Help Wanted

Catholic Relief Services Simple Lenten Meals

I am specifically looking for some cooking help this week.  As you know, our DFE team will be here this week.  I will not have time to cook for Thursday’s lunch.  About 25-30 students come for this lunch and they are quite enthusiastic.   We have had 3 delicious and easy meals so far—a beans and rice dish from Haiti, a sour soup from Indonesia, and a stew from Senegal.

As luck would have it, this week’s recipe, a soup with corn cakes from Honduras, is a bit more labor intensive.  Buy it can easily be divided into two jobs.  The recipes are on a sheet that your student received at the beginning of lent, and they can be found at the Catholic Relief Services website.

http://orb.crs.org/resources/recipes/

My request is for help from four parents, two to make corncakes (each to double the recipe provided) and two to make the soup (each todouble the recipe provided).  I thinkthis will make the task much less cumbersome. I would ask that the soup be delivered in a crock pot (mine can be usedby one) and the corn cakes in a microwavable container.

I would like to extend my special thanks to parent chefs to date: Regelbrugge, Jerakis, Gately, Lowenkron. All have been huge hits!!  And thanks, as well, to Mrs. Farrar, who made a generous financial contribution to keep us in disposable bowls and cutlery for the duration of Lent. 

I have set up a sheet for this on Signupgenius.com.  The link is listed in and earlier posting and the password is “Lenten.”  But feel free to just respond to me directly. 

Thank you, as always, for your help!

Nancy McBride

Lenten Meals

I am again hosting Lenten meals, using recipes suggested bythe Catholic Relief Services Operation Rice Bowl.    We began last Thursday with Riz National, aHaitian dish.  We will continue to sharea simple meal on Thursdays throughout Lent. If you would be interested in contributing a meal, you may go to a signupsheet listed at SignUp Genius.   Thislink will get you to our page:  http://www.signupgenius.com/go/lenten27

The password is “Lenten.”

The recipes are on the Calendar that was sent home, or you may find them online if you search for Catholic Relief Services (or CRS) Lenten recipes. 

Fri, Mar 18
You should be watching your movie this weekend or making arrangements to do so in groups or separately.  For the All the King's Men Group, (Louie, Luci, Kelly, Dominic, Ashley), the movie has been returned to me. If you email me at SchoolNotes, we may be able to figure out a way for you to get it this weekend. 

Wed, Mar 16

Lenten Meal:  Tomorrow interested students will share Riz National, a Haitian Red Beans and Rice dish.  Feel free to bring additional lunch even if you want to participate in the Lenten meal.  I will post a sign-up sheet if you would like to make a dish in a future week. 

Essay due tomorrow on selections from Hoover and FDR, per the handout.  This is to be well written and responsive to the prompt, i.e., write as a radio announcer explaining the positions of Hoover and FDR and then give your opinion.  Treat the excerpts as if they were written in a foreign language, "translate" them before you attempt to summarize what they are saying. 
Wed, Mar 9

• Read Text. Ch 22, Sec 3, Surviving the Great Depression, pp 752-755.  Main idea:  Americans survived the Great Depression with determination and even humor.  They helped one another, looked for solutions, and waited for the hard times to pass. 
  
• Read a Wikipedia article to learn more about something read in sec 2 (last night) or sec 3 (tonight's reading);  be prepared to tell me the topic that interested you and a few things that you learned beyond what is in the text.
• Do Quiz corrections.  You received quizzes back today.  The score noted is what is recorded for you.  You have an opportunity to earn back 100% of the points lost, by following the correction procedures for tests--write the information embodied in the question in a complete sentence.  Use your book,look up the answers!
  

Mon Mar 7

Read Text, Ch 22, Sec 1, The Stock Market Crash.  Main Idea:  In October 1929, panic selling caused the United Sates stock market to crash.  The crash led to a worldwide economic crisis called the Great Depression.  Be prepared to discuss the ripple effect of the Crash.

Thurs Mar 3
For Monday, read Text Ch. 21, Sections 2 and 3; use summary sheet, expect a quiz!
Tues Feb 22
Class time for POTUS Assignment available tomorrow; due date is Friday, Feb 25.

Wed Feb 16
Be sure to bring materials and information for POTUS assignment to class tomorrow.  I can provide posterboard if you wish. 

Thursday, Feb 10
On Monday, there will be a test on Social and Cultural Changes following WWI, Chapter 20.  You have done the reading and complete Guided Reading exercises, and we have discussed these in class.  I am aware that we did not spend as much time on this chapter as on some others, but the topics are not conceptually difficult, and they are well within your ability to study more independently.  Next week, we will get into some of the political and economic factors afoot during the 20s and we will spend a bit more time on these topics in preparation for learning about the Great Depression. 
You will also begin working on your group POTUS presentations.  The assignments and directions are posted to this page.  Please be sure that you come to class on Thursday with the materials needed to begin working on this in your group.  You will have 2 class periods, and then 2 more days in case your group needs more time to finish. 

Monday, Feb 7
For tomorrow, read text pp 684 to 690, Society in the 1920s

Thursday, Feb 3

For class on Monday, read text pp 699-705, Cultural Conflicts in the 20s.  Within this section, there are three main topics: 

• Prohibition
• Issues of Religion
• Racial tensions

For each topic, read the text and write in your journal the 5 main ideas (If you do the math, there will be 15 sentences in all!)

Wednesday, December 15

read pp. 593-603.  Be thoroughly prepared on this for Monday's class.  Enjoy the NEWSEUM.

Friday, December 10:  Test on Monday, Ch 16 and 18.  We developed an outline in class, that I have attached to the bottom of this page.  Please remember, this is merely a list of topics.  To study you will need to be sure that you understand the topics and terms highlighted. 

Tuesday, November 30

Read Chapter 18, Section 3, Progressivism under Taft and Wilson, pp 628-634

Tuesday, November 9

Due to the half day schedule for conferences, US History IIwill not meet again this week.  Studentsare working on the family immigration narrative report that is due on Monday,November 15, and on the New Forms of Entertainment presentations that will bedue Thursday, November 18.  Students willhave class time on Tuesday November 16 to FINALIZE their group presentation.This time is intended to provide an opportunity to conclude work on the presentationand polish the product.  Students mustcome to class with their work, research, materials, etc.  Any student who is not prepared to use thistime effectively will be given a graded in-class written assignment that willbe due the following day. 

Wednesday November 3

• Make sure that you have read pp. 559-563 (previouslyassigned) and be prepared to state preference for “new forms of entertainment”demonstrations that will presented Thursday, November 18.  Topics will be assigned tomorrow and detailsprovided on Monday, November 8.
• Read pp 556-557, “Two Perspectives on African AmericanEducation” and the handout “The Washington-DuBois Debate. 
• For Monday, November 8, respond to the questions on thehandout in a well-written essay. 
• For Monday November 15, your family immigration report willbe due.  Because of the variability ofthe experiences that you will chronicle, this is a somewhat open ended assignment.  The minimum is a 5-paragraph narrative essaythat tells the immigration story of someone in your family history.  The basic questions--who, from where, why, towhere, circumstances, experiences—may be modified as you need to accommodate theactual story that you are telling.  Butpick the best subject available to you, considering, among other things, the availabilityof information.  The essay is to bewell-written, edited, polished, free of grammar and spelling errors, and typed(12 point, double-spaced).  You areencouraged to go beyond this and present additional information, documents,photographs, artifacts, etc.  that youmay discover. 

Wednesday, October 27

Read, carefully and several times, the Emma Lazarus sonnet, "The New Colossus," provided to you in class.  Respond to the specific questions posed on the sheet and be prepared to discuss other points that may be raised in class. 

Tuesday, October 19

Test on the Westward Expansion will be Thursday, Oct 21, during your Language Arts class time.  A framework for an outline has been given to you and is attached here.  Bear in mind that this is just a beginning; you should take the outline and make notes and elaborate as necessary for a complete understanding of the topic. 

Tuesday, October 5

• Journalist questions will be turned in tomorrow. 
  
• Mining, Ranching and Farming in the West.  Read, Ch 14, Sec 3, pp. 498-506; complete the third page of the guided reading packet as you read. 
  

Monday, October 4

• Prepare searching questions that you, as an imaginary journalist, would want to ask the parties in the drawing distributed in class.
• Map test will be next Wed, October 13.  On a blank outline map of the US, identify all 50 states using the correct postal abbreviation
  

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Homework

Wednesday, Sept. 8

There will be a retake of the documents quiz tomorrow.  The documents that we reviewed in class were:

• The Declaration of Independence
• The US Constitution
• The Emancipation Proclamation
• The Gettysburg Address

Read:  Text pp. 467 and 467.  Be prepared to discuss or respond to questions about the difference between "Robber Barons" and "Captains of Industry."

Acceptable Use Form for Computer:  It is important that you return this form to Mrs. Berrigan so that we can begin to use computers in the classroom.  We will be starting the Railroad projects and I plan to give you class time to work on these.  Please make sure that your form is in by tomorrow.