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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Agenda
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

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 :)