Posted in American Government, U.S. History, World History

New Monday-Friday routine

Hello everyone!

Starting next week, my class schedule will usually be as follows.

Monday– Vocab Monday (words for the week)

Tuesday– Text Tuesday (Read the material)

Wednesday– Write it Wednesday (Notes, Thinking Maps)

Thursday – Team Thursday (Student engagement activities)

Friday – Find out Friday (Summative assessment test/quiz)

 

Please see Mr. B for any questions!

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19.2 Vocab Part 2

39. local: inside the city or neighborhood محلي

40. corporation: a large company owned by stockholders شركة

41. stockholders: men and women who own a corporation and put their money into it مالك الأسهم

42. simple: easy way of doing something بسيط

43. criticize: to say bad things about انتقد

44. critic: a person who criticizes

45. monopoly: a large corporation that has little competition

46. competition: to compete between two or more people

47. Invest: to put money in a company for profit

48. liability: risk or danger

49. capital: money that stockholders use to invest in a company

50. stock: the value of a company

51. Vertical Integration:

When a business controls every step of making a product.

52. Horizontal Integration: When a business buys all the competition to make one large company.

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19.2 Vocab Part 2!

39. local: inside the city or neighborhood محلي

40. corporation: a large company owned by stockholders شركة

41. stockholders: men and women who own a corporation and put their money into it مالك الأسهم

42. simple: easy way of doing something بسيط

43. criticize: to say bad things about انتقد

44. critic: a person who criticizes

45. monopoly: a large corporation that has little competition

46. competition: to compete between two or more people

47. Invest: to put money in a company for profit

48. liability: risk or danger

49. capital: money that stockholders use to invest in a company

50. stock: the value of a company

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U.S. History 19.2 Vocab

25. Stream: a small river

26. Village: a small city

27. Valuable: something that has a high price

28. Attempt: to try

29. Pipe: a long tube that transports water and oil

30. Refinery: a factory to purify oil

31. Appear: show up

32. Oil well: a place where oil comes out from a pipe

33. Risky: dangerous

34. Refine: to make clean; purify

35. Kerosene: oil used in lamps

36. Gasoline: oil used in cars

37. Giant: very large, HUGE

38. drilling: digging underground using a machine

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U.S. History 19.1 Vocab

1. Natural Resources: things that are found in nature (water, gold, oil, trees)

2.petroleum: a liquid that can be turned into oil.

3. Improve: make something better

4. Entrepreneur: a person who starts a new business.

5. Opportunity: Chance

6. Bridge: a structure that connects two places.

7. Rust: when iron turns red from water.

8. Crack: break

9. Flexible: able to bend

10. Purify: Clean

11. Produce: make

12. Method: a way

13. Impure: not clean or dirty

14. Plant: a large factory

15. Laborer: Worker

16: Industry: Business

17. Immigrant: a person who moves from one country to another

18. Inexpensive: cheap or not expensive

19. suspension bridge: a bridge with wires, chains and 2 towers.

20. Skyscrapers: very tall buildings found in the city.

21. Stories: levels

22. Material: what something is made from

23. Generous: Gives out a lot of money

24. Rapidly: quickly