Friday, December 9, 2016

Snow day updates

We'll skip the vocab quiz from Friday.

Be sure to ask questions on Tuesday about the ch 23 reading guide.

Tuesday will still be a review day and the papers are still due Tuesday.

Test still on Thursday.

You can start studying over the weekend.  Look at the list of topics in the unit Three entry below and review your reading guides and the vocabulary lists.


Sunday, December 4, 2016

Ch 18, 21, & 23 Vocabulary

Here is a link to the short vocabulary list.  The quiz is on Friday.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1APl1YfNZYm7r67vVuZEOtQD1XS1Q8zkfhPaFt-A3EY4/edit

Here is the link to the online Flashcards
http://www.flashcardmachine.com/3513543/4fy2


Unit Three Project - The Dakota Access Pipeline

In the last three hours the Army Corp of Engineers has shifted the nature the Dakota Access Pipeline debate by not granting an easement to drill under the Missouri River directly North of the Standing Rock Sioux's reservation.  Still, even if there weren't the possibility for policy reversals with the changing of the president, the Dakota Access pipeline would stay in the news.  They are pumping oil in the Bakken range in North Dakota at historic rates, the dangers of moving the oil by train are significant, and the Energy Transfer Company has invested millions in a pipeline that has been mostly completed.  The tribes have won a victory but the story of the pipeline is not over.

Follow the link below to an in-class assignment to build background knowledge about the conflict, and a writing assignment due next that asks you to form your opinion about the pipeline.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dRNp09iVWNC2JBMQez6WCRpza9AbfviSSK4XuccdiAc/edit

As this story is quickly changing, it's possible that we will add new possibilities to the assignment, but this basic assignment should remain despite the evolving story.

Here are additional resources to consider.

link to a  map