Colonial America
The month of October
Monday, 10/6/14
 Come in quickly and quietly, and please have a seat.
 Write down your homework:
 On page 27- create a word search or crossword using 10 of the
16 words that are part of our new vocabulary. Use the
definitions as clues to the words you want us to find. Highlight
or circle the answers. Due tomorrow.
 Moravians of Salem (Enrichment Reading) due Friday. It is on
paper and Edmodo.com
 Add to your Table of Contents:
 L27- Colonial America Word-search (your homework, see
Study Guide for a Crossword Example)
 R28- Colonial America Vocabulary – Unit 3
Log-on to Quizlet.com
 Search C_Farley. Click on Colonial America Unit 3
 By the end of class you are expected to complete the test
section for your new vocabulary.
 Record your test score on page 4 of your notebook.
 If you finish the test before class is over, complete your
homework.
 Study Guide is available to fill in throughout our unit as well,
I would start filling in what you can.
Tuesday, 10/7/14
 Come in quickly and quietly.
 Please have a seat and get out your homework from last
night. (Page L27- Self Created Wordsearch/Crossword
Puzzle)
 Write down tonight’s homework:
 Moravians of Salem Enrichment Reading- Due Friday
 Notebook Check on Friday. Pages 27- 31
 Add to your Table of Contents:
 L29- Primary V. Secondary Sources Practice with Pictures
 R30- Primary V. Secondary Sources Notes
What is the difference between a
Primary and Secondary Source?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq
XHO7bTPnw
 While we watch the short video on Primary v. Secondary
Sources, please complete the notes sheet that you have been
provided with.
 This is a self guided activity, therefore, I should not hear any
talking. If you have a question, raise your hand and I will be
with you as quickly as possible. This should be a quick review
for many of us. There is no noise, so we should not need
headphones.
Why do we need to understand the
difference between primary and
secondary sources?
Throughout the year
We will be asked to
we will be interacting
examine, analyze,
with primary and
and interpret such
secondary sources.
sources.
You will use primary
and secondary sources
to complete your
projects in every class.
Practice
 Using the notes you just took from the video, identify the
following sources as primary or secondary.
 If you finish early, work on your Enrichment Reading.
Wednesday, 10/8/14
 Please come in quickly and quietly, and have a seat.
 If you have any missing work to turn in, please do so now.
 Write down your homework:
 Enrichment Reading “Moravians of Salem” due Friday, 10/10/14
 Colony Project due Friday, 10/17/14. We will go over the
requirements before the end of class. We will start looking at how the
13 original colonies are formed today.
 Add to your Table of Contents:
 L31- Reasons why people left the “Old World” (aka Europe)
 R32- How is North America divided among the European countries?
 Get out 4 different colored pens, pencils, highlighters, or crayons.
How is the New World going to be
divided now that it has been found?
 Switch to document camera.
 Students will need 4 different colors.
Thursday, 10/9/14
 Quickly and quietly have a seat, please get your laptops out and
log-on to edmodo.com
 Complete your Weekly 5: 10/9/14
 Write down your homework:
 Enrichment Reading “Moravians of Salem” due tomorrow,
10/10/14
 Colonies Project Letter due Monday, 10/13/14
 Page 31- Complete if not finished in class.
Why would people leave their homes in
Europe to come to North America?
 With this activity, we will:
 be able to illustrate the "push factors" in England and the "pull factors“
in the colonies and appraise the created current of immigration to
America, as we watch “America the Story of Us: Rebels.”
 -Who’s going to America? (the activity)
 Define the circumstances, and describe an individual that would come
to the British Americas in pursuit of advancing within, or because of the
following: economics, agriculture, religion, social class, and nationality.
 After you have done this be sure to:
 Prepare answers to each of the above. Provide at least three examples or
anecdotes for each of them. Prepare a brief presentation, complete with
visuals (drawings) that enhance your responses to the questions. Use the
space at the bottom of page 2, along with page L31 to sketch your
drawings.
Friday, 10/10/14
 Come in quickly and quietly, and have a seat.
 Turn to page L31 of your notebook, and pass your Enrichment
Reading Responses to the front of your row.
 Write down your homework:
 Colonies Project Letter due Monday, 10/13/14
 Colonies Project due Thursday, 10/23/14
 Thirteen Colonies Triple Venn Diagram Due Tuesday, 10/14/14.
Add to your Table of Contents
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L33-What was it like? Texts from the Past
R34- The Colonies of Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth
L 35- What rules do you feel a new colony should have? (5 min.)
R36- Mayflower Compact
L37- Brainstorm Your Advertisement Project, and The 13 Colonies Triple Venn
Diagram (Today and Monday?)
R38- 13 Colonies Podcast Notes (Today and Monday?)
L39- Brainstorm/Outline your Colony Essay (Tuesday)
R40-Research notes for your Colony Project (every one has a different colony)
(Tuesday)
L41- Diary Entry- How would your life be in the Colonial Era? (Wednesday
homework due Friday)
R42- Colonial Life (Wednesday)
L 43- What are 5 questions that you believe should be on this test.
R44- Study Guide (This is the Colonial America Crossword Puzzle you received on
10/6/13)
The Lost Colony of Roanoke
 LCR Movie Guide will be collected for a grade. It will be taped
in on page R34. Make sure you have enough room to tape in 3
activities like these.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUkuZTHQ7Zo
 Talking during the video means that we will turn to Chapter 3,
Section 1 of our textbook.
 I will be checking your notebooks during the video, while doing
my best to point out the question numbers that are coming up.
Monday, 10/13/14
 Come in quickly and quietly, and have a seat.
 Write down your homework:
 Project due on October 22, 2014. Give students their Project
guidelines now, along with the parent letter. The letter must be
signed and returned by tomorrow.
 Notebook Check on Friday.
Today we will examine the colony of
Jamestown.
 Reading guide read as a whole class. Completed individually.
 Have students log on to brain-pop when they are finished and
watch the :Pocahontas brain-pop. Answer the quiz questions
for comprehension. Write down your score on page 34 of
your notes.
Wednesday, 10/14/14
 Come in quickly and quietly, and have a seat.
 Write down your homework:
 Notebook check Friday pages 33-36
 Enrichment Reading “Three Colonial Governors” due Friday
 Page L33- Texts from the Past
 Project due on October 24, 2014
 Follow directions on the side board. Use “CC” (aka closed
captions) if you do not have headphones.
The First Thanksgiving- Plymouth,
Massachusetts
 Students will complete the brain-pop about the First Thanksgiving:
http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/culture/thanksgiving/previe
w.weml
 Log-in is leecs (username), and brainpop (password)
 Students will then take the quiz for a comprehension check. This is not
be counted as a quiz grade, but as a class work grade.
 If you finish early, you have three options:
 Play the game http://www.plimoth.org/media/mayflower-2/index.html
 Play the game http://www.plimoth.org/media/olc/intro.html
OR
 Complete your homework on edmodo.com
Thursday, 10/16/14
 Come in quickly and quietly, and please have a seat.
 Write down your homework:
 Notebook check Friday on pages 33- 38
 Enrichment Reading due Friday “Three Colonial Governors” for
Cores 1 AND 2
 Project due on 10/24/14
 Missing work is due on 10/27/14. I will not accept for after that
date.
The Mayflower Compact
 We will read the Reading Guide together.
 You will be responsible for finding the correct answers on
your own.
 The questions are to be answered by the end of class.
 If you finish early, complete your homework:
 On Page L35- write down 5 laws that you feel should have been
set up at this time, or that you would want if you started your
own colony.You need to explain why you would want those
rules and include pictures for each on. I have comic strip
templates in the back if you want to set your rules up that way.
View Project Guidelines and Example
on Edmodo when done.
 Ask questions about the project now.
 I will hand out the rubrics during IE
 Tomorrow and Monday will be your in class days to work on
the project.
 Vote Now: Should Mr. Toth be the Hulk or a Chicken man for
Halloween? No he is not passing out fried chicken.
Friday, 10/15/14
 Come in quickly and quietly, and have a seat.
 Turn to your homework on page L35, turn in your progress reports!
 Write down your homework:
 Any and ALL missing work is due by 10/27/14
 Project due on October 24, 2014
 Clear your desk of everything except your notebook and a pen or
pencil.
 Cross out 3,6,7, and 8 on your weekly 5.
After the Weekly 5 on paper
 Write down 5 rules or laws that you believe a new colony
should have on Page L35
 Tape in work into your notebook.
 L36 is the Mayflower Compact Reading Guide
 Log-on to edmodo.com and complete the podcast work for
your colony’s region. Write down your answers on the
handout labeled page 38. Tape this into your notebook.
Today’s Agenda post Weekly 5
 On edmodo find the announcement that talks about the 3 colony groups.
It will contain a link and two documents.
 You will be responsible for teaching another group of students about one
of the three colony groups: New England, Mid- Atlantic (aka Middle), or
the Southern Colonies.
 You will work with the other people who have the same assigned colony.
We will be using Mr. Zoller’s Podcasts on Youtube to assist us:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ScZh2-QLOE&list=PL9bDHRx3YbkV_rZLEF-eg8I6v080oCnS4
 If you work with a partner you will be more concrete in your responses
and more comfortable teaching others in the class. I should not hear off
topic conversations or talking that is above a whisper.
 While you are working, I will be checking your notebooks; pages 32-36
for Core 1B, 2A, 3A and 3B.
Exit Slip
 In order to leave today, you must answer the following as a
class:
 Why are NC and SC one colony during the formation of the 3
colonies?
 Why are most people coming to the colonies? (What reason do
you see being used most frequently?)
 What are you having issues understanding?
 Place your notebooks in a nice, neat, stack near the windows
for me to grade this weekend if I did not get to you in class.
Monday, 10/20/14
 Come in quickly and quietly and have a seat.
 Make sure that you have turned in your Enrichment reading.
 Write down your homework for this evening:
 Complete your brainstorm for your advertisement, as well as,
your Triple Venn Diagram on the 13 colonies which is located
on page L37- due Tuesday
 Brainstorming/outlining your report on page L39- due
Wednesday
 Final Project due FRIDAY!!!!
Today’s agenda
 On Friday, we should have finished our notes on the colony
grouping. That means to day you will be split up to teach two
other classmates about your colony grouping. This does not mean
tell them to what the video.You need to ask your groups
members questions, and answer them in turn if they have any
questions.
 Keep voices to a minimum and follow our G.R.O.U.P.
expectations.
 I will be checking your notebooks as you are going through this,
for those of you I missed on Friday, pages 32-36.
 Have students check their groups material to what I have on my
key the last 10 minutes of class. It should match up if they paid
attention while the podcasts were playing.
Exit Slip on Edmodo
 What are two things you learned today, one thing you did not
like about today’s lesson, and one thing that you are confused
about?
 Homework:
 Complete your brainstorm for your advertisement, as well as, your
Triple Venn Diagram on the 13 colonies which is located on page
L31- due Monday
 Brainstorming/outlining your report on page L33- due Tuesday
 Completed Project due on 10/23/14
 Tomorrow you will use the time in class to complete your
advertisement.You want to convince people to leave England to
start a colony with you.
Tuesday, 10/21/14
 Come in quickly and quietly, and have a seat.
 Take out your Triple Venn Diagram
 Write down your homework:
 Brainstorming/outlining your report on page L39- due tomorrow
 Completed Project due on Friday, 10/24/14*** This will be your first
grade for Quarter 2
 Unit test will be on Monday 10/27/14 ***This will be your last grade for
Quarter 1
 Notebook Check due on 10/31
 Today, you will use the time in class to work your advertisement.You
want to convince people to leave England to start a colony with you.
Use your rubrics, but first we will go over the Triple Venn Diagram.
Wednesday, 10/22/14
 Come in quickly and quietly, and have a seat.
 Write down your homework:
 Completed Project due on Friday, 10/24/14
 Study Guide due Monday. It was on the back of the Monravians of
Salem. I have no more paper copies, all copies are on edmodo.com.
 Notebook Check on 10/31
 Test next Wednesday!
 Today, you will use the time in class to complete your written
portion of your research using Microsoft Word or Google Docs.
I will not accept handwritten copies!!!!!
 Your project is due FRIDAY!!!! There is no more class time after
today!!!
Friday, 10/23/14- B cores, Monday A Cores
 Turn your project into the orange bin, if you did not
complete it electronically. If it was completed on the
computer, be sure that you turned it in on edmodo.com or
shared it with me in GoogleDrive by tomorrow at 3pm.
 Write down your homework:
 Study Guide due Tuesday- R44
 Dairy Entry- what is life like in colonial America? - L41 – due
Monday
What is life like in Colonial America?
 Page R42 of your notebook- Daily Life in Colonial America
 http://www.history.org/kids/visitUs/#colonialPeople . This
link is on Edmodo.
 If you finish early, complete either the journal entry (on half
sheet), tape R42 into your notebook, and the Study Guide. Both
are due Monday!
 If you get done with both of these, you may go play games on
freerice.com or on Study Island. The ones on Study Island are
more fun and will help you with preparing for Wednesday’s Test
Monday, 10/27/14- B Cores, Tuesday, 10/25A Cores
Review Day!!! Weekly 5 10/27/14 on Edmodo.com
2. Write down your Homework:
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Review your notes, weekly 5’s and project.
2. Notebook Check is on October 31st
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The sooner we all get a 70% or higher on our notebooks, the sooner I stop
checking them every week. 
Fun Way or the Boring Way- The choice is yours based upon your
actions as a class. 3 strikes and we do the boring way.
Today we will…..
 Students who have not
done their project, you
have a choice. Study for
tomorrow’s test, or
complete your 52pt project
that was due on Friday.
 Students who have
completed their projects,
log-on to Study Island.
 Click on Farley Cores ALL;
click on IE Time
Assignments; do
Exploration and
Colonization.
 Log-in is :
 LCSlunch#
 Lunch #
Wednesday, 10/29/14
 Test Day!!!
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The test is on Edmodo.com and is titled “Colonial America
Post Test.”
After wards take the “American Revolution Pre-test.”
Graph your results for both tests
Organize your notebook for tomorrow’s notebook check.
Pages 32-44. Table of Contents is on Edmodo.
Missing Work- DO YOUR PROJECTS!!!!! Today marks 15pts
off your final grade.
Thursday 10/30/14
 Notebook Check day!
 Swap your notebooks with a peer. We are checking pages 32-44.
That means our total is out of 13 points. We are not looking for
teacher marks, which means you either have it or you don’t.
 After the notebook check. Log-on to quizlet.com to receive your
new vocabulary words. We will be quizzed on them tomorrow.
 The words are under “America Revolution”
 Search for C_Farley if you have issues finding me.
Friday, 10/31/14
Log-on to quizlet.com
2. You have until the end of class to take the vocabulary quiz on
our new words titled, “American Revolution- Unit 4.”
3. If you get done early, complete the homework. The homework
is to make a crossword puzzle or word search using at least 10
words. Pick up the homework in the pink folder on the side
board.
4. See me if you get this all done.
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