Journal! Good Luck!

• 4th: Elaborate on how challenges in life can make you a stronger person.

• 5th: No Journal! Good Luck!

• 6th: In the field of education why it becoming necessary to speak for teachers to speak multiple languages.

• 7th: If there are various of different theories, in the world on how children develop, what is the correct one.

October 10th• 1st thru 3rd: Elaborate on the difference between immigration

and migration.

• 4th: Analyze the following quote “All mankind…being equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions”.

• 5th: Elaborate why Europeans explored the world’s oceans and colonize the Americas?

• 6th: Elaborate on your impression on meeting the Superintendent for A+ Schools?

• 7th: Elaborate on your idea on becoming a theorist.

October 11th• 1st thru 3rd: : Do you believe that issue like those of the 1850 still exist

today?

• 4th: Would you prefer to prepare for college your Senior year in high school or as you advance through school. Why or why not?

• 5th: Elaborate on what a compass rose is?

• 6th: Elaborate how common items can make education fun?

• 7th: What is the hardest or the easiest thing about developing a study of your particular group of students?

October 18th• 1st thru 3rd: What would account for the large increase in the

population of the West after 1860?

• 4th: Elaborate on how people impact our lives?

• 5th: Justify why the Declaration of Independence is still has important impact on American History?

• 6th: Elaborate are the advantages of taking challenging courses while still in high school?

• 7th: Explain the development of Freud’s ideas about the unconscious?

October 19th• ALL CLASSES:

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October 22nd• 1st thru 3rd: Elaborate how did the 17th Amendment to the

U.S. Constitution give more political power to the individual voter?

• 4th: Elaborate how peer pressure effects ones decision making?

• 5th: Elaborate on the main causes of the French and Indian War?

• 6th: Elaborate on characteristics that make a teacher effective?

• 7th: According to Freud, which component of the personality forms first?

October 23rd• 1st thru 3rd: Compare and contrast segregation in late 1890s

with what you know of the 1960s?

• 4th: What are some things you look for in a college?

• 5th: Justify how the French and Indian War make the colonies ripe for change?

• 6th: Justify what the most important role of a teacher?

• 7th: Elaborate on what kind of personality you have?

October 24th• 1st thru 3rd: No Journal! Good Luck!

• 4th: Name one of the most unique features about someone you know and what makes them important to you.

• 5th: What were the causes and effects of the Declaration of Independence?

• 6th: Elaborate on the defense mechanism best explains how an emotion can be transferred from its original to more accessible substitute?

• 7th: Elaborate on whether personalities that are alike or similar attract each other.

October 25th• 1st thru 3rd: Elaborate how did the 17th Amendment to the U.S.

Constitution give more political power to the individual voter?

• 4th: Should the Exit Test/TAKS Test be used for college admission test instead of forcing you to take a SAT/ACT Test? Why or why not?

• 5th: Describe the American Revolution Hero that you are working on?

• 6th: Elaborate whether you think teacher’s should be evaluated yearly on their performance or not? Why or why not?

• 7th: Elaborate on things that might cause ones personality to change or adapt depending on circumstances?

October 26th• ALL CLASSES:



Birth)



October 30th• 1st thru 3rd: What economic effects did international military conflicts

from the 1870s to 1920 have on the United States?

• 4th: Elaborate which college essay has been the hardest the to write and why?

• 5th: Elaborate on why the colonist angered by issuance of Proclamation of 1763?

• 6th: Elaborate whether Horace Mann was correct in his belief that every child was entitled to free education?

• 7th: Elaborate on how ones personality might effect how others treat them.

October 31st

November 1• 1st thru 3rd: Elaborate what were the results of US expansionism?

• 4th: Elaborate on who will have a great influence on what you do after high school, your peers or the adults in your life. Why?

• 5th: Elaborate on why the colonist angered by issuance of Proclamation of 1763?

• 6th: Justify why you selected the secondary or primary teachers that you selected observed.

• 7th: Elaborate which disease involves binge eating followed by purging.

November 2nd• ALL CLASSES:



Birth)



November 5th• 1st thru 3rd: Is big business important to American life? Why?

• 4th: Elaborate the on what you believe will be the hardest transition from being a high school student to being a graduate and not being required to attend to school any longer?

• 5th: What do you think was the colony that had the best economic activity?

• 6th: Elaborate on what respect means to you.

• 7th: Elaborate how ones personality can be harmful to someone?

November 6th• 1st thru 3rd: Justify why Commodore Matthew Perry might be

consider a hero in some circles?

• 4th: Who is your greatest inspiration and why?

• 5th: What term does the Declaration of Independence used to describe natural rights?

• 6th: Justify whether modifications for every student is feasible of a teachers time?

• 7th: Elaborate on a defense mechanism that you use when your are upset?

November 7th• 1st thru 3rd: Elaborate on why the United States believe it was

necessary to build/finish the Panama Canal?

• 4th: No Journal! Enjoy Rudy!

• 5th: The American colonist used the slogan, “No taxation without representation” elaborate on the meaning of this.

• 6th: Elaborate on what is the term of learning diversity means?

• 7th: Justify how memories can used to protect a person or could be harmful to person?

November 8th• ALL CLASSES:



Birth)



November 12th

• To All Classes: What does Veteran’s Day mean to you?

November 13th• To Al Class:

• Elaborate on your opinion on Texas to become the first state in the 21st Century to obtain enough signatures on a “.petitions demanding succession from the union following the reelection of Barack Obama, and are calling for their local and state government officials to resist the unjust laws enacted by the federal government.” As citizens of the State of the Texas and United States how do you feel about this?

November 14th• 1st thru 3rd: Elaborate how did the 17th Amendment to the

U.S. Constitution give more political power to the individual voter?

• 4th: Explain why setting a career goal is important, even if you change it later.

• 5th: Elaborate on the conditions that led Americans to change their system of government?

• 6th: Justify the purpose of a personal portfolio?

• 7th: Justify why it is important to assess a person’s characteristics, identify problems and psychological disorders, and to predict future behavior?

November 15th

Have a Safe and Wonderful Thanksgiving!

November 26th• 1st thru 3rd: Elaborate on what you know about the Great

War?

• 4th: What would be your best advise to underclassman about applying for college?

• 5th: Elaborate on the importance of the Articles of Confederation to the United States?

• 6th: Justify that the state mandate testing is effectively preparing students for the future or hurting them.

• 7th: Elaborate on the different forms of peer pressures that teens face today and how are positive ways to handle the pressures?

November 27th• 1st thru 3rd: Elaborate you believe the United States could

have avoided entering the Great War?

• 4th: Elaborate whether you must have all the answer and road maps made for you life charted when you graduated from high school?

• 5th: Compare and contrast National Powers and State Powers.

• 6th: Justify what you believe to be the greatest cognitive skill that a child learns and why?

• 7th: Elaborate on whether you think Alder or Freud was correct and why?

November 28th• 1st thru 3rd: Elaborate why you think Labor Unions formed?

• 4th: Elaborate on the reason it is important to have through resume?

• 5th: Hypothesis why the Constitution so important?

• 6th: Give three positive ways to deal with peer pressure in a social setting?

• 7th: Thinking about the Eyseneck theory which one model stands out most in your mind about yourself and why?

November 29th• 1st thru 3rd: Compare and contrast political changes occurred

within the United States as a result of declaring war on Germany in World War One.

• 4: Elaborate on why the different scholarship make one of their requirement an essay for their consideration of their scholarship.

• 5: Elaborate whether you think any one part of the Constitution is more important than the other?

• 6: Elaborate whether the growth of an individual affects their relationship with their peers.

• 7: Elaborate on what the theory that underlies the Roschach inkblot test?

November 30th• 1st thru 3rd: Elaborate why you believe the United States

avoided entering the Great War?

• 4th: Elaborate on why you think goal are important to have no matter what age.

• 5th: Justify why think that the Article of Confederation was so important to early Americans?

• 6th: Justify whether you believe all our behaviors are based on heredity or environment in which we live?

• 7th: Describe a positive model in your life and why they have been a positive model.

December 3rd• 1st thru 3rd: Elaborate on what were the causes of World War I

and reason for U.S. entry in the war?

• 4th: Elaborate on how movies like Rudy can act as inspiration to others.

• 5th: Elaborate on why the colonists seek to develop a week central government at the close of the Revolutionary War?

• 6th: As pre-teen what do you believe was the most difficult change from childhood to young adult?

• 7th: Explain what of the Maslow theories you selected as most important and why?

December 4th• 1st thru 3rd: Justify on whether President Wilson should of kept

the US from entry of the war for so long and why?

• 4th: Elaborate on why colleges require essays for admissions to college?

• 5th: Elaborate on why the colonists seek to develop a week central government at the close of the Revolutionary War?

• 6th: Elaborate whether you think Pavlov theory was a valid theory or not and why?

• 7th: Elaborate whether State Mandate Testing or Intelligence Testing is a better way to measure ones learning and why?

December 6th• 1st thru 3rd: Elaborate on the reason for U.S. entry in the war?

• 4th: Explain why setting a career is important while you are in high school?

• 5th: Why did the government under the Articles first seem effective in the years immediately following the Revolution?

• 6th: Elaborate who you think is better to evaluate a students ability on what they have obtained throughout the school the teacher or a state mandated test and why?

• 7th: Elaborate on how accurate psychological testing can be?

December 10th• 1st thru 3rd: Justify how specific needs result in scientific

discoveries and technological innovations?

• 4th: Elaborate which of the three essay has been the hardest to write and why?

• 5th: Elaborate how the Framers ensure that government power would be shared between national and state governments, as well as among the three branches of the federal government?

• 6th: No journal! Teaching lessons in Ms. Rodriguez class

• 7th: Justify whether a person’s strong personality in one area can help people over look the weaker personalities in another of a person.

December 11th• 1st thru 3rd: No Journal! Enjoy your movie!

• 4th: Elaborate on the importance of a cover letter over ones resumes?

• 5th: How did ideas from historic documents influence the US system of government?

• 6th: First Grade – Spelling Ms. Dudley’s Class

• 7th: Elaborate on example in your own experience where a particular sensation (sight, sound, taste, smell) regularly evokes a particular response? Can you think of an instance where a particular set of circumstance seems to bring about an automatic response in you?

December 12th• 1st thru 3rd: Elaborate what life was like in the 1915 for

Americans.

• 4th: Elaborate on where you study and why do you select this place?

• 5th: Elaborate how the compromise results in a peaceful resolution during a historical event?

• 6th: Identify five roles mail roles performed by teachers. Tell which you think is more important and why?

• 7th: Elaborate why teenager are more critical of themselves than younger children on their self esteem?

December 13th• 1st thru 3rd: Justify why Americans glorified the actions of Alvin

York.

• 4th: Elaborate why it is important to have internet safety in place at school.

• 5th: Do you think that the Declaration of Independence is still an important document today as it was when it was written? Why or why not?

• 6th: Identify three of the personal and professional qualities needed for teaching success and why?

• 7th: Elaborate which of the IQ analysis most strongly describes you.

December 14th• 1st thru 3rd: Elaborate which events most influenced President

Wilson’s decision to enter World War I?

• 4th: Elaborate on your hardest class and easiest class in high school and why?

• 5th: Elaborate why the Founding Fathers established a federal system?

• 6th: Elaborate on example in your own experience where a particular sensation (sight, sound, taste, smell) regularly evokes a particular response? Can you think of an instance where a particular set of circumstance seems to bring about an automatic response in you?

• 7th: According to Freud, which component of personality forms first?

December 18th

No more journals until after the New Year! Have a safe and wonderful Christmas Holiday!

Ms. Graves

January 7th• 1st thru 3rd: What political changes occurred within the United States

as a result of declaring war on Germany in World War 1?

• 4th: Elaborate how you expect college to be different than high school.

• 5th: Justify why think that the Article of Confederation was so important to early Americans?

• 6th: Elaborate on a fine-motor skill that requires hand-eye coordination and dexterity.

• 7th: Elaborate on what stage you are in your life? Look through the stages you have already been through and see whether you agree with Erikson about the issues that were important at each stage.

January 8th• 1st thru 3rd: Compare and contrast how economic

regulations by the Federal Reserve influence local economies.

• 4th: Why is college week to high schools?

• 5th: Justify what the major domestic problems were faced by the leaders of the new republic?

• 6th: Elaborate what shift in moral development occurs for some preteens?

• 7th: Elaborate which theory is most associated with behavior being tied to rewards and punishments?

January 10th• 1st – 3rd: What role did schools play in the

Americanization movement to assimilate immigrants?

• 4th: Elaborate on how a proactive, can-do attitude leads to greater achievements?

• 5th: Elaborate on one of the cause that George Washington faced during his Presidency?

• 6th & 7th: Elaborate on the importance on learning about how children and teenagers learned and develop for teachers.

January 11th

No journal until after finals! Work on your final

reviews and prepare to ask questions!

January 14th

No journal until after finals! Work on your final

reviews and prepare to ask questions!

Good Luck on Exams!

January 18th

First Semester is over what is the most ah-ah moment you learn this

semester.

January 28th1-3: Justify the difference of the great depression and the recession we are currently experiencing?

4: No journal! Finish movie!

5: Elaborate what the contributions of the Founding Fathers as models of civic virtue?

6: Elaborate how nonverbal cues help get students back on track without interrupting the flow of the lesson. Why is this benefit?

7: Elaborate on the use of generalization when you respond to a second stimulus that is similar to a conditional stimulus without additional training.

January 29th1-3: Compare and contrast actions taken by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the Great Depression and President Obama in response to the recession.

4: Elaborate on the term culture tolerance means?

5: Discuss whether you think Thomas Jefferson made a wise investment in the Louisiana Purchase considering he did not know what he was buying?

6: Elaborate whether you think one house classroom would still be beneficial today.

7: Justify on commenting on students’ positive achievements and behavior influence effort and future behavior? Explain your reasoning?

January 30th1-3: No Journal! Enjoy your play!

4: Elaborate what motivate you the most to do your very best in your classes?

5: Elaborate whether you would have the courage that Dolly Madison had in the face of danger to protect America’s historical documents?

6: Elaborate what you consider to be the greatest improvement in the education field?

7: Elaborate on the use of generalization when you respond to a second stimulus that is similar to a conditional stimulus without additional training.

January 31st1-3: Elaborate on the causes of the Great Depression?

4: What are you are the five (5) biggest goals in the next ten years?

5: Elaborate whether you think the same leadership qualifications are important today in a leader as they were when are country was being formed? Why or why not?

6: Elaborate why classroom management is so important to the learning environment?

7: Elaborate on which stage of cognitive learning is most important and why?

February 1st1-3: Hypothesis what you consider the most important time period between 1939 and 1945?

4: Elaborate whether you think you draw on your strength when times are tough.

5: Justify who you think was the greatest early leader of the United States? Why did you select this leader?

6th and 7th: No Journal! Early Release!

February 5th1-3: Compare and contrast the economic conditions of the world to those in the 1929-1945.

4: Elaborate what traditional jobs might disappear from the job market in the five to ten years?

5: Justify who you think was the greatest early leader of the United States? Why did you select this leader?

6: Explain why consistency is so important in handling behavioral problems?

7: Elaborate to be the hardest thing about keeping your “egg” safe to the end of your project.

February 6th1-3: Elaborate on what the major eras in US history from 1877 to the present and what are their defining characteristics?

4: How many different careers do you think you might have in your life? Why do you believe this.

5: Elaborate what challenges face the new nation under the Constitution?

6: Elaborate what you consider to be an engaging activity in class.

7: Elaborate what you think you will be the most challenging part of the egg baby project.

February 7th1-3: Elaborate what you think had to be the hardest challenge faced by the family. Why?

4: Elaborate on what you think is the biggest driving force on deciding the careers we ultimately do in our life.

5: . Identify at least three benefits of developing a personal behavior management plan.

6: Elaborate on the internal condition that orients a person toward a particular goal?

February 8th1-3: Elaborate how you think you might react if your were facing the hardships as some the families did in the great depression?

4: What is the most unique thing you found out about the college you are building a power point for?

5: Justify why you selected either Thomas Jefferson or Alexander Hamilton to write a campaign speech for.

6: Elaborate on what you think is the best kind of teaching management style?

7: Elaborate how the sense of achievement can be a great motivation factor?

February 12th1-3: Elaborate whether you believe Americans today have the same drive and motion to survive something like the Great Depression today?

4: Elaborate why you think the College Transition class is important to you?

5: Justify how the United States conduct its relations with other nations?

6: Elaborate how does creating a sense of community among class members help increase learning?

7: Justify the social needs refer to the desire to belong, to give and receive love, and to acquire.

February 13th1-3: No Journal! Good Luck on Test!

4: Justify whether your study habits will have to change as you continue your education.

5: No Journal! Good Luck on Test!

6:Explain why consistency is so important in handling behavioral problems?

7: Elaborate whether its important to learn to handle our emotions when dealing with others? Why or why not?

February 14th

February 19thBecause I feel like celebrating

there will be no journals for any classes!

This is my “Day” to you!Ms. G

February 21st1-3: Elaborate on the effect of the Great Depression on the American economy?

4: If you could give one piece of advice to underclassman about the preparing current grade or graduating what would advice would you give?

5: Elaborate why political parties change over time?

6: Elaborate all teachers are meant to teach all grade levels. Why or why not?

7: Elaborate on stressors in our life and depending our maturity we might handle those stressors differently.

February 22nd1-3: Justify a guiding principle of the New Deal economic policies?

4: Elaborate what is the most unique job that you have found so far for your ABC book?

5: Elaborate how does a democratic government distinguish between its rights and responsibility?

6: Elaborate all teachers are meant to teach all grade levels. Why or why not?

7: Elaborate on stressors in our life and depending our maturity we might handle those stressors differently.

February 25th1-3: Justify what could be done to prevent the effects of the Dust Bowl occurring today.

4: Explain why setting goals important, even if you change them later.

5: Elaborate what you know about Andrew Jackson?

6: Elaborate who is a teacher that has impacted your life? What made him or her so special?

7: Justify why the increase in crime and self-destructive behavior that occurs in adolescence and how this relates to the discussion about identity?

February 26th1-3: Elaborate what actions taken by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the Great Depression is a defining characteristic of the era.

4: Elaborate on what you excepted to get out of college transition class?

5: Justify why President Jackson support the introduction of a “spoils system”?

6: Elaborate why states have a primary responsibility for education?

7: Justify which type of memory that involves knowledge of language to include rules, words and meanings?

February 27th1-3: Compare and contrast changes to American society were the defining issues of both the Great Depression and New Deal.

4: If you could add one elective class to our campus, what would like to see added and elaborate why you like to see that class added as a selection.

5: Elaborate how the social and economic life change as the United States began to move from an agrarian to an industrial society?

6: Justify how your own community and schools how parents can be involved in the schools?

7: Elaborate what are zero tolerance policies? Why are they used?

February 28thCompare and contrast George Washington to President Obama administration and the challenges that they face as President of the United States.

March 11-3: Justify whether you believe that the New Deal policies that we have looked at were beneficial to the United States or not? Why?

4: Elaborate the most interesting job you have found in your ABC power point?

5: Justify why the writers of the Constitution put the words "to form a more perfect union" in the Preamble.

6: Elaborate how the 7 Habits could be extend from the school/students to the community and school?

7: Elaborate what are some positive motions?

March 51-3: Elaborate on the guiding principle of the New Deal economic policies?

4: Justify why good study habits are important?

5: Elaborate on the Congressional leader who proposed the Missouri Compromise and the importance of that compromise.

6: Elaborate the three most important parts of a lesson plan?

7: Elaborate six different ways child are different from adults?

March 61-3: Elaborate characterizes the era leading to World War II.

4: Discuss some of the bad study habits that people have.

5: Justify why the writers of the Constitution put the words "to form a more perfect union" in the Preamble.

6: Elaborate on two reasons teachers should uses a variety of teaching techniques?

7: Elaborate on the role does a mediator play in resolving a conflict?

March 7

Have a safe and wonderful Spring Break! Come back ready to work for up to TAKS and STAARS Testing!!!!!

March 191-3: Compare and contrast the event was the immediate cause for U.S. entry into World War II and World War I.

4: Justify why it is important why you should have multiple of choices plans for graduation.

5: Elaborate on the reasons for the removal and resettlement of Cherokee Indians during the Jacksonian era?

6: Identify the five main roles performed by teachers. Tell which you think is most important and why.

7: Justify the behavior modification technique would be most useful in changing aggressive behavior?

March 201-3: Justify position taken by the US in the 1930s not favor of any country side in a conflict.

4: Justify why you have selected some of the universities that you have selected and why?

5: Compare Americans belief in the Manifest Destiny of the United States in the 1800s and in the 2000s.

6: Elaborate what two processes work together in modeling?

7: Elaborate how positive reinforcement can also be used as a negative reinforcement.

March 211-3: Compare and contrast the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the Twin Towers and the American people’s reaction to these events?

4: Elaborate which of the 7 Habits you think is the most important and why?

5: Justify how the Northwest Ordinance established principles and procedures for orderly expansion of the United States?

6: Elaborate on what you think is the largest social issue that we have in our school and what we can do to help control the issue.

7: Elaborate on behavior modification technique that would be useful in getting people to change their behavior? Give specific example and explain how they are beneficial.

March 221-3: Compare and contrast the treatment of the Native Americans in the 1850 in the United States and the Jewish population in Europe in the 1930s?

4: (SAT QUESTION OF THE DAY) Laboratories have been warned that provisions for animal protection that in the past were merely _____________ will now be mandatory;_______________ of this policy will lose their federal research grants.

5: Elaborate on what abolitionist believed in?

6: Elaborate how can teachers stay up to date with the information in their subject area?

7: Elaborate on the two processes work together in modeling?

March 251-3: Elaborate on the importance of the American people support for entry into World War II?

4: The following sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. If the sentence contains an error, select the one underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence contains no error, select choice E. •In order to prepare for the speech he was given to all of the parents and teachers at the school, George practiced speaking in front of a group of his friends. No error

5: Elaborate on the effect of Northwest Ordinance of 1787 to provide for the orderly expansion of the United States.

6: Elaborate how teachers can stay up to date with the information in their subject area?

7: Justify how Freud’s idea how people might balance their lives?

March 261-3: Elaborate on the importance of the American people support for entry into World War II?

4: The jellyfish’s slow pulsing action propels it in a graceful, seemingly ------- drift, but its tentacles contain a poison potent enough to stun a swimming human.

(A) sinister (B) rhythmic (C) murky (D) harmless (E) patient

5: Elaborate the difference between life and existence of factory workers and slavery and which one think had a better life and why

6: Elaborate how teachers can stay up to date with the information in their subject area?

7: Elaborate how difficult how hard transition from childhood to adolescence can be?

March 281-3: Good Luck on Test!

4: Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Laboratories have been warned that provisions for animal protection that in the past were merely ------- will now be mandatory;------- of this policy will lose their federal research grants.•Answer Choices (A) comprehensive . . . Adversaries (B) nominal . . advocates •(C) disregarded . . proponents (D) recommended . . violators

5: Good Luck on Test!

6: What role does a mediator play in resolving a conflict?

7: Elaborate on the effects of having long term memory damage can have on someone?

April 1

Good Luck to all those participating in EOC and STAAR Testing this week!

April 81 thru 3: Compare and contrast the major causes of the Great Depression and the Recession that is being experienced today.

4: True to her altruistic beliefs, Natalie ------- the ------- attitude of her colleague that a client represented nothing more than a source of income and an opportunity for advancing one’s professional reputation.

Answer Choices (A) applauded . . conscientious (B) condoned . . aggressive (C) lamented . . mercenary (D) adopted . . egotistical (E) belittled . . magnanimous

5: Elaborate the changes in the western frontier and how these changes take their toll on the Native American people?

6: Elaborate two reasons teachers should use a variety of teaching techniques?

7: Elaborate on the term that best describes an intense or irrational fear?

April 91 thru 3: Elaborate the New Deal of the 1930s has had a continuing impact on Americans?

4: The professor asked the students to make sure they read the entire novel, both the twelve regular chapters and the extensive ------- materials that the author included at the beginning of the book.

Answer Choices (A) proleptic (B) redacted (C) prefatory (D) orthographic (E) conjunctive

5: Compare and contrast the American sprite of adventure and appreciation of unending possibilities and the building of legacy through technological accomplishment?

6: Explain how does active listening differ from just hearing what someone is saying?

7: Elaborate on what a semantic memory involves?

April 1040 days to End of School

8 days to TAKS/STARR Testing

1-3: There were multiple factors that explain the decline in the number of bank failures by 1937, elaborate on two factors?

4: True to her altruistic beliefs, Natalie ------- the ------- attitude of her colleague that a client represented nothing more than a source of income and an opportunity for advancing one’s professional reputation.

Answer Choices (A) applauded . . conscientious (B) condoned . . aggressive (C) lamented . . mercenary (D) adopted . . egotistical (E) belittled . . magnanimous

5: Compare and contrast the American sprite of adventure and appreciation of unending possibilities and the building of legacy through technological accomplishment.

6: What roles does a mediator play in resolving a conflict?

7: Elaborate on the importance of long term memory and its function in our life?



1-3: Elaborate what you know about the Korean War?

4: Part or all of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Select the option that produces the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A.

They are smaller than their counterparts in Africa, so Asiatic lions can be found only in Gir, a forest region in northwest India.

Answer Choices (A) They are smaller than their counterparts in Africa, so Asiatic lions (B) Its counterparts in Africa are bigger, but the Asiatic lion (C) The Asiatic lion is smaller than their counterparts in Africa, they (D) The counterparts of African lions in Asia are smaller, although they (E) Smaller than their counterparts in Africa, Asiatic lions

5: The organization of American government into a single national government and 50 state governments reflects what concept?

6: What roles does a mediator play in resolving a conflict?

7: Prepare a puppet how “I see myself”



1-3: Elaborate on the policies followed by the United States in the years between World War I and World War II?

4: The following sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. If the sentence contains an error, select the one underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence contains no error, select choice E.

(A)Although it is not a fast runner, (b) wolves can maintain a loping run for many miles, (c) running throughout the night (d) if necessary. (e) No error

Answer Choices (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

5: Elaborate if you had to live in 1860s and Civil War broke out who side you fight and why?

6: Prepare a puppet how “I see myself”

7: Continue to prepare a puppet how “I see myself”



1-3: Elaborate on one person made the big difference in our history?

4: The visually captivating nature of Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs suggests that the architect is a true _________________, infusing his designs with beauty as well as functionality.

Answer Choices (A) instigator (B) nonconformist (C) intellectual (D) minimalist (E) aesthete

5: Do you think Lincoln could have brought the country together after the Civil War? Why?





1-3: Elaborate on the rapid growth of cities from 1877 to 1898 in the United States was the result of what development.

4. Part or all of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Select the option that produces the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A.

They are smaller than their counterparts in Africa, so Asiatic lions can be found only in Gir, a forest region in northwest India.

Answer Choices (A) They are smaller than their counterparts in Africa, so Asiatic lions (B) Its counterparts in Africa are bigger, but the Asiatic lion (C) The Asiatic lion is smaller than their counterparts in Africa, they (D) The counterparts of African lions in Asia are smaller, although they (E) Smaller than their counterparts in Africa, Asiatic lions

5: Elaborate whether you think American Revolution or Civil War had the greatest impact on American History and why?

6-7: Continue to prepare a puppet how “I see myself”.



1-3: Elaborate on four post-War World II events that the United States participated in.

4: Define the SAT word of the day: balmy (adj) and a complete sentence.

5: Justify why the writers of the Constitution put the words “to form a more perfect union” in the Preamble?

6: Explain the difference between guided practice and independent practice?

7: Explain why well-developing thinking skills are even more essential thank knowledge?



1-3: Compare and contrast the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence are similar in their influence on American government.

4: Define the following SAT word daunt (verb) and use in a complete sentence.

5: Justify the important reason for the growth of colonial assemblies in British North America.

6: Elaborate whether you believe that district mandated curriculums and state testing takes away from the teachers ability to teach the student and if so why?

7: Explain the expectations that you know your family has for you that in your scheme?



T – Taking on the State Test

A – Attitude makes all the difference

K – Knights can do anything if we believe

S – Skills are in everything that we do!

Good luck to those that are Testing Next Week!!!!

Go, Do, and Conquer!


Lets regroup and start with journals on Monday!

Glad to see everyone back in class! Believe it or not you

were missed!


Lets regroup and start with journals on Tuesday!

Glad to see everyone back in class! Believe it or not you

were missed!


1-3: Elaborate why Officers like Captian Sobel were promoted when they had the inability to lead and no respect of their men.

4: The ballet stage is a bright, seemingly weightless world where gravity is continually being ______________ dancers.

Answer Choices (A) prolonged; (B) reapportioned (C) unbalanced (D) reflected (E) defied

5: Elaborate on why General Robert E. Lee thought that an attack down the middle verses attacking using the cover of the trees and rocks?

6: Justify why lesson plans are consider important to techers?

7: Elaborate whether you consider yourself over thinker or under thinker and why?

May 125 days to End of School

1-3: Elaborate why non-commission officers were willing to take such a risk for the unit against an officer that they thought was bad and face court martial over to get their point across. Do you think that they might of it handle it differently?

4: Scientists are studying the birth and growth of thunderstorms to discover what causes the difference between showers that enable crops to _____________ and ________________ storms that cause floods and erosions.

Answer Choices (A) flourish . . violent (B) wither . . damaging (C) grow . . harmless (D) parch . . severe (E) multiply . . essential

5: Elaborate why you believe Jeb Stewart was so descriptive of the pursuing battle and from the lack of faith in his men’ ability to survive the battle Cemetery Ridge?

6: Elaborate on why you think the five “E” approach in the objects insightful to teachers or substitutes?

7: Do you believe that when we get a mental image of something, it remains with us or effects our memories or thought process? Why or why not.


1-3: Elaborate whether there could have been way to prevent the initial confusion and large amount of loss of life on the initial invasion of Europe.

4: Although Paul Bowles wrote many musical pieces during his prolific career, his work as a composer was ultimately __________________ his writing, for which he received the most acclaim.

Answer Choices (A) demolished by (B) paramount to (C) overshadowed by (D) adjacent to

5: Elaborate whether you believe General Robert E Lee or General Ulysses Grant was a better leader during the Battle of Gettysburg? Why?

6: Elaborate how engage students with the use of your lessons in their lessons?

7: Describe a mental image and how did it effect your thought or belief in something?


Cinco de Mayo Celebration!!!

Why does the United States celebrate Cinco de Mayo and what is

significant about this event?


1-3: Why do you think the enlisted men like to have wild stories about the non-commission stories (true or not true)?

4: Many of today’s physicians and patients are _______________ high technology, captivated by computer-designed drugs and laser surgery.

Answer Choices (A) nervous about (B) defensive about (C) tolerant of (D) enamored of (E) overwhelmed by

5: Elaborate why trapper had to be able to do everything for shoot to preform medical procedure.

6: Elaborate whether you know if a Personal Plan that you could elaborate or if you would have to develop one for this class?

7: Elaborate what is the most creative thing you can do?


EOC Testing ~ Algebra I and

Geometry


EOC Testing ~ Biology and Chemistry


EOC Testing ~ World Geography, World History and AP World History


1-3: Elaborate how you might feel if you had to claim the laundry of fellow soldiers that had died or been injured in the line of duty.

4: The ballet stage is a bright, seemingly weightless world where gravity is continually being ___________________ by the dancers.

Answer Choices (A) prolonged (B) reapportioned (C) unbalanced (D) reflected (E) defied

5: Elaborate why the Indian Tribe was more willing to accept the Jacob than Jacob family was willing to accept her?

6: Elaborate what is the most creative thing you can do?

7: Elaborate whether you know if a Personal Plan that you could elaborate or if you would have to develop one for this class?


1-3: Elaborate why the senior officers covered their rank in the town that they freed?

4: Observing the newspaper’s tradition of __________________attention to accuracy, the reporter ______________every statement made by her informant.

Answer Choices (A) scrupulous . . verified (B) lax . . challenged (C) sporadic . . corroborated (D) systematic . . bungled (E) inordinate . . exaggerated

5: Elaborate why people were willing to leave the safety and security of familiarity to travel west whether they could lose their life easily.

6: Elaborate four characteristics needed for success in a teaching career?

7: Elaborate on the different types of language there is a communication system?


1-3: Do you agree if you are a leader you lead the way, no matter how easy or hard the mission it is?

4: Those scholars who believe that the true author of the poem died in 1812 consider the authenticity of this particular manuscript _______________ because it includes references to events that occurred in 1818.

Answer Choices (A) ageless (B) tenable (C) suspect (D) unique (E) legitimate

5: A large wagon train began in Missouri and only one wagon reached California, one person (that we know was taken captive by the Indians). Elaborate why California was such a great treasurer that people were willing to risk their lives.

6-7: Analyze your personal time management skills? What are two areas that could use improvement? What are some specific techniques you might try?


1-3: Elaborate how the military could order men into battle knowing that they were not dressed properly, had little ammunition and were out number.

4: The language of Anne Spencer’s poetry conveys an impression of ______________ that can be misleading: just when a poem seems to be echoing routine feelings, the diction suddenly sharpens to embody fresh and unexpected ideas.

Answer Choices (A) frivolity (B) triteness (C) diversity (D) lyricism (E) precision

5: Elaborate why you think that idea of wealth could drive people to the point of self destruction?

6-7: Identify another profession in which personal reputation and ethics are essential for success. Explain your selection.


1-3: Elaborate why they did not want “Doc” to go with them on the patrol?

4: Because it lacks water, this makes the area known as Death Valley a desert, but it is by no means devoid of life.

Answer Choices (A) Because it lacks water, this (B) They lack water, which (C) Water, the lack of which (D) Lacking water, it (E) Lack of water

5: Explain who might have be involved in developing a new state curriculum for course for students in the school?

6: Think of an example of a memorable lesson you experienced as a student. What was the topic of the lesson? How was it taught? What made it so special that you still remember it?


1-3: Elaborate why the 101st Airborne did not believe that they did not need anyone to rescue them.

4: No journal!!! But journals will be graded on Friday, May 24th NO EXCEPTIONS!!! Not turned in that day will be zero!

5: Elaborate why some of the Native American Indians were willing to bend to the ways of the “white man” while others fought change.

6-7: No journal!!! But journals will be graded on Friday, May 24th NO EXCEPTIONS!!! Not turned in that day will be zero!


1-3: Elaborate what has been the most interesting historical thing you learned this year in this class?

4: While a “rock” is usually defined as _____________________, or a combination, of one or more minerals, geologists often ------- the definition to include such materials as clay, loose sand, and certain limestones.

Answer Choices (A) a conglomeration . . limit (B) an aggregate . . extend (C) an element . . eliminate (D) a blend . . restrict (E) a product . . provide

5: Explain why the military would negotiate with the Native American then ride in then destroy their village.

6-7: Explain how active listening differ from just hearing what someone is saying?


1-3: No more journals for year! Good luck on finals exams and Congratulations on job well done on the TEKS!!!!

4:Many forests in the southern region of the continent are ____________ plant and animal diversity, partly because they never suffered the onslaught of glaciers that wiped out flora and fauna in northern forests long ago.

Answer Choices (A) rich in (B) devoid of (C) dependent on (D) protected from (E) conflicted about

5: Elaborate what has been the most interesting historical thing you learned this year in this class?

6-7: Elaborate what you would think is the most challenging thing about becoming a teacher?


1-3: No more journals for year! Good luck on finals exams and Congratulations on job well done on the TAKS!!!!

4: Elaborate on what you would think is the most challenging thing about reaching your career?

5: Explain why you believe that the U.S. military treated all Native American the same whether war tribe or not?

6: No more journals! Your journals are due on Friday!

7: Elaborate what you would think is the most challenging thing about becoming a teacher?


1-3: No more journals for year! Good luck on finals exams and Congratulations on job well done on the TAKS!!!!

4. Explain why your resume should be accurate representation of your abilities and skills.

5. As many of you are bilingual students, can you reflect how some of the Native American children felt having to learn a new language and customs and how?

6: No more journals! Your journals are due on Friday!

7 & 8 Period: Senior Awards!!!


No more journals! Study for final

exams!!!


Good Luck on Exams!!!

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