TEXTBOOKS are due immediately!

Schedules for next school year will be held until all your textbooks from 6th grade have been turned in!

PANTHER DAY is WEDNESDAY, May 26th!
Panther Day tickets are on sale now in the cafeteria during lunch. Cost is $10 per ticket. Refreshments will be available for purchase.

For my Science classes:
We will launch rockets during Science on Tuesday!

For my Social Studies classes:
We will forge ahead into Chapter 31, The Search for Stability.

For Mrs. Horton’s Science classes:

Students in my Science class are going to construct and launch rockets over the next few class periods. Instructions for the materials needed to construct the rockets are being sent home with your students today, but in case that paper doesn’t make it home, here’s what it says:

“All your child will need to complete this project is a two liter plastic soft drink bottle, some posterboard (which they will cut into various shapes), and a roll of duct tape. Our Science Department has a water pressure pump that we will use to lanuch them on Monday or Tuesday.”

TEXTBOOK COLLECTION will begin tomorrow, Friday, May 21st!

This Friday, May 21st, we will collect:
Social Studies textbooks (bring them with you to your Social Studies class)
English textbooks (bring them with you to your English class)

Next Monday, May 24th, we will collect:
Science textbooks (bring them with you to your Science class)
Math textbooks (bring them with you to your Math class)

Students & Parents!!

We will begin collecting textbooks this week in various classes. This is the schedule for later this week:

On Friday, May 21st, we will collect:
Social Studies textbooks (bring them with you to your Social Studies class)
English textbooks (bring them with you to your English class)

Next Monday, May 24th, we will collect:
Science textbooks (bring them with you to your Science class)
Math textbooks (bring them with you to your Math class)

For my Science classes:
We will have a major test on Chapter 19, “Earth, Moon, and Sun” on Wednesday, May 19th. Study guides were completed last week. Monday and Tuesday will be used to check study guide answers and study the information in the chapter. Test will be Wednesday.

For my Social Studies classes:
Instruction will be given Monday on the use of MicroSoft’s PowerPoint application. Tuesday & Wednesday will be used by students to develop their individual PowerPoint projects on the topic, The Vietnam War. Projects will be presented in class on Thursday & Friday.

We will be very busy this week, so come to class prepared to work!

MONDAY
May 3rd
Prosperity in America in the 1950’s; class discussion of new found wealth during post WWII; Baby Boomers; exodus from city dwellings to suburban lifestyles; influence of advertising on television, radio and magazines; introduction of rock ‘n’ roll and the generation gap;
~~~~~~HOMEWORK~~~~~~
study for quiz on Chapter 28, Section 2

TUESDAY
May 4th
Quiz on Chapter 28, Section 2
Supplemental reading, “The Social Impact of Television”; consideration of problems in a time of plenty – introduction to Chapter 28, Section 3
~~~~~~HOMEWORK~~~~~~
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