William Lamb

Global Studies, United States History and Government, Grammar, World Cultures

All students need to write a minimum of 1/2 page in their journal Sunday through Thursday.

Students need to complete all work on the due date.

All books and materials need to be brought to class.

Students need to follow national and international news.

Students need to spend a minimum of 15 minutes each night on current events and spelling/vocab.

Students need to have a copy of schoolnotes in class everyday.

                           Current Class Lessons November 15 - 19

 8th grade Parents:

Dates/cost for core trips

Fort Necessity Wednesday, 11/17 One day trip near Pittsburg leave at 8:30 back at 4:00  cost $8

New York/Ontarion fort trips December 15-16. Leave Wednesday morning back Thursday afternoon. cost $125

Gettysburg (spring coordinate with Israel trip) three days two nights. cost $150 

Please let me know if you have a conflict with the two scheduled dates.

CURRENT EVENT TEST - 11/18

World Leaders - Iran, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Turkey(8th grade must spell correctly)

dates - vaccine for tuberculosis, transistor invented, polio vaccine, stethoscope invented, Uranus discovered

Flags - Turkey, Jordan, Sudan, South Africa, Pakistan

Books and Authors - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Old Man and the Sea, War and Peace

US Presidents # 1-13

People Board - #1-10

Places Board - #1-5

Countries and Capitals - Libya, Kenya, Zaire, Namibia, Mali

Map Locations - Angoli, Zaire, Chad, Libya, Algeria

Current News Stories

SPELL/VOCAB TEST - 11/19

8th grade   Boer, autocracy, crepe, haughty, cadre, contour, hypocrisy, modify, sonnet, timpani

6/7th grade refrain, perceive, occupancy, juggle, valid,muse, sleuth, sari, fate, tether

8th Grade

Field Trip Fort Necessity PA Wednesday 8:30 - 4:00

Reading - Huck Finn

Grammar grade 8  - pronouns, adjectives review, verbs and adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions. Sentence structure

Mini Bios due 11/10  Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Robert Fulton

Social Studiea 8 -  Read through text chapter 10, DVD (review) Fort Necessity, writing with walnut ink, note taking

Scrapbook topics 8th Grade

11/5 - My View

11/12 - Somewhere

11/19 - Red, Yellow, Green

12/3 - Two by Two

12/10 - Anything Else

Language Arts grade 6/7 - Parts of a sentence, parts of speech, paragraph structure. Travel brochure on Canada, Latin America, South America

World Geography 6/7 - Profile and regions of South AMerica,  sand map of the United States and Canada.  DVD Latin America

Global Issues - Research and presentations on major international issues

World Cultures - Harvest Festival