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The British Isles - 1, 2, 3

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Click on the thumbnail map below to access a
full - size map of Southern Europe.

Click on the thumbnail below to view a map of the world's time zones.

Thanks to the science staff at uu.nl for the map.

Click on the thumbnail below for a full-sized map of southern Europe.

Packets and other assignments

Unit Reading & Support Materials

Unit One

• Maps, Mapping and Location
• Other Lines and Axial Tilt
• Landforms
• Five Themes of Geography

Unit Two

• Life in the United Kingdom
• Agriculture in the U.K.
• Population Statistics for the U.K.
• Health Statistics for the U.K.
• NATO History on a Map

Unit Three

• Facts about the United Nations
  • The Preamble to the United Nations Charter

Unit Four

• Detailed political map of Europe.
• Physical map of France.
• Modern-day influences of the Roman Republic and Empire.
• More modern-day influences of the Romans - video
• Purposes of the European Union
• A brief history of the European Union

Unit Five

• Peat Moss

Unit Six

• Population Review Statistics

Unit Seven

Australia Georgaphy

• 1, 2, 3

Remember -

• We evaluate a current event or fact piece about one of our topics here every day. You will keep a journal with your entries in it.
• You will submit your journal entries from each week Friday. Please, submit only the items for that week each Friday.
• You will keep your journal entries on 8 1/2" x 11" three hole punch paper.
• When your journal entries are returned, keep them in your class binder.
• You are required to evaluate every piece of art we use. This includes days you may be absent.

The links to the journal entries we use for each day are found in the right hand column of this table. 

If you want to see an example of how your journals should be formatted, click here.

Weekly Vocabulary

For the week ending 8/26

• Genome

For the week ending 9/02

• Kinetic
• Autonomous
• Kibbutz

For the week ending 9/23

• Abbey
• Catafalque

For the week ending 9/29

• Conscription
• Bolster
• Pariah
• Referendum
• Sham
• Annex
• Proxy

For the week ending 10/14

• Sanction
• Asylum

Link to the news article for the day

For the week ending 8/26

8/24  Making Bread with 4500 Year Old Yeast
8/25  Hilde Lysiak
8/26  Neolithic Watermelon

For the week ending 9/02
8/29  Dinosaur Skeleton in Portugal
8/30  DART Impact
8/31  Artemis Launch
9/01  Voyager Repair
9/02  Ancient Elephant Tusk

For the week ending 9/09
9/06  New British Prime Minister
9/07  Juul Lawsuit
9/08  DNA Helps Identify Victim and Killer
9/09  Queen Elizabeth II Dies, Charles III Becomes King

For the week ending 9/16
9/12  9/11 Memorial Services
9/13  The Stone of Scone
9/14  Paleolithic Surgery
9/15  1.8m y.o. Tooth Found in Georgia
9/16  Quad Jump Skater

For the week ending 9/23
9/19  The Queen's Cowboy
9/20  The Funeral of the Queen
9/21  Putin Initiates Military Conscription
9/22  Russians Flee from Call Up
9/23  Hurricane Fiona Tracks to Canada

For the week ending 9/29
9/26  Lights Out in Europe
9/27  Roman Era Anchor Found Near English Coast
9/28  Hurricane Ian Nears Florida
9/29  Russia to Annex Parts of Ukraine

For the week ending 10/14
10/10  E.U. Plans Further Sanctions Against Russia
10/11  Refugees in Germany
10/12  Egypt Wants Rosetta Stone Returned
10/13  Skeletons Under Shopping Center
10/14  Easter Island Heads Damaged by Wildfire

For the week ending 10/21
10/17  Purple Tomatoes
10/18  Bear Attack and Rescue
10/19  Flooding in Australia
10/20  Plague Survivors and DNA
10/21  St. Nicholas' Burial Site

For the week ending 10/28
10/24 Woman Rescued Near Silverton, Colorado
10/25 Plastic Recycling
10/26 Paleolithic Fish Weir
10/27 New British Prime Minister
10/28 Florida Python Challenge

For the week ending 11/04
10/31 Halloween Candy
11/01 Carbon Dioxide
11/02 Meta Romuli
11/03 The Cyclops Myth
11/04 Pictish Stone

For the week ending 11/11
11/07 Notre Dame Sarcophagus
11/08 Lab Grown Blood
11/09 Possible Hidden da Vinci Mural
11/10 Roman Art in Thrift Store
11/11 History of Veterans Day

For the week ending 11/18
11/14 Zelenskyy Visits Kehrson
11/15 Revolutionary War Burials
11/16 600-year-old Coin
11/17 Artemis I Launch