Monday 4-26-04: Eighth Grade

Copy Homework into your notebooks: (Mr. B. will distribute Basketball Outline) (3 minutes max)
Use red pens to correct last Friday's Test (10 minutes max)

Warm Up (fill in the blanks: each correct answer is worth 1/2 point extra credit). (10 minutes max)
Outline Practice 3 -- Endangered Eagles


Effects on offspring, Scientists, Demand for lumber and land,  Belief that eagles were destroying crops and livestock, 1972--banning of DDT, Enormous decline in 1960's, Hunters, Effects on eagles' food, Laws, General facts about endangered eagles, Reasons eagles were endangered, Lumber mills, Ways eagles were helped, New homes and businesses, Bounties that encouraged hunting, Drop in numbers in the 1940s and '50s, Pesticides, 1940--the Bald Eagle Protection Act, 1973--the Endangered Species Protection Act
I. General facts about endangered eagles
    A. Drop in numbers in the 1940s and '50s
    B.
II. Reasons eagles were endangered
    A.
        1.
        2. Bounties that encouraged hunting
    B.
        1. Lumber mills
        2. New homes and businesses
    C. Pesticides
        1.
        2.
III. Ways eagles were helped
    A.
        1. 1940--the Bald Eagle Protection Act
        2.
        3. 1973--the Endangered Species Protection Act
    B.

Correct Warm Up (5 minutes max)

Distribute and Explain Unit Final Project Handouts (10 minutes max)

Figuring Out the Pictures Thang (5 minutes max)

Read Maus Aloud (remainder of the period)