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Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Classroom Update (3/31/2020)


Tuesday, March 31, 2020
CPS Schools Closed - Students Should Access Online Resources!

Term 4 Begins Monday with Digital Learning!

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Today's Tasks
  • Complete Enrichment Activities to Continue Your Learning and prepare for Term 4
Daily Classroom Activities
  • Current Events - CNN10 
  • This day in History - Eiffel Tower opens
World History Enrichment Resources:
  • Read a Book! - Practice Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) Time 
  • World History Class Webpage - Watch Supplemental YouTube Videos
  • Read an Archive Article and complete the Quiz!
  • Work through any of the open resources on the Schoology Course Pages
  • Read/Work in your Online World History Textbook
    • Login Page (Use your school username and password)
      • Upcoming Topics:
        • Block class - The French Revolution
        • Skinny class - The Industrial Revolution
  • Practice your geography skills with online map quizzes
  • Discover art and architecture more in-depth on Google Arts and Culture
  • Interesting Articles: "When New Yorkers Burned Down a Quarantine Hospital"
    • On September 1st, 1858, a mob stormed the New York Marine Hospital in Staten Island, and set fire to the building.
  • Interesting Video: Building the Eiffel Tower
    • Short History.com video on Building the Eiffel Tower
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Monday, March 30, 2020

Classroom Update (3/30/3030)




Monday, March 30, 2020
CPS Schools Closed - Students Should Access Online Resources!
VIDEO: Gator takes stroll near Myrtle Beach area golf course
Gator Golf
Today's Tasks
  • New Today! - Practice your geography skills with online map quizzes
  • Complete Enrichment Activities to Continue Your Learning
Daily Classroom Activities
  • Current Events - CNN10 COVID-19 and small businesses
  • This day in History - President Reagan shot
World History Enrichment Resources:

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Friday, March 27, 2020

Classroom Update (3/27/2020)

Friday, March 27, 2020
CPS Schools Closed - Students Should Access Online Resources!

 Watch: Shopper finds 8-foot alligator on Walmart parking lot ...
Alligator going shopping at a Walmart
  • Complete Enrichment Activities to Continue Your Learning
Daily Classroom Activities
  • Current Events - CNN10 
  • This day in History - "March Madness" crowns its first men's NCAA Champion
World History Enrichment Resources:
  • Read a Book! - Practice Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) Time 
  • World History Class Webpage - Watch Supplemental YouTube Videos
  • Read an Archive Article and complete the Quiz!
  • Work through any of the open resources on the Schoology Course Pages
  • Read/Work in your Online World History Textbook
    • Login Page (Use your school username and password)
      • Upcoming Topics:
        • Block class - The French Revolution
        • Skinny class - The Industrial Revolution
  • Discover art and architecture more in-depth on Google Arts and Culture
  • Interesting Article: Surviving a Pandemic, in 1918
    • Catholic nuns from Philadelphia recall the great influenza pandemic of 1918
  • Interesting Video: The Spanish Flu Was Deadlier Than WWI
    • A History Channel Video Clip
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Thursday, March 26, 2020

Classroom Update (3/26/2020)

Thursday, March 26, 2020
CPS Schools Closed - Students Should Access Online Resources!

 A crocodile, estimated to be 8- to 10-feet-long, was spotted on a dock in Indialantic on Feb. 25, 2020.
Alligator or Crocodile in Florida?
Today's Tasks
  • Complete Enrichment Activities to Continue Your Learning
Daily Classroom Activities
  • Current Events - CNN10 - Discusses Recession vs Depression!
  • This day in History - Dr. Jonas Salk announces polio vaccine
World History Enrichment Resources:
  • Read a Book! - Practice Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) Time 
  • World History Class Webpage - Watch Supplemental YouTube Videos
  • Read an Archive Article and complete the Quiz!
  • Work through any of the open resources on the Schoology Course Pages
  • Read/Work in your Online World History Textbook
    • Login Page (Use your school username and password)
      • Upcoming Topics:
        • Block class - The French Revolution
        • Skinny class - The Industrial Revolution
  • Discover art and architecture more in-depth on Google Arts and Culture
  • Interesting Article: "The Man Who Invented Modern Infection Control"
    • When did we start washing our hands?
  • Interesting Video: The Black Death Explained
    • Hip Hughes looks at the Bubonic Plague
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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Classroom Update (3/25/2020)

Wednesday, March 25, 2020
CPS Schools Closed - Students Should Access Online Resources!

Today's Tasks
  • Daily Classroom Activities (Take Google Survey!)
  • Complete Enrichment Activities to Continue Your Learning
Daily Classroom Activities
World History Enrichment Resources:
  • Read a Book! - Practice Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) Time 
  • World History Class Webpage - Watch Supplemental YouTube Videos
  • Read an Archive Article and complete the Quiz!
  • Work through any of the open resources on the Schoology Course Pages
  • Read/Work in your Online World History Textbook
    • Login Page (Use your school username and password)
      • Upcoming Topics:
        • Block class - The French Revolution
        • Skinny class - The Industrial Revolution
  • Discover art and architecture more in-depth on Google Arts and Culture
    • Check out Van Gogh's 'Terrace of a café at night' (same as 3/24)
  • Interesting Article: "Discovering the Joy of Solitude While Social Distancing"
    • The ideas of Romanticism connect to the current social situation
  • Interesting Video: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Explained
    • A big event in Early 20th Century Labor History that happened today!
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Classroom Update (3/24/2020)

Tuesday, March 24, 2020
CPS Schools Closed - Students Should Access Online Resources!

  • Current Events - CNN10
  • This day in History - Queen Elizabeth I Dies
Today's Tasks
  • Complete Enrichment Activities to Continue Your Learning
World History Enrichment Resources:
  • Read a Book! - Practice Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) Time 
  • World History Class Webpage - Watch Supplemental YouTube Videos
  • Read an Archive Article and complete the Quiz!
  • Work through any of the open resources on the Schoology Course Pages
  • Read/Work in your Online World History Textbook
    • Login Page (Use your school username and password)
  • Discover art and architecture more in-depth on Google Arts and Culture
    • Check out Van Gogh's 'Terrace of a café at night'
  • Interesting History Today Article: "A Cure Worse than Disease"
    • Preventing the Spread - A Brief History
  • Interesting Video: The Amazing Life and Strange Death of Captain Cook: Crash Course World History
    • The Enlightenment, Exploration, and Hawaii
    • A good book for further reading: Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz
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Monday, March 23, 2020

Classroom Update (3/23/2020)

Monday, March 23, 2020
CPS Schools Closed - Students Should Access Online Resources!




Daily Classroom Activities

  • Current Events - CNN10
  • This day in History - Mussolini founds the Fascist party
Today's Tasks
  • Complete Enrichment Activities to Continue Your Learning
World History Enrichment Resources:
  • Read a Book! - Practice Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) Time 
  • World History Class Webpage - Watch Supplemental YouTube Videos
  • Read an Archive Article and complete the Quiz!
  • Work through any of the open resources on the Schoology Course Pages
  • Read/Work in your Online World History Textbook
    • Login Page (Use your school username and password)
  • Discover art and architecture more in-depth on Google Arts and Culture
  • Interesting Article: How Disease and Conquest Carved a New Planetary Landscape
    • Disease and the Columbian Exchange
  • Interesting Video: The 2008 Financial Crisis: Crash Course Economics #12
    • As you are watching current events, the reporters are starting to make comparisons between 2008 and the current economic situation.
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Friday, March 20, 2020

Classroom Update (3/20/2020)




Friday, March 20, 2020
CPS Schools Closed - Students Should Accessing Online Resources

News Link to a Gator arrested in Florida

Daily Classroom Activities
  • Current Events - CNN10
  • This day in History - LBJ sends federal troops to Alabama to protect a civil rights march
Today's Tasks
  • Complete Short Quiz in Schoology (if not done yet)
  • If you are missing any Term 3 Work, email Mr. Molitor to finish your responsibilities!
World History Enrichment Resources:
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Thursday, March 19, 2020

Classroom Update (3/19/2020)

Thursday, March 19, 2020
CPS Schools Closed 
  • Current Events - CNN10
  • This Day in History 
  • Today's Task: Take Short Quiz in Schoology!
  • World History Enrichment Resources:
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Wednesday, March 18, 2020

End of WH 3rd Term Information

End of Term 3 Information

What do I do with Mr. Molitor’s World History (Block) class?
  • All Late work needs to be complete by Friday 3/20
    • Students do not need to turn in the Major Figures in the Enlightenment Google Drawing Assessment.
    • Final drafts turned into Turnitin.com will be sufficient for any missing writing assessments (book review, article review, etc.)
    • If you need to complete a unit assessment, you need to contact Mr. Molitor via email to set something up no later than Friday 3/20
  • If you are going to be completing a reassessment for any assignment, you need to let Mr. Molitor know via email that you will be doing so no later than Friday 3/20
  • All reassessments need to be completed by Friday 3/27

What do I do with Mr. Molitor’s World History (Skinny) class?
  • All Late work needs to be complete by Friday 3/20
    • Final drafts turned into Turnitin.com will be sufficient for any missing writing assessments (book review, article review, etc.)
    • If you need to complete a unit assessment, you need to contact Mr. Molitor via email to set something up no later than Friday 3/20
  • Look at the enrichment activities posted in Schoology (not required) and look for the start of the 4th Quarter when work will be required.

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Classroom Update (3/18/2020)

Wednesday, March 18, 2020
CPS Schools Closed 


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Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Classroom Update (3/17/2020)


Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Schools Closed Today
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