Lesson on Friday, September 30th, 2016

Aim: How were Native Americans affected by Westward Expansion?

Bell Ringer: Handout 2.1 (Chapter 2, Lesson 1)

Objectives:

1.Students will analyze the economic challenges to American farmers and farmers’ responses to the challenges in the mid to late 1800s.

Agenda:

1.Bell Ringer (20 min)

2.Journal 20 – Choose one of the following questions: (10 min)

a. What factors helped to encourage settlement of the Great Plains?

b. What factors caused conflicts between new settlers to the West and Native Americans?

c. What were the consequences of the Dawes Act?

3.Discussion: P. 88 'Extended-Response Question’: If you were a settler moving to a new community in the Great Plains, would you stay and make a new life for yourself or would you leave? Write a descriptive essay that supports the reasons for your decision. Use vocabulary words: Vigilance committee, hydraulic mining, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Homestead Act of 1862, Transcontinental Railroad, Mining booms, assimilate, relocate. (10 min) Students are to write their decision and then discuss. Grade will be based on their excerpt and discussion participation.

4.Exit Ticket: Use question #3 with vocabulary words highlighted or underlined. Exit Ticket will count as a quiz grade.

5.Submit 'Westward Expansion Timeline'

Home Learning: Complete Journals 1-20 / EOC packet pages 4-6 will be graded. 

Lesson on Thursday, September 29, 2016

Aim: What effect did the Dawes Act have on Native Americans?

Bell Ringer: Review Journal 19 – What effect did Helen Hunt Jackon’s book “A Century of Dishonor” have?

Objectives:

1.Students will analyze the economic challenges to American farmers and farmers’ responses to the challenges in the mid to late 1800s.

Agenda:

1.Bell Ringer (10 min)

2.Continue working on your timeline. Add information about “Wounded Knee” and “The Dawes Act”

3.Video: Westward Expansion

Home Learning: Add art/color to your timeline. Due tomorrow. 

Lesson on Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Aim: What role did mining play in the development of the American West?

Bell Ringer: Timed-Pair-Share

Objectives:

1.Students will analyze the economic challenges to American farmers and farmers’ responses to the challenges in the mid to late 1800s.

Agenda:

1.Bell Ringer (20 min)

2.Review ‘Mining Booms’ Entrance Ticket (7 min)

3.Create a timeline of events, including: Congressional acts, new technologies, and land opportunities that contributed to the westward movement. Title “Westward Expansion”

Home Learning: Read pages 86 and 87 / sections: “Tragedy at Wounded Knee” and “The Dawes Act”. Journal 19 – What effect did Helen Hunt Jackon’s book ‘A Century of Dishonor’ have?

TIMED-PAIR-SHARE:

1.                      What was the effect of the Transcontinental Railroad?

2.                      Describe the Homestead Act of 1862.

3.                      Who won the Battle of Little Bighorn? P. 86

4.                      What role did mining play in the development of the American west?

5.                      How did miners and farmers clash in the west? P. 76

Lesson on Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Aim: How did the arrival of new settlers affect the Plains Indians?

Bell Ringer: Discuss 2016 Presidential Debates

Objectives:

1.Students will review the Native American experience.

Agenda:

1.Bell Ringer (10 min)

2.Journal 17 – What was debated in the 2016 Presidential Debates? (10 min)

3.BP: Westward Expansion / Copy Graphic Organizer

4.BP: Westward Expansion (5 min)

5.Journal 18 – Create a system in which American settlers could have worked side by side with Native Americans during Westward Expansion. (10 min)

Home Learning: Read pages 74-76 "Growth of the Mining Industry" Entrance Ticket: 1. What is a likely reason Nevada and California were two of the first western territories to become states? 2. What role did mining play in the development of the American West?

Lesson on Monday, September 26, 2016

Aim: What was the Feudal System?

Bell Ringer: Journal 16 – Write about a current event: local, national, or global.

Objectives:

1.Students will analyze the impact of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire on Europe.

Agenda:

1.Bell Ringer (10 min)

2.Current Event Discussion

3.BP: Copy vocabulary words to define.

4.BP: Feudalism (5 min)

5.Exit Ticket: List advantages and disadvantages of the Feudal System. Mention the years that this system was in place.

Home Learning: ½ page report on 2016 Presidential Debates

Lesson on Friday, September 23, 2016

Today we completed Journal 16 - Write about a current event (local, national, global).

Then we filed all of our graded quizzes in hanging folders.

We also received a packet that will help you study for the EOC exam.

Home Learning: Complete page 4 of the EOC packet.

Lesson on Thursday, September 22, 2016

Today we worked on History Lab #2 'Rise of Islam'

Homework:

Study the map we worked on in class titled "Geography of Arabia." You will have to label the following locations: Baghdad, Egypt, Cordoba, Constantinople, Rome, Jerusalem, Mecca, Persian Gulf, Mediterranean Sea, Arabian Sea, Arabian Desert, Red Sea

Know the definition for the following words:

(a) mosque          (e) shah        (I) minaret    

(b) caliph              (f) Quran      (j) Sufi 

(c ) calligraphy     (g) rajah       (k) sultan 

(d) janizary           (h) jihad       (L) Sharia

PART C: Short Answer Response  

Directions: Please prove the following generalization in a 3 paragraph response. The following criteria will be used to assess your response: includes appropriate information and arguments and the use of correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Each paragraph is worth 4 points / 12 pts total.

Theme/Generalization: The development and spread of Islam contributed to the unification of the Arab World. 

Use works completed by you to help you write your S/A response. Use your DBQ from your History Lab #2 and the following topics to back your argument: 

Who was Muhammad, and how did his teachings lead to the rise and spread of Islam, description of the five pillars of Islam, explain the division of Islam between the Sunnis and Shiites, the first Caliph and how he united the Arabs, how Muslims treated conquered people, business practices introduced by Muslim traders, medical advances made by Muslim physicians.

Lesson on Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Aim: How did the U.S. change socially, economically, and politically after the Civil War?

Bell Ringer: Introduce History Lab #2 'Reconstruction'

Objectives:

1. Students will describe the importance of historiography, which includes how historical knowledge is obtained and transmitted, when interpreting events in history.
2. Students will utilize a variety of primary and secondary sources to identify author, historical significance, audience, and authenticity to understand a historical period.


Agenda:

1. Bell Ringer (10 min)
2. History Lab #2 ' Reconstruction' (20 min)
3. Reconstruction Editorial (25 min)


Home Learning: Complete History Lab #2 'Reconstruction', Reconstruction Editorial, gather your exit tickets, and study for tomorrow's quiz.

Lesson on Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Aim: What was black civic participation like during Reconstruction?  

Bell Ringer: Read article KKK today and discuss.  

Objectives: 

1. Students will distinguish the freedoms guaranteed to African Americans and other groups with the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution.  

2. Students will assess how Jim Crow Laws influenced life for African Americans and other racial/ethnic minority groups.  

3. Students will compare the effects of the Black Codes and the Nadir on freed people, and analyze the sharecropping system and debt peonage as practiced.  

Agenda:  

1. Bell Ringer (10 min)  

2. Video: Chelsea Does Racism (10 min)  

3. Discuss Journal 15 (5 min)    

4. Write an editorial: Imagine that you are an African American sharecropper, a carpetbagger, and a White Southern Democrat. Write a paragraph for each supporting their position on Reconstruction. Underline or highlight the terms: 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments, black codes, carpetbagger, scalawag, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and sharecropper. Title: "Reconstruction Editorial" 

Home Learning: Complete your editorial. 

Lesson on Monday, September 19, 2016

Aim: What was black civic participation like during Reconstruction?

Bell Ringer: Journal 14 – What are the 13th and 14th Amendments?

Objectives:

1. Students will review the causes and consequences of the Civil War. (EOC Benchmark)

Agenda:

1. Bell Ringer (10 min)
2. Discuss Journals 12, 13, 14 (10 min)
3. Complete Reconstruction PPT
4. Exit Ticket: How did the South fail to abide by the new Reconstruction amendments?


Home Learning: Journal 15 – Create a graphic organizer that describes the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.

Homework due: Monday, September 19th, 2016

Assignment: look for other universities in the Southeastern region of the United States that were founded after the Civil War. Gather information about your chosen university: motto, school mission, programs available and history about the school. 

Lesson for Friday, September 16, 2016

Aim: How was the South rebuilt and how did life change for African Americans after the Civil War?

Bell Ringer: Read V6.30 “A Play at Ford’s Theatre”

Objectives:

1.Students will review the consequences of the Civil War. EOC Benchmark

Agenda:

1.Bell Ringer (10 min)

2.V6.30 Questionnaire (10 min)

3.Complete the Reconstruction PPT (rest of class)

4.Exit Ticket: What’s the difference between Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction?

Home Learning: Look at the post above this one. 

PowerPoint on Reconstruction

Lesson for Thursday, September 15, 2016

Aim: How was the South rebuilt and how did life change for African Americans after the Civil War?

Bell Ringer: Read V6.27 "The Second Inaugural"

Objectives:

1. Review the causes and consequences of the Civil War. EOC Benchmark

Agenda:

1. Bell Ringer (10 min)

2. V6.27 "The Second Inaugural" Questionnaire (10 min)

3. Discuss yesterday's exit ticket (5 min)

4. Discuss Journal 12 (political, social, economic changes after the Civil War) (10 min)

5. Video 1867 – Carpetbaggers (3 min)

6. Read page 69 "Compromise of 1877" (5 min)

7. Journal 13 – Describe the Compromise of 1877 then predict what will happen afterwards.

Home Learning:

Read "Connections to Today" on our blog. Research other black universities that trace their origins to the post-Civil War era. Search for the school 'mission' and submit it with a paragraph describing the school. Due: Monday, September 19, 2016

Click here to watch the video: Carpetbaggers

Journal 1- 10

11^th Grade Journals

1.       Describe a peaceful way to get rid of slavery. Keep in mind that some people depended on slavery for a living.

2.       Describe the 3 Causes of the Civil War. Describe, not list.

3.       Explain how the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 were events that led to the Civil War.

4.       Frederick Douglass was an exceptional orator. Write a short speech about something Mr. Douglass might have said.

5.       The teacher will assign you an event that led to or caused the Civil War. Your job is to describe it. State the event, and include dates, names of individuals involved with that event.

6.       If you were Jefferson Davis, what actions would you have taken to defend the South? Keep in mind the circumstances.

7.       Explain the differences between the Union, Border, and Confederate states. Use your map.

8.       Write about a relevant current event.

9.       Write a journal entry in the perspective of a Union soldier and a Confederate soldier.

10.   Write about a relevant current event (N. Korea or Syria). 

(9th Grade) Decline of Ottoman Empire - sources

On September 8th and 9th we viewed a PowerPoint on the Ottoman Empire. There were two questions that we needed to answer by Monday, September 12th. The questions are:

1. How did the European partition lead to regional conflict?

2. Land and religion are reasons for continuing conflicts in the Middle East. Describe how and why this is true. 

This is a great source for these questions: 

http://www.parkerpedia.com/featured-articles/break-up-of-the-ottoman-empire

European Partition

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Geography of Arabia

9th Grade - Image for Geography of Arabia