NEW STUDENTS MUST READ THIS!!!!!

Please be sure if you have joined one of my classes within the last week that you sign up for Quizlet.com.  If you are signed up by Wednesday I will give you credit.  If not, the "zero" grade stays.  Please follow the directions below.

Here is the information as posted in early September for all students:

Here is the Quizlet info I told you about in class today!

Sign up with your actual name at www.quizlet.com, as discussed in class today.  Once that's done, "apply" to the course you are in - see below!

Global II students - "apply" to this class:

Mrs. Ramo's Global II Classes 2013-14

US History & Government students - "apply" to this one:

Mrs. Ramo's US History Classes 2013-14

Again, courses are not divided by class period, only by subject.  Be sure to use your actual first & last name as your username.

Global II HW: 10/2-10/16/13

The following packet will be handed out in class on Tuesday, 10/1.  Only the cover sheet is posted here.  Reminders will not be posted on Engrade.  As always, students are responsible for turning in all work on time & in proper format as discussed repeatedly in class!
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Global H & G II                                                                   10/2 – 10/16/13

Homework Assignments

All assignments are due by the date listed in the “date due” column.  Use your time wisely – do not wait until the night before to do all of your homework!  Take advantage of “light homework nights” to do another assignment that is due later in the week. 

Please see me if you have any problems with any assignment.   The following heading must be used on all assignments to gain credit for your work:

YOUR NAME                                                                        SUBJECT

ASSIGNMENT TITLE (on each assignment)                    CLASS PERIOD

You must write out all questions AND answer in complete sentences for work to be accepted!

All work to be handwritten on “loose-leaf” or notebook paper!  Typed or emailed work will not be accepted

OBJECTIVE	ASSIGNMENT TITLE	DATE DUE
Content Review Document Skills	HANDOUTS: (all questions must be completed on a separate sheet of paper.  Be sure to label EACH assignment!) The Useless Nature of Nobility Eavenly Bodies.” (Questions 1-3) Violence Claims the Revolution (Questions 1-3)	Wed., 10/2
Content Review	Causes of the French Revolution Questions HANDOUTS: (all questions must be completed on a separate sheet of paper.  Be sure to label EACH assignment!) Why did the French Revolt (Questions 1-5)	Thursday, 10/3
Content Review	The French Revolution Begins Questions	Friday, 10/4
Content Review Document Skills	Writing Assignment #1 Writing Assignment #2 Chaos in France Questions HANDOUTS: (all questions must be completed on a separate sheet of paper.  Be sure to label EACH assignment!) Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia (Questions 1-3)	Monday, 10/7
Content Review	Napoleon Rules France Questions	Tuesday, 10/8
Content Review	Napoleon’s Effects on Europe Questions	Wed., 10/9
Content Review	Europe’s Reaction to the French Revolution & Napoleon Questions	Thursday, 10/10
Vocabulary Skills	Chapter 23 Vocabulary List/flash cards due (either one!) VOCABULARY QUIZ TODAY!!!!! Make-up for legal absence is Thursday, 10/17 in 2534, door locked at 2:05 PM sharp!	Friday, 10/11 QUIZ TODAY!
Content Review	Writing Assignment #3 Writing Assignment #4 HANDOUTS: (all questions must be completed on a separate sheet of paper.  Be sure to label EACH assignment!) How did the French Revolution Begin (Questions 1-5) How did the Revolution Change France? (questions 1-7) Check the blog for additional assignments due on Tuesday!!!!	Tuesday, 10/15
Content Review	CHAPTER 23 TEST TODAY!!!! Blue or black pen required to take exam.  Review is on Quizlet & labeled Chapter 23 Review. Make-up for legal absence is Thursday, 10/17 in 2534, door locked at 2:05 PM sharp!	Wed., 10/16 TEST TODAY!

Start your vocabulary right away and study your words every night

Reminders:

Your Vocabulary quiz & test will include all words & information to date

Online textbook:

See the link on the blog or in Engrade.  The French Revolution is covered in Chapter 23.

Remember to check the blog every day for updates, special postings, extra credit, etc.  Not checking will not be accepted as an excuse for not having your work done!

US History HW: 10/2-10/9/13

The following packet will be handed out in class on Tuesday, 10/1.  Only the cover sheet is posted here.  Reminders will not be posted on Engrade.  As always, students are responsible for turning in all work on time & in proper format as discussed repeatedly in class!
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U.S History & Govt                          10/2 – 10/9/13

Homework Assignments

All assignments are due by the date listed in the “date due” column. 

 Please see me in advance if you have any problems with any assignment.   The following heading must be used on all assignments to gain credit for your work:

YOUR NAME                                                                       SUBJECT

ASSIGNMENT TITLE (on each assignment)                   CLASS PERIOD

You must write out all questions AND answer in complete sentences for work to be accepted!

All work must be on loose-leaf or notebook paper in standard blue or black pen. 

Typed &/or emailed work will not be accepted. Work must be hand-written!

OBJECTIVE	ASSIGNMENT TITLE	DATE DUE
Content Review	Chapter 4 Section 1 Questions (in this packet)	Wed., 10/2
Content Review	Chapter 4 Section 2 Questions (in this packet)	Thursday, 10/3
Content Review	Chapter 4 Section 3 Questions (in this packet)	Friday, 10/4
Content Review	Chapter 4 Section 4 Questions (in this packet) Castle Learning Assignment: Chapters 1-4.  Counts as a test grade.  Opens on Tuesday, October 1st & closes at 7 AM Monday, 10/7. Check the blog for additional work that is also due today!	Monday, 10/7 TEST GRADE TODAY!!
Content Review	Vocabulary (words due and quiz on them today) Blue or Black pen required to take quiz!  Make up for legal absence is Thursday, 10/10 in 2534.  Door locked at 2:05.	Tuesday, 10/8 QUIZ TODAY!!
Content Review	CHAPTERs 1-4 TEST TODAY!!!! Blue or black pen required to take exam.  Review is on Quizlet & labeled Chapters 1-4 Review. Make-up for legal absence is Thursday, 10/10 in 2534, door locked at 2:05 PM sharp!	Wed., 10/9 TEST TODAY!!

Start your vocabulary right away and study your words every night

Reminders:

Your Vocabulary quiz & test will include all words & information to date

Online textbook:
See the link on the blog or in Engrade.

Remember to check the blog every day for updates, special postings, extra credit, etc.  Not checking will not be accepted as an excuse for not having your work done!

 

US History: Extra Credit (due Monday, 9/30!)

 

Want some extra credit? Using this video as a basis for your work, write a 1-2 page paper on the causes of the American Revolution. This is due no later than Monday, 9/30. It must be handwritten and remember...if you copy from somewhere I'll know! Use your own words based on what you've learned!

PS...I'm not giving you extra credit if you don't turn in all work due on Monday.  It's called "EXTRA credit," not "Make up zero's work."

Power Points no longer available tomorrow!

Please remember that all Power Points currently on Engrade for all classes will be removed tomorrow morning.  You have had 3 days to copy anything you missed.  This is the time limit to copy notes as discussed in class.

Remember, you must HAND COPY THEM into your notes.  If I see printouts during your NOTE QUIZZES I will remove them, confiscate them, and delete you from my class on Engrade.

(Yes, I can do that.  I am not required to use Engrade, I am not required to give you access to what I use, I only have to use some sort of grade book.)

Global II Parents, this is for you!

Please be advised that your student's review for Monday's Exam was posted in Quizlet on September 19th.  This has given them 11 days prior to the exam to review.  As explained to all students, I use prior Regents questions on my exams, they are given at Regents pace (1 question per minute determines how much time they get for the exam), and no extra time is given unless the student has an IEP allowing that.

I do not drop the lowest grade, and it appears from the Quizlet site that practically no one has signed into the review.  I am posting this for you because, as I warned the students, it is my belief that students who do not study will fail.  I base this on the last 15 years of teaching this course.

Please encourage your student to study.  The test is challenging but based on the information covered in class and on the assigned homework.

Thank you for your assistance in helping make your student as successful as possible!

If you don't have access to Power Point, read this!

Mr. Murphy had a suggestion for those of you without Power Point on your computers.  He said it works for phones & tablets since it's an app, but it might work for computers as well.  Best part?  It's free.

It's called "documents to go."  Do a Google search for it, see which one will work best for you, & download it.  I did the search and a bunch came up.  With it, you can read power points in Engrade.

I hope this is helpful!

Almost time for a whole mess of failures...

That's right?  Why?  Because you have a 9 PM deadline to sign into Engrade, access my class, and make sure you can view the power point notes.  I have responded to everyone who posted a comment that they had difficulty up to the time of this post.  I will continue to monitor that post for more signs of trouble until 8:45 PM, at which time I am signing out of the blog.

15 minutes later I will enter 1 of 2 grades for each of you - 100 or 0.

If you were LEGALLY absent today you will have a grace period until tomorrow night.  If you were truant or cutting...sorry.  That's what we call "consequences of your actions."

Get on it, you have just over an hour.

Edited at 8:28 PM:
As of 8:28 PM the following students are signed up with a grade of 100:
Period 2: Andrez, Brenda, Carolina, Claudia, Claudio, Debora, Jawad, Jonathan, Naqi, Raja, Shakeira, Tatiana

Period 3: Alyssa, Ana, Christina, Diego, Edgar G, Edwin R, Karen, Lourdes, Nicholas

Period 4: Bryan, Destiny, Erik, George, iris, Ismael, Jerick, Leon, Melanie, Meybel, both Oscars, Samantha, Shamirah, Yajaira, Ivan S, Julio

Period 6: Alicia, Bekr, Dayana, Erik, Evelyn, Giuseppe, Jasmine, Justine, Karen, Keisha, Kevin, Keyanae, Maria, Rocio, Sabdriel, Yanelis, Luis

Period 7: Alysha, Anthony, Ashley, Christopher, Danny, Jose, Kenverly, Keysy, Michael, Nicole, Sabrina, Patrick, Paola

New Plan - try this!

New plan...I have posted your power point notes in the "Calendar" section on Engrade for each class.  You should be able to click & open.  Let me know how that works, especially if you are having trouble finding them under the "APP" & "FILES" tabs.

US History: ALSO DUE MONDAY, 9/30...JUST ADDED!!!!!!

Go to the following Power Point presentation and copy it into your notes.  It belongs in Chapter 4. You will have a "did you do it" quiz on it Monday, 9/30.  I will ask you questions about the notes and you will copy your answers from those notes.   

PPT – Albany Plan of Union PowerPoint presentation | free to view

You do NOT have to write to "Do now."

You DO have to have a picture of the flag taped into your notes.  Print out a copy (or do a Google search for that cartoon) and tape it into your notes. 

ALL STUDENTS!!!!!

Remember to add a comment to THIS POST if you have difficulty registering with or accessing me on Engrade.  If you do NOT post such a comment by 9 PM tonight I will assume you failed to do as assigned & grade you accordingly.  Don't forget your first and last name PLUS class period or your comment will be invalid.

PS - I have posted the web addresses for this blog, quizlet, castle Learning, & your textbook online in the "discussions" section of Engrade for each class period.

US History Homework: Due 9/27 & Due 9/30

Homework Reminders:

•Heading:

Your name                                             Subject

Class Period                                           Assignment Title (name of handout)

•All work must be on loose-leaf paper unless stated otherwise

•Must rewrite the question on separate paper

•Must answer in a complete sentence by restating the question

•I do not accept late work, it is due at beginning of class

•I only accept standard blue or black pen (not typed, not emailed, no pencil, etc.

•Due Friday, 9/27:

–God Save the King (due Friday, 9/27)

–America’s Independent Way of Thinking (due Friday, 9/27)

- Sign into Engrade by 9 PM tonight & make sure you can access the power point notes

- Get your Expectation signed, bottom ONLY is due back tomorrow (test grade)

•Due Monday, 9/30

–Major Events that led to the American Revolution (can do on the handout for this one)

Democratic Precedents: Documents that Influenced the American Colonies (map labeled on handout, questions done on separate paper )

If you were absent today, all 4 handouts can be found in the back of the room in 2534, top & middle bins.

Engrade...time for YOU to teach ME

Ok, all you people who keep asking me about Engrade.  I can't figure it out.  If you know how it works or have any tips you can give me, please post them in the comment section below.  I will look into it again so I can put the notes online.  HOWEVER, if I see people not copying notes in class & using this as a crutch or excuse I will delete the notes faster than you can say "that's grimy."  See, I do speak some "teenage" after all.....

Global II: Quiz & Test Updates

To serve as a reminder AND as proof for your parents :) , the following changes were announced in class today:

1.  Your Chapter 22 Vocabulary list/flash cards (which ever you decided to do) are due tomorrow at the start of class.
2.  Your Vocab quiz will be tomorrow.
3.  Your Chapter 22 Exam will now be given on Monday, September 30th.
4.  Your test review has been active on Quizlet.com for over a week.

Study tonight.  Remember, a link to your textbook is in an earlier blog post.  You have lots of notes to use for your definitions as well!

See you tomorrow!

US History Homework: Due Friday, 9/20

For all three handouts (The Magna Carta, The House of Burgesses, and The Mayflower Compact):

1.  Highlight the important information (not color, highlight!)  Use this as your guide: you should only highlight the information that you think is important enough to make it into your chart - nothing more.

2.  On separate paper, answer the questions on all of the sheets.  Heading like below, questions written out the questions restated as the beginning on your answer, in standard blue or black pen...or you have wasted your time.

The following heading must be used on all assignments to gain credit for your work:

YOUR NAME                                                                     SUBJECT

ASSIGNMENT TITLE (on each assignment)                  CLASS PERIOD

You must write out all questions AND answer in complete sentences for work to be accepted!

All work to be complete on “loose-leaf” or notebook paper!

3.  You will turn in the questions since they cannot be on the handouts.  You will keep the handouts and use them during class.  Have a highlighter, since you got a zero in class today if you still didn't have one.

Global II: Homework Cover Sheet through September 25th

Packet was handed out in class on September 17th.  Extras are in the back of the room.

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Global H & G II                         9/18 – 9/25/13

Homework Assignments

All assignments are due by the date listed in the “date due” column

 

Please see me if you have any problems with any assignment.   The following heading must be used on all assignments to gain credit for your work:

YOUR NAME                                                         SUBJECT

ASSIGNMENT TITLE (on each assignment)     CLASS PERIOD

You must write out all questions AND answer in complete sentences for work to be accepted!

All work to be complete on “loose-leaf” or notebook paper!

OBJECTIVE	ASSIGNMENT TITLE	DATE DUE
Content Review Document Skills	HANDOUTS: (all questions must be completed on a separate sheet of paper.  Be sure to label EACH assignment!) Copernicus Writes “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies” Eavenly Bodies.” (Review questions 1-4) The Inquisition Convicts Galileo of Heresy (Review Questions 1-4)	Wed., 9/18
Content Review	“The Scientific Revolution” Questions (in this packet)	Thursday, 9/19
Content Review Document Skills	HANDOUT: (all questions must be completed on a separate sheet of paper.  Be sure to label EACH assignment!) John Locke on the Origins of Human Society & Government (Review Questions 1-5)	Friday, 9/20
Content Review	“The Enlightenment” Questions (in this packet) “Writing Assignments” 1, 2, & 3 (in this packet)	Monday, 9/23
Vocabulary Skills	Chapter 22 Vocabulary List/flash cards due VOCABULARY QUIZ TODAY!!!!! Make-up for legal absences is only Thursday, 9/26, at 2:10 PM in Room 2534.  Door is locked at 2:10, you will not be admitted late.	Tuesday, 9/24 QUIZ TODAY!
Content Review	CHAPTER 22 TEST TODAY!!!! This is NOT a full period test so bring your notebooks to class! Standard blue or black pen required to take exam Make-up for legal absences is only Thursday, 9/26, at 2:10 PM in Room 2534.  Door is locked at 2:10, you will not be admitted late.	Wed., 9/25 TEST TODAY!!

Web Site:

www.mrsramo.blogspot.com

Contains links for your textbook in a September post, some of the homework listed above, extra credit, & important updates & information.

You can find a review set for your exam on www.quizlet.com if you registered for it as the first week of school!