Recap of Our Week and Preview of the Upcoming Week

We had a busy week last week. We practiced on mapping our major landforms, and quizzed on that information on Thursday. By the way, great news, the majority of our students made an A on that quiz! We took notes on information about regions; what constitutes a region, what characteristics unify them. We continued to work on our Landforms Foldable project, and we attended a great speaker presentation by the author of Al Capone Does My Shirts, by Gennifer Choldenko.

In the coming week we will take notes on information about characteristics that divide regions, we will create a study guide that combines all of our regions information and then we will test on the information on Thursday. We will finish up our Landforms Foldables Project by Friday (hopefully); and on Friday we are expecting to have a guest speaker from the Confucious Institute at University of Memphis who will instruct students on the ancient Chinese game of GO, which is a component of our Honors Matrix for Cultural Geography studies. It will be another busy week.

One student asked me to refresh their mind as to what they needed to include on their Landforms Foldable because they wanted to take it home it home over the weekend. So, here is the reminder: one small research paragraph that is historic and informational, a few fun facts on a separate block of informational text, a drawing of the landform, some small pictures of products or tourist pictures of the landform, a small map if room allows, and a small 3D product sample if room allows (the example we used in class is a cotton ball to represent cotton produced along the Nile and Mississippi Rivers). 

Hope you all had a great three day weekend and are well rested to move into the fall portion of our semester.