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Clay

I hooked up into the link and it appears one must pay a subscription to view the article.

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I signed up for the free subscription, and was able to access the article and slide show. Jane- what do you mean by " my district does Asia in April."? Is that when you teach it? We are in China now.

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The Times requires people to register for their site, but it's free. They use it to block folks who use web strip miners to steal content and to find out what you like to read. Marketing, marketing, marketing. It is also important in determining the number of distinct site visitors as opposed to page views. This is important for advertisers.

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My district has a rigid calendar of what we teach when - we will wrap up the western civ part of the standards at the end of February, then move on to Maya, Aztec, Inca, Western Africa and China and Japan standards. I know we split China and Japan with spring break.

All this is done, of course, to make a desperate attempt to cover all standards that our cherubs will remember all this next year as 8th graders when the state tests them....[Edit by="jshults on Jan 15, 5:51:45 PM"][/Edit]

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Our staff has started getting together as grown ups once a month for social purposes, and in February we are looking for a good Japanese restaurant in the La Puente/Rowland area or perhaps as far afield as north Orange county.

Suggestions????

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I'm curious to know why that order? Is it because so many of the standards focus on Europe? So you leave Asia, Africa, and South Americas til the end so as not to interfere with testing? ( though testing is in 8th grade.) We do Rome/ Byantines, Middle East, Africa, China, Japan, Medieval then all Europe, and last Aztec/ Inca/ Maya, in that order. I know Virginia does it differently, too. Splits Europe into Feudal, in November, and Renaissance and on in May, then last Aztec/ Inca/ Maya. Doesn't matter, just curious, or maybe we're missing something? Partly we do it this way because it's mostly chronological, and also corresponds to holidays ( Ramadan, Martin Luther, Chinese New Year, Cinco de mayo, etc.)

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I'll ask around. My problem is I like all Japanese restaurants, so have no discrimination. Maybe ask Sam?

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First we try to get some cohesion between each grade level - next year I think we will make a final shift in ordering and start with China and Japan, since the 6th grade will end this year with China and Japan. Last year they ended with Rome, which is why we started there. We then stuck to the chrono;ogically with the western civ stuff (add in Islam here since it interfaces nicely), then on to other areas.

We dissected the 8th grade test and figured out what percentage of questions attached to what standards, then calendared more time into standards that get more questions. It is all proportional.

Frankly, I'd be a whole lot happier teaching half the book to the kids, and teaching them well so they remember something. Alas, those days are gone and we worship at the altar of the 8th grade social studies assessment test. I also wish it was 2005 already, so we could get our new adoption and get a decent textbook that has the standards arranged in an orderly fashion!

By the way, we are suppossed to integrate review of the 6th grade curriculum into our teaching of 7th grade curriculum.....

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