Monday, May 9

Links for Science Class:
NC Test Tutorial
It's Elemental
ChemBalancer
Creative Chemistry
Khan Academy

Core Connections
Complete your Digital Portfolio: Trebuchet entry (due Tuesday

Humanities:  Read Ch. 9 in "The Outsiders" 

Study guide  for The Civil Rights Movement and “The Outsiders”

Test date: Friday, May 13

For The Outsiders

Know and understand the following:

-          Details about the main characters including their traits and relationships

-          Setting of the novel

-          Themes explored

-          The significance of the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” from chapter 5

-          Key plot events

-          Be able to apply literary terms such as protagonist, theme, setting, plot

Civil Rights Movement/Era

-Plessy vs. Ferguson decision

-Word Wall Vocabulary

-Brown vs. Board of Education decision

-Civil Rights Act of 1964

-Voting Rights Act of 1965

-KKK

-Greensboro Sit-in

-How did the NC Legislature vote on the Federal Civil Rights laws?

-“A Letter From A Birmingham Jail”

-non-violent resistance

-Freedom Riders