Friday April 4th: Video Questions

You can watch the video from Friday April 4th by following this link:

PBS

The questions to answer as you go through are:


1. What makes Wal-Mart's size unique, special, and new?
2. How does Wal-Mart use technology in new ways?
3. What kind of pressure did Wal-Mart put on Rubbermaid?
4. What is Wal-Mart's relationship with Chinese manufacturers?
5. How does this Wal-Mart model of trade affect other industries?
6. Give a specific example of an industry that has come to grief from Wal-Mart's business model.
7. What prospects does the growth of Wal-Mart leave for the American worker?

Quiz

Today will be our first quiz on social organizations and the social contract. All the answers will be found in your notes if you have been keeping up in class.

Good luck, but better studying.

SCS30

Use the link below to find the page and begin your research.


Foriegn Policy.

Getting Work Done

We're coming up to Christmas break, and there is not much time left in the first semester after that. It is the perfect time to get done all your work that hasn't been completed yet. I give NO PENALTIES for late work, so if you finish it, I will mark it.

To find out if you are missing any work, check using the student or parent login to ConnectEd on our website. Log in and any marks that have been reported as 0 are for work that was never done. If there is no mark entered, I might not yet have gotten around to marking it. So only worry about the 0s, not the no marks.

Let's all do our best to get on track before the busy January season.

Away for a While

As I have been telling students for the last couple weeks, I have a surgery coming up for my torn rotator cuff. This means I will miss over a week of school. I will, however, keep planning the classes and checking with your subs to be sure everyone is keeping up and is well-behaved. I emphasize this second point - behave in the same manner for the sub the same way you would for me. I always feel disappointed when I hear students were trying to get something past a substitute teacher.

That said, I will try to keep this blog updated from home, and may even stop in to check that everything is going as planned.

HIS 10, Sept. 16

We are working in the Library today, so follow the link below to find information on the aftermath of September 11.

Wikipedia link.

Back for Another Fine Year

We're off to the races in another school year. I have two high school classes this term, so this blog will help you keep up, stay on top of assignments, and check anything you've missed.

HIS10 - we have finished working with visual representations in the Social Sciences and should have turned in 9 questions related to maps, graphs, and timelines.

SCS30 - we are working with the Charter or Rights and looking for historical precedents related to these rights. We will continue this in he library today and be ready to present (3 PowerPoint slides - 1 per question) tommorrow.