3rd Quarter, Week 9

Monday:

1. review photo analysis homework
2. clicker quiz for 1st hour and 6th to finish
3. Pre-AP: Analyze the “New Colossus” Poem: What does it say about the Statue of Liberty?
4. 3rd, 4th, and 6th hours:  Start alphabet dictionaries

Tuesday:

1. Review Homework photo analysis
2. Map of growth of cities
3. Opinion Express: Timed Writing on immigration prompts

• Homework:  How do immigration issues 100 years ago compare and contrast to today’s immigration issues?

Wednesday:

1/2 Day

Thursday:

1. Notes
2. Pre-AP: Debate: Assimilation Vs. Diversity
3. Work on Alphabet Dictionaries

• Homework:  How well does the idea of the melting pot reflect US immigration around 1900?

Friday:

1. “VIP” on pages 616 and 617
2. Chinese Exclusion Act
3. Alphabet Dictionaries

3rd Quarter, Week 8

Monday:  Mrs. McCoy is home with her sick son 😦

1. New Warm Ups
2. Map of the world, charting paths of 1st and 2nd wave of immigrants

Tuesday: (Mrs. McCoy is now home sick herself)

1. Video on Industralization

Wednesday:

1. review days that I was gone
2. push and pull factor demonstration
3. Primary Source Analysis:

                     a.  Political Cartoon: “Looking Backward” (Old immigrants vs.  New immigrants)

• Homework: Venn Diagram on old and new immigrants (first and second wave of immigrants)

Thursday:

Review Venn Diagram Homework

1. Primary Source Analysis

                        b. “What Every Emigrant Should Know” primary source

                        c.  Analysis of “The New Colossus”

       2.  5 new terms for alphabet dictionary

Friday:

1. Photo Analysis: 3 different photos
2. 5 new terms for alphabet dictionary

• Homework: Photo Analysis and written response

3rd Quarter, Week 7

I hope everybody enjoyed their day off for President’s Day and now we begin the stretch before spring break!  Here are this week’s plans:

 

Tuesday:

1. New Warm Ups
2. Complete Industrial Revolution Assignments:  Review Stations, make sure trading cards are finished. 
3. Compare/Contrast Rockefeller, Carnegie, & Gould as well as Jane Addams and Mother Jones
4. Organize Binders

Wednesday

1. Review Handout on Industrial Revolution
2. Pre-AP: Introduction to ASPIRE
3. Binder Checks

Pre-AP Homework: Log into ASPIRE and complete “McCoy Industrial Revolution Homework”

Thursday

1. Industrial Revolution Quiz
2. Begin “An American Tail”: A look at push and pull factors regarding immigration to America 1880-1910.

• Pre-AP” Finish Technology Then & Now Projects

Friday:

1. PreAP: Technology then and now projects are due.
2. Push-Pull Factor Demonstration
3. Finish An American Tail

• Homeowrk for all classes: Describe 3 incidents shown in An American Tail that reflect actual push and pull factors in American History.

3rd Quarter, Week 5

Hooray!  We are FINALLY done with the Civil War AND Reconstruction!  I am so excited to start teaching and learning about industrialization and immigration in America between 1880 and 1910.  This unit will take us all the way to spring break.  Here is the schedule for the week:

Monday:

1. New Warm Ups
2. Defining what the Industrial Revolution is
3. Industrial Revolution Vocabulary

• Homework: Technology comparison between students and parents

Tuesday

1. Maps: Natural Resources in America and the Transcontinental Railroad
2. Pre-AP: Written Response to Geography’s connection to the Industrial Revolution.

Wednesday: Half Day Write.  Go to 4th hour, then to activities

Thursday:

1. The Rise of Big Business
2. Pre-AP: Compare and Contrast Rockefeller and Carnegie

Friday:

1. Stations on chapter 20

3rd Quarter Week 4

This is the last week of the Reconstruction era so we will move onto immigration and industrialization next week…I’m looking forward to it! 🙂

Monday:

1. I will have a sub as I am in meetings today
2. Students will watch the movie “The Day Lincoln Was Shot”

Tuesday:

1. Finish movie and discuss the implications and consequences of Lincoln’s death regarding the fate of America

• Get Progress Report Signed
• Pre-AP only: Written response to value of historical film

 

Wednesday:

1. Review the stations we worked on last week

• Homework: Written response to question about President Grant and the KKK

Thursday

1. Review Reconstruction

Friday

1. Quiz on Reconstruction

3rd Quarter, Week 3

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day everybody.  We are having a good time learning about many of the details and aspects of the Civil War by watching it come to life in “Glory” right now.  We started it last week and will finish it this week.  Made 20 years ago it is still a powerful, moving, and inspirational movie, which Denzel Washington won the Oscar for best actor in a supporting role. 

Students had homework last friday to answer 5 questions about what we had seen in “Glory” so far and it is due Tuesday.

Here is what is happening this week:

Monday: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, have a good day off

Tuesday:

1. New Warm Ups
2.  “Glory”

• Homework: Written Response to Glory

Wednesday: Begin Reconstruction:

1. 1st and 2nd Hour: VIP (Very Important Point Readding Exercise).
2. 3-6th: Notes 
3. Lego Model

Thursday:

1. History Challenge:  Reconstruction

Friday:

1. Review Stations
2. Vocabulary Game

2nd Quarter, Week 9

This is our last FULL week of school before winter break.   We are still going strong with the Civil War.  I have postponted last week’s quiz to this week so I apologize for the change in plans.

Monday: 

1. New Warm Ups
2. History Challenge: Civil War Stations

Tuesday:

1. Review of Stations

• Homework: Chapter 16.3 Handout “No End In Sight”

Wendesday

1. Binder Checklist
2. Notes: Chapter 16.3 “No End In Sight”

Thursday:

1. Constructing Charts and Graphs of Civil War data

• Pre-AP Homework: Start working on DBQ

Friday:

1. Quiz
2. Finish graphs and start “battles chart”

2nd Quarter, Week 6

Monday:

1. New Warm Ups
2. 15 minutes to work on quiz review sheet
3. Work in groups on “Live from Bull Run” News broadcasts

• Homework: Study Guide for Early Civil War Events

Tuesday:

1. Open binder Quiz on Early Civil War Events
2. Last preparations for group presentations

Wednesday:

1. “Live from Bull Run” Presentations (Check back here next week to see videos of the best presentations!)

Thursday:

1. Life in the Army: Turning Headings into Questions
2. Finding the Main Idea and Supporting Ideas in Chapter 16 section 2

Friday:

1. Roots VI

2nd Quarter, Week 5

It is mid-term of our 2nd quarter now and you should have seen your child’s progress report from Social Studies last week.  It does need to be signed as a homework assignment.  Here’s what’s happening this week:

Monday:

1. New Warm Ups
2. Finish the Election of 1860 Map
3. Notes: Fort Sumter: Fort Sumter and the beginning of the war

Tuesday: No School: Happy Veteran’s Day

Wednesday:

1. Read and Sketch the Battle of Bull Run
2. Introduce “Live From the Battle of Bull Run” Presentations

• Homework (1st and 2nd hours): 2 paragraph response on Fort Sumter
• Homework (3rd, 4th, and 6th hours): Fill in the Blanks Worksheet

Thursday:

1. In groups of 3 work on a script for the “Live From Bull Run” presentations.

Friday:

1. Roots Part V; writing essay prompts about and summaries of Roots

2nd Quarter, Week 4

Here is the schedule and homework for 2nd quarter, week 4:

Monday:

1. New Warm Ups
2. The Election of 1860: Notes, Pictures, and Songs (Scroll down on this page to hear Lincoln’s Election Song)

• Homework for ALL CLASSES:  The South Votes to Secede (Chapter 15, section 4 Geography Application)

Tuesday: Election Day

1. Kids Voting: The Election of 2008 (Go here for an unbiased comparison of the candidates which we will use in class to make our decisions)

• Homework: Get Parents to Sign Progress Reports

Wednesday:

1. Early Dismissal: Half Day Write in 4th Hour Class followed by exploratory activities.

Thursday:

1. Review Southern Secession Homework
2. Election of 1860 Map
3. Notes: Fort Sumter and Choosing Sides

Friday:

1. Roots IV