Class Agenda: 12/20 thru 12/22

Monday 12/20
1.  Bellringer:  Is there a short-cut you frequently use?  Why do you use it?  Lead into construction of the Panama Canal.
2.  Activity:  Read Cartoon (pages 16-22), and as you read, complete the graphic organizer on page 23.
3.  Do page 24 as review..."Where in the World is Uncle Sam?"
HW - Test on Expansion tomorrow (pg. 25)

Tuesday 12/21
1.  Test on Expansion
2.  Materials returned
HW -

Wednesday 12/22
1.  Locker clean-out
2.  Movie
HW -

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Pg. 15...answer the questions.  Lead into the Big Stick policy. 
2.  "Big Stick" notes (power-point) Pg. 12
3.  Metaphor Activity - Pg. 13-14.
HW - Finish Metaphor Activity

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Page 11...lead into Open Door Policy
2.  Imperialism in the Pacific...continuing East (power-point)

•  "US in the Pacific" - Read and do MVP (NOT in packet) 

HW - Finish "US in the Pacific" MVP - if not done...

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Do pages 9-10.  Discuss yellow journalism
2.  Spanish American War:  Causes and Effects (see power point)
HW - Map Assignment (NOTE:  This is NOT in work packet)

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  What is an acronym?  How do they help us remember something?  Lead into R.E.N.C.H. (see power-point).
2.  Power-point notes (& review of hw)
HW - "War with Spain" reading and questions 1 & 2 (this is not in the packet).

Class Agenda

NEW UNIT:  EXPANSION
1.  Bellringer:  Story about Mr. Law....lead into imperialism. 

2.  Class Activity - Page 5
HW - Do pg. 6 (Text p. 623) and pg. 7 (Text p. 626-627)

Class Agenda: December 10

1.  Essential Question
2.  Progressive Era Test
HW -

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Video Clip...Iron Jawed Angels.  How does the crowd react to the suffragists parade?
2.  Class Reading:  "Votes for Women" (NOT in packet).  Class discussion...and Iron Jawed Angels hunger strike clip...
3.  Brain-Pop:  Suffrage (Re-cap)
4.  Video Clip:  Looking ahead (Cause and Effect)...How did the lives of younger women change in the 1920s (after they were given the right to vote)? 

HW - TEST TOMORROW:  Progressive Era (Pg. 21)

Class Agenda (1 Hour Delay)

1.  Bellringer:  Pg. 17A - lead into trustbusting discussion.
2.  Progressive Presidents:  Teddy Roosevelt Recap from yesterday; Taft; Wilson (power point)
3.  Teddy Roosevelt Brain-pop.
HW - Pg 20.  Unit Test on FRIDAY!  Pg. 21.

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Movie Clip:  How did John Muir influence Teddy Roosevelt?

2.  Teddy Bear Group Activity (using page 18).
3.  Brain Pop:  Teddy Roosevelt
HW -

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Do pg. 17...lead into discussion on Social Progressives.
2.  Review HW (pg. 14) and take notes from power point.  Answer Movie Clip questions:

HW - Teddy Roosevelt (pg. 18)...use textbook pg. 602-605

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Look at the pictures of the "Nutritional Info"...Question:  Why do we have these labels?
2. Read selection from "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair.
3.  Work on chart on page 14 (use pages 9-14 and textbook pages 596-597 & 604)
HW - Finish chart on page 14

The "Tweedie" Awards!

Boss Tweed Skit Award Winners:

Period 2: 

• Best Actor - Josh G.
• Best Actress - Allison H.
• Best Group - Frankie M, Alyssa R and John G.

Period 3:

• Best Actor - Nate S.
• Best Actress - Katie L
• Best Group - Damian M, Katie L, and Emily C.

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer:  Why could Boss Tweed be viewed as both a hero AND a villain?
2.  Boss Tweed Skits.
3.  Award Voting:  Best Actor.  Best Actress.  Best Group Skit. 
HW -

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer:  The "Governator"...Arnold Schwarzenegger.  Discuss/review recall from HW.
2.  Discuss HW (pg.6).
3.  Recall Movie
HW - Packet Pg. 7 (use Text 596-597).  Identify the various points of view of Boss Tweed:  Was he a hero or villain?

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer: You are the president of the United States, and you need to appoint someone to be the Secretary of Defense (military/defense adviser to the president).  Question:  How would YOU choose someone to fill that VERY important job?  Jot down some ideas...
2.  Pair-Share Activity:  Progressivism (Politics/Business) on pg. 6 (textbook pgs. 594-596).
3.  Review.
HW - Page 6A "Reforming the Government" (textbook pgs. 599-601)

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer:  Using the pictures in power point, answer the following review questions:

• What was happening in these pictures?
• What impact did this event have on America?

2.  Class Notes (Pg. 5A) - discuss/define words:  progress, reform, corrupt
3.  Vocab (Pg. 4-5)
HW - Finish Vocab.

Class Agenda: November 17 - 23

We will be working on a DBQ Essay in class.  We will be taking it step by step to complete the assignment:

Wednesday:  CRQ questions and review responses
Thursday:  Analyze the documents and develop a thesis statement
Friday:  Create topic sentences and an essay outline
Monday:  Start to write the essay
Tuesday:  Finish essay

NOTE:  To anyone absent on Thursday and/or Friday, click here for a copy of our class discussion/brainstorm notes for:  document analysis, thesis statement, topic sentences, and essay outline. Be sure to use your "Guide to Writing DBQs" to be sure you follow all the necessary steps.  

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer:  Do pg. 1 of your Industrial Revolution packet.
2.  Industrial Revolution Test
HW - None

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer:  Using Page 26a...write which predictions came true or kinda-true.  Discuss inventions. 
2.  Webquest for "Inventors/Pioneers of the Industrial Era" on pg. 27.
HW - Study for Industrial Revolution Test tomorrow.  Review Sheet is on pg. 29.

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer (Movie Clip):  How did Jane Addams help the urban poor?  List...

2.  Town Meetings Activity (Pg. 28).
HW - Industrial Revolution Test on TUESDAY (Review Sheet on pg. 29)

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer:  What are the pros/cons of a longer school day?
2.  Workers & Unions Notes
3.  Movie Clips:  Answer questions from Notes

HW - Pgs 25-26.  Think of the sacrifices our veterans have made on our behalf!

10 Week Extra Credit

DUE DATE:  Friday November 12

Directions:  Read the article and complete the assignment.  You can do ONE or BOTH of the assignments, depending on how much extra credit you want.

1.  Read the article "Islam, Not in my Backyard;"

•   Write 2 paragraph summary of the article (using your OWN words)
•   Write 1 paragraph personal reaction to the article (What do you think about this issue?)

2.  Read the article "Who Gets to be an American?"

•   Write 2 paragraph summary of the article (using your OWN words)
•   Write 1 paragraph personal reaction to the article (What do you think about this issue?)

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer: What is the importance of having fire drills?
2.  Shirt Waist Factory Reading and Questions (Pgs. 20-23)
3.  Movie Clip
HW - Finish Pgs. 23-34

Class Agenda

Student Assembly. 
HW - None

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer:  Read "Never Shall I Forget," and answer the following question:  Which line do you find the most disturbing?  Explain.
2.  Class Reading:  "The Holocaust"
3.  Musicians in Terezin Introduction

•  Read excerpts from "I Never Saw Another Butterfly"

HW - None.  Assembly "Musicians in Terezin" on Monday

Class Agenda

Note:  Thursday 11/4, Friday 11/5 are set-up days for the assembly on Monday 11/8.
1.  Bell Ringer:  Read the following Martin Niemoller quote: 

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• What is the message of this quote?  What did Niemoller intend for us to LEARN from it?

2.  Power Point:  Fascism and the Rise of Adolf Hitler
3.  Read the book "The Harmonica" by Tony Johnston
HW - None

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer:  What is a "market?"  Compare and contrast:  Farmer's Market vs. Stock Market.
2.  Brain-Pop...Stock Market
3.  Stock Ownership Reading and Q's (Pg. 17a-17c)
4.  Intro Assembly on Monday 11/8
HW - None

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer:  Why do people collect stuff (coins, baseball cards, comic books, etc)?  Identify 3 reasons.
2.  Brain-Pop on "Stocks and Shares"
3.  The Stock Market Worksheet (Pg. 19)

• Go to Google Finance and type your company's name in the box where it says "Get quotes"
• See what the current price per share (it'll be the big number under the company's name).  Complete the arrows up through "Total Cost" on Pg. 19.
• For the last 2 arrows...scroll over the stock chart and look at the price of your stock 3 days ago (FURTHEST to the left on the chart).  
• If you invested your money 3 days ago...would you have made money?  Or lost money?

HW - Finish Pg. 19..."Homework"

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer:  Movie Clip and Questions

• In your own words - define the term muckraker.
• How many years did it take Ida Tarbell to write her article on Rockefeller?  
• What was the effect of Ida Tarbell's muckraking?  

2.  Sherman Anti-Trust Activity (Pgs 9-11)
HW - Read Pg. 18 AND on Pg 19 - JUST pick a stock to follow.  Use CNN Money website to pick a company to buy stock in.  Click around and have fun...OR use this link to pick one of the bigger companies in the stock market (Dow Jones Industrial Average).

Class Agenda

Mr. Law will be absent Monday October 25th through Friday October 29th, due to the birth of his child.  See Mrs. Patton with any questions/issues with class materials or make-up work.  Email:  lpatton@jd.cnyric.org

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer:  According to the photograph, how were the lives of children impacted by the Industrial Revolution?
2.  Movie.  Fill in movie guide for "Episode 7."  Click Here for the movie guide.

• Movie:  Click Here.  Watch clips for Thomas Burns, Jacob Riis, and Thomas Edison.

3.  Immigration Tests returned and discussed.
Homework - Enjoy the weekend!

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer:  An unemployed man steals food to feed his family, who is starving and homeless.  Are his actions good or bad?  Explain. 
2.  Industrialization Notes - Pg. 7.  Click Here.
3.  Captains of Industry or Robber Barons Activity - Pg. 6.
4.  Movie Clip:  Industrialization
Homework - Finish page 6...if need be.

Class Agenda

1.  Bell Ringer:  Billionaire Activity

2.  Homestead Act Notes - Pg. 4A

3.  Movie Clip:  How were the lives of Native Americans impacted by the Homestead Act?  List 3. 

Homework - None

Class Agenda

1.  Project Presentations - final day!

HW - Pg. 5 Vocab should be done for tomorrow.

Class Agenda

1.  Immigration Project Presentations!


HW - Be sure Industrial Revolution Vocabulary is completed.

Class Agenda

1.  Immigration Brain-pop - review

• Turn-in Immigration Packet

2.  Immigration Quiz
3.  NEW PACKET - Industrialization

• Vocabulary - Page 5

HW - PROJECT DUE MONDAY.  Finish Page 5?

Class Agenda

1.  Project Reminders - Due MONDAY 10/18

• Follow Directions!  No matter what option you picked…Your project should have SIX parts.

• Turn in a bibliography with you resources.

• Special Instructions:

• Power point - email it to me.  Save as an old form of power point.  PRINT off a copy!

• Prezi - Click the “email icon” to share it with me...dlaw@jd.cnyric.org 

2.  Do Page 1 of Immigration Packet

3.  Movie - Statue of Liberty