Link to Classwork
Agenda:
1) Do Now and Tuesday check in
2) Business
3) Review outline expectations
4) Work time, conferences with Green
Homework: Your outline is due Tuesday, November 29.
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Thursday, November 17, 2016: Eugenics Essay Documents
Uggggghhhhh! I really got behing in updating the blog... ok, I'm recommitting to doing better!
Here are the papers we've used so far to get going on the Eugenics essay.
Eugenics Essay Task
Modified Eugenics Task
Research Logs
African American Document Packet
Women Document Packet
Immigrant Document Packet
Drafting a Thesis
Here are the papers we've used so far to get going on the Eugenics essay.
Eugenics Essay Task
Modified Eugenics Task
Research Logs
African American Document Packet
Women Document Packet
Immigrant Document Packet
Drafting a Thesis
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Agenda
1) Do Now
2) Business: Be at school at 9:10 tomorrow for the PSAT!
3) Marginalization demonstration and debrief
4) Define eugenics
Homework:
The Age of Innovation and Industry reading and Cornell notes
Link to classwork and homework
1) Do Now
2) Business: Be at school at 9:10 tomorrow for the PSAT!
3) Marginalization demonstration and debrief
4) Define eugenics
Homework:
The Age of Innovation and Industry reading and Cornell notes
Link to classwork and homework
October 12-13 and 14, 2016
On these days, we did our Socratic Seminar on Reconstruction and took our exam. See Ms. Green if you were absent as soon as you can!
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Prep Day
Today, we did a round of practice on our Formal Document Analyses, and then students prepped for either: the Socratic Seminar on Weds/Thursday OR the exam on Friday!
Today, we did a round of practice on our Formal Document Analyses, and then students prepped for either: the Socratic Seminar on Weds/Thursday OR the exam on Friday!
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Wednesday-Thursday, October 5-6, 2016
Agenda and link to classwork
1) Do Now: Illustrating Identifications
2) Business
3) Self-Assess formal analysis
4) Historiography Review
5) BBK: Historiography of Reconstruction
Homework: Reconstruction Cornell Notes due Tuesday!
Unit 2 Exam is next Friday. Here is the study guide.
Unit 2 Socratic Seminar is on Weds/Thurs. Here's the reading!
1) Do Now: Illustrating Identifications
2) Business
3) Self-Assess formal analysis
4) Historiography Review
5) BBK: Historiography of Reconstruction
Homework: Reconstruction Cornell Notes due Tuesday!
Unit 2 Exam is next Friday. Here is the study guide.
Unit 2 Socratic Seminar is on Weds/Thurs. Here's the reading!
Wednesday-Thursday, October 5-6, 2016
Agenda and link to classwork
1) Do Now: Illustrating Identifications
2) Business
3) Self-Assess formal analysis
4) Historiography Review
5) BBK: Historiography of Reconstruction
Homework: Reconstruction Cornell Notes due Tuesday!
Unit 2 Exam is next Friday. Here is the study guide.
Unit 2 Socratic Seminar is on Weds/Thurs. Here's the reading!
1) Do Now: Illustrating Identifications
2) Business
3) Self-Assess formal analysis
4) Historiography Review
5) BBK: Historiography of Reconstruction
Homework: Reconstruction Cornell Notes due Tuesday!
Unit 2 Exam is next Friday. Here is the study guide.
Unit 2 Socratic Seminar is on Weds/Thurs. Here's the reading!
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Agenda and link to classwork
1) Do Now: Translate Ids
2) Business: Serve detentions this Tuesday or Thursday
3) Preview: How would you plan for Reconstruction?
4) Practice Formal Analysis
Homework: Reconstruction Cornell notes due Tuesday, 10/11 (they are in the same document as today's classwork, linked above!)
1) Do Now: Translate Ids
2) Business: Serve detentions this Tuesday or Thursday
3) Preview: How would you plan for Reconstruction?
4) Practice Formal Analysis
Homework: Reconstruction Cornell notes due Tuesday, 10/11 (they are in the same document as today's classwork, linked above!)
Wednesday-Thursday, September 28-29, 2016
Agenda and link to classwork
1) Do Now
2) Business: Filed trip reminders
3) Preview: What do you know about Abraham Lincoln? What does the Disney version want you to know about Abraham Lincoln?
4) Structured Academic Controversy: Was Abraham Lincoln a racist?
Homework: "Divided Nation" Cornell notes due on Tuesday! These are included in the classwork, linked above.
1) Do Now
2) Business: Filed trip reminders
3) Preview: What do you know about Abraham Lincoln? What does the Disney version want you to know about Abraham Lincoln?
4) Structured Academic Controversy: Was Abraham Lincoln a racist?
Homework: "Divided Nation" Cornell notes due on Tuesday! These are included in the classwork, linked above.
Friday and Monday September 23 and 26, 2016
I was out at Tess' wedding!
We watched Twelve Years a Slave and students took notes on what parts they thought were accurate. Let me know if you want to borrow it :)
We watched Twelve Years a Slave and students took notes on what parts they thought were accurate. Let me know if you want to borrow it :)
Wednesday/Thursday September 21-22, 2016
Agenda and Link to Classwork
1) Do Now
2) Business
3) BBK: Historiography of Slavery
Homework: Changes in the New Nation Cornell notes
1) Do Now
2) Business
3) BBK: Historiography of Slavery
Homework: Changes in the New Nation Cornell notes
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Agenda and link to classwork
1) Do Now
2) Business: Office hours today!
3) Review quality criteria for formal analysis
4) Practice!
Homework:
1) Finish any classwork
2) Cornell notes due Friday
1) Do Now
2) Business: Office hours today!
3) Review quality criteria for formal analysis
4) Practice!
Homework:
1) Finish any classwork
2) Cornell notes due Friday
Monday, September 19, 2016
Agenda and link to classwork
1) Do Now
2) Business
3) Set-up college lecture
4) College lecture: Gone with the Wind and the Dominant Narrative about Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction
Homework:
Cornell notes (attached to your classwork, link above) for "Changes in the New Nation" due Friday
1) Do Now
2) Business
3) Set-up college lecture
4) College lecture: Gone with the Wind and the Dominant Narrative about Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction
Homework:
Cornell notes (attached to your classwork, link above) for "Changes in the New Nation" due Friday
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Wednesday and Thursday, September 14-15, 2016
Agenda and Link to CW
1) Do Now: Reflect on your current understanding of the articles
2) Business: College Spring Letters! Please give to your family.
3) Review norms and best practices
4) Socratic Seminar
5) Debrief
Homework: Continue to prep for Friday's exam!
1) Do Now: Reflect on your current understanding of the articles
2) Business: College Spring Letters! Please give to your family.
3) Review norms and best practices
4) Socratic Seminar
5) Debrief
Homework: Continue to prep for Friday's exam!
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Agenda and Link to Classwork
1) Do Now
2) Business: serve your detentions :)
3) Review ID exam expectations
4) Student choice: continue to prep for exam, get support reading articles for Socratic, or read artciles on your own
Homework:
1) Continue to prep for Socratic (W/Th)
2) Continue to study for Friday's exam by writing out identifications
1) Do Now
2) Business: serve your detentions :)
3) Review ID exam expectations
4) Student choice: continue to prep for exam, get support reading articles for Socratic, or read artciles on your own
Homework:
1) Continue to prep for Socratic (W/Th)
2) Continue to study for Friday's exam by writing out identifications
Monday, September 12, 2016
Monday, September 12, 2016
Agenda (<-- Link to classwork!)
1) Do Now
2) Monday Musings!
3) Business
4) Intro Socratic seminar
5) Prep time
Homework:
1) Finishing prepping for your seminar by reading the Patriot's History and Zinn articles, and completely annotating them with sub-claims and the main claim at the end. Remember- if your prep is not COMPLETE, the highest grade you can get on the seminar is a 1.67. Seminars are Weds/Thurs.
2) Your Unit 1 exam is on Friday. Green will distribute a study guide on Tuesday. Study for your exam by writing identifications.
1) Do Now
2) Monday Musings!
3) Business
4) Intro Socratic seminar
5) Prep time
Homework:
1) Finishing prepping for your seminar by reading the Patriot's History and Zinn articles, and completely annotating them with sub-claims and the main claim at the end. Remember- if your prep is not COMPLETE, the highest grade you can get on the seminar is a 1.67. Seminars are Weds/Thurs.
2) Your Unit 1 exam is on Friday. Green will distribute a study guide on Tuesday. Study for your exam by writing identifications.
Friday, September 9, 2016
Agenda
Do Now: Get organized! You should have 7 entries in your table of contents, for Unit 1.
Model: Using the online Constitution.
JigSaw: Who really "won" in the Constitutional Convention?
Open-Note Quiz
Do Now: Get organized! You should have 7 entries in your table of contents, for Unit 1.
Model: Using the online Constitution.
JigSaw: Who really "won" in the Constitutional Convention?
Open-Note Quiz
Thursday, September 8, 2016
Wednesday and Thursday, September 7-8, 2016
Agenda
1) Do Now: Illustrate Identifications
2) Business: serve your detentions
3) Intro Constitutional Convention role-play
4) Convention prep
5) Convention
6) Debrief
Homework: Complete Cornell notes, due Monday
1) Do Now: Illustrate Identifications
2) Business: serve your detentions
3) Intro Constitutional Convention role-play
4) Convention prep
5) Convention
6) Debrief
Homework: Complete Cornell notes, due Monday
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Agenda
1) Do Now: Translate IDs
2) Business- serve your detentions
3) Writing quality criteria for proficient analyses
4) GOILS
1) Do Now: Translate IDs
2) Business- serve your detentions
3) Writing quality criteria for proficient analyses
4) GOILS
Friday, September 2, 2016
Agenda
1) Open Note Quiz
2) Business
3) Close-Reading for Perspective: The Boston Massacre
4) Practicing close-reading
Homework: Have your binder ready for a binder check on Tuesday
1) Open Note Quiz
2) Business
3) Close-Reading for Perspective: The Boston Massacre
4) Practicing close-reading
Homework: Have your binder ready for a binder check on Tuesday
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Wednesday and Thursday, August 31- September 1, 2016
Agenda
1) Do Now
2) Business: Office hours are on Tuesdays (and some Thursdays), come to the DC trip info meeting on Friday, September 9!
3) Review some background knowledge about colonial America
4) BBK: Causes of the American Revolution
Homework: Complete your Cornell notes :)
1) Do Now
2) Business: Office hours are on Tuesdays (and some Thursdays), come to the DC trip info meeting on Friday, September 9!
3) Review some background knowledge about colonial America
4) BBK: Causes of the American Revolution
Homework: Complete your Cornell notes :)
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Tuesday, August 30, 2016: Surface Level Analysis and the Enlightenment in America
Agenda
1) Do Now: Illustrate identifications
2) Business
3) Review SOAPS
4) Practice SOAPS
5) Debrief: Describe our new founding ideals- natural rights, anti-monarchy, social contract, separation of powers
Homework: Finish debrief, if not complete. Cornell notes due Friday.
1) Do Now: Illustrate identifications
2) Business
3) Review SOAPS
4) Practice SOAPS
5) Debrief: Describe our new founding ideals- natural rights, anti-monarchy, social contract, separation of powers
Homework: Finish debrief, if not complete. Cornell notes due Friday.
Monday, August 29, 2016
Monday, August 29, 2016: Intro to Constitutional Foundations
Agenda
1) Do Now: Identifications/Review
2) Business: review agenda, learning targets, homework
3) Intro Unit: review table of contents, essential questions, binder set-up
4) Identifying Ideals: in groups, use images to name and describe five founding ideals
5) Activate background knowledge
Homework: Read textbook Chapter 4.3"Colonial Rights and the Growth of Self-Government." Complete the Cornell notes. Due Friday
Copy of Cornell notes is at the end of the classwork document, linked above where it says "Agenda."
1) Do Now: Identifications/Review
2) Business: review agenda, learning targets, homework
3) Intro Unit: review table of contents, essential questions, binder set-up
4) Identifying Ideals: in groups, use images to name and describe five founding ideals
5) Activate background knowledge
Homework: Read textbook Chapter 4.3"Colonial Rights and the Growth of Self-Government." Complete the Cornell notes. Due Friday
Copy of Cornell notes is at the end of the classwork document, linked above where it says "Agenda."
Friday, August 26, 2016
Agenda
1) Do Now: open-note quiz
2) Business: Review agenda, hw
3) Grade Quiz
4) Snapshot autobiography debrief
5) Practice evaluating sources
6) Current events quiz show
Homework:
All supplies due on Monday (binder, planner, highlighters, pens/pencils)
1) Do Now: open-note quiz
2) Business: Review agenda, hw
3) Grade Quiz
4) Snapshot autobiography debrief
5) Practice evaluating sources
6) Current events quiz show
Homework:
All supplies due on Monday (binder, planner, highlighters, pens/pencils)
Thursday, August 25, 2016
Wednesday and Thursday, August 24-25, 2016
Agenda
1) Do Now
2) Business: Detentions are happening! Stop chewing gum!
3) Identifications: Sourcing and Contextualizing
4) Practice: The Fight in the Lunchroom
5) Debrief
Homework: Same as yesterday :)
1) Do Now
2) Business: Detentions are happening! Stop chewing gum!
3) Identifications: Sourcing and Contextualizing
4) Practice: The Fight in the Lunchroom
5) Debrief
Homework: Same as yesterday :)
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Agenda:
1) Do Now
2) Business: Review agenda, hw, assign class jobs
3) Syllabus Scavenger Hunt (win candy!)
4) Corroboration: Autobiographical Snapshot
Homework:
1) Finish your Autobiographical Snapshot. Instructions are in the classwork (link where it says "agenda") Interview someone about one of the stories you wrote. Due Friday.
2) Complete the Student Survey by Friday.
3) Get your Family Letter and Survey signed and completed by Friday.
4) Get supplies by Monday.
Agenda:
1) Do Now
2) Business: Review agenda, hw, assign class jobs
3) Syllabus Scavenger Hunt (win candy!)
4) Corroboration: Autobiographical Snapshot
Homework:
1) Finish your Autobiographical Snapshot. Instructions are in the classwork (link where it says "agenda") Interview someone about one of the stories you wrote. Due Friday.
2) Complete the Student Survey by Friday.
3) Get your Family Letter and Survey signed and completed by Friday.
4) Get supplies by Monday.
Friday, August 19, 2016
Monday, 8/22/16
Welcome to US History and your junior year!
Every day, I'll post the agenda, homework, and any digital copies I have of work we did. Check here if you're absent or forgot something you need in your binder.
Agenda:
1) Do Now
2) Business
3) Intro to Ms. Green
4) JigSaw: The Nacirema
5) Exit Ticket
Homework: 1) Read and annotate the syllabus and complete the 3-2-1 protocol. Due Tuesday, 8/23
2) Complete the student survey, if you didn't last June. Due Friday, 8/26
3) Get your Parent Letter signed and Parent Survey completed. Due Friday, 8/26https://www.dropbox.com/s/kus2lw395ct2t7w/Unit%200.1.CW%20Nacirema.doc?dl=0
Every day, I'll post the agenda, homework, and any digital copies I have of work we did. Check here if you're absent or forgot something you need in your binder.
Agenda:
1) Do Now
2) Business
3) Intro to Ms. Green
4) JigSaw: The Nacirema
5) Exit Ticket
Homework: 1) Read and annotate the syllabus and complete the 3-2-1 protocol. Due Tuesday, 8/23
2) Complete the student survey, if you didn't last June. Due Friday, 8/26
3) Get your Parent Letter signed and Parent Survey completed. Due Friday, 8/26https://www.dropbox.com/s/kus2lw395ct2t7w/Unit%200.1.CW%20Nacirema.doc?dl=0
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