Happy Thanksgiving

If you would like to practice your economic skills over the weekend feel free to go to our Study Island link and play some games!
http://www.studyisland.com/

Once you are there...
log in:
username: lunchnumber@RCS
password: 12345678

Click the Middle East Economic Review
Click Economic Review
Click on the Games Box
Pick your favorite game to play. We played Slingshot!

You can also check out our Activote activity on trade barriers!! Have fun.
Activote Quiz on Barriers of Trade

Economic Terms!

Yesterday and Today we worked on filling out the economic terms graphic organizer. You may use the promethean presentation on Economies of the Middle East to help you fill in the answers.

Economies of the Middle East Promethean Presentation

It's Monday!

We had our unit quiz on government terms in the Middle East and finish up our group projects today on "Government at its Best"

All students must have posted on their wiki pages by Wednesday

Log in to fishersfinestclass.pbworks.com

Log in (upper right hand corner of the front page)
go to the upper tab that says folders and pages (click on it)
find your class period's folder on the left (open it)
find your page in the center (your name will be on it)
click the edit page button
add your remarks and save before you close

Remember you are commenting as a member of the U.N. as to which countries of your classmates should or should not be accepted to the U.N. and why. DO NOT COMMENT ON ANYONE'S PAGE EXCEPT YOUR OWN!!!!!

Government Flashcards for you to play!

Click on the link below

Electronic Flashcards

my username : fishersu
My password: panther1

Click the LEARN button once your in to have the site quiz you!

Promethean Presentation on Governments of Middle East

Friday-
Have a great weekend everybody and check out the link below to review the government unit of the Middle East. We used this one today in class.You can use it to help you with your quiz next Friday as well as with your projects that we are starting on Monday!
Promethean on Governments of the Middle East

Thursday

Yesterday we finished up the definitions and played with the government matching cards. Today we will apply what we learned about government structures to specific countries in the Middle East. Please finish up the hand outs for home work.

Be able to tell me what is a Theocracy and the difference between Parliamentary Democracy and Presidential Democracy!

Tuesday-

Tuesday we will be going over more government terms and use the promethean presentation to go over the answers. We also played a card matching game with some of the definititons we have learned.

I have attached  a link to the promethean presentation and you can print up the two government handouts on the assignment link to the left if you forgot them at school.

promethean presentation on government

Government Terms

Today we went over some more political cartoons and viewed a power point on government terms and played a hollywood squares game on the terms.

Click on the link below to see the powerpoint:

https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0BxZcYR4_cc6NOWI3ZmM4NjEtNjBkNi00OWI0LWE5Y2MtY2E2ZjgzMjIyYjdm&hl=en&authkey=CJWqyMYL