Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Read page 32.
2.  Harlem Renaissance Mural Project - small groups.  Project is due tomorrow at the end of class.
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Class Agenda

Movie:  The Harlem Globetrotters.  How did the birth of the Harlem Globetrotters influence the 1920s, segregation, and racial prejudice in America? 

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Complete vocabulary for review on pg. 3.
2.  Brain-pop review of the Harlem Renaissance
3.  TEST:  Roaring 20s
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Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  View movie clip...Describe the lives of women in the 1920s.

2.  1920s Culture Notes (p.pt.)
3.  Harlem Renaissance (pg. 31a-31c; Questions 1-2)
HW - Finish Harlem Renaissance.  Study for TEST on Roaring 20s (review sheet on pg. 34)

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  What is communism?  Watch Brain-Pop on Communism...
2.  Activity (see graphic organizer)...pgs. 28a-28c.
3.  Review HW
HW - Pg. 30 and 31...Primary Source Analysis...."The purpose of this cartoon is to p/i/e..."

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Why would people support Prohibition?  Oppose?
2.  Movie on Prohibition...

3.  Activity - compare movie with history.
HW - "The Shoemaker and the Fish Peddler"...pg. 30a-c.  Do questions 1-3 on pg. 30c

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Why do we have laws?  Do they work?  Explain...Bridge discussion into the Prohibition Era.  Reminder of the temperance movement.
2.  "Wets & Drys" Article... (26a-26d).  Answer all parts of question 1. 
3.  Small Groups - complete bottom of page 28. 
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Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Brain-Pop...Stock Market.  How does one make/lose money in the Stock Market?
2.  Stock Market Group Activity (pgs. 21-25a)
HW:  Read pg. 27...complete graphic organizer on top of pg. 28

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Watch Superbowl Advertisement:  http://superbowlads.fanhouse.com/2011/doritos-pug/
Do advertisements impact our buying habits?  Does it impact our needs/wants?  Bridge discussion into the consumerism of the 1920s...and the positive and negative impacts. 
2.  Review HW (pg. 14)
3.  Sears Catalog Activity (pg. 11)
4.  P.pt. notes (pg. 16) 
HW - Pg. 18 - 1 sentence summary for each section (6 sentences total)

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  What are natural resources?  Why are they important to industry?  Bridge discussion into a continuation of the Henry Ford lesson...
2.  Review Advantages and Disadvantages of the assembly line (pg. 10) - see p.pt.
3.  Impacts of the Auto on America (pg. 17)
HW - Read pgs. 12-14...complete questions on 14.

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  What is an innovation?  Bridge class discussion into the contributions made by Henry Ford.
2.  Henry Ford Reading (pgs. 6-9)...questions on page 10. 
3.  Follow-up on Social Studies electives, and reminders about building your schedule for next year (Social Studies Electives for 9th Graders)
HW - Finish Henry Ford (pg. 10)

Class Agenda 2/3 - 2/4

Thursday 2/3  
Scheduling Day - Your House 2 Counselor Mrs. Farranto will be in during class time to discuss setting up schedules for next year.  Click here for Social Studies classes that you can sign up for next year in the high school.  

Friday 2/4

8th Grade Elective Presentation - High School teachers and counselors will be visiting today to inform you about classes you can take next year....AND...to work on setting up schedules for next fall.  Click here for Social Studies classes that you can sign up for next year in the high school.

Class Agenda

Snow Day!  Wow...enjoy the "bonus" day!

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Page 4, questions 1-3.  Discuss post-WWI problems.
2.  Normalcy p.pt. notes (pg. 5)
3.  Review HW...Lucky Lindy video clip.  What was his "claim to fame?"


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