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 6

Hi everybody, here is the information and schedule for the week:

Progress Reports will be going home this week.  They will include two quizzes and two units worth of work.  We are currently working on our 3rd unit this quarter: the Industrial Revolution. 🙂

Pre-Ap classes are working on a photo essay using PowerPoint to compare and contrast technology from the Industrial Revolution to now, the Technological Revolution.  We will be spending some time in the lab and the students are to be taking photos of technology in use in 4 different categories:  Work/school, communication, transportation, and entertainment.  They are off to a good start. 🙂

Monday:

1. Reading the children’s book “The Bobbin Girl”
2. Notes: Why the Industrial Revolution occurred when it did.

Tuesday:

1. Pre-AP: Computer lab for photo essay projects
2. 3rd, 4th, and 6th:  Chapter 20 vocabulary
3. The Business Cycle and the board game “Monopoly”

• Pre-AP Homework: Chapter 20 vocabulary

Wednesday:

The impact of the Transcontinental Railroad

1. Pre-AP: Building a 4 car railroad showing the economic, political, geographic, and social causes and effects of the Transcontinental Railroad
2. 3rd, 4th, and 6th Hours:  Categorizing the causes and effects of the Transcontinental Railroad

Thursday:

1. Comparing and Contrasting the Impact of Individuals in the Industrial Revolution:  Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Jay Gould; Mother Jones and Jane Addams.
2. Slideshow on the Gilded Age

• Homework: Philanthropy writing assignment

Friday:

1. Stations: History Challenge!

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

And We Have A Winner!

The 2nd Annual Deer Valley Middle School Geogrpahy Bee was held on January 15, 2009.  We had 14 competitors and went through all 7 preliminary rounds to get down to 2 finalists.  Our two finalists were Dejan U. and Nicky B.  In the Final Round the score was tied after two questions and Nicky became our school winner on the third Final Round Question.   Congratulations Nicky!  All of our competitors put a lot of time and effort into preparing and I commend them for all of their hard work!

3rd Quarter, Week 2

Hi Everybody, here is the schedule for this week below:

Monday:

1. New Warm Ups
2. Chapter 17 Vocab and Review Questions

Tuesday:

1. Complete Conflict and War Chart
2. Compare and Contrast Generals Lee and Grant

Wednesday (Half Day)

1. Organize binders
2. Quiz retake for all students

Thursday:

1. Begin Glory

Friday:

1. Continue Glory

• Homework: 3 Questions about Glory

Happy New Year! Let’s Get Back To Work!

Welcome back after what to me felt like a really long break!  I’m excited to start a new semester and get rolling with some new material once we finish the Civil War!  But that won’t be for a couple of more weeks : )  So here is the schedule for this week:

Monday:

1. New Warm Ups: 3rd Quarter Week 1
2. Class Goals for the New Semester
3. Notes:  Chapter 17 Section 1

Tuesday:

1. Reading Comprehension on Chapter 17 section 3 “The North Wins” (Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Sherman’s March to the Sea and Lee’s Surrender).
2. 1st and 2nd Hours: Discussion of and example of a good DBQ response to our latest Document Based Question

• Homework: Handout
• Pre-AP: Finish DBQ Final Draft

Wednesday:

1. Working in small groups to create a unique and attractive timeline of the war

Thursday:

1. Finish Timelines and present them
2. Finish Conflict and War Chart as a class

• Homework: Chapter 17 review

Friday:

1. Review Games
2. Quiz

2nd Quarter: Week 10…End of the Semester Already!

It is crazy how fast a school year can go by; hard to believe we are already half way through the year!  This is what we will be doing for the end of this semester:

Monday:

1. New Warm Ups
2. Finish up all charts and graphs from last week

Tuesday:

1. Conflict and War chart

• Pre-AP: Finish DBQ

Wednesday:

1. Answering the “essential questions” of chapter 16 and beginning of chapter 17

Thursday:

1. Movie Day
2. Drawing with McCoy Money for Target gift cards

Friday:

1. No School, Have a wonderful winter break, see you in January!!

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”