6th Grade: Vocabulary & Spelling Test Monday. The words are as follows:
1. Mesopotamia 2. Caribbean 3. floodplain 4. silt 5. arid (as in the climate type) 6. drought 7. currents 8. swell 9. pathetic 10. city-state 11. antipode AND 12. antipodes
8th Grade: Write several diary entries pretending that you are American explorer John L. Stephens, a New York lawyer who "discovered" the ancient Mayan city of Copan in (British) Honduras in 1839 along with his illustrator, Frederick Catherwood. The assignment is to be a minimum of 1 page. There is no 1st draft, only this draft. Describe what you are seeing, your journey, etc.. Remember that no one really knew much about the Maya at that time. It was all speculation, supposition, & guess-work.
