Researching Supreme Court cases and the Bill of Rights...

7th graders using the school laptops to research important Supreme Court cases and the Bill of Rights.  Students are watching video clips and working together to learn about the Court's role in shaping the Constitutional rights of American citizens.

3rd period...

More 7th graders working on the laptops...

Here are 7th graders working on the school laptop lab. They are watching video clips shared to them on their Google Drive and reading articles about important decisions made by the US Supreme Court.

Social Studies 9/9 - 9/13

6th Grade:

6th graders will be finishing up Section 1 of Chapter 1 this week.  The quiz will be on Wednesday.  This is a very challenging fill-in-the-blank quiz.  Students will need to study!  Please review all Section 1 materials (can be found on my website), especially the intro reader, the presentation, and the notes worksheet.



7th Graders:

7th graders will be working with the Bill of Rights and several landmark Supreme Court cases.  I have several short videos the students will be viewing.  Please bring headphones or ear buds if you have them.  I will be handing back the quiz we took on Friday to students on Monday.  Reminder that I am allowing students to re-take quizzes this year.  Any student who wants to re-take their quiz must do it by Friday.  They will have to come in during ISP to do that.  

This Friday night, Pecatonica Community Middle School 8th graders who are going to Washington DC this spring will be selling Culver's Concrete Mixer ice cream treats at the Pecatonica-EPC football game.  Cost of the treats will be $5.  Hope to see you there!

Social Studies 9/3 - 9/6

I hope everyone enjoyed the 3-day weekend and is ready to get back to school.  Here's what we are doing this week:

6th Grade:

6th graders will continue with Section 1 of Chapter 1.  We will be discussing some of the theories about the origins of the first Americans and some of the prehistoric advanced societies that were established by Native Americans in Mesoamerica and other parts of North America.  We will be taking a quiz over Section 1 next week.  It will be a true/false quiz.


7th Grade:

7th graders will continue with Section 1 of Chapter 6.  We will continue to study the three branches of the federal government and the system of checks and balances.  We will also look at the process for how a bill becomes a law.  Students will take a quiz over Section 1 on Friday.  It will be a matching quiz.