September
21, 2012
Dear Parents and
Guardians,
On the opposite side of
this sheet is your son/daughter’s progress report. In class we recently
finished a unit on Megacities. These are the 21 cities in the world that have
populations larger than 10 million people. We watched a few short clips that
illustrated the differences between life in Dhaka,
Bangladesh, Tokyo,
Japan, Shanghai,
China, London,
UK and Mexico City, Mexico.
The students compared and contrasted the cities’ differences and similarities.
In class we discussed how many of the first-world megacities can learn from
those of the third world and vice versa. The mini-unit helped the students see
an unfamiliar to them way of life. If you are interested in watching the
documentary it is called Andrew Marr’s
Megacities and is available streaming from Amazon.com.
This week we are going to
start a unit analyzing early human migrations from Prehistory to 1000 BC.
Students will be able to identify the difference between BC and AD (Which is
now called CE for “Common Era”). As a class we will be studying four river
valley civilizations, the Mesopotamia, Nile, Indus and Huang
He. The students will use their five themes of geography to
analyze each of these civilizations.
I mentioned to the students
that I am collecting used tennis balls to put on the legs of the chairs and
desks to protect the floor, if you have any please send them with your student.
On the Progress Report, if
a grade is shown as a 59, it was NOT turned in to me by your child. If a grade
is shown as a 60, the actual grade scored by your child was BELOW a 60.
As always, feel free to
contact me with any questions or comments.
Thanks for your time,
Mr. Grove
grovety(at )hickoryschools.net
828-327-6300 x108
Class Blog: www.grovesclass.blogspot.com
PS. If you want to see
some really cool old historical photos embedded into Google Maps, check out www.historypin.com
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