Today LSU reviewed the powers of each branch and the checks and balances. 

ESU discussed sourcing and conducted the Lunchroom Activity (See monday)

Homework: Complete your poster draft.

LSU: Poster draft due Thursday.
ESU: Finish Lunchroom Activity Worksheet.  Due Wednesday.

LSU - Discussed sourcing and did the Lunchroom Activity I. 

ESU - Define sourcing and did the Do Now.  We will need to catch up on the rest of sourcing and the lunchroom activity on Wednesday. 

No Homework

And the student of this week is...

Rakeem!

Rakeem showed hard work in all his classes this week.  He studied hard for the test, rocked the jeopardy session and scored high on his unit test.  Nice job, Rakeem!

Today, both 8th grade classes took the Constitution Unit Test. 

Today we did test review and played Jeopardy. 

Homework: Study for tomorrow's test. 

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Today, LSU practiced paraphrasing and took a paraphrasing quiz. 

Today we explored the Bill of Rights. 

Homework:

1. Test Review Packet Due Thursday 9.26
2. Unit Test: Friday 9.27

Today in class we discussed checks and balances and their importance in the U.S. Goverment.

HW: 
1. Finish checks and balances chart
2. Test review packet due Thursday 9/26
3. Unit test on Friday 9/27.

Tatiana Felix!  

Tatiana showed excellence through out lessons by focusing on her work and handling herself with Pride!  Way to go Tatiana. 

Today we read about the Judicial Branch and went over the test review packet. 

Homework: 
1. Get test review packet signed by parent due Monday September 23rd
2. Judicial Branch packet due Monday September 23rd
3. Test review packet due Thursday September 26th
4. Unit Test: Friday September 27th. 

Today we review the Executive Branch and it's powers

Homework: Complete the executive branch packet.

We continued to practice Paraphrasing.

Test on the Consitution - Friday September 27th!

We learned about the Legislative Branch and the factors that go into

Class - Today we discussed the issues of slavery and flexibility in the writing of the Constitution. 

Homework - Constitution Vocab and Question sheet is due tomorrow. 

This week's excellent student is...Rihana Grant!

Rihana has shown leadership among her peers.  She is on task with classwork, up to date on assignments and continues to be respectful and productive through out lessons. 

Way to go Rihana!

Today we answered questions relevant to the Constitution and its creation.  Most important questions were: Why make the Constitution flexible and why wasn't slavery mentioned?

Homework? Complete all missing assignments.  If you have everything in to me, you have no homework!

We continued to examine how the Articles of Confederation, British Rule and other factors influenced the constitution. 

Today LSU completed the writing assignment.  ESU did not have social studies.  There was no homework.

Today we reviewed the Articles of Confederation and how they led into the Consititution. We'll c