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Warm Up- Respond to the prompt below:

What are three topics from 8th grade Social Studies that you are very familiar with?

Work Session:

1. Go to Joinmyquiz.com and enter code: 71625463
2. Click here https://wbte.drcedirect.com/GA/#student-verification

Closing :

What is your plan of action to make sure your score at level 3 or 4 in the Social Studies portion of the Milestones Assessment?

Everyone: We will watch CNN 10. You will then complete the CNN 10 Journal

Option #1 

Complete  2 current event news articles (from a reliable source) within the last week involving any of the areas we have studied in S.W. Asia (Middle East). You will record your information on the Current Event template.

Option  #2

Middle East Conflict Stations Activities

Station 1

Station 2

Station 3

Station 4

Station 5

Station 6

Today you will begin conducting research for your Genius Hour Project.

1. Fill out the Note-Taking Cover Page
2. click MackinVIA then click on databases. These are the only  websites you may use.
3. As you conduct your research you will fill out the Bibliography handout and record your notes on notebook paper.

After you take the Social Studies Student Growth Measure (SGM) Assessment, you will do the activity below.

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Using what you know about economic systems and the information from the the chart listed above, read the scenario below and complete the task that follows.

At Cobb County Middle School, the cafeteria manager and the principal determ what foods will be sold in the cafeteria. They select the foods they believe are healthy for the students. Their goal is to provide a nutritional meals using government purchased products. To make sure that all students can afford lunch, they sell the meals a very low price.

The manager and principal do not consider what the students like or want to eat for lunch. They refuse to change the menu because they think the foods that students want are unhealthy. Students are stagin a silent protest by bringing their lunch rather than purchasing a lunch from the cafeteria.

Your Task

Open aWord document via Office 365. Explain how the principal and the cafeteria manager are running the school like a command economy. Rewrite the scenario to show how the cafeteria might be run more like a business in a market economy. Then discuss the major advantages and disadvantages of each way of running the cafeteria. Provide examples to support your answer.

EOG Review Days

Online Jeopardy (All Standards)

Quizziz History Standards

Use these game codes: 539542, 497798, 596547, 017238, 327288, 841757, 229837

Quizziz Geography Standards

Use these game codes: 528505, 167385, 408776, 320134, 006104

Government & Economics Standards

301537, 598496, 219732, 091017, 759855

Quizlet Review Activities

Latin America History & Gegraphy Quizlet

Year long Quizlet Review

Economics Standards Quizlet

This week will be our final full week of school for the 2018-19 school year. Please be reminded that the last day of school is May 22nd and we must ensure that learning is occurring up until the last day! Students will the the Student Growth Measure (SGM) test on May 16th. We will use this week to continue to review content that has been learned this year.

Tentative Schedule

Monday- Review (Geography Focus)

Tuesday- Review (History Focus)

Wednesday- Review (All areas)

Thursday- SGM Test

Friday- End of Year Tasks

This week we will  finish up our study of the history of Latin America and the Caribbean. There will be a test Friday. Please see below for our tentative schedule and assignment due dates.

Monday- Cuban Revolution

Tuesday- Explain the impact of poverty, the war on drugs, and migration to the United States on Latin America.

Wednesday- Push Pull Factors of Immigration

Thursday- Catch up & Review Day

Friday- History of Latin America Unit Test

The quiz will cover everything you learned this week about the geography of Latin America. Use the resources below along with your class materials to prepare for the quiz.

Click here  Use these game codes: 716674, 561376,149790, 209456

Latin America Maps (Quizlet)

This week we will learn about the geography of Latin America and the Caribbean. There will be a quiz Friday covering content learned this week. Please see below for this weeks tentative schedule.

Monday- Mapping activity

Tuesday- Physical features of Latin America/Caribbean

Wednesday – Climate, location & population distribution

Thursday- Environmental Issues

Friday- Quiz and Geography Task

Home work due Friday-LatinAmericaGeographyPacket