Oct.+3rd-7th

Maria Shellenberger 10/3/11

OPEC
 * Stands for Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
 * All the countries export oil
 * Middle East is in the OPEC
 * They want to make money but they don't want to run out and their economy will decrease
 * The higher the prices the demand will go down

Today we worked on a packet on OPEC and we discussed some questions about the gas prices.

Alexis Noel 10/4/11

Today we picked partners to work on something that will replace the essay on the test. We were assigned a country and we then have to answer four essential questions. They had to deal with the government of the country, human rights and a few other things. For each question we need to find an article on New York Times (nowhere else) and then explain it. This is all do tomorrow at the end of the class, but we have the whole class to work on it. On Thursday, after the test you and your partner will give a 2 to 4 minute presentation using one slide on googledoc presentation.

Dan Sepic 10/5/11

In class today we went over some review questions for the test on Friday. We then worked on our country project for the rest of the period. That project is due Thursday with a one slide presentation ready to show to the class. The geography quiz is also tomorrow and a good resource to study would be the map of the Middle East where we had to fill in the countries, oceans, and rivers.

Celeste Brooks 10/7/11 Today in class we took a test on the Middle East. Also we learned about an African project that will be due next friday!