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*These are well-thought out, best placement of video clips, etc.
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NOTE: Extra Credit Opportunity
Memorize Gettysburg Address (10 points
extra credit)
June 13-17 (Week 19)
Monday, June 13:
(Textbook return during science classes)
USH Final Magazine project
-
Edit all drafts – go for
quality…
still have time for editing!
-
Intro Letter
-
Table of Contents
-
Finishing touches (See “Group Jobs” list:
Cover, headlines,
visuals, captions)
Handouts:
Homework:
Final drafts of everything!
Magazine due Tuesday (will have 15 min of final assembly)
*Also collected tomorrow: Individual prep and drafts, and
Portfolios
Tuesday, June 14:
Collect Portfolios
Final Assembly (15 min)
USH Final Magazine Project Due
(share; sticky notes with compliments)
Teacher: Check in that all features/profiles are there;
Check in individual
Prep/drafts packets.
Wednesday, June 15:
Portfolio cleanout
Thursday, June 16:
2011 Disneyland
Friday, June 17:
Min
Day – Last day of School
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Previous Weeks
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June 6-10 (Week 18)
Monday, June 6:
1.
Pass back CW Concept Summary, other work; Organize Portfolios
(check for tables of contents, organization, concept
reviews/concept summaries)
2. USH Final
Magazine project
a. Overhead project
handout
(briefly mentioning elements – have schedule on board, discuss
Process and jobs)
b. Choose partners
Handouts:
Homework:
Block A Tuesday/Wednesday, June 7/8:
USH Final Magazine project
-
Project Handout: Review
Magazine Focus and overview content sections
-
Planning Features and
Profiles (variety of themes, concepts, units)
-
Feature Articles
-
Feature Prep Sheet
-
Individuals write drafts (discuss style options/ideas)
4.
Profiles
-
Individuals research and write their profiles
Handouts:
USH Final Magazine
Project Handout;
Feature Article Prep Sheet
Homework:
Complete rough drafts of
Features and Profiles
Block B: Thursday/Friday, June 9/10:
USH Final Magazine project
-
Edit Features and Profiles
-
Content Section: Extras
-
Planning Extra Topics and Forms
-
Individuals work on extras
3.
“Group Jobs” list (Cover/Title,
headlines,
visuals, captions)
4.
Layout/Table of Contents
Discuss basics: ideas for layout (full pages, columns,
etc..)
Evaluate what is left to be done – consider visuals,
headlines, captions, formatting!
Handouts:
Homework:
Definitely finish rough drafts; Complete final drafts of as much
as possible
Magazine Due Tuesday
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May 30- June 3 (Week 17)
Monday, May 30
Memorial Day Holiday
Block A Tuesday/Wednesday, May 31/June 1
Reconstruction
1.
Briefly
discuss Recon Plans –easy plans of Lincoln/Johnson and the
desire of Congress to ensure protections & force more change (go
over front side concept labels)
2.
Work on Side 2
---> Discuss
Civil War Wrap-up
3.
Organize notebooks/Table of Contents
4.
Civil War
Concept Review (Do Pre-War together – rest alone-->:
collect) (Collect Ch 16
worksheet)
Handouts:
Civil War/Reconstruction Table of Contents; Civil War Concept
Review
Homework:
(USH Final Project next week – is everything in your notebook or
portfolio?)
Block B: Thursday/Friday, June 2/3:
1.
Plessy v. Ferguson Activity
2.
Segregation
- From Plessy to Brown:
Eyes on the
Prize excerpt (Volume 2: Fighting Back”
(7:30 – 29:30)
Handouts:
Homework:
(USH Final Project next week – is everything in your notebook or
portfolio?)
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May 23-27 (Week 16)
Click Here for Tableau Quote
Packet
Monday, May 23: (Career Day, 2011 – approx 40-45 min classes)
Civil War Tableau
1.
Finalize Script
a.Review
Scoring Guide
b.Quality
– keep editing script, make more powerful, interesting
–
Ensure quality of factual detail;
Transitions from narrator to quotes,
then back to narrator;
Powerful intro and conclusion.
c.
Time it (3 ½ -5 min)
d.
Quiet “Memorization” time
e.
Arrange completion/final draft of
script
Handouts:
Homework:
Final
Draft of Script (Multiple copies!)
Props/Costumes
Performances
Block B (Final draft of Script collected at
beginning of class Block B)
Block A, Tuesday/Wednesday, May 24/25
Civil War Tableau
1.
Choose Slides/Music
2.
Circulate groups to determine/practice their “snapshot.”
(Teacher checks Snapshot idea)
3.
Read-thrus/Rehearsals; Quiet memorization time (last 25 min)
- prepare index cards of lines, memorize
Handouts:
Homework:
Performances Block B (Final draft of Script due then)
Block B: Thursday/Friday, May 26/27:
-
Civil War Tableau Performances
-
Turn in final drafts of outline/script
-
Performances
-
Group Reflection
-
Reconstruction
Ch 16. Reconstruction… finish Front Side
Handouts:
Homework:
Finish Ch 16 Reconstruction – Front Side only
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May 16-20 (Week 15)
(Extra Credit Option: Memorize Gettysburg
Address by the end of May)
Monday, May 16
1.
Civil
War Tableau – Historical Outline
(Today = Blocking out the story)
a.
Start w/Part II – Anchor
Event;
Begin by “blocking out” the story
by determining the A, B, C’s
b.
-->
Part I:
Then ask “What do I need to do to
get the audience there?”
(Remind students of need to introduce the
war itself)
c.
-->
Part III - Then ask “What is a logical ending to my anchor
event?”
d.
-->Part IV - Then ask “What analysis
ideas match the “point” of their particular Civil War story?”
**
Discuss Expectations for focus and flow
--> teacher approval
Handouts:
Civil War Tableau – Historical Outline (1-2per
group)
Homework:
(Final
draft of Historical Outline due Block
B …. May help to type
up “blocking” leaving space to prepare for Block A)
Block A, May 17/18
1.Civil
War Tableau – Historical Outline,
Con’t (Today = Detailing the story)
-
Continue/Finish
Blocking Out story/getting teacher approval if necessary
-
Work on the Detail:
Use text/worksheets
2.
Perspective/Quotes
-Think about “roles” – but there’s flexibility with how a
“role” can portray other quotes
-Use
quote packet to took for quotes that support your topic (look
for approx
8-10
quotes – copy down, or otherwise note chosen quotes – quote
packet on my website)
Click Here for
Tableau Quote Packet
3.
Building the Creative Story
(emphasis on hook to make their story different)
·
Powerful
Narrative & Visual Story – Show a slide to illustrate a candid
snapshot pose
(emphasizing those people have stories to tell)
--> discuss importance/power of
props/costumes)
·
Show Top of CW Tableau Script Format –
have groups copy, determine Roles/Costumes/Snapshot
(format entire top section)
Handout:
Homework: Final
draft of Historical Outline due Block B (one for me and one for
each group member!)
Process Chosen
Quotes from quote packet/website;
Print out multiple copies!
Block B: Thursday/Friday, May 19/20:
1.
Collect HW: Historical Outlines
2.
Civil War Tableau - Script writing
Discuss:
Outline
+ Quotes + Powerful, Creative Writing!
Focus: first narrator part
– read directions and samples
-->
groups write 1st
paragraph;
Read directions for transitions:
Look at Quotes: determine a logical order/
pick the first quote; Read samples of transitions;
Go over rest of directions
-->
group writes, either together or divide up outline.
Discuss Scoring Guide
Prepare for HW:
Divide up outline left to write,
divide up quotes that need to be inserted.
Handouts:
Script Format (1-2 per group)
Homework:
Complete Tableau Script
(Print out multiple copies!),
Gather props/Costumes;
(Begin to “memorize” lines)
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May 9-13 (Week 14) – STAR
testing
(Monday – Regular single period, Tues-Friday Testing)
Monday, May 9: Regular Single Periods
Reconstruction
1.
Context – end of
the War
-Brainstorm problems facing country after CW --> Video Clip
2.
Preview Reconstruction – process of readmitting Southern states
to the Union
- Ch 16 Reconstruction – Lincoln’s Plan (only) –
Notes;
Preview with “malice toward none”
quote
-
PBS
Video Clip, Vol 9 Ch 3 Assassination
Handouts:
Ch 16: Reconstruction
Homework:
STAR TESTING:
No HW All
Week
(Extra Credit Option: Memorize
Gettysburg
Address)
Block A: Tuesday/Wednesday, May 10/11:
(40-45 min classes)
1.
Civil War – The Human Experience –
-
Civil War Images – Slide Presentation
-
Quote Packet Preview
-
Sullivan Ballou Letter
(Episode 1, Ch 13 Honorable Manhood)
Handouts:
Homework:
STAR TESTING:
No HW All
Week
(Extra Credit Option: Memorize
Gettysburg
Address)
Block B: Thursday/Friday, May 12/13: 60 min classes
Civil War: The Human Experience
1. Civil War
Tableau Project
-
Explain Tableau briefly;
-
Choose groups of 4
(or 3’s)
Civil
War Tableau – Deciding Perspective/Anchor Event/Analysis Point
2. Overview Tableau project
- Determine whose "story" of the Civil War you want to
tell? (Perspective – think about the categories in the
Quote packet)
-
PBS Volume 9, Was it Not Real? 4 min –
shows what it sounds like to have an analysis point to your
story
-
Determine an "Anchor Event" and “Point (Analysis).”
think about matching the perspective, the
point, and the anchor event
Handouts:
Homework:
(Extra Credit Option: Memorize Gettysburg Address)
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May 2-6 (Week 13)
CST REVIEW
Monday, May 2
Collect HW: Ch 15.5 Tide of War Turns
STAR Test Review – 6th
Grade
-
Introduce Standards/Sub-standards/Essential
standards (w/6th grade Blueprint pg 1
overhead)
-
6th
Grade – Standards Review
(readings/Chart)
-
6th
Grade Practice Questions (pass out to students,
just write answers in a margin on back of chart
Click Here for 6th
grade Standards Readings
Handout:
6th
Grade Ancient History Review chart;
Homework:
Block A: Tuesday/Wednesday, May 3/4:
Star Test Prep -7th Grade
1.
7th
Grade Standards Review – use text for key words
(Model reading substandards, underlining key words;
skimming red/blue
headings, bold/highlighted words)
**Note value of simply reading the sub standards
carefully!
2.
7th
Grade Practice Questions
Star Test Prep – 8th
Grade
3.
8th
grade material not yet covered
(Reconstruction/Industrialization)
a .Industrialization
Reading -
b.
Review Civil War Substandards (8.9/8.10)
c.
Intro 8.11 - Reconstruction Readings
d.
Overhead Practice questions – Reconstruction/Industrialization
Handout:
7th Grade Medieval Times Review chart;
8th
Grade US History Review chart
Homework:
“Finish”
7th
grade chart by reading sub-standards- underlining key words
(names, events, etc)
Preview
rest
of 8th
grade Standards/Sub-standards: underline key words
Block B: Thursday/Friday, May 5/6:
Star Test Prep – 8th
Grade, Con’t
-
Review 1st Semester (8.1-8.3) –
Semester Final Study Guide & Test
-
Review 2nd Semester - Warren Hall – 8th
G. Standards Review Posters: Notes on Chart
for 8.4-8.8
-
Full
Practice Test
Click here for Standards
Readings 8.4-8.8
Click here for Standards
Readings for 1st semester material
Handouts:
Homework:
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April 25-29 (Week 12)
Monday,
April 25:
1.
Topic: The Two Sides
a.
Ch 15.1 Chart: North vs.
South
2.
The Civil War: Early Years
a.
PBS Video: Episode 1, chapter 11 Manassas (11 min)
(North overconfidence, spectators, reactions of S & N after Confed
Victory.)
b.
Ch 15.2&3: The War in the East/War in the West
Handouts:
Ch 15.1 North vs. South Chart; Ch 15.2&3 War in the East/War in
the West;
Homework:
Finish
Ch 15.2&3: The War in the East/War in the West
Block A:
Tuesday/Wednesday, April 26/27
1. Topic:
Emancipation Proclamation:
a.
Briefly
discuss Ch 15.2 (focus on run of Confed victories and Antietam )
b.
Emancipation Proclamation Notes
c. PBS Video Clip –
Volume 3 Ch 9 – The Higher Object (10 min)
- Collect HW: Ch 15.2/3
2.
Ch 15.4 Homefront - Daily Life during the War
a.
Preview using PBS Episode 5, Ch 8 Bottom Rail on Top (13 min)
b.
Ch 15.4 Worksheet
Handouts:
Emancipation Proclamation Notes;
Ch 15.4 Homefront – Daily Life
Homework:
Finish Ch 15.4 Homefront – Daily Life
Block B: Thursday/Friday, April 28/29:
1. Collect HW: Ch 15.4 Homefront discuss briefly
2.
Gettysburg:
a.
Battle of Gettysburg Notes
b.
Gettysburg Address (Intro extra
credit option: memorizing the Gettysburg Address)
- PBS Civil War video clip (Volume
5, ch 10 A New Birth of Freedom: 7 min)
- Translations
Activity
3.
Ch
15.5 Tide of War Turns (End of the War)
a.
Preview with Text Video: Toward Union Victory, 1865 Conclusion
at Appomattox (4 min)
b.
Individual work on Ch 15.5 Tide of War Turns (20 min)
c.
PBS Clip: Vol 8, Ch 8 “Appomattox” – 15 min
Handouts:
Battle of Gettysburg Notes (w/Address & Translations); Ch 15.5
Tide of War Turns
Homework:
Complete Ch 15.5 Tide of War Turns
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April 18-22 (Week
11)
Week after Spring Break (‘11)
Monday, April 18:
** Westward Expansion Unit Final make ups?
1.
Homework checked: Ch 14.1 The Debate over
Slavery
2.
Topic: (ch 14.1) Compromise of 1850
a.
Video: Vol 8 “Slavery and the Western Territories (3 min)
b.
Discuss rest of Section 1 w/overheads for Compromise of 1850
3.
Preview Ch
14.2 (Kansas)
a.
PBS, Episode 1, Ch 4 “Are we Free?” (4 min) –
Slavery, introduces John Brown
b .
Work on Ch 14.2 Trouble in Kansas
Handouts:
Ch 14.2 Trouble in
Kansas
Homework:
Complete Ch 14.2 Trouble in
Kansas
Block A Tuesday/Wednesday, April 19/20:
1.
Pass back MC Study Guides/Discuss Westward
Exp Unit Finals
2.
Homework Checked: Ch 14.2 Trouble in
Kansas
3.
Topic: Ch 14.2 Kansas-Nebraska Act
(10 min)
a.
Talk through events leading up to KN Act
b.
Video: Volume 8:
Kansas-Neb
Act
c. Briefly
discuss rest of Ch 14.2 (w/overheads for Kansas Nebraska Act)
4.
Topic: Ch 14.3: Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglass Debates
a.
Preview with PBS Episode 1, Ch 5 “House Divided” – 3 min
b.
Notes: Ch 14.3 Political Divisions
c.
Video Clip “Dred Scott” (4 min) (stop
after Lincoln/Douglas debates)
5.
Preview Ch
14.4
A Nation Divides
– Harpers Ferry/Election/Secession
(35+ min)
a.PBS
Video Clip: Episode 1, Ch 6 The Meteor (to preview John Brown/Harpers
Ferry)
b.
Work on Ch 14.4 The Nation Divides
Handouts:
Notes: Ch 14.3 Political Divisions;
Ch 14.4 The Nation Divides;
Homework:
Finish Ch 14.4 The Nation Divides
Block B: Thursday/Friday, April 21/22:
1.
Put West stuff in Portfolios (15 min)
2.
Map Activity:
US in 1861
(don’t draw line between Union/Confed)
(30 min)
3.
Topic: Ch 14.4 - Harpers Ferry/Election/Secession
-Briefly
discuss Harpers Ferry – N/S Reaction
-PBS
Episode 1: Ch 7 “Secessionitis (12-15 min)
-Continue
to discuss Ch 14.4 - Overhead of Lincoln’s election – he was
not
the south’s president;
Secession
(issue of Fed vs. State Power),
Lincoln’s
Inaugural Quote
-
Class notes: Fort
Sumter…after note on border states
à…
-Draw
Union/Confederacy Line on Map –
Collect
Map & Ch 14.4
4.
Civil War Analysis Notes
Handouts:
Map: US in 1861; Civil War Analysis
Notes
Homework:
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April 4-8 (Week 10)
Week Before Spring Break (‘11)
Monday, April 4:
1.
Organize Westward Expansion Unit (table of contents)
2.
Westward Expansion Unit Final Prep
- Multiple
Choice Study Guide(stress
using key words for formatting)
Handouts:
Westward Expansion Table of Contents; Westward Expansion Unit
Final - MC Study Guide
Homework:
Westward Expansion MC Unit Final on Block B (MC Study Guide
collected Block B)
Click Here for
Westward Expansion Multiple Choice Study Guide and Format Sheets
Block A Tuesday/Wednesday, April 5/6:
1.
Prep for Westward Expansion Unit Final:
-
MC Study Guide (Questions, Indep work – about 20 min)
-
Concept Matching Prep
-
Review Game
Handouts:
Westward Expansion Concept Review
Homework:
Westward Expansion MC Unit Final on Block B (MC Study Guide
collected Block B)
PLEASE NOTE:
If you were absent for the Westward Expansion Unit Final,
be prepared to take it the Monday we return from Spring Break!
Block B: Thursday/Friday, April 7/8:
-
Collect HW: Collect MC Study Guide
-
Westward Expansion Unit Final:
a. Multiple Choice
b. Concept Matching
New Unit: Civil War/Reconstruction
1.
Introduce Civil War Unit:
Jefferson
Quote: “We have the wolf by the ears...”
-
Intro Chapter 14: A Dividing Nation
(Discuss Northwest Ordinance,
Do Missouri Compromise together)
-
Work on Ch 14.1 Debate over Slavery
(Options for dealing with Slavery, Comp of 1850,
Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
Handouts:
Chapter 14: A Divided Nation – Ch 14.1 Debate over Slavery
Homework:
Finish Ch 14.1 Debate over Slavery
PLEASE NOTE:
If you were absent for the Westward Expansion Unit Final,
be prepared to take it the Monday we return from Spring Break!
Spring Break
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March 28- April 1 (Week 9)
Monday, March 28:
-
Video Clip: Pioneers: West, Vol 2, “Westward I
Go Free” (55:41-1:07:07)
-
People of the West Display
Project
·
Pass Out/Discuss Project Elements
·
Groups evaluate resources, Divide responsibilities
·
Discuss Captions
Captions/Explanations:
Original Captions – You craft the
sentences!;
Weave in Factual Info from Am Move West Notes, Individ
Textwork, your research;
Where Applicable, connect to Concepts.
Handouts:
People of the West Display Project
Homework:
Bring Display materials on Block A
Work on Display Elements
(Final Drafts as much as possible - Don’t forget Element Titles,
etc.)
(Project Due Block B after about 20-30 min of
final assembly time)
Block A Tuesday/Wednesday, March 29/30:
Late Start Days, 2011
People of the West Display Project
-
Video Clip: Mormons:
-
Edit Display Elements (consider checking for adequate factual
information and concept connections.
Use checklist to keep track of what still needs to be
done.)
-
Discuss Range of Dates & Summary Statement - consider making sure addresses
motivations
-
Begin to assemble display
-
Organize Research
folder
-
Video Clip:
Railroads
Handouts:
Homework:
People of the West Display project Due Block B (after about 20
min)
Bring all Research to turn in.
Block B: Thursday/Friday, March 31/April 1:
People of the West Display Project Due (give 20
min for final assembly)
Collect Research Folders
Video Clip: Chinese Immigrants
Circulate
--> Notes on Chart
Video Clip: Cowboys
Pass back work; Organize
Notebooks
Handouts:
People of the West Museum Walk Chart; Westward Expansion Table
of Contents;
Westward Expansion MC Study Guide
Homework:
(Print out MC Study Guide format sheet from my website for
Monday if you want)
Westward Expansion Unit Final next
Block B
Click Here for
Westward Expansion Multiple Choice Study Guide and Format Sheets
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Previous Weeks
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March 21-25 (Week 8)
Monday, March 21
1. Collect Verdict Essays from Jury
2.
Collect Ch 10.3 worksheet
3. Aftermath of the
Mex-American War: Decline of the
Californios
-
Issue of Land Ownership
Handouts:
Aftermath of Mexican-American War: Decline of the Californios;
Homework:
Block A Tuesday/Wednesday, March
22/23:
1. Aftermath of the
Mex-American War: Decline of the
Californios
a.
Review Issue of Land Ownership
b.
Squatter and the Don
–
2.
Americans Move West – People of the West Project
·
Text Video Clip: The Move West
·
Briefly
overview project
·
Choose
Partners/Topics
·
Individual
Text piece
Handouts:
People
of the West: Individual Textwork
Homework:
Finish Individual Textwork
Block B: Thursday/Friday, March 24/25:
-
Check HW: Individual Text work
-
Powerpoint Notes: Americans Move West
-
People of the West Project
a.
Overhead Project Handout, discuss parts
b.
Computer Lab
People of the West
http://teachers.sduhsd.k12.ca.us/astgeorg/history/history.htm
Click on “Hotlists”
or
Click on “SCORE: Online…..”
“Westward Expansion”
“By Grade Level Topic”; “8th Grade,” “American
West”
Handouts:
Americans Move West Notes/Map;
Homework:
Continue to gather topic resources – Bring all research Monday!
Bring Display materials on Block A
(Project Due Block B)
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March 14-18 (Week 7)
Monday, March 14
- Direct Exam Prep
1.
Collect HW: Acquisition of Am SW Storyboard
2.
“The
US
on Trial”
a.
Pass out resources, Lawyers/witnesses read silently
b.
Go over Jury Chart; jury works on chart
c.
Pass out assignments – explain individual responsibilities
d.
Lawyers/Witnesses begin Direct Ex Work;
Leads begin Trial Strategy Chart;
Jury works on Witness Bios
(Lawyers/Witnesses come up with all questions that serve as the
“outline” for their direct examination – then divide the
questions to write the answers for HW)
Handouts:
(Trial Handouts – see me)
Homework:
Trial Performed on Block B (final drafts of all work collected
then)
Lawyers/Witnesses – complete Direct Examination
Leads - Complete Trial Strategy
Chart
Jury: No HW
Block A Tuesday/Wednesday, March
15/16: - Cross
Exam Prep
1.
“The US on Trial” Prep Work
a.
Check on progress of Direct Exam; Lawyers & Witnesses
meet to edit (stress using textbook/worksheets
to insert specific facts.)
b.
Lawyers/Witnesses - Cross-Exam Prep (work on notes for 5 min,
then discuss preparing questions/answers);
c.
Leads – Coordination;
Opening/Closing Statements;
d.
Jury: Finish Jury Chart
Head Start:
Provide directions for jury to write introduction
Note:
Rest of Ch 10.3 due on Monday too… Jury especially may
want to complete that because they will have their essay due as
well.
Handouts:
(Trial Handouts – see me)
Homework:
Trial Performed on Block B (final drafts of all work collected
then)
Lawyers/Witnesses – complete Final drafts of all
work
Leads – complete final drafts of
all work
Jury: No HW;
suggest Jury write introduction to Jury Verdict Essay and
complete Ch 10.3
Block B: Thursday/Friday, March 17/18:
Trial Performance
1.
“US
on Trial”
- Trial Performance
-
Collect Work from Leads, Lawyers, and Witness;
- Discuss Jury Verdict Essay
2.
Finish Acquisition of the Southwest Worksheet - Ch 10.3 War with
Mexico
Handouts:
Jury – Verdict Essay Assignment;
Homework:
Jury
– Verdict Essay
-
staple to Jury Chart – Due Monday
All Students:
Finish Ch 10.3 Mexican-American War
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March 7-11 (Week 6)
Monday, March 7
( HW Collected: US Territorial Expansion Map)
1.
Texas
Revolution
a.
Check
Homework: Ch 10.2 Texas Revolution
b.
Video Clip:
US-Mex War PBS – Vol 1: 10:25-19:28
c.
Flowchart: Acquisition of the Southwest
2.
Acquisition
of American Southwest Storyboard project – format paper, title,
pass out captions
Handouts:
Flowchart: Acquisition of the Southwest; Storyboard paper and
captions
Homework:
Glue Captions 1-7 on storyboard (very top or bottom of box);
Begin illustrations
Block A:
Tuesday/Wednesday, March 8/9:
1.
Texas Annexation Speeches Activity
2. Work on Storyboard: Start/Continue Illustrations for events
#1-7
Handouts:
Texas Annexation Speeches Chart
Homework:
Complete Storyboard Illustrations for events #1-7
Block B: Thursday/Friday, March 10/11:
1.
War w/Mexico
a.
Review Texas story; continue flow chart “Devel in US”
b.
Video Clip:
US-Mexican War (pbs)
– Volume 1:
19:30-23:40
c.
Finish Flowchart
as notes as preview to Mexican American War
d.
Work on
Ch 10.3
–
stop
at Surge of American Settlers – discuss focusing on perspectives
2. Work on Storyboard – Pass out Captions (part 2) Students can
continue illustrations but glue/tape at home
3.
Introduce - On Trial: The US
Government
a.
Text Video clip
Vol 6: Mexican American
War
b.
Assign roles (give leads
packet of their Main Arguments and their side’s witness bios)
Handouts:
Ch 10.3 Mexican-American War
Homework:
(Finish 10.3 Mexican American War
stop at Surge of American
Settlers,
if necessary)
Completed Storyboard "Acquisition of the American Southwest" due
Monday
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February 28-March 4 (Week 5)
Monday, February 28
1.
Video Clip: Age of Jackson
2.
Jacksonian Democracy
a.
Introduce Jackson
-
notes
b.
Ch 9.2 Jackson’s Administration – Preview Tariff and National
Bank
Handouts:
Ch 9.1 & 2 Jackson’s Administration
Homework:
Finish Ch 9.1& 2 Jackson’s Administration
Block A
Tuesday/Wednesday March 1 /
2
Tuesday Adjusted Sched: 7th grade star writing (late
start for 8th grade)
1.
Pass back North/South Unit Finals ->
Concept Summary -> Portfolios
2.
Collect HW: Ch 9.2 – Discuss
(Label with concepts
–Federal Power, State Power)
Presidents Video Series: Jackson Clip
3.
Jackson:
Indian Removal Notes
(Powerpoint/Video clips)
Handouts:
North/South Concept Summary;
Indian Removal
Homework:
Block B: Thursday/Friday, March 3/4:
1. Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion
Powerpoint
2.
US Territorial Acquisitions Map Activity
(Collect)
3.
Acquisition of the Southwest:
a.
Text Video Vol 6: Southern Frontier
b.
Begin Ch 10.2 Texas Revolution
Handouts:
Ch 10.2 Texas Revolution
Homework:
Finish Ch 10.2
Texas
Revolution
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February 21-25 (Week 4)
Monday, February 21:
Presidents’ Day Holiday
Block A Tuesday/Wednesday, February 22/23:
1.
Struggle for Women’s Rights
a) Intro:
Current Stats
b) Notes:
Struggle for Women’s Rights
c) Declaration of Sentiments activity
e) Video Clip/
Results
2.
North &
South Unit Final Prep:
Organize Notebooks
Concept Review: Highlighting Activity
Work on Multiple Choice Study Guide
Handouts:
Struggle for Women’s Rights
Homework:
Complete North/South Study MC Study Guide (North/South Unit
final Block B)
***Click here for
North/South Multiple Choice Study Guide and Format Sheet***
Block B: Thursday/Friday, February 24/25
1.
North/South Unit Final
– Collect Study Guide
New Unit: Westward Expansion
2.
Political Development of Westward Expansion: Federalist vs.
Jacksonian Era
Handouts:
Political Developments of Westward Expansion;
Homework:
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February 14-18 (Week 3)
Monday, February 14:
(Collect Ch 12.2&3 Southern Society if
necessary)
1.
Graphing Activity:
Regional Difference
“Format”
of the 3 pages of graphs on the board.
· Explain
that handout of information is very detailed - read/follow
the directions!
·
Pass
out directions – point out class handout needed for #4
Handouts:
Regional Differences Graphing Activity;
Homework: Complete
Regional Differences Graphing Activity (Open note Quiz Block A)
Block - Tuesday/Wednesday, February 15/16:
Late
Start Days, 2011
1.
North/South Graphing Quiz; Collect Graphs
2.
Era of Reform
·
Text Video clip: Vol 7 – New Day Dawning (2 min)
·
Notes/Powerpoint
- Growing Need for Reform (Immigrants & Urban Challenges- Ch
13.1)
· Reform
Movements Chart
(Scavenger hunt)
3.
Ch 13.4 The Movement to End Slavery
Handouts:
Growing Need for Reform (Ch 13.1 & 3);
Ch 13.4 The Movement to End Slavery
Homework:
Finish Ch 13.4 Movement to End Slavery
***Click here for
North/South Multiple Choice Study Guide and Format Sheet***
Thursday, February 17
(Single Periods)
1. Check HW: Ch 13.4
Abolition
(Text Video Clip: Call to End Slavery) –
discuss key abolitionists
2. Arts and Society:
Transcendentalism
3.
North/South Unit Table of Contents and North/South
MC Study guide
Handouts:
Arts & Society: Transcendentalism; North/South MC Study Guide
Homework:
Work on MC Study Guide through at least #4;
North South Unit Final Block B,
Thurs/Friday, Feb 24/25
Friday = Presidents’ Day Holiday 2011
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Previous Weeks
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February 7-11 (Week 2)
Monday, February 7:
Museum of Tolerance Field Trip
Block A Tuesday/Wednesday, February 8/9:
New Hall Passes
Go over Semester Finals
1.
Check HW: Ch 11.2 Changes in Working Life; Discuss
(Concept: Labor Systems)
(10 min)
Video Clip: Story of Us: Division, 11:55-16:55 – on mill life
2.
Ch 11.3&4 Inventions and Innovations in the Early-Mid 1800’s –
Scavenger Hunt; discuss/concept
– Free Enterprise/Free Trade
Video Clip:
Story of Us:
Westward, 42:40-45:50 – steamboat/Mississippi River
3.
Transition
to South: Ch 12.1
Growth of Cotton Industry
Text Video Clip Vol 8 The Agricultural South (3 min)
Handouts:
Ch 11.3&4 Inventions & Innovations; Ch 12.1 Growth of Cotton
Industry
Homework: Finish Ch 12.1
Growth of Cotton Industry
Block B: Thursday/Friday, February 10/11
1.
Check HW: Ch 12.1 Growth of Cotton Industry
-
Video Clip: Story of
Us: Division
2. Southern Society
Activity
Handouts:
Ch 12.2&3 Southern Society and Slave System Worksheet;
Homework:
Finish Ch 12.2&3 Southern Society and Slave System if necessary
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February 2-4 (Week 1)
Monday, January 31:
Inservice Day – No School
Tuesday, February 1
Inservice Day – No School
Wednesday, February 2
(Single Periods)
New Unit: North/South in Early 1800’s
1. Flow Charts: Regional
Differences
(20 min)
2.
Slavery in the New Nation
(30 min)
a.
Notes:
Stats on slavery by region; Inconsistencies Quotes
b.
Video Clip: Africans in America (7 min)
c.
Notes: Efforts to end slavery in North and South – 10 min
Handouts:
Regional Differences Flow Charts; Why Slavery was not Abolished
in the New Nation;
Homework:
Block Day:
Thursday/Friday, February 3/4
New Hall Passes
1.
Slavery in the New Nation (con’t)
a.
Review/Context
b.
Economic & Social Barriers to Emancipation
- Complete Economic: Constitutional Issue together
-
Students complete other 3 readings/notes individually; discuss
c. Video Clip:
Africans in America (Vol3: Beginning to 11:45) – 10 min
d.
Jefferson as personification of America’s problem: (LA Times
Article/Sally Hemmings scandal)
Transition to North…
2.
Notes: Industrial Revolution
3.
Ch 11.2 Changes in Working Life
4.
Pass
back/Discuss Semester Finals
Handouts:
New Hall passes;
Econ/Social Barriers to Emancipation;
Industrial Revolution Notes;
Ch 11.2 Changes in Working Life
Homework:
Finish Ch 11.2 Changes in Working Life
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January 24-28 (Week 19): Last week of
Semester
Monday, January 24:
1.
Collect HW: Study Guide
2.
New Nation Unit Final – MC
3.
Pass
out USH Semester Final – Multiple Choice Study Guide
Handouts:
USH Semester Final MC Study Guide
Homework:
Complete topics #14-17 on MC Study Guide
Semester Final on Block B (Prep Block A)
Block A: Tuesday/Wednesday January 25/26:
1.
Organize New Nation Unit into Portfolio; Check organization of
other units
(Table of Contents, MC Study Guides, Concept Study
Guides/Reviews, Blue Concept Summaries)
2.
MC Standards Review:
-
Discuss
nature of questions - not as
specific but asks for broader
understanding
-
Standards Review Readings: Do
8.1.1 - Great Awakening together
-
Individual Work to complete rest
of readings/portfolio work
(Click
Here for Standards Readings)
3.
Big Idea/Concept Matching Prep
a.
Discuss format/goal of final –
Assess understanding of concepts
b.
Key Words activity
c.
Semester Final Concept Review Handout
Review Task:
Go Concept by concept:
Concept Definition
>
Concept Review
“Look For” descriptions
>
Concept Summary Events/Test
items
***understand why
item goes w/ concept**
Handouts:
USH Semester Final –Concept Review
Homework:
Study the MC Study Guide in preparation for Semester Final Block
B
Block B: Thursday/Friday, Jan 27/28:
-
Semester Final
-
Video – American Legends
Handouts:
Homework:
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January 17-21 (Week
18)
Monday, January 17
MLK Holiday
Block A: Tuesday/Wednesday, January 18/19:
1.
Collect HW: Art &
Literature
2.
Native Americans in the New Nation
- Intro: use
maps to show issue/context;
-
Notes/Discussion:
Cultural Differences- Land
Use/Ownership & Negotiation
- Phases of
Native American Policy
–
Pass out Phases readings;
Complete Phase 1 together; individual work on phases 2-4
-
Illustration Assignment
Handouts:
Native American Policy in the New Nation & Summary/Illustration
Assignment
Homework:
Complete Native American Policy Summary/Illustration Assignment
(Suggestion:
Print out New Nation MC Study Guide Format Sheet to bring to
class Block B)
Click here for the
New Nation Multiple Choice
Study Guide and format sheet.
Block B, Thursday/Friday, January 20/21:
1.
Collect HW: Native American Policy
Assignment
2.
Prep for
New Nation Unit Final
a.
Organize
Notebooks – pass back papers – table of contents
b.
Concept
Review Highlighting Activity (Do Federal Power with them, work
on rest; discuss)
c.
New Nation
Unit Final MC Study Guide- Independent work (60 min)
Handouts:
Table of Contents for New Nation Unit; New Nation MC Study
Guide; New Nation Concept Review & Concept Summary
Homework:
New Nation Unit Final Monday
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January 10-14 (Week 17)
Monday, January 10:
Thomas
Jefferson
-
Check
HW: Ch 7.1
Thomas Jefferson
-
Jefferson and the Louisiana
Purchase Notes
-
Jefferson Presidents Video Clip
(Review and also previews foreign policy stuff)
3.
Ch 7.3 Coming of War (Jefferson
-->
Madison)
Handouts:
Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase
Notes; Ch 7.3 Coming of War
Homework:
Finish Ch 7.3
Coming of War
(Jefferson
à
Madison)
Block A: Tuesday/Wednesday, January 11/12:
-
New Nation Presidents Concept
Review (Wash, Adams, Jeff)
-
War of 1812 – Foreign
Policy under Jefferson >
James
Madison
-
War of 1812
Flow Chart/Powerpoint - Using
7.3 Worksheet do top together
(collect HW)
-
Use Ch 7.4 to
“scavenger hunt” the bottom;
-
Video Clip:
Madison Presidents Video Clip
-
Discuss
bottom of flowchart.
3.
Ch 8.1&2
Monroe
Handouts:
New Nation Presidents Concept Review;
War of 1812 Flowchart; Ch
8.1&2 Monroe
Homework:
Finish Ch 8.1&2 Monroe
Block B: Thursday/Friday, Jan 13/14:
1.
Check HW: Ch 8.1&2 James Monroe
- Review Significance of War of 1812
(Stress US growing up… nice transition to Monroe’s reaction to
indep of new Latin Am countries)
-
Presidents
Video: Monroe (10 min)
-
Discuss Ch 8.1&2 (5 min)
2.
Finish New Nation Presidents
Concept Review
(Madison-Monroe)
3. Notebook
Organization – schedule for rest of semester
4.
Art and Literature in the New
Nation
-
Powerpoint/Notes on Themes
-
Continue Powerpoint: Art
-
Literature Excerpts (Read class set of Rip Van Winkle/answer
questions together; Complete others from text individually)
Handouts:
Art and Literature in New Nation
Homework:
Finish Art/Literature
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January 3-7 (Week 16):
Week After Winter Break
Monday, January 3
1.
Review
Hamilton v. Jefferson Chart/Quotes
2.
Washington:
Ch 6.1&2 Washington Domestic Policies
Handouts:
Ch
6.1&2 Washington’s Domestic Policies
Homework:
Complete Ch 6.1&2 Washington
Block A: Tuesday/Wednesday, January 4/5
-
Check HW: Ch 6.1&2 Washington’s Domestic
Policies
-
Discuss Front Side
-
Video Clip: Volume 5: Divisions
within the Gov’t (4 min)
-
Washington
Domestic Policies Flowchart
2. Ch 6.3 Washington Foreign Policy
Handouts:
Washington’s Domestic Policies Flowchart; Ch 6.3 Washington
Foreign Policy
Homework:
Finish Ch 6.3 Washington’s Foreign Policy
Block B: Thursday/Friday, January 6/7
-
Check
HW: Ch 6.3 Washington Foreign Policy
- Discuss
-
History Channel Video Clip: Washington
3.
Washington’s Farewell Address Activity
-
Ch 6.4 John Adams
-
Adams
History Channel Video Clip
-
Discuss
concept connections
5.
Ch 7.1 Jefferson Becomes President
Handouts:
Washington’s Farewell Address; Ch 6.4 Adams worksheet; Ch 7.1
Jefferson Becomes President
Homework:
Finish Ch 6.4 Adams if necessary
Finish Ch 7.1 Jefferson Becomes President
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December 13-17 (Week 15)
‘10 week before winter break
Monday Block 2-4-6
Tuesday Block 1-3-5
Wednesday Block 2-4-6
Thursday Block 1-3-5
Friday Single Period Minimum Day
Block A:
Monday/Tues, December 13/14
-
Constitution Test (Collect Study Guide work)
2.
Concept Matching Highlighting Activity
Handouts:
Creating a New Gov’t Concept Review
Homework:
Complete Concept Matching Highlighting Activity
(Practice Activity and Open Note quiz on Concept Matching Block
B)
Block B: Wednesday/Thursday, December 15/16:
Test Makeups?
1.
Creating a New Gov’t Concept Matching Practice Activity
-
Group Activity
-
Unit Final Practice – discuss Answers
2.
Unit Final Quiz – Concept Matching Quiz
(Open Note)
Handouts:
Creating a New Gov’t Unit Final Practice
Homework:
Friday, 17 (Min Day):
Test Makeups?
New Nation Unit
1.
-Best
Path for Our Nation?
Hamilton v. Jefferson
a.
-Hamilton/Jefferson
Chart
&
Quotes
Activity
Handouts:
Comparing Views of Hamilton and Jefferson
Homework:
Winter Break
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December 6-10 (Week
14):
Monday, December 6
1.
Check HW:
Ch 5.2 Bill of Rights
Handouts:
Homework:
** Constitution Test Mon/Tues Dec 13/14
– memorize Preamble for Extra Credit
Block A Tuesday/Wednesday December 7/8:
1.
Bill of Rights Court Cases
2.
Binder Organization
(pass out Table of Contents)
3.
Summary: Articles 1,2,3 Chart
4.
Constitution Test Study Guide
Handouts:
Creating a New Gov’t Table of Contents; Constitution Test Study
Guide; Summary of Articles 1,2,3;
Homework:
Work on Study Guide
** Constitution Test Mon/Tues Dec 13/14 – memorize Preamble for
Extra Credit (Study
Guide work collected then)
***
Click here for Study Guide
and Format Sheet
Block B Thursday/Friday
December 9/10:
-
Review of Articles 1, 2, 3 Matching
-
Work on Constitution Test Study Guide
-
Organize/Staple Constitution Test Study Guide
Packet
-
Jeopardy Review Game
Handouts:
Review of Articles 1, 2, 3,
Homework:
** Constitution Test Mon/Tues Dec 13/14
– memorize Preamble for Extra Credit
(Study
Guide work collected then)
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November 29– December 3 (Week 13)
(Week after Thanksgiving09)
Monday, November 29:
-
Preamble Video
2. Article 1:
Legislative Branch
a.
Quick Review of Article 1 – first side
b.
Go over back side - How a Bill becomes a Law
c.
Discuss
Art
1, Sec 8 Label Elastic Clause Federal Power)
3.
Article 2
(with Path to Presidency on back)
Handouts:
Article 2 of the Constitution Worksheet;
Homework:
Finish Article 2 (front only)
Block A: Tuesday/Wednesday, November 30/December 1
1.
Preamble Video
2.
Check HW: Article 2
3.
Article 2: Executive Branch Discuss–
show executive Depts briefly when filling in Cab member
4.
Presidential Election Process (Path to Presidency Notes)
a.
Introduce Political Parties - List of major parties and “third”
parties;
b.
Presidential Election Process Activity
5.
Article 3 Worksheet
Handouts:
Article
3: Judicial Branch
Homework:
Finish Article 3: Judicial Branch
Block B; Thursday/Friday, December 2/3
Preamble Schoolhouse Rock
1.
Discuss Article 3 (focus on Marbury v Madison – judicial review)
3.
Notes: Articles 5-7
4.
Checks and Balances Activity
5. Ch 5.2 Bill of
Rights
Handouts:
Checks & Balances; Articles 5-7 Notes; Ch 5.2 Bill of Rights
Homework:
Finish Ch 5.2 Bill of Rights
(Constitution Test = Mon/Tues Dec
13/14)
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November 15-19 (Week 12)
(Week Before Thanksgiving09)
Monday, November
15
-
Discuss
HW:
Ch 4.1&2: A of C: Successes and Failures
-
Transition/Intro: Graphic
Organizer and Vocab
-
Ch 4.3:
The Constitutional Convention/Living
Constitution
-
Video:
Liberty (Vol 6, Ch 5; 24:32-30:58)
A Convention in Philadelphia
-
Begin
as a class --> Independent work
Handouts:
Ch 4.3 Constitutional Convention
Homework:
Finish Ch 4.3 Constitutional Convention
Block A: November 16/17:
1.
Collect HW: Ch 4.3 Constitutional Convention
2.
Preamble
3.
Basic Structure of the Constitution
4.
Introduce Ratification
Video Clip: Liberty Vol 6, Ch 6 Blueprint for New Nation
Read Ch 4.4 Ratifying the Constitution silently w/blank
chart up
Puzzle – give out cards, give a minute for students to
find where theirs goes; post puzzle...
Student copy
Handouts:
Basic Structure of Constitution; Ch 4.4 Ratifying the
Constitution
Homework:
Block B: Thursday/Friday, Nov 18/19
:
-
Schoolhouse Rock: Preamble
-
Constitution Search Activity
-
Constitution Worksheet: Article 1
(Complete everything except for class notes)
Handouts:
Constitution Search; Chart of 3 Branches of Gov’t; Article I of
the Constitution Worksheet;
Homework:
(Finish Article 1 Worksheet if
necessary)
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November 8-12 (Week 11)
Monday: November 8-
Articles of
Confederation
1. Video Clip: Liberty
Vol 6: Intro, 13 Little Republics (ch 1; 1:20-7:42)
2. Notes: Articles of
Confederation: US’s First Constitution
à Summary
of Articles of Confederation
Handout:
Articles
of Confederation Notes
Homework:
Block A
Wednesday,
November 9/10
Articles of Confederation:
1.
Video Clip: Liberty, Vol 6:
“National Vision”
(ch 3 14:14-19:04)
– 5 min
2.
Weaknesses of Articles of Confederation Activity
3.
Video: Liberty, Vol 6: “All is Not Well” (ch4
19:10-24:30) - 5 min
4.
Ch. 4.1&2
Worksheet: The
Articles of Confederation – Successes and Failures
Handout:
Weaknesses of Articles of Confed Chart;
Ch 4.1/2
Articles of Confederation: Successes and
Failures
Homework:
Finish Ch 4.1/2 Articles of Confed: Successes and Failures if
necessary
Veterans’ Day Holiday
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November 1-5 (Week 10)
Monday, November 1
*Unit Final Test Make-Ups
Best Form of Gov’t Press Conference
1. Assignment #1:
a.
Discuss/Individual work
*For
"Tips for Success" click here
Handouts:
Materials for Press Conference – see me
Homework:
(Philosophers/Advisors – read biographical briefing)
Block A:
Tuesday/Wednesday, November 2/3:
1.
Pass back MC Study Guide
2.
Pass back MC Unit Final
3.
Best Form of Gov’t Press Conference
a. Discuss Assignment #1 - edit
b. Assignment #2:
Handouts:
Homework:
Press Conference Performed Block B:
Complete Final Drafts (blue/black pen or typed!) of Individual
Assignment #1&2; Staple to
Cover sheet (to be collected after the performance
on Block B)
Block B: Thursday/Friday, November 4/5
1.
Best Form of Gov’t Press Conference Performance – Collect Prep
Work
2. Pass back Col/Rev Am Unit Final:
Concept Matching
-
Concept Summary
-
Test Corrections - collect at end of class
3. Put old unit in Portfolio if time
allows
Handouts:
Col/Rev Amer Concept Summary;
Concept Matching Test Corrections
Homework
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October 25-29 (Week 9)
Monday, October 25
-
Prep for MC Portion of
Colonial/Revolutionary America Unit Final
Questions/progress on MC Study Guide?
(Suggest: once completed, use original study guide to
quiz yourself)
Handouts:
Homework:
Col/Rev America Unit Final Block A
(Study Guide due Block A)
Block A:
Tuesday/Wednesday, October 26/27
-
Collect HW: MC Study Guide
-
Colonial/Rev Am Unit Final –
Multiple Choice (closed note)
3. Prep for Concept Matching portion of Colonial/Revolutionary
America Unit Final
(Open
Note)
·
Review Concepts – Discuss Key Words – match pink key words to
concepts
·
Concept Review/Highlighting
Activity
(Suggest that once done, use the Unit Final Practice to see if
you understand those connections and if you got that “item”
highlighted.)
Handouts:
Col/Rev Unit Final Concept
Review
Homework:
Col/Rev America Unit Final: Concept Matching
Block B
Block B: Thursday/Friday, October 28/29
1. Colonial/Rev
America Unit Final -
Concept Matching (Open Note)
2. New Unit:
Creating a New Government
a. Discuss
the fact that Americans were left w/o a federal gov’t after Decl
of Ind
b.
After Independence Notes/Gov’t Spectrum
c.
Review/Context: Enlightenment
-->
Summary of Enlightenment Philosophers
d.
Introduce Press Conference: Assign
roles
Handouts:
After Independence Notes; Summary of Enlightenment Philosophers;
Homework:
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October 18-22 (Week 8)
Monday, October 18 :
1.
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
a.
Review Road to Revolution Flow Chart – note when fighting began,
intent was to reform England’s policies…
-
Liberty: Volume 2, Ch 8&9: Olive Branch, Common
Sense (33:02- 39:01-43:59)
-
Common Sense
-
Read Context
-
Translation Activity:
Do first 2-3 quotes together --> independent
work
Handouts:
Common Sense
Homework:
Finish Common Sense Translations
activity if necessary
Block A: Tuesday/Wednesday, October 19/20
1.
Complete Common Sense Activity:
Discuss; label w/Concepts, class
notes
2.
Declaration of Independence
-
"Teenager Independence"
Activity
Handouts:
Homework:
Block B: Thursday/Friday, October 21/22
1.
Declaration of Independence
-
Video Clip: Liberty: Volume 2: Ch 10 “Independence”
(44:00-53:35)
-
Notes: Declaration of Independence
-
Translation Exercise
-
Label with Concepts
2. Prepare for Colonial/Revolutionary American Unit
Final - MC
- Organize notebooks
- MC Study Guide:
Click here for the
Study Guide and Format sheet
Handouts:
Declaration of Independence Notes & Translation Exercise;
Col/Rev Amer MC
Study Guide
Homework:
Col/Rev America Unit final
: MC portion is on Block
A
– prep continues Monday
- work on MC Study Guide
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October 11-15 (Week 7)
Monday, October 11
1.
Video clip:
Liberty (Vol 1): Intro-Ch. 2 (first
15 min)
2.
Background
to Developing Conflict
(Ch 2.4 Life in the Colonies, pgs 56-61 –
before conflict)
Handouts:
Ch 2.4 Background to
Developing Conflict
Homework:
Finish Ch 2.4 Background to
Developing Conflict
Block A:
Tuesday/Wednesday Oct 12/13
1.
Discuss HW
Ch. 2.4 Worksheet; Add
labels –
(15 min) – Collect worksheet
2.
Ch. 2.5:
Conflict in the Colonies
-
complete first 2 boxes together – Label Republicanism
- individual work on Side 1
- Discuss side 1 through Stamp Act - Concept Label
-
Liberty (Vol 1) Ch.
3:
The Stamp Act (15:08-29:50) -
15 min;
-
Discuss that repealing Stamp Act didn't fix the real problem of
Representation
à
discuss Townshend Act
à
Transition to Side 2
-
Independent work to Complete Side 2
Handouts:
Ch. 2.5:
Conflict in the Colonies
Homework:
Finish Ch. 2.5:
Conflict in the Colonies
Block B: Thursday/Friday, October 14/15
1.
Notebook Organization with table of
contents
(preview Unit Final soon)
2.
Check HW:
Ch 2.5 Conflict in the Colonies –
Side 2
-
Liberty (Vol 1) Ch. 6 :The Tea Party -
-
Discuss
thru Intolerable Acts (Concept Labels)
-
Liberty (Vol 2):
Ch. 1-3 (2:25-13:53) Parliament is
Angry, Cont Congress, Sense of Betrayal
-
Discuss
decision to prepare militias… British reaction to undermine that
--> Lexington/Concord
3.
Revolutionary Flow Chart (Note: Lexington and Concord before
Decl of Indep)
4. Video Clip: Vol
2: Shot Heard Round the World (13:55-20:32)
- time to keep going thru
Handouts:
Unit Table of Contents;
Road to Revolution Flow Chart
Homework:
Finish Road to Revolution Flow
Chart Illustrations
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October 4-8 (Week 6)
Monday, October 4:
1.
Introduce
Course themes/Concepts
· Brainstorm
words/items that are associated w/ political, economic, society
; Examples to practice categorizing
·
Major themes
overhead to discuss key terms w/ in Big Idea Statements
· USH
Course Themes Handout: Intro Concepts, define each on the back
Handouts:
USH Big Idea and Concepts
Homework:
Block A: Tuesday/Wednesday,
October 5/6
(Late Start Days)
1.
Graphing Colonial American Data
a. Intro historical
data; examples of bar, stacked bar, pie graph
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