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__10.3.2007 Wednesday__
 * Speak
 * Research on Enlightenment

__10.4.2007 Thursday__
 * Sentences editing
 * Reading textbook
 * "What RIGHTS do ALL PEOPLE deserve?“ discussion

__10.5.2007 Friday__
 * "What is the most important RIGHT that all people deserve?" 30 min. in class essay
 * Stations

__10.6.2007 Monday__
 * Analyzing the poem "Introduction of Poetry"
 * Homework Discussion

__26th October, 2007 (Friday)__ Stations Dicussion on homework (page 14 of Communicating Skills)

__1st 11, 2007 (Thurs)__ Humanity Text Book for key terms, below are the important words:

Important Key Terms:
 * 1) Inequality - When things are not equal
 * 2) Injustice - When things are not right
 * 3) Natural rights - Rights that you have since you were born
 * 4) Natural world
 * 5) Natural laws
 * 6) Isaac Newton - the physicist who discovered gravity when he saw an apple falling from the tree
 * 7) Locke -
 * 8) Rouseau -
 * 9) Monarch -
 * 10) Galileo Galilei - a itatly scientist and astronomer who first use the telescope to study the planets
 * 11) Diderd -
 * 12) Tycho Brach (bonus on quiz!) -
 * 13) Philosophes - thinkers
 * 14) Observation - what you see in an experiement
 * 15) Orbit
 * 16) Gravity - a natural force that pull things downwards
 * 17) Startling
 * 18) Analyze
 * 19) Copernicus - a scientist who first came out with the idea of "Earth move around the Sun"
 * 20) Institution - an important organization that controls the city (such as the Catholic Church and government)
 * 21) Diderot
 * 22) Develop
 * 23) Trace
 * 24) Corrupt
 * 25) Astronomer - scientist who studies planets, and other objects and matter outside the Earth's atmosphere

16/11/07(wed) look for poems discuss project step 3 Right poster

15/11/07(Thurs) Stations Take Notes for tomorrow( The Enlightenment)

29/11/07(Thurs) Questions on freerice.com Stations for the rest of the period

10/12/07 (Mon) Today misterjp gave us two puzzles. Here they are.

1. Move from square to any touching square, including diagonals, try to figure out a city, a capital city of a country. 2. The vowels (a, e, i, o, u) had been taken out of the following groups of letters. Replace the vowels and rearrange each word to figure out the name of the city, which is also a capital city. What are they? STPDB DNNL KHLCSTM RMDD
 * P || H || N || G ||
 * C || E || A || G ||
 * N || O || E || N ||

(Example: The solution to KGGNNH is Hong Kong)

11/12/07(Tuesday) -Spelling Ouiz -Paragraph puzzle -Maps 12/12/07 (Wednesday) -Map Quiz (Go to the book fair) -Writing the second conclusion draft, preparation 13/12/07(Thursday) -Stations --Conclusion ---Puzzle 14/12/07(Friday) -Use the whole class to do French Revolution project!!!

Notice: the following weeks will have no more Europe map quiz, but, American 13 colonies map quiz

11/1/08(friday) - finish the biography -prepare for the Essay Exam