Covers Early Presidents and the Manifest Destiny
EARLY AMERICA- THE STORY OF HOW
AMERICA GREW
WED, 1/20
New Seats
✕ Achieve
✕ Intro to Project- Students will be teaching their
classmates about one of the 15 topics available.
Students will sign up based on topic, and will
not know if they have a partner or not until
after.
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THURSDAY, 1/21
Review where links are and what we are doing.
✕ Students work independently and silently until
the last 20 mins of class. At that time they can
meet with their partners to collaborate.
✕ Remind students this is a 96pt project so time is
of the essence. They will get all of Friday to
complete research too.
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FRIDAY, 1/22
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Students were to complete research, but we
had a snow day.
WEDNESDAY, 1/27
Write down your homework (see back board)
✕ Answer the following on your own paper:
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What does Manifest Destiny mean?
STEP 1 OF CLASS
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Introduce the discussion session by showing a
short video clip introduction: "Gone West Manifest Destiny".
Then play the atlas animation "Growth of a
Nation" Briefly review the map animation by
asking students to name the major events that
occurred during the period 1820 - 1860.
STEP 2
Ask students to imagine how they might have
felt if they were a white settler, a slave, an
abolitionist, a Native American, a Mexican.
Provide a couple of minutes of wait time to let
this "sink in.
✕ Have students share with their new elbow
buddy when asked by teacher to do so
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STEP 3
Remind students that today is the last day of
the research of the project.
✕ Remind them that they really want to focus on
why their event happened and how it affected
the nation politically, economically, and
socially.
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THURSDAY, 1/28
Write down your homework (see back board)
✕ Warm-up:
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What people supported or believed in Manifest
Destiny?
Who benefitted most from westward expansion?
Who suffered the most as a result of westward
expansion?
✕ Think about yesterdays warm-up and your research.
HOW TO USE PIKTOCHART
Before letting the kids loose to work with their
partners on the piktochart, you will pull it up on
the front board and show they how to use it.
Show examples from the past which are based
on Presidents FDR and Lincoln.
✕ http://piktochart.com/ will have students start
up for free.
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AS YOU ARE WORKING ON YOUR PIKTOCHART…
I will be coming around to check and make sure
that your project outline is completed. This
must be completed in order to move forward.
✕ Presentations begin Friday.
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FRIDAY, 1/29
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Warm-up: Log-on to Achieve 3000 and complete
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Story of the States
Big Troubles Lead to Big Changes
Missing Achieves or next week’s Achieves
Write down homework on the back board
✕ I will meet with students who have tested out of
Achieve to talk about the Conspiracy Theory
Paper.
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AFTER ACHIEVE TIME…
Students will work on their piktochart project .
✕ I will be walking around helping groups that
raise their hand and ask for help.
✕ While waiting for me to come over to help you,
see if you and your partner can figure it out
without me.
✕ Reminder- Presentations begin Friday; it’s
worth 96 pts
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MONDAY, 2/1
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Warm-up: Put the following events in order
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Declaration of Independence
Civil War
Gold Rush
John Quincey Adams’ Presidency
American Revolution
Andrew Jackson’s Presidency
New Song Time!!!- Show they the Westward
Expansion parodies. This is to help all with
understanding how all the projects will fit with each
other.
Write down homework (back Board)
PIKTOCHART TIME!!!
Today we will continue with presentations.
Thank you to everyone who shared their project
with me. It has made it easier to grade the
product portion of the grade.
✕ Please get out 3 sheets of your own paper and
divide it into 8ths. The 1st column is for causes
and the 2nd column is for effects.
✕ Review audience expectations
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TUESDAY, 2/2
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Warm-up: Everyone who did not present, pull
up your project on one of the computers.
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Answer- Which project have you liked the best?
Share with elbow buddy what you learned.
Write down homework (see back wall)
PIKTOCHART TIME!!!
Today we will continue with presentations.
Thank you to everyone who shared their project
with me. It has made it easier to grade the
product portion of the grade.
✕ Please get out 3 sheets of your own paper and
divide it into 8ths. The 1st column is for causes
and the 2nd column is for effects.
✕ Review audience expectations
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WEDNESDAY, 2/3
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Warm-up:
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How does this picture
embody the idea of
Manifest Destiny? How
do you know? List 3
examples/references to
the painting.
Write down your
homework:
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Achieves
Take home test
FINISH PRESENTATIONS
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Get out your notes sheets. These will be
collected tomorrow when you turn in your take
home test.
THURSDAY, 2/4
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Warm-up:
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What events from the presentations will lead to the
Civil War?
Get out your take home test. No test? Show me
your agenda! You will be back at Silent Lunch.
✕ Homework: Achieves and Progress Reports due
Friday. Finish Vocabulary Notes.
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ACHIEVE TIME (40 MINS)
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We will work on the following articles:
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New States, New Troubles
Remembering Dred Scott
Next Week’s Articles or Ones of your choice
afterwards
Those of you doing the Conspiracy Theory
Paper, I will need a minimum of 4 source cards
by next Friday
UNIT 7- CIVIL WAR VOCAB ON QUIZLET
Go to quizlet.com
✕ Search Quizlet- Farley 2 this will be under the
classes tab
✕ Click on Unit 7- Sectionalism, Civil War, and
Reconstruction.
✕ Fill in the missing definitions
✕ Whatever you don’t finish in class is homework.
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FRIDAY, 2/5
Turn in Warm-up sheets.
✕ Get out vocab
✕ Log-on to Achieve 3000- we will be on Achieve
for 40 mins
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If you get done this week’s achieves, select ones you
want to do.
CLEAR YOUR DESK OF EVERYTHING BUT A
PEN/PENCIL
Review Audience Etiquette.
✕ Students will watch America The Story of Us:
Division to show how the Manifest Destiny does
impact and lead into the Civil War.
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REDO
There is no talking!!!
✕ Talking = a 4x4
✕ Stay on Task.
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MONDAY, 2/8 WARM- UP: THE CIVIL WAR
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Define Nationalism
Define Sectionalism
Use your textbook to assist you.
Homework: Achieve articles and Trans-Atlantic
Slave Trade Math
WARM- UP: THE CIVIL WAR
NUMBER YOU PAPER 1-6 AND ANSWER ALL
QUESTIONS.
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Define Nationalism- loyalty to the nation
Define sectionalism – loyalty to a region
instead of the nation. Example: North or
South
THIS WEEK WE WILL….
Review key vocabulary terms
✕ Reexamine slavery in the US
✕ Identify the major issues in society that were
reasons start of the Civil War
✕ Essential Questions for the week:
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What were the reasons that the North and South
entered this conflict?
By 1860, why were the nation’s leaders unable to
keep the Union together?
GET OUT YOUR MOVIE GUIDE
We are going to finish the Division section of
America the Story of Us in order to make the
connection that the events we covered with our
Westward Expansion projects blend into the
causes of the Civil War.
✕ Turn in your movie guide afterwards so we can
get credit.
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TUESDAY, 2/9
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Warm-up:
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Turn to pg 500 in the textbook. Answer questions a
and b under Map Masters: Election of 1860.
Page 503, #2- What was the South’s reaction to
Lincoln’s election? How did Lincoln try to reassure
the South?
Write down your homework: Achieves due
Friday, Brianpop if not completed in class.
GET OUT LAST NIGHT’S HOMEWORK
Do trade and Grade.
✕ No homework: Show me your agenda.
✕ If charts/answers are incorrect just mark an x.
leave it alone if it is correct.
✕ Total is out of 31 points
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SLAVERY AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
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How did the slave trade change over from the
Colonial Era to the 1860s?
When did the abolitionist movement begin?
What is the Underground Railroad?
All of these we will answer using brain-pop.
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Login and password are leecs
This is homework if it is not finished in class.
Q2 Benchmark Review on Study Island if you get
done early
WEDNESDAY, 2/10
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Warm-up: Use your textbook to answer the
following.
Name the two sides that fought during the Civil
War.
Who was the general for the North?
Who was the general for the South?
Who was the President during the Civil War?
WARM-UP ANSWERS
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Name the two sides that fought during the Civil
War. North (Union) & South (Confederacy)
Who was the general for the North? U.S. Grant
Who was the general for the South? Robert E.
Lee
Who was the President during the Civil War?
President Lincoln
CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR
http://www.slideshare.net/msdean28/causesof-the-civil-war-sectionalism-states-rights
✕ We will be doing Cornell Notes on the Causes of
the Civil War.
✕ Essential Questions:
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1. What were the reasons that the North and South
entered this conflict?
2. By 1860, why were the nation’s leaders unable to
keep the Union together?
THURSDAY, 2/11 AND FRIDAY, 2/12
Today is Benchmark day!
✕ Please write down benchmark for your warm-up
✕ Log-on to quia.com
✕ Test to take- (8th grade) Social Studies
Benchmark
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Secret word is rockets
Achieve 3000, or missing work when done. All
articles for the quarter are unlocked.
✕ Talking = a 4x4, and misadministration for the
entire class
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TUESDAY,2/16- WARM-UPS
1. Transportation: ___________ as Slaves : South
2. Which
set of graphics correctly lists the political and
military leaders of the Civil War?
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Union
President: Abraham Lincoln
Major General: Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate
President: John C. Calhoun
Major General: Zachary Calhoun
B
Union
President: Abraham Lincoln
Major General: Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate
President: Jefferson Davis
Major General: Robert E. Lee
Write down your homework: See back wall
SWITCH TO SUMMARY OF THE CIVIL WAR
I have a separate power-point on the Summary of
the Civil War which students will take Cornell
Notes from.
✕ Essential Questions:
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What were the strengths and weaknesses of the North
and South during this conflict?
What were its political, social, and economic
ramifications of the Civil War?
What events led to a Union victory?
WEDNESDAY, 2/17
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Warm-up:
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Name any Civil War Battle you have ever heard of and
explain why that battle was important.
Homework: Create questions, highlight key terms,
and do summary section. Achieves and Progress
Reports due Friday
Today we will finish our notes on the Civil War. This
time we will be focusing on the Battles of the war.
Switch to Summary of the Civil War pwpt.
THURSDAY, 2/18
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Warm-up: Get out homework and then do
Weekly 5 on quia. Timed at 10 mins
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Weekly5: Civil War
Review the Weekly 5 when all students have
completed the task.
Achieve when done.
AFTER WE REVIEW THE WEEKLY 5
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Log-on to Achieve 3000.
Please open
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Westward Expansion: A Ship that Changed History
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After we’ve review these questions,
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What vocabulary do you think will be in this article?
Predict what will the article be about.
Finish the article on your own, then complete
Words by Wire
The Rush for Riches
Missing Achieves, Future Achieves, or Your Pick when done
Make sure to record your 1st try score, and to tell me
how the articles has related to past or present units
THE WAR ENDS
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Show a video on the surrender
at Appomattox Court House.
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After the video, have the
students look at 2 pictures of
the surrender and have them
fill in speech bubbles for what
some of the people might be
saying.
Finally, show a video of
Lincoln’s assassination and
discuss how this might have
changed the course of history
and how this would affect the
US going forward.
FRIDAY, 2/18
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Warm-up:
1. What does the tree symbolize?
2. Who is the man in the tree?
3. How does this cartoon relate
to the Emancipation
Proclamation?
ACHIEVE 3000
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Achieve 3000- 20 mins
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Westward Expansion: A Ship that Changed History
Words by Wire
The Rush for Riches
Missing Achieves, Future Achieves, or Your Pick
when done
Make sure to record your 1st try score, and to tell me
how the articles has related to past or present units.
AMERICA THE STORY OF US- CIVIL WAR
Review SLANT
✕ Preview movie guide.
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MONDAY, 2/22/16
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Warm-up:
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Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the King’s horses and King’s men
couldn’t put Humpty together again
✕ Explain how the nursery rhyme, Humpty Dumpty, symbolizes
the South after the Civil War.
Finish Civil War episode of America the Story of
Us- we have about 4 questions left
✕ Homework: Class notes if not finished in class,
Study Guide due Thursday, Achieves due Friday
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AFTER FINISHING AMERICA THE STORY OF US
Turn in your movie guides
✕ Log-on to Study Island
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LCS Lunch Number
Lunch Number
We need to click on the “Lesson” for
Reconstruction
✕ You see after Lincoln’s death and the Surrender
of General Lee, we have to rebuild the Union.
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RECONSTRUCTION
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We will be taking Cornell notes on the
Reconstruction Era (1865-1877).
This will be page 11 of your notebook.
Essential Questions of the week:
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1. How did the Union rebuild a cohesive nation following
the end of the US Civil War?
2. What social, economic, and political problems did
African Americans face during Reconstruction?
3. What were the successes and failures of
Reconstruction?
4. How did the Civil War and Reconstruction affect the
lives of future generations of America?
TUESDAY, 2/23/16
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Warm-up: Following the Civil War, Southern states
passed laws severely restricting the rights of AfricanAmericans. These laws varied from state to state and
included the prohibiting of interracial marriages and
restrictions on land ownership. These laws served as
a way for white Southerners to control the recently
freed African Americans. These laws were known as
_____.
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Hint this is a vocab term and was in yesterday’s notes.
Homework: DBQ Part B due Wednesday if not
finished in class, Study Guide due Thursday,
Achieves due Friday
CLASS DISCUSSION- HOW DID THE DECADES
CHANGE DECADES AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
Answer the Essential Questions in your
Summary before we have a class discussion on
yesterday’s notes.
✕ Let us read the DBQ aloud and verbally go
through the first section of the DBQ packet
together before letting class work with a
partner to complete the rest of the packet.
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HOW DID THE US CHANGE IN THE DECADES
AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
Students will have until the last 15 minutes of
class to complete the DBQ packet with a
partner and will answer the DBQs in quia.com
✕ The last 15 minutes of class, we will go over the
answers to see how comprehending the DBQs
went and to see if we need more practice.
✕ Homework: DBQs Part B and Achieves Due
Friday
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WEDNESDAY, 2/24/16
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Warm-up: Write Reconstruction Era in the middle of
your warm-up sheet. Write or draw all the terms,
events, and people/groups involved in the
Reconstruction Era around this. You should have at
least 12 items surrounding “Reconstruction Era” in
the middle of your page. This is like the Graffiti Blocks
that we’ve done for Vocabulary.:)
If you did not submit your DBQs on quia, or do not
have them on paper, show me your agenda.
Homework:
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Study Guide due tomorrow.
Achieves due Friday
ACHIEVE 3000- 40MINS
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Complete the articles for the week:
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Make sure to complete your “How does this relate
to class” column with 3-5 sentences.
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April 1861: The First Shots are Fired
May 1861: War Begins
Those doing the Conspiracy Theory Essay, make sure
that your outline is turned in to me either on paper or in
an email by Friday
Make up missing Achieves, or complete the future
Achieves.
PULL OUT YOUR STUDY GUIDE
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We are going to work on our study guide. You
may choose to work with your elbow buddy, or
alone. You may not get up to move. Textbooks
are beneath your seats if you need them, the
pages have also been place on my webpage at
the bottom of “Units this year.” You should also
use your notes.
✕ If you get this done before the end of class, complete Civil War Study Guide on Study
Island, you will need 20 questions total (10 from each section) at a 70% or higher
without the use of notes.
THURSDAY, 2/25/16
Warm-up: Weekly 6-Civil War and
Reconstruction- timed 10 mins
✕ When done with your Weekly 5, we will log-on
to Achieve 3000.
✕ We will review the Weekly 5 when I see everyone
is on Achieve 3000
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ACHIEVE 3000- 40MINS
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We will complete the following:
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April 1861: The First Shots are Fired
May 1861: War Begins
Catching Runaway Slaves- this will help you with
your Study Guide
Make sure to complete your “How does this
relate to class” column with 3-5 sentences.
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Those doing the Conspiracy Theory Essay, make
sure that your outline is turned in to me either on
paper or in an email by Friday.
PULL OUT YOUR STUDY GUIDE
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We are going to work on our study guide. You
may choose to work with your elbow buddy, or
alone. You may not get up to move. Textbooks
are beneath your seats if you need them, the
pages have also been place on my webpage at
the bottom of “Units this year.” You should also
use your notes.
✕ If you get this done before the end of class, complete Civil War Study Guide on Study
Island, you will need 20 questions total (10 from each section) at a 70% or higher
without the use of notes.
Friday, 2.26.16
1. Write down: Review Study Guide and pass your
sheet to the front of the room. Make sure your
name is on it. Also pass to the front your
Achieve Sheet.
2. Get out your Study Guide. If you did not
complete it, please show me your agenda.
Study Guide Check- 15mins
1. When I say go, we will get into groups of 3 to
compare answers. If everyone has a different
answer, you need to determine which answer
is correct aka refer back to your notes or the
textbook. Today is the last day to ask
questions.
2. Do not bug others not at your group
3. Stay on topic, you shouldn’t be talking about
your weekend plans
4. If I say Volume, turn it down
Option 1
✕We will use
http://www.readwritethink.o
rg/files/resources/interactive
s/timeline_2/ to create an
annotated timeline on the
Civil War Era.
✕Rubric is online as well as
prompt.
Option 2
✕ Write a CHildren’s Book
✕ Rubric and Prompt can be
shared with you via Google
Drive. Please let me know if
you wish to do this option
instead of the timeline
Civil War Era
Project- due
Wednesday
3/2/16
*students will get time in class on
Friday for sure. They may get time on Monday
depending on Mrs Brown’s presentation, and maybe
on Tuesday after the test.
MONDAY, 2/28/16
Warm-up: Write down 2 questions that you have
about scheduling that you would like to ask Mrs
Brown.
✕ Mrs. Brown will be here shortly to talk to you
about High School Courses. You will be able to
work on your project until she shows, and after
she’s done(if there is time).
✕Write down your homework- Project due
Wednesday, test on Tuesday
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Annotated TImeline
✕We will use
http://www.readwritethink.o
rg/files/resources/interactive
s/timeline_2/ to create an
annotated timeline on the
Civil War Era.
✕This will include all
information on the prompt
that was given to you on
Friday.
Children’s Book
✕ Write a Children’s Book for
3rd or 4th grader.
✕ Rubric and Prompt are
shared with you via Google
Drive.
Civil War Era
Project- due
Wednesday
3/2/16
*students will get time in class on
Friday for sure. They may get time on Monday
depending on Mrs Brown’s presentation, and maybe
on Tuesday after the test.
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TUESDAY, 3/1/16
1. Warm-up: Write down none
2. Log On to Quia.com
3. Click Unit 6- Civil War/Reconstruction
4. The Secret word is……there is none
5. Talking is an automatic ZERO plus a 4x4. THis is
no talking during and after the test.
6. Work on your project when you are done. This
is due tomorrow. You can also work on
Achieve.
WEDNESDAY, 3/2/16
1. Warm-up: What does the term Progressive
mean to you? If we call something the
Progressive Era what do you think we mean?
1. Get out your project to turn it in. If you did not
bring your project, or it isn’t shared with me via
Google, then get out your agenda.
2. Homework: Vocabulary Notes if not finished in
class, Achieves and Progress Reports due
Friday.
Achieve 3000- 40 mins.
1. Articles owed this week:
July 1861
b. Catching Runaway Slaves
c. Remember to complete your achieve sheets as you
finish each article.
d. If you get done these articles and you have no
missing articles, start next week’s articles
a.
2. Essayers- we are going to use our outlines to
complete out rough draft. This should be a fairly
simple task since we already have our thoughts
in order. Rough Draft is due next Wednesday
Progressive Era to WWI Vocabulary
1. Go to quizlet.com
2. Search “Farley (insert core #)”
3. Click on Classes to find this.
4. Once you’ve selected your core, you need to
complete the missing terms for the Progressive
Era to WWI Vocabulary.
5. Do Achieve or Missing Work when you are done
Thursday, 3/3/16
1. Warm-up: What kind of reforms do YOU THINK
we will have between 1890-1930? Why? Must be
at least 2 complete sentences.
2. Write down your homework:
a. Achieves and Progress Reports are due Friday!!!!
b. Pink Scheduling
SHeets are due 3/22
c. Permission Slips and Money for our April Field Trip
are due 4/4/16. Don’t get 2 days ISS/OSS!!!!
Achieve 3000- First Half
1. It says June 1861, it should be July 1861
2. Catching Runaway Slaves
3. Next week’s articles are:
a. August 1861: War SPreads
b. November 1861: A Second War?
c. January
1862: The Union Tries to Make Gains
4. Essayers- work on your rough draft. THe rough
draft is due Wednesday
Progressive Era Notes
Switch to Progressive Era powerpoint.
Friday, 3/4/15
1. Warm-up: Write down Weekly 5
2. Log-on to quia.com, take Weekly 5- Progressive
Era Vocab. It is timed.
3. When done, log-on to Achieve 3000
4. When Everyone is done the weekly 5, we will
switch to our notes
Progressive Era Notes
Switch to Progressive Era powerpoint. COntinue
with yesterday’s notes