Dr. S. Has Moved....

Hi folks,

If you're looking for me I have some good and bad news.  The bad news is that I am no longer working for Fontana Unified School District, the good news is that I was hired as an Assistant Professor of Education at California Baptist University.

You can still reach me by email at: rsimnjan@calbaptist.edu

Hope all is well and thanks for looking for me!!!

Dr. Simnjanovski

Dr. Riste Simnjanovski Signs Off

This was a GREAT year at FMS, thanks to all the parents, guardians, family members and especially the STUDENTS who made this year great!

We're off for 2 months...some more since Pink Slips were thrown out with the greatest of ease this year...but I'm sure most will be back (hopefully).

If you need to get a hold of Dr. Riste Simnjanovski, you can email him at: riste@verizon.net.

...and if you want to kick his butt on Mario Kart, you'll need to add him! Email him at: riste@verizon.net for his friend code for Wii.

Enjoy your summer!

-Riste

Here is the link promised in class:
http://gradworks.umi.com/34/47/3447752.html

Riste Simnjanovski, DPA

Military preparedness, educational policy isomorphism: An examination of convergence between presidential oratory and educational policy
by Simnjanovski, Riste, D.P.A., UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE, 2010, 151 pages; 3447752

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Yes, we've done it!

We have covered EVERY PAGE, EVERY WORD and EVERY KEY TERM in our textbooks!!! I am so proud of you for the hard work and dedication you've shown for this entire year.

For the final two weeks, we are going bring History and Language Art officially together through parody!

Here's a sneak peak at what's to come:

UNIT 8: The Early Modern World (Ch. 16 and 17)

UNIT 8: The Early Modern World (Ch. 16) (PAGES 448-460)

History Standards: 7.11(1-6)
Analysis Standard: HI I
ELA- Speaking: 7.1.4
Reading: 7.2.0

Weekly Overview:

1) Q/W #36

2) Enlightenment Ideas Activity (in Class)

MONDAY

-Complete Maps (if not already completed)

-Begin Q/W #36

-Cornell Notes (Ch. 17)

TUESDAY

-Continue Q/W #36

-Cornell Notes (17.2)

-Thomas Jefferson Intro

WEDNESDAY (TEXTBOOKS DUE)

-Continue Q/W

-Bill Of Rights Activity

-Closure

THURSDAY

- REVOLUTION!

- George Washington and the FIGHT!

-NOTES

FRIDAY

- Democracy in America

- Discussion

- Collect Q/Ws

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LAST WEEK

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UNIT 8: The Early Modern World (Ch. 16) (PAGES 448-460)

History Standards: 7.11(1-6)
Analysis Standard: HI I
ELA- Speaking: 7.1.4
Reading: 7.2.0

SECTION 1

Objectives Students will learn that …

1. Europeans had a desire and opportunity to explore.
2. Portuguese and Spanish explorations led to discoveries of new trade routes, lands, and people.
3. English and French explorers found land in North America.
4. A new European worldview developed because of the discoveries.

Vocabulary

Section 1:

• Henry the Navigator,
• Vasco da Gama,
• Christopher Columbus,
• Ferdinand Magellan,
• circumnavigate,
• Francis Drake,
• Spanish Armada
  

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SECTION 2

Objectives Students will learn that …
1. Plants and animals were exchanged among Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
2. Culture and technology changed as ideas were exchanged between Europe and the Americas.
3. Society and the economy changed in Europe and the Americas.

Vocabulary

• Columbian Exchange,
• plantations,
• Bartolomé de las Casas,
• racism
  

HOMEWORK FOR THIS WEEK:

1. Read Ch. 16 (Sections 1-2)
   
2. Q/W #35
3. Ch. 16 Section 1 Assessment (p.451 #'s 1-5)
4. Ch. 16 Section 2 Assessment (p.458 #'s (1-3)
5. *Mapping the NEW Worlds Activity!

Weekly Overview

MONDAY

• Copy H/W (Make Up Ch. 15 Tests for students who missed Friday)
• Ch. 16 Introduction
• Q/W #35 (set up and set sail)
• Cornell Notes
• Spices and a Power Change
• Closure

TUESDAY

• Q/W #35
• Key Term Review
• Voyages Activity
• Q & A

WEDNESDAY

• Q/W #35
• Cornell Notes (Section 2)
• Columbian Exchange
• Closure

THURSDAY

• Map Activity

FRIDAY

• Collect ALL H/W & Q/Ws
• Quiz on ch. 16, sections 1 & 2

The Aztec & Inca Empires (Ch 15: pg. 410-433)

Hello and welcome to the Aztec & Inca Empires!!! (Circa 1325-1537AD)

We will be covering:

1. The Aztec Empire
2. Aztec Life and Society
3. The Inca Empire
4. Inca Life & Society

We will be covering CA History-Social Science Standard: 7.7 (7.7.1/7.7.2/7.7.3/7.7.4/7.7.5)
As well as ELA Standards: 7.2.1c and READING standard 6.2.0

Homework for the week:

1. Read Ch. 15 (ALL)
2. Q/W #34
3. Answer Page 414 (1-2)
4. Answer Page 421 (1-3)
5. Answer Page 426 (1-2)

**QUIZ ON SECTIONS 1-3 ON FRIDAY!!**

The Weekly Overview

Monday

1. Copy H/W
2. Q/W #34
3. Section 2 Introduction/Cornell Notes
4. Aztec Society (Class Systems)

Tuesday

1. Q/W #34
2. Aztec Achievements
3. Section 2 Assessment (in class)
4. Closure

Wednesday

1. Q/W #34
2. Section 15.3 Introduction
3. Cornell Notes
4. The INCA introduction (location)
5. Economy, Capture and the King

Thursday

1. INCA & Pizarro Q/W
2. Short Atahualpa Film (notes)
3. Verbal Judo (Q & A Attack!)
4. Closure

Friday

1. Q/W #34
2. Collect ALL H/W
3. Ch. 15.1/.2/.3 Quiz
4. Closure

Extra Credit!

Write down 10 Facts from this short video and get them to Dr. Simnjanovski before FRIDAY!!!

CST (Testing Week)

There is NO HOMEWORK THIS WEEK!

CST TESTING WILL BE FROM TUESDAY-FRIDAY (Min Days)

Monday

*CST TEST PREP

Tuesday

*CST TEST DAY #1 (Min Day)

Wednesday

*CST TEST DAY #2 (Min Day)

Thursday

*CST TEST DAY #3 (Min Day)

Friday

*CST TEST DAY #4 (Min Day)

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HOMEWORK FROM LAST WEEK! (IN CASE YOU DID NOT DO IT!!!)

*READ CH 14!!!!!
1) Q/W #32
2) Page 389 (1-3)
3) Page 394 (1-2)
4) Page 399 (1-3)

Key Terms:

Section 1: Mesoamerica, Maize

Section 2: Obsidian, Pacal

Section 3: Observatories, Popol Vuh

Academic Vocabulary:

Rebel, Aspects

:)

Dr. S.

8 Weeks Left

Chapter 13 (THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION) (p.351-373)

Here is the weekly breakdown :)

MONDAY:

-Ch. 13.1/13.2/13.3 Review of Key Terms

-Q/W

-Project Set up

-Closure

TUESDAY: Ch. 13.3 Intro

-Q/W

-Cornell Style Notes

-Bacon vs. Descartes

-Closure

WEDNESDAY: Ch. 13.3 Review

-Q/W

-The Power of Reason

-Closure

THURSDAY: Ch. 13.3

-Q/W

-Cornell Style Notes

-The Trial of Galileo

-Closure

FRIDAY: Ch. 13 TEST

-Closure

EXTRA CREDIT!Count how many DIFFERENT songs are played in the video below, bring in the correct number on a piece of paper to Dr. S. and earn extra credit :)

Ch 12 - The Reformation

The Weekly Overview:

HOMEWORK:
1) READ Ch. 12 (sections 1, 2 & 3)
2) ANSWER page 339 (#s 1-3)
3) RETURN your SIGNED progress reports (if you didn't attend parent conferences)

MONDAY

• Students copy H/W for the week
• Q/W #29 (The Reformation's Impact)
• Europe DIVIDES!
• CORNELL NOTES
• Closure

TUESDAY

• Q/W #29 (Protestant Self Government)
• Continue Social Change Discussion
• Closure

WEDNESDAY

• Q/W #29
• Ch. 12.2-12.3 Worksheet (vocab builder and practice quiz)
• **If students get a PERFECT SCORE they do not need to test on Ch. 12!
• Closure

THURSDAY

• Ch. 12 test
• Closure Activity
• ENJOY SPRING BREAK!!!

FRIDAY

• NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS - We RETURN ON March 29, 2011

The Legal Stuff:

Students will learn CA Standards: 7.9.1 & 7.9.2

Objectives
Students will learn that …

1. The Catholic Church faced challengers who were upset with the behavior of Catholic clergy and with church practices.

2. Martin Luther urged reform in the Catholic Church, but he eventually broke away from the church.

3. Other reformers built on the ideas of early reformers to create their own churches.

Vocabulary

1. Reformation
2. indulgence
3. purgatory
4. Martin Luther
5. Protestants
6. John Calvin
7. King Henry VIII

Ch 11 TEST WEEK

The Weekly Overview:

H/W for this week:

***Progress Reports go out FRIDAY!!!***
Please sign them and have your student return them to Social Studies!

1. Q/W #26 (done in class, turned in on Friday)
2. READ / REVIEW p.304-317
3. ANSWER: p.310 (#s 1-4); p. 317 (#s 1-4)
4. Ch. 11 QUIZ THIS WEEK
5. Return signed progress reports next week.

Monday

• Q/W
• Ch. 11 QUIZ SHOW
• Ch. 11 Review (TEST TUESDAY)

Tuesday

• Q/W
• Ch 11 TEST
• Closure

Wednesday (PARENT CONFERENCES - Forms went out LAST WEEK!)

• Minimum Day (Intro into Ch. 12)
• Key Terms
• Closure

Thursday (PARENT CONFERENCES - Forms went out LAST WEEK!)

• Q/W
• Key Terms (Notes/Activity)
• Closure

Friday

• Collect H/W & Q/Ws
• Ch 12.1 Quiz
• Closure

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*ALL THE LEGAL STUFF*

INCLUDES 11.1 Standards 7.8.2 - 7.8.3

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Objectives Students will learn that …

1. European trade with Asia increased in the 1300s.

2. Trade cities in Italy grew wealthy and competed against each other.

3. As Florence became a center for arts and learning, the Renaissance began.

Vocabulary

• Marco Polo
• interest (specifically compound interest)
• Cosimo dé Medici
• Renaissance

CHAPTER 11.2....

Objectives Students will learn that …

1. During the Italian Renaissance, people found new ways to see the world.

2. Italian writers contributed great works of literature.

3. Italian art and artists were among the finest in the world.

4. Science and education made advances during this time.

Vocabulary

• humanism
• Dante Alighieri
• Niccolo Machiavelli
• perspective
• Michelangelo
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Petrarch

CHAPTER 11.3....

Objectives Students will learn that …

1. Paper, printing, and new universities led to the spread of new ideas.

2. The ideas of the Northern Renaissance differed from those of the Italian Renaissance.

3. Literature beyond Italy also thrived in the Renaissance.

Vocabulary

• Johann Gutenberg
• Christian humanism
• Desiderius Erasmus
• Albrecht Dürer
• Miguel de Cervantes
• William Shakespeare

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HISTORY DAY INFO

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Students, Parents and Guardians:

Students will begin their 3 week Winter Break on Friday, December 17, 2010. During this time, the may choose to begin work on their HISTORY DAY PROJECT for 2011 due in 3 weeks!

Here is a website that can guide you through what you can expect with regard to entries, requirements and rules.

http://nationalhistoryday.org/GettingStarted.htm

Here's an overview of what to do:

Documentary
Exhibit
Paper
Performance
Web Site

Everything you need to get started in linked above!

Good Luck and email with any questions to:

riste@verizon.net

Dr. Simnjanovski

Extra Credit: Watch the Video and Summarize 3 important facts (in 2-3 sentences).

Ch 11: The Renaissance!

The Weekly Overview:

H/W for this week:

***Progress Reports go out this FRIDAY!!!***
Please sign them and have your student return them to Social Studies!

1. Q/W #25 (done in class, turned in on Friday)
2. READ / REVIEW p.298-303
3. ANSWER: p.303 (#s 1-4)
4. Ch. 11 QUIZ THIS WEEK
5. Return signed progress reports!

Monday

• NO SCHOOL

Tuesday

• Q/W -11.1 INTRO
• Ch 11.1 Florence Introduction
• The Silk Road Notes (Key Terms)
• Closure

Wednesday (LA ZOO FIELD TRIP DAY)

• Ch 11.1 Q/W
• Compound Interest / Investing Activity
• Closure

Thursday

• Q/W 11.1
• 4 Trade Cities (Notes/Activity)
• Closure

Friday

• Collect H/W & Q/Ws
• Ch 11.1 Quiz
• Closure

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*ALL THE LEGAL STUFF*

INCLUDES 11.1 Standards 7.8.2 - 7.8.3

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Objectives Students will learn that …

1. European trade with Asia increased in the 1300s.

2. Trade cities in Italy grew wealthy and competed against each other.

3. As Florence became a center for arts and learning, the Renaissance began.

Vocabulary

• Marco Polo
• interest (specifically compound interest)
• Cosimo dé Medici
• Renaissance

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HISTORY DAY INFO

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Students, Parents and Guardians:

Students will begin their 3 week Winter Break on Friday, December 17, 2010. During this time, the may choose to begin work on their HISTORY DAY PROJECT for 2011 due in 3 weeks!

Here is a website that can guide you through what you can expect with regard to entries, requirements and rules.

http://nationalhistoryday.org/GettingStarted.htm

Here's an overview of what to do:

Documentary
Exhibit
Paper
Performance
Web Site

Everything you need to get started in linked above!

Good Luck and email with any questions to:

riste@verizon.net

Dr. Simnjanovski

Extra Credit: Watch the Video and Describe "Compound Interest" in 2-3 sentences:

Ch 10 Section 5 (TEST Week)

The Weekly Overview:

H/W for this week:

***Progress Reports went out LAST FRIDAY!!!***
Please sign them and have your student return them to Social Studies!

1. Q/W #24 (done in class, turned in on Friday)
2. READ / REVIEW p.282-285
3. ANSWER: p.285 (#s 1-4)
4. Ch. 10 TEST THIS WEEK
5. Return signed progress reports!

Monday

• Ch. 10.5 INTRO
• Copy Weekly H/W
• Q/W #24 intro - HERESY
• Cornell Notes
• 10.5 Terms + Reconquista

Tuesday

• Q/W -10.5 Review
• Ch 10.5 DISCRIMINATION
• The Spanish Inquisition
• Closure

Wednesday

• Ch 10.5 Q/W
• QUIZ SHOW *(Review Activity)
• Closure

Thursday

• Q/W
• Ch. 10 TEST
• Closure

Friday

• Collect H/W & Q/Ws
• Intro into Ch 11
• Closure

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*ALL THE LEGAL STUFF*

INCLUDES 10.1/10.2/10.3/10.4 Standards

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Objectives Students will learn that …

1. The church reacted to challengers by punishing people who opposed its teachings.

2. Christians fought Moors in Spain and Portugal in an effort to drive all Muslims out of Europe.

3. Jews faced discrimination across Europe in the Middle Ages.

Vocabulary

• heresy
• Reconquista
• King Ferdinand
• Queen Isabella
• Spanish Inquisition

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HISTORY DAY INFO

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Students, Parents and Guardians:

Students will begin their 3 week Winter Break on Friday, December 17, 2010. During this time, the may choose to begin work on their HISTORY DAY PROJECT for 2011 due in Mid-FEBRUARY.

Here is a website that can guide you through what you can expect with regard to entries, requirements and rules.

http://nationalhistoryday.org/GettingStarted.htm

Here's an overview of what to do:

Documentary
Exhibit
Paper
Performance
Web Site

Everything you need to get started in linked above!

Good Luck and email with any questions to:

riste@verizon.net

Dr. Simnjanovski

Extra Credit: Watch the Video and Describe the "Torture Scene" in 2-3 sentences:

This one is just for fun!

Ch 10 (Sections 3 & 4)

The Weekly Overview:

H/W for this week:

***Progress Reports went out LAST FRIDAY!!!***
Please sign them and have your student return them to Social Studies!

1. Q/W #23 (done in class, turned in on Friday)
2. READ / REVIEW p.269-281
3. ANSWER: p.275 (#s 1-4)
4. ANSWER: p.279 (#'s 1-4)
5. Ch. 10 QUIZ on FRIDAY!!!

Monday

• Ch. 10.3 INTRO
• Copy Weekly H/W
• Q/W #23 intro - Stone Carver
• Cornell Notes
• 10.3 Terms + A Monk's Daily Schedule Activity

Tuesday

• Q/W -10.3 Review
• Ch 10.3 monks vs friars
• GOTHIC Pictures/Overview
• Closure

Wednesday

• Ch 10.4 Introduction
• Q/W - Political Changes
• Ch. 10.4 Key Terms / Cornell Notes
• Europe & The Black Death (1347-1351)
• Closure

Thursday

• Review 10.3/10.4 Terms
• JOAN of ARC Activity!
• Closure

Friday

• Collect H/W & Q/Ws
• Quiz on Ch. 10.3/10.4
• Activity: Surprise!
• Closure

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*ALL THE LEGAL STUFF*

INCLUDES 10.1/10.2/10.3/10.4 Standards

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Ch. 9.2 covers HSS 7.6.2 as well as: HR 4, Writing 7.2.4c, & Reading 7.2.0

9.3 (Tues-Wed) Objectives are that:

Students will learn that …

1. Feudalism governed how knights and nobles dealt with each other.

2. Feudalism spread through much of Europe.

3. The manor system dominated Europe’s economy.

4. Towns and trade grew and helped end the feudal system.

Key Vocabulary Terms will be:

1. knights
2. vassal
3. feudalism
4. William the Conqueror
5. manor
6. serfs
7. Eleanor of Aquitaine

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Ch. 9.4 covers HSS 7.6.4 as well as: HR 4, Writing 7.2.4c, & Reading 7.2.0

9.4 (Thurs-Friday) Objectives are that:

Students will learn that …

1. Feudal societies shared common elements in Europe and Japan.

2. Europe and Japan differed in their cultural elements such as religion and art.

Key Vocabulary Terms will be:

1. chivalry
2. haiku

Ch. 10.3 INFO:

Objectives Students will learn that …

1. The Christian Church shaped society and politics in medieval Europe.

2. Orders of monks and friars did not like the church’s political nature.

3. Church leaders helped build the first universities in Europe.

4. The church influenced the arts in medieval Europe.

Vocabulary clergy, religious order, Francis of Assisi, friars, Thomas Aquinas, natural law

Ch. 10.4 INFO:

Objectives Students will learn that …

1. Magna Carta caused changes in England’s government and legal system.

2. The Hundred Years’ War led to political changes in England and France.

3. The Black Death, which swept through Europe in the Middle Ages, led to social changes.

Vocabulary Magna Carta, Parliament, Hundred Years’ War, Joan of Arc, Black Death

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HISTORY DAY INFO

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Students, Parents and Guardians:

Students will begin their 3 week Winter Break on Friday, December 17, 2010. During this time, the may choose to begin work on their HISTORY DAY PROJECT for 2011 due in Mid-FEBRUARY.

Here is a website that can guide you through what you can expect with regard to entries, requirements and rules.

http://nationalhistoryday.org/GettingStarted.htm

Here's an overview of what to do:

Documentary
Exhibit
Paper
Performance
Web Site

Everything you need to get started in linked above!

Good Luck and email with any questions to:

riste@verizon.net

Dr. Simnjanovski

EXTRA CREDIT: Watch the Videos Below, Write 10-20 "Connections" You Find In the Videos to Ch. 9!!! Bring them into Dr. S.

Find the rest on Youtube.com by searching "The Sword In The Stone 1963 Title01 Part 5"