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PLEASE NOTE:CHINA BOOK REPORT BROCHURE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8!!
The Mabry Middle School GEOGRAPHY BEE is scheduled for Thursday, December 14. Most students took the qualifying exam last Monday, makeups will be given Monday and Tuesday for interested students.
MONDAY: Challenges for China. We'll discuss the challenges that Chinese Communists have faced such as overpopulation, wars in Korea and Vietnam, food shortages, the Chinese Nationalists, etc. Students will be introduced to the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989 through journalist's notes. They'll have a writing assignment of creating a newspaper article from their notes. This assignment was originally due to be presented last week, but because of high absenteeism it was postponed. This assignment is due Friday, December 1.
TUESDAY: We'll discuss overpopulation and the one-child policy in China.
We'll also discuss HONG KONG's status as a government within another government.
Chapter 26 Quiz tomorrow! Study your chapter review and your Persia Organizer.
WEDNESDAY: DEAR. Students will read an article entitled, " North Korea Goes Nuclear" in UPFRONT magazine, published by the New York Times. Chapter 26 Quiz today!
THURSDAY: Students will use the WORLD AFFAIRS edition of UPFRONT magazine to identify the variety of governments in Southeast Asia. They'll create a MAP KEY and color in the various governments on a map.
FRIDAY: Today we'll use the differentiation strategy of cubing to answer a variety of probing questions about communism and socialism.
Don't forget to finish your news article on Tiananmen Sqaure for Monday, December 4. Your book report brochure is due Friday, December 8.

Posted by Mrs. Glenn