October-November Trade

While I take a gander outside after spending my morning getting the leaves off my front lawn, I can't help but wonder if nature is playing a trick on us.  It seems to me that October and November have swapped places, which means December could feel more like January - a scary prospect.

Isabel H-A wanted me to extend the invite to the Southwest Belly-Dancing Club's event tomorrow afternoon.  You can see the facebook link here, but the info is below:
Sunday Nov 22, 2-4 PM, Westminster Church, 1200 Nicollet (in the Great Hall).
I hope to attend and see some of you there.

That is, of course, if we are all still alive.  With the opening of "2012" last weekend, and the following news from Utah, I wonder if the Mayans may be right...



Even stranger still is what you see below.  Wow.

You're Going to Love This...

I hope things went will with the quiz today.  We'll spend 5 mins tomorrow entering your choices into the clickers tomorrow.  I had a good day - remind me to tell you about it tomorrow.  If you do not have a gmail account, I suggest you get one.  There will be another cool interweb (really web 2.0) thing that will make your lives so much easier.  You see, I uploaded the Presidential Legacies spreadhseet to my other google account (the one I was going to use for school, but I just ended up blogging with this one).  So, you can download it from there.  Old news, I know - that's what Moodle is for, right?  Well, I added a nice feature to this one - YOU can change it online (adding, deleting information) and share your work with everyone.  Then, when it is done, you can save it and print it if you'd like for personal study purposes.  But there is a catch - even though you may not write something for every president, you should at least read about each one so you have the proper frame of reference when someone else writes the notes.  Go try...we'll see what it looks like in class tomorrow and how it has changed by Monday.  The formatting was lost, maybe someone wants to go in and fix that up for us...

Danger Ahead...

I am going to make the Ch. 8 and Ch. 9 quizzes tomorrow - AND the Ch. 10 quiz.  You're going to take the Ch. 10 quiz on Monday...with NO CLASSROOM PREP, followed by two days of Ch. 10 prep and ANOTHER Ch. 10 quiz the following Monday.  BOTH QUIZZES WILL COUNT.  Be prepared for similar experiences in the future.  I have asked, prodded, reminded you to read the chapter BEFORE the class prep, with little (if any) change.  So I have decided to have a pretest and post-test from now on, with both assessments being added to the gradebook.  So, read the chapters, and this since it's related to what we covered in class today.

I Can Spel

Every so often, teachers make mistakes...including typos.  If you are having difficulties with the Presidential Legacies spreadsheet, start by clicking on the right tab at the bottom of the Excel window.  Then look for what you need to gather.

Domestic Issues & Policies:  What problems did each president face and overcome (or not)?  Is there any legislation pushed for and passed (or not) that dealt solely with domestic (internal) affairs?

Foreign...Same thing but with foreign policy (other nations).

Major Achievement:  For what is each president known (if anything)?

Reputation:  Give a value (1-10, 11-20, 21-30, etc.) for each on where he ranks - you do NOT have to be specific.  Even go with HIGH, MIDDLE, or LOW.

You can use any site, but make sure to cite your sources (in the margins somewhere).  And read Ch. 9 before class tomorrow!  More directions in Friday's post: