Work on the memorization assignment. Students choose from the following selections: The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution Preamble, The Gettysburg Address, Lincoln's Second Inaugural, The New Colossus. If they memorize the assigned portion of their selection, and write it out or recite it on Tuesday, it is extra credit. EVERYONE must prepare a memorization assignment due Thursday.
Tuesday -
Extra credit memorization due.
"New Colossus" assignment due.
Wednesday (minimum day) -
New Colossus Quiz.
Textbooks due.
Thursday -
Memorization quiz: Selections include excerpts from any of the following: The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution Preamble, The Gettysburg Address, Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, The New Colossus, I Have a Dream
Final Reflections classroom assignment.
First period will take part in promotion ceremony practice and will complete the memorization quiz and final reflections assignments on Friday.
Monday - Study quizzes for Chapters 15, 16, 17 for the unit exam. Assemble the unit notebook with these requirements:
Quiz Chapter 15, 16-17
Film notes: Carnegie, T. Roosevelt*
Review essay or notes page
Game Day notes*
Extra credit review essay or review notes page
Work on review essay or review notes page.
Tuesday - Collect the unit review notebook. (See contents above.) Exam: Reshaping the Nation (chapters 15-17) (Big Test!!!) Begin work on the trimester review timeline, the 1800's, chapters 12 - 17, due Thursday.
Wednesday- Review activity - standards review. Work on time lines.
Thursday - Time lines due. Trimester Assessment (Big test!!) Brown vs. Board of Education supreme court case, worksheet due Friday
Friday - "The New Colossus" poetry and discussion. "The New Colossus" Quiz is next week.
Monday, we review for a unit test, covering the quizzes for chapters 15, 16 and 17. Students should be studying this weekend by reviewing Game Day notes (taken Friday, May 29) and by working on the review notes page or review essay, assigned on Thursday, May 28. Students should work some this weekend to prepare for the unit exam which is Tuesday, June 2 (chapters 15-17).
The trimester assessment (that includes the Civil War) is on Thursday, June 4.
Monday - Memorial Day Tuesday - Collect and grade GRA 16-1, 16-2. Work on GRA 16-3, 16-4 and content vocabulary, due Wednesday. Wednesday - Collect, review, grade GRA 6-3, 16-4 and content vocabulary. Review for quiz. Work on GRA 17-1. Thursday - Quiz - Chap. 16, 17. Work on Review Essay for next week's exam. Friday - Game Day (notes required) Gather Quiz Chapter 15, Review Essay, Civil War unit notebook, and prepare for next week's exam and trimester assessment.
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Monday - STAR Testing periods 1-2, History / Social Sciences part 2 (Period 1 & 2 does not meet because of STAR testing)
Periods 3-7 Collect STAR review American Studies. Collect GRA 15-1, 15-4, Conserving Natural Resources. Collect and review GRA 15-3, Oklahoma Settlers/p. 692 #1-6.
Tuesday- STAR testing: Math part 2 Periods 1-7, abbreviated periods Periods 1, 2
Collect STAR review American Studies.
Collect and review GRA 15-1, 15-4, Conserving Natural Resources.
Collect GRA 15-3.
Periods 3 - 7 Review for Chapter 15 Quiz(Highlights, Chapter 15)
Extra Credit options: 1. Due Friday, May 15: The Big Picture History time line (the date was extended in hopes of bringing in more projects) 2. Due Monday, May 18: The American Studies Review packet is due Monday, with complete sentence explanations of 10 items. Any student who completes full, complete sentence explanations of MORE than ten, gets extra credit. I am hoping to be able to award lots of extra credit on that due date, Monday, May 18. But students who pass up that opportunity will find themselves running out of opportunities. -----------------------------------------------------------------
May 11, 2009 - Week #33
This is the week of STAR testing. 8th Grade students will be testing for the first one and a half to two hours each day this week and on Monday and Tuesday of next week. Then, they will be in regular classes for the rest of the day for abbreviated periods, Tuesday through Thursday. On Monday and Friday for the most part, students will not attend their regular first and second period classes; the rest of the day will be on the normal schedule. Students should have two primary objectives this week. One is STAR review and the other is extra credit (Big Picture history timeline, 8th grade program review).
In American Studies, here is the plan for the week, for students after they complete their STAR testing at the beginning of each day.
Monday: Complete the STAR review for World Studies. Tuesday: Introduce the American Dream / Industrialization unit and begin GRA 15-1, 15-4 and Conserving Natural Resources. Wednesday: Film: Andrew Carnegie pt. 1 (notes required) Extra Credit Big Picture History timeline due Thursday: Film: Andrew Carnegie pt. 2 (notes required) Friday: American Studies STAR review packet due with at least ten items completed in full, complete sentences. Also, GRA 15-1, 15-4 and Conserving Natural Resources is due. Begin GRA 15-3.
This week, our plan is to review for the STAR exam. Students should study their review packets in preparation. Any students who did poorly on last week's Civil War exam or the Civil War notebook due last Thursday should attend Solutions this week on Wednesday or Thursday Academic School on Thursday afternoon.
Monday - Discuss grades. STAR review - Ancient Civilizations.
Tuesday - STAR review - Ancient Civilizations
Wednesday - STAR review - World Studies
Thursday - STAR review - World Studies
Friday - STAR review - American Studies. Ancient Civilization and World Studies packets are due, completed, filled in.
This week is the BIG unit exam on the Civil War. This is the biggest exam of the trimester, very important for student grades as we approach progress report time. All students should work hard this week to study their four unit quizzes (with corrected answers) which will be the key to success on the unit exam.
Monday - Finish unit project presentations. Notes are required. Begin a review notes page for either Chapter 12, Chapter 13 or Chapter 14. Use the quizzes from the chapter (with corrected answers) for a guideline as to what information to cover on the review notes page.
Homework is to prepare a unit notebook, due Thursday for the unit exam on the Civil War. The unit notebook should include the following items: a contents page; the four quizzes of the unit, with corrected answers; classroom notes from the unit (Issues of the 1850's, The Early War, Civil War notes 3 the Later War); unit project presentation notes (student presentations); Game Day notes (not required for period 7 because of a special guest); review essay on one chapter; review notes page on a chapter.
Tuesday - Game Day (notes required)
Wednesday - Review notes page or review essay, for the review notebook
Thursday - Civil War Unit Exam (110 pts). The unit review notebook is due (worth lots of points).
Friday - Film: Civil Rights, Martin Luther King Jr. (notes required)
Monday - "Making Generalizations" (The green packet on the three Civil War Amendments and the three Reconstruction plans) due at the end of the period or Tuesday
Homework is to complete GRA 14 (mostly completed last week) and work some on the unit project, introduced last Wednesday and due this Friday, the 24th.
Tuesday - Planning Reconstruction (packet that includes Plessy vs. Ferguson) due at the end of the period or at the beginning of Wednesday, biographies on Johnson and Revels not required.
Wednesday - Review for the quiz. Power point discussion. Review games for chapter 14 quiz.
Thursday - Quiz, Chapter 14. GRA 14 due. Work on finalizing the prep for the unit projects, due Friday.
Friday - Unit project presentations (notes required)
What a great trip to DC, Philadelphia and Gettysburg. It was a great time and our biggest trip ever. I only wish more of my students could have joined us!! We hope that everyone has had a restful break and is ready to get back to work for the final stretch of the school year.
Now... for this week. We have completed three of the four quizzes in the Civil War Unit. This week, we will have a memorization quiz on Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, but we will save the Chapter 14 quiz until next week when we will have time to work through four sections of the chapter and do some reviewing.
Monday - Work on memorizing the last paragraph of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. Study and work on GRA 14-1, 14-2.
Tuesday - Work some more on memorizing Lincoln's Second Inaugural final paragraph. The quiz is Thursday. Study and discuss the whole speech, and identify seven or more main points, in complete sentences.
Wednesday - Timeline Activity 14. Introduce the Civil War unit project. Students will work in groups to develop a review, some focused on Chapter 12 (Events Leading to the War), some on Chapter 13 (The Civil War events) and some on Chapter 14 (Reconstruction).
Thursday - Memorization Quiz: Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, the final paragraph. Then, work on the unit project.
Finish the Gettysburg Address four main points and ten study questions, ready for Tuesday discussion.
Work on the Civil War Battle Matrix, due Tuesday or Wednesday. You may want to access online resources to complete this, like civilwar.com/battle-summaries or historychannel.com.
Film - Abraham Lincoln, part 1 (notes required)
Tuesday
Complete the discussion of the Gettysburg Address main points and study questions.
Notes - The Civil War Battles part 2, the Later War (13-4, 13-5)
Collect the Civil War Battle Matrix
Wednesday
Discuss Lincoln's Assassination
Finish the notes, Civil War Battles part 2, the Later War (13-4, 13-5)
Quiz review game
Thursday
Quiz 13-4, 13-5
Collect GRA 13-1, 13-2, 13-3, 13-4, 13-5
Begin GRA 14
Friday
Film - Abraham Lincoln, continued (notes required)
March 16, 2009 - Week #27
Monday - Work on biography pack (Calhoun, Lincoln, Davis) due Wednesday; begin work on Gettysburg Address memorization due Friday; work on Civil War Data Activity due Tuesday; GRA 13-1 is homework.
Gettysburg Address memorization:
Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
...that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from this earth.
Tuesday - Civil War Data pack due. Notes - The Civil War Battles, Early War. Work on GRA 13-2.
Wednesday - Biography pack (Calhoun, Lincoln, J. Davis) is due. GRA 13-3. Review for Quiz 13-1 to 13-3.
Thursday - GRA 13-1, 13-2, 13-3 is due. Quiz 13-1, 13-2, 13-3. Work on GRA 13-4 and the Civil War vocabulary crossword. Work on the Gettysburg Address memorization for Friday's quiz.
Friday - Memorization Quiz, Gettysburg Address (see above). Discuss the Gettysburg Battle and the Gettysburg Address.
This is the week when students should learn WHY the Civil War was fought. You parents can ask your students to explain the answer!
Monday - Biography pack (Garrison, D. Scott, J. Brown) due Wednesday. Film: War Between the States, part 1 (notes required)
Tuesday - Mini presentations: The Issues of the 1850's (notes). Timeline Chapter 12 pack due. Work on GRA 12-4, 12-5, should be completed before class Wednesday but to be collected on Thursday at the time of the quiz.
Wednesday - Biography pack due. Quiz review. Students should have completed GRA Chapter 12. Thursday - GRA 12 due. Quiz Chapter 12. Film: War Between the States, part 2 (notes required)
This is the final week of the winter trimester, but for grading purposes, it is the first week of the spring trimester. Winter grades closed last Friday except for grades of those who have been absent and are turning in late work. There has been so much illness lately!
This week, as a transition to the 3rd trimester and to the Civil War unit, students are watching a film version of Harriett Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, a best selling novel in the 1850's that convinced many that slavery had to be stopped.
Monday - Uncle Tom's Cabin part 2 (notes required) Tuesday - Civil War map assignment due (directions provided last Thursday). Then, Uncle Tom's Cabin part 3. Wednesday - Uncle Tom's Cabin notes due. Quiz - Uncle Tom's Cabin. GRA chapter 12. (minimum day) Thursday - GRA 12-1, 12-2, due next Thursday, the day of the Chapter 12 quiz. (minimum day) Friday - Timeline Activity Chapter 12, due next Tuesday.
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This week, we come to the end of the second trimester. There is a big trimester assessment on Thursday, February 26, covering the last two units of study ("Launching the Nation," which we studied in December - January, and "The Young Republic," a unit just completed last week). The official end of the term is next Friday, March 6, but grades will close this week in order to have time to complete grading and take care of absent make up work. Only make up work will be graded next week.
In order for students to be successful this week, on the big trimester assessment, they should make use of two key resources: the green Chapter 5-7 review guide, distributed last week and the peach/beige 2nd Trimester Assessment Review Activity, distributed in class on Monday. These two review guides should be the focus of student studies and homework this week.
Monday - Review activities in class: the Green Study Guide.
Tuesday - Standards Practice Activities in class: pages 301, 333, 371, 417, 441, 465, 517. 2nd Trimester Review Activity (flash cards / study sheets)
Wednesday - Game Day (notes required)
Thursday - Trimester Assessment. Green Chapter 5-7 Review Guide and 2nd Trimester Review Activity (flash cards / study sheets) due. Game Day notes also due.
As noted last week, we have a big exam this Thursday, Feb. 19, and a trimester assessment next week. Students were given study materials last week, and were invited to study for the exam and to work on extra credit during the long weekend.
Monday - Holiday Tuesday - Game Day (notes required) Wednesday - Review essays and / or review notes page. Students choose. They must write one essay or create one review notes page. (Extra credit is available for a second.) The directions handout went out last Wednesday. Thursday - Unit Exam. Unit review notebook due. Contents requirements are listed in last week's Wednesday notes. Friday - Review Guide - Chap. 5 - 7 (Air Jam assembly will impact period 7)
We are approaching the end of the trimester. There are a few major assignments ahead that I hope will provide an opportunity for students to pull together what they have learned over the trimester and to improve their grades as we approach the end of the term. The big day for the unit exam is February 19. There will also be a trimester assessment, worth lots of points, on February 26.
Monday - Work on review paragraphs for Section 11-3, 11-4. Begin work on maps, War with Mexico, p. 495. Homework is also GRA 11-3, 11-4.
Tuesday - Review paragraphs due. Review for the quiz. Finish the map and the GRA 11-1, 11-2.
Wednesday - GRA 11-3, 11-4 due. Quiz 11-3, 11-4. Map due. Begin to prepare notebooks for unit exam. The unit exam is February 19. The unit review notebook will be due Feb. 19, and it will include the following items:
Notes: Ideas that Make Movements; Manifest Destiny
Game Day notes
One review notes page or review essay
One optional extra credit review notes page or review essay
Thursday - Teacher in-service day, no school for students Friday - Holiday
Looking ahead to next week, February 17 - 20: Monday - Holiday Tuesday - Game Day Wednesday - Review activity Thursday - Unit exam and unit notebook due Friday - Chapter 5 - 7 review activity ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ February 2, 2009 - Week #21
Monday - Film notes: The Alamo... But First Period has a different program because of last Friday's high school registration. First period starts the Texas Independence map assignment, for them, due Wednesday. Homework is GRA 11-1, 11-2, due Thursday. Also, work on the map assignment.
Tuesday - Texas Independence map assignment due. Work on Zebulon Pike biography pack and the "Cost of Moving West." Lecture/discussion: Manifest Destiny and Texas Independence
Tuesday - Quiz 11-1, 11-2. Collect GRA 11-1, 11-2. Collect Timeline 11 activity pack. Discuss the War with Mexico, section 11-3. Work on GRA 11-3, 11-4.
High school registration counselors will be here Friday, first period to get 8th graders signed up for next year.
Some students should be re-writing the unit projects that were due last week. Some did not follow directions and need to re-write in order to demonstrate an ability to follow directions carefully.
Monday - Work on the GRA for this week, due Thursday. Also, we discuss the Lowell Mills, the Industrial Revolution, the factory system and how these developments helped lead to the women's rights conference and other reforms. Tuesday - Read together from a biography pack on Finney, Anthony, Stanton, Dix and Nat Turner. The bio pack is due Wednesday. Also, there is a lecture / notes on "The Reforms." The notes should be added to last week's notes on "Ideas that Make Movements." Wednesday - Film: Harriett Tubman and the Underground Railroad (notes required). The biography pack is due. CJSF field trip students will be excused from these film notes. Thursday - Quiz 8-4, 8-5, 9-3. GRA due on 8-4, 8-5, 9-3. Timeline 8 activity pack due. Friday - Film: The Alamo (notes required, except for Period 1) (Unit Project re-writes are due.)
Friday revised (January 30) High School registration - first period. Periods 2, 3, 4, 5, 7- Discuss Manifest Destiny and begin the Map assignment: Texas Indpendence, page 485, due next Tuesday.
January 19, 2009 - Week #19 Monday - Holiday Tuesday - MLK and Inauguration Day. Inauguration Assignment: Students study the Kennedy and King speeches on pages 860-861. Students use proper headings and titles (MLA standards except that pencil is acceptable). write answers in complete sentences to these simple questions: What are the main points in President Kennedy's speech? What are the main points in Dr. King's speech? Do you see any similarities in the messages of Kennedy, King and President Obama? (You may want to study the new president's inaugural address in order to answer the last question... if you do a good job, there may be bonus extra credit points available.) Wednesday - Quiz review groups and games. Thursday - GRA 8-1, 8-2, 8-3 and Quiz 8-1, 8-2, 8-3 Powerpt lecture / notes required - Reforms, Section 8-4, 8-5 Friday - Film: Harriett Tubman (notes required)
January 12, 2009 - Week #18 This is the middle of the school year and the middle of the trimester. Progress Report grades are due this week. All students were given their progress report grades last Thursday. Many students were given grade print-outs on Monday, January 12 (today) for parents to sign and return. Students should be able to show Mom and Dad their grades. Anyone who needs a grade check should ask via email or by word in class. Solutions (a one-hour after-school academic study detention) is on Wednesday this week, and students with more severe grade problems should attend the three-hour Thursday afternoon Thursday school from 2-5PM on Thursday.
Monday - Unit projects (news paper article with partners) due. Work on the timeline packet, due Tuesday or Wednesday. Andrew Jackson film with four study questions. Grade checks and Solutions assignments for everyone who wants one. We discuss grades and review graduation requirements. Tuesday - Work on a notes page for Chapter 10 that students can use during the quiz on Wednesday. Wednesday - Quiz, 10-1, 10-2, 10-3. Collect GRA 10-1, 10-2, 10-3. Thursday - GRA 8-1, 8-2, 8-3 and Webster bio pack work Homework is Primary Sources pages 462-463, #1-4, due Friday. Friday - Film: Industrial Revolution (notes required)
January 5, 2009 - Week #17 Happy New Year! Progress reports are due next week - we have almost reached the halfway point of the school year.
Monday - Review activity: Open notes / open book test - Launching the Nation Tuesday - Discuss and review the open notes / open book test. Review essay: Choose a topic from the handout. Wednesday - Review essays due. Begin work on the unit review project with a partner, due next Monday. Thursday - Short biography - John Quincy Adams. Work on GRA 10-1, 10-2, 10-3, due next Wednesday. Friday - Work on GRA 10-1, 10-2, 10-3. Work on unit review project due Monday.
Monday - Work on The War of 1812, key points and "Recognizing Time and Sequence". Homework is to complete the War of 1812 map and the GRA for 7-2. Tuesday - Map due. Recognizing Time and Sequence due. Work on section 7-3 GRA and the chart for "Treaties and Deals" section 7-3. Wednesday - GRA 7-2, 7-3 due. Chart - Treaties and Deals, 7-3 due. Quiz 7-2, 7-3. Thursday - Work on the Star Spangled Banner project. Friday - SSB project due.
A unit review notebook is also due, for the unit: "Launching the Nation" which will include the following items: Quiz and GRA 5-3, 6-1; Quiz and GRA 6-2, 7-1; Quiz and GRA 7-2, 7-3; Jefferson film notes; Hamilton Jefferson contrast chart; Lewis and Clark map; Key points for Lewis and Clark; Key points for War of 1812.
Monday - Work on GRA 6-2, 7-1, due Thursday. Watch film, Lewis and Clark. Handouts: Lewis and Clark key points; Map Directions for Lewis & Clark map and for War of 1812 map. Homework is to complete the Lewis & Clark map, due Tuesday. Tuesday - Work on the biography pack: Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, Sacagawea. Collect the Lewis & Clark map. Wednesday - Key points - Events Leading to the War of 1812. Quiz review. For homework, finish the GRA and the biography pack, and study for the quiz. Thursday - Quiz 6-2, 7-1. Collect GRA 6-2, 7-1. Collect the biography pack (Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, Sacagawea). Friday - Map: War of 1812. Begin GRA 7-2, 7-3.
Monday - Collect Thanksgiving extra credit. Work on GRA 5-3, 6-1. Tuesday - Make a chart comparing Hamilton and Jefferson, page 292. Powerpoint: The French Revolution. Wednesday - Quiz review. Timeline worksheets for Chap 5 and Chap 6. Thursday - Quiz 5-3, 6-1. Due: GRA 5-3, 6-1; worksheets for timelines chapters 5 & 6; chart on Hamilton and Jefferson. Begin work on the Lewis and Clark map. Friday - Film - Thomas Jefferson (notes required)
This week, we are having a political parties activity, culminating in group presentations on Friday in the library where judges will select winning campaigns. Each class will have three parties, and each party will select a candidate and three issues to be the center of its campaign.
Monday - Organize parties. Choose party leaders and issues. Homework is for each student to research an issue. It's easy to go to the candidates' websites to get position statements on the issues.
Tuesday - Veterans Day holiday
Wednesday - Political parties will focus on identifying their position statements (planks). Each student will have a project assignment. Projects are due Thursday. Also, there is a Venn Diagram assignment due Friday, on the two parties of the 1790's, the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans.
Thursday - Complete projects. Prepare to present posters and speeches, due Friday.
Friday - Present posters and speeches. The Venn Diagram assignment is due.
After a two-week vacation, we will pick up studies in Chapters 5 and 6. Happy Veterans Day. And Happy Thanksgiving!!
I was not able to get Schoolnotes updated on Monday this week - so here it is today. I did go over the week's plan with students on Monday, so they should have had their binder reminders updated. My apologies to those of you who needed it Monday night.
The key this week is the first trimester assessment, to be given on Wednesday. (Thursday is a minimum day.) The trimester comes to an end at the end of this week, so grades are closing and all make-up work should be in. The biggest grades of the trimester are last week's Constitution test and unit review notebook.
Here is the plan for this week.
Monday - Game Day. Students take notes during Game Day and study for the trimester assessment which is Wednesday. Homework is to study the Game Day notes and the Revolutionary War unit review notebook.
Tuesday - Trimester assessment review activity: Students use their Game Day notes and work in groups to develop review charts. There is no make-up activity for those who are absent. The homework is to study the notes (Game Day notes and Rev War unit review notebook quizzes) for Wednesday's trimester assessment.
Wednesday - Trimester assessment. Begin the Political Parties pack with the first two assignments: "Election Glossary" and "Political Parties Chronology." Try to finish these two assignments for homework.
Thursday - Political Parties Questionnaire, a classroom activity to learn about some of the current issues and the positions of today's Republicans and Democrats. Homework is to finish the political parties activity pack with the worksheets on The Electoral College and the Battle for Congress.
Friday - Political Parties packet due. Film: Political Parties (notes required)
This is the week of the Big Constitution Exam, worth 174 points and a big unit review notebook, worth 100 points. These two assignments can GREATLY impact a student's grade. A week of careful, thorough study is critical this week.
Monday - Game Day. Students take notes in class as we play a review game in a gameshow format to review for the big test. Homework is to study and master the purple "Bonus Study Guide" and to start working on memorizing the quizzes.
The unit review notebooks (due Thursday) should include the following items:
a contents page with the following items listed
Key points (notes from a powerpoint) for Quiz 3 and Quiz 4
Game Day notes
Review notes page (a second review notes page is extra credit)
Review essay (a second review essay is extra credit)
The purple Bonus Study Guide
Quiz 1, 2, 3, 4 (fully corrected)
The last two items in the review notebook are a complete study guide of everything on the unit exam. Students who have mastered the purple study guide and the four quizzes should do extremely well on the exam.
Tuesday - Review notes page. Students select one of the unit's four quizzes, and make a review notes page, organizing and mapping out all the information from that one quiz, and formatting it in charts, graphs and illustrations. This assignment was presented last Friday. Some may have started it. If students complete a second review notes page on a second quiz, it is extra credit (if the first one is done well). Homework is to study and master two of the unit quizzes, Quiz 1 and Quiz 2.
Wednesday - Review essays. Students choose from four options and focus on the material from one of the quizzes. Of course, the focus of this activity should NOT be the same quiz as the one selected for Tuesday's activity. The handout describes the options. Homework is to study and master the 3rd and 4th unit quizzes.
Thursday - Collect the unit review notebook. See above for contents. Take the Constitution unit exam (174 points).
Next week, there is a Trimester Assessment (Wednesday) covering the Constitution and the Revolutionary War, all the material of the trimester. It will be worth 80 points. Students should review the unit review notebook from the first unit, the Revolutionary War.
Friday - Staff In-service Day - no school for students
This is the week of Constitution Quiz #4, the final quiz in the unit. It covers the textbook Chapter 5, Sections 1 & 2. Also, the purple "Bonus Study Guide" is part of this week's quiz. Students should complete the GRA due Thursday and study the purple study guide in preparation for this week's quiz.
Monday - Review the purple study guide and GRA 4-2, 4-3. And work on the blue worksheets packet, begun last Friday. Students should be through worksheets 2, 3 and 4. Homework is GRA 5-1.
Tuesday - We will cover some key points (class notes) for sections 5-1 and 5-2. Also, students will drill on the purple bonus study guide.
Wednesday - There will be more key points. And we will study the electoral college in the Scholastic Magazine article "People's Choice." Homework is to complete GRA 5-1, 5-2 and the content vocabulary, and to study for the quiz.
Thursday - Quiz 4 (Sections 5-1, 5-2 and the purple study guide) GRA 5-1, 5-2 and content vocabulary are due. Students will work on completing the blue worksheets packet, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 15. There will also be an extra credit opportunity for students whose work is completed.
Friday - Blue worksheets packet is due. "Battle for Congress" Review activity. Organize unit review notebooks with this contents page: Quiz 1, 2, 3, 4; Key points for Quiz 3 & 4; Game Day notes; Review notes page; Review Essay.
This is the week of Constitution Quiz #3. The Big Exam is October 30. Students should be collecting their unit quizzes in preparation for the review week, the week of the exam. All mistakes on the quizzes should be corrected.
Monday - Work on Checks and Balances chart (p. 228) and How a Bill Becomes a Law chart (p. 229) due Wednesday. Students study the charts and reproduce them in their own hand, using lots of color and the words, phrases, arrows and symbols of the charts in the book. Students should not get overly focused on the artwork, but should focus on the words and ideas. The final should be in colored pencil or ink, no regular pencil. Homework is GRA 4-2.
Tuesday - Key points. Students take notes for Quiz #3 (Sections 4-2, 4-3). Homework is to complete GRA 4-2 and 4-3 and the content vocabulary.
Wednesday - Collect the two charts, Checks & Balances and How a Bill Becomes Law (pp. 228, 229). Finish the key points. Review for the Quiz.
Thursday - Constitution Quiz #3. Collect GRA 4-2, 4-3 and content vocabulary. Work on the Bonus Study Guide, fill in the blanks with discussion.
Friday - Blue packet, Worksheet 2 and following. Begin it today; it is due next week.
This is conference week. All five days this week are minimum days, with student-parent-teacher conferences in the afternoons. Conferences are scheduled through the front office secretaries. Call Mrs. Dahlkamp if you need to schedule a conference.
Monday Film: The U.S. Constitution, part 1 (notes required)
Tuesday Collect the timeline / Revolutionary War debt activity. Key points: Constitution Quiz #2 (notes required)
Wednesday Finish key points for Constitution Quiz 2. Film: The U.S. Constitution, part 2 (notes required)
Thursday Constitution Quiz #2. GRA 3-3, 4-1 is due. Homework is the Preamble quiz.
Friday Preamble Quiz. Begin GRA 4-2, 4-3. Collect keypoints for Quiz 1 and Quiz 2.
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Monday - George Washington short biography article. Read the article, answer the questions. Notes (Key points) for Quiz #1. Homework is to complete GRA 3-1, 3-2, due Thursday.
Tuesday - Collect G. Washington bio. Notes (Key points) for Constitution Quiz #1.
Wednesday - Political Cartoon, a New Plan of Government. (Complete the study questions.) Notes (Key points) for Quiz #1. Quiz review.
Thursday - Constitution Quiz #1(Sections 3-1, 3-2). GRA 3-1, 3-2 due
Monday - Organize unit review notebooks with all four quizzes. Homework is to study the four quizzes for Thursday's exam. Classwork is a review activity: Game Day. All students should get notes during game day. Students who participate on the Game Day panel should write on their unit notebook contents page "Game Day Participant."
Unit review notebooks should include the following items: a contents page, four quizzes, Game Day notes, Short Reports notes, a review essay.
Ambitious students are invited to write a second essay (selected from the four options) for extra credit, due the day of the exam, with the notebook.
Tuesday - Short reports due. Students will present short reports. The class will take notes on the terms, during the short reports.
Wednesday - Review essays. Students will select one from the four options. Each of the questions is designed to help students review specific information from the quizzes. Answers should be one to two pages long.
Thursday - Colonies and Revolutionary War unit exam. Unit notebooks due. Notebooks should have a contents page and the following items:
four quizzes
Game Day notes
Short Reports notes
Review essay
Friday - U.S. Constitution unit introduction. The preamble - memorize... "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union..."
Monday - Memorize a key part of the Declaration of Independence, due Friday. Discuss it. Connect it with today's special assembly, Rachel's Challenge. Study the biographical sketch of Thomas Paine and the excerpts from "Common Sense" in the Policy and Protest packet. The study questions are due Wednesday, along with the whole packet. Because of the assembly today, the Common Sense study questions are extra credit for periods 3, 4, 5 and 7. They are required for periods 1 & 2.
The memorization passage: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just rights from the consent of the governed, (one more clause for extra credit) that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it... Tuesday - Film: Fighting the War for Independence (notes required). Study and discuss the Revolutionary War Mottoes in the packet that begins with The American Revolution, Birth of Liberty and Justice for All. Work on memorizing the Declaration of Independence passage. GRA 2-3 and 2-4 is due Thursday.
Wednesday- The Policy and Protest timeline packet is due. Some sections are extra credit for some classes. Any students who completes all sections will receive extra credit. We will study the Battle of Bunker Hill, with a handout and study questions.
Thursday- Quiz 4 (Section 2-4) GRA 2-3, 2-4 is due. We will organize review notebooks and begin work on short reports, a review activity.
Friday- Memorization Quiz - the Declaration Work on short reports.
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Monday - Work on Franklin's Plan of Union and Timeline: Policy and Protest. Read the summary packet of events that led to the American Revolution.
Tuesday - Work on GRA 2-3. Film (notes required).
Wednesday - Work on the Unrest-o-meter, due Thursday.
Thursday - Quiz 2-3. GRA 2-3 due. Timeline: Policy and Protest, Franklin's Plan of Union due. Unrest-o-meter due.
Friday - Film: Williamsburg, Story of a Patriot (notes required)
Tuesday: Homework is GRA 2-1. Classwork is terms for Section 2-1, #1 - 16, in complete sentences and full explanation, due Thursday. Wednesday: Homework is GRA 2-2. Classwork is to continue work on terms for Section 2-1, #1-16, in complete sentences and full explanation, due Thursday.
Thursday: Quiz for Sections 2-1, 2-2 (open book). Collect GRA 2-1, 2-2 and terms 1-16 for Section 2-1. Homework is terms 1-7 in Section 2-2, due Friday.
Friday: Collect terms 1-7 for Section 2-2, complete sentences. Film: Ben Franklin (notes required)
Monday Homework is GRA 1-2, 1-3. In class, read and discuss Sections 1-2 and 1-3. Take notes on terms.
Tuesday Homework is GRA 1-2, 1-3, due Thursday. Continue yesterday's lesson: Terms for 1-2 and 1-3. Students take notes. Also, study and review the classroom policies for Thursday's quiz. Wednesday Again, homework is to complete GRA 1-2, 1-3 and to study for Thursday's quiz. Also, due Thursday: the in-class notes for the week on the terms. We will also review the class policies again.
Thursday Quiz - 1-2, 1-3 and the Classroom Policies. Collect GRA 1-2, 1-3 and the in-class notes on Sections 1-2 and 1-3. Begin a map on the 13 colonies.
Welcome to the new school year. Each week, I plan to update this School Notes web page on Mondays. Monday nights, there should be information about the week's program: assignments due and test dates. For the first week of the new school year, here is the program:
Monday: Introduce the Declaration of Independence memorization quote; student information sheets; MLA standards; and notes on the Declaration of Independence. Students are invited to memorize a small portion of the Declaration of Independence for extra credit, due Thursday.
Tuesday: Discuss the Declaration of Independence memorization quote. Discuss the Superdates for Thursday's quiz. Discuss the Classroom Policies, signatures, due Thursday.
Wednesday: Discuss the Superdates some more. Discuss the "Three Great Moments" in American history. Take notes. Assemble a notebook on a) The Declaration, b) The Superdates and c) The Three Great Moments.
Thursday: Extra Credit Quiz- Declaration of Independence. Quiz- The Superdates and Great Moments. Collect the mini unit notebook: Notes on the Declaration, the Superdates and the Three Great Moments. Classroom policy form signatures due.
Friday: Study the classroom policies. Introduce Unit 1: The Colonial and Revoluitonary periods.
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