History is FUN!

On Friday we celebrated a job well done on the religion unit test and homecoming with a fun history lesson outside the book. We discussed the importance of different inventions throughout history such as the telephone, automobile, and light bulb.

Then, the students themselves became the inventors! They had to create contraptions to keep an egg safe from a fall. The only materials available to each group were 10 plastic straws, 10 rubber bands, and a small amount of tape.

The picture shows one of the surviving eggs (named Roger) and an invention that managed to keep another egg from breaking.

I think our world history students in the morning really enjoyed the activity. The afternoon classes had fun too – they attended the homecoming pep assembly!

This Week: The Byzantine Empire and Russia

This is our plan for the week. Remember to study for the quiz on Friday!

Last week we finished up the religion unit when we had the unit test on Thursday. The picture below shows the scores for each hour. The highest score possible was 105, due to some tricky extra credit questions. Great job to the 3rd hour student who earned all of the points! Overall, the scores were good with most in the 80s and 90s.