Joke of the Day:
What is brown and sticky?
A stick!
Hi all!
For those of you fasting, happy Ramadan! Hopefully the hardest days are behind you! Pretty soon you’ll find a routine and it won’t be quite so uncomfortable 🙂
Housekeeping
I have some sad news… we won’t be doing video chats this week. As you might already know, the school district has suspended Google Meet and teachers and students are not allowed to use it for check ins anymore. They are trying to figure out another way for us to video conference, but as of this week, in this class we will have no chats. I will miss your faces and voices!! ðŸ˜ðŸ˜©
Because there isn’t anymore chats as a class, I have added more Office Hours for this week!
This week, my Office Hours are:
- Tuesday: 2-3:30 pm
- Wednesday: 10-11 am
- Thursday: 2-3:30 pm
- Friday: 2-3:30 pm
- By appointment (let me know in advance when you’re available and I will put it in my schedule)
During this time, I will be at my computer responding to your emails. If you or your parent would like to talk to me on the phone call, email me and include your phone number.
Keep in mind, I am usually by my computer, and I quickly respond to emails throughout the week. So if you email me not during Office Hours, you will still hear back from me within an hour to two.
Here is the 7th grade assignment schedule for this week!
This Week’s Assignment!
Remember how Athenians and Spartans teamed up to defeat the Persians?
Many of you made predictions that the two city-states would continue to get along, and you were partially right. After the Persian Wars, Athens and Sparta did not fight each other, and Athens began to have a Golden Age (which we talked about last week).
However, within a few decades, things became tense between Athens and Sparta again, and they eventually went to war: the Peloponnesian War!
After the Peloponnesian War, both city-states were weakened and neither Sparta or Athens would ever be as powerful as they were before the war. Another consequence of the war was that Greece as a whole became very vulnerable, and easier to conquer… and that’s exactly what happened!
This week’s assignment has two parts:
- Part 1: The Peloponnesian War
- Part 2: Alexander the Great
For each part you will watch a video and answer some questions. As always, when watching the video, make sure to:
- Use Closed Captions
- Pause a lot!
- You can slow down the Playback Speed by going to the video’s “Settings”
This video will help with Part 1:
And this video will help you with Part 2!
And as a lovely summary of both Parts, this music video will be good review 🙂
Good luck getting this song out of your head! DUE Friday at midnight! MAKE SURE TO CLICK “SUBMIT”
Have a great day, team!