We continued to practice our reading comprehension techniques. After reading a passage, we practiced summarizing the passage and answering questions as well as reviewing vocabulary. We are improving our reading comprehension.

Review of Buddhism and Islam Quiz, Relationship between Byzantine Emperors and Western Catholic Church in Rome. Discussion of Causes and Effects of 911 attacks.

We learned some techniques to better understand what we read. We practiced active reading, note-taking, questioning, and using context clues.

We watched a video on time management.

Finding a quiet space and turning off electronic devices will help us avoid losing focus. Mixing up the modes of learning between visual, audio, and hands-on activities will help us recall what we’ve learned later on. Asking questions of a teacher, parent, or tutor for clarification on difficult concepts will help to clear any confusion you might have. Physically writing out notes by hand improves your understanding and memorization of the material.

Ottoman Empire, Christianity in Europe, Fall of the Byzantine/Roman Empire. Ottoman Turks were able to capture Constantinople in 1425 with a larger and superior military. Much Cultural Assimilation in Europe due to multiple religions and conquests of Ottomans.

Visit the Mometrix site for study options and practice tests.

Finding a quiet space and turning off electronic devices will help us avoid losing focus. Mixing up the modes of learning between visual, audio, and hands-on activities will help us recall what we’ve learned later on. Asking questions of a teacher, parent, or tutor for clarification on difficult concepts will help to clear any confusion you might have. Physically writing out notes by hand improves your understanding and memorization of the material.

Continue with chemistry data evaluations. Work a few more density, experimental and accepted values which involve accuracy and precision measurement and data collection. Increase the use of math to solve and increase the difficulty of a few examples.

Byzantine and Ottoman Empires: Review for Quiz. Byzantine Empire and the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church in Constantinople. Decline in Christianity and rise of Ottoman Turk Empire. Review of Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, spread of Islam, Seljuk Turkish Dynasty, Islam/Muslim presence in Spain and eventual disappearance. Spread/influence of Christianity in Byzantine Empire to Kiev Rus and Greece.