Class Agenda

1.  Day 2 of the Harlem Renaissance Project:  Complete project.

HW - 1920s Test TOMORROW

Class Agenda

1.  WELCOME to the THRID Marking Period!  New Seats...
2.  In-class Project:  Harlem Renaissance.  Use class resources to research your topics/people, and create a "mural" and a cinquain poem summarizing your research. We will be starting today in our groups, and finishing tomorrow.

HW - TEST WEDNESDAY!  Roaring 20s...flash cards are on the blog home page

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  View movie clip...Describe life in the 1920s...especially for women.  Discuss the term flapper.

2.  1920s Culture Notes (p.pt.)

HW - Harlem Renaissance:  pg. 31a-31c questions 1-2
Roaring 20s test on WEDNESDAY

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Do pg. 31...How does the article on Sacco and Vanzetti relate to this political cartoon on immigration?
2.  "A Time of Fear and Panic"...pgs. 28a-28d.  Complete the graphic organizer on the Red Scare on pg. 28a.
3.  Discuss classwork

HW - pg. 30...Document Analysis

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Swap your letter with you table partner and read.
2.  Compare your research on the "Negative Effects of Prohibition" from yesterday, to the movie clip today... How was this community impacted by Prohibition?  What comparisons can you make with your research?

HW - Read pg. 30a-30c and do questions 1-2 on 30c

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  How are laws supposed to prevent crime?  Bridge discussion into the vocabulary term deterrent
2.  Prohibition:  "The Wets and the Drys" (pg. 26b-26e; Do question 1 on a separate sheet of paper.  On that same sheet of paper, create a web organizer of the "Negative Effects of Prohibition").
3.  Imagine that you are living in America prior to the 1932 election:  Write a brief letter to your local congressman asking them to repeal Prohibition, due to all the negative effects of the law.  In your letter,  identify FOUR reasons why it should be repealed.

HW - finish letter

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  How does one make/lose money by buying stock?  Review previous learning, and bridge to class activity.
2.  The economic "boom" of the 1920s Stock Market ("Getting Rich Quickly," pg. 21 - 25).  Do MVPs on pg. 25a.
3.  Brain-pop:  Stock Market

HW - Read pg. 27 and use the graphic organizer on the TOP of pg. 28 to summarize what you learned.

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Complete this statement:  "If I was given $500, I would....."  Bridge class discussion into ideas of consumerism....contrast buying on credit with discretionary spending
2.  1920s advertising (pg. 12-14)
3.  Economic Boom of the 1920s (pg. 16)

HW - Read pg. 18, and for each "Q" - create a 1 sentence MVP (most valuable point).

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  What is an invention/innovation that has changed your life (or the lives of others)?  Bridge discussion into the wide-ranging changes brought about Henry Ford, and his application of the assembly line to the manufacturing of the automobile.
2.  Henry Ford (pgs. 7a-7d).  Do questions 1-4 on the bottom of pg. 10
3.  Advantages and disadvantages of the assembly line (pg. 10)

HW - How did the Automobile impact Americans?  Use the "Wheel" graphic organizer to summarize the reading on pg. 17...and what you gathered from the clip.

Class Agenda

Mr. Law is home with a sick child today.
1. Bellringer: new packet...pg. 4 questions 1-3...why would Americans want to get back to "normal?"
2. "Normalcy" notes...pg. 5
3. "Ten Year Spree" (pgs. 5a-5d)

HW - none

Class Agenda

Midterm today - good luck!

HW - none

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Take out all of your review sheets, and put them in order...1-8.  Then staple them...
2.  Review Activity for the Midterm
3.  Reminders for the Midterm:  You must have a SHARPENED pencil ready for the scantron!!!

HW - STUDY!  (use review sheets, flashcards on blog, & old tests)
- Propaganda Extra Credit due on Tuesday.
- Be mindful of WHY we have a day of of school on Monday!

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Read pg. 22 on the Flu epidemic, and answer questions 6-8 on pg. 23
2.  End of WWI (pg. 8 of your Midterm Review Packet)
      - Brain-pop:  League of Nations
3.  Movie Clip:  How did World War I impact African-American communities?  Looking back at the Declaration of War on pg. 20...does this treatment contradict our reason for going to war?

HW - Midterm Review Packet:  Do pgs. 6-8 (see Monday, January 9th post for the review packet).

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Read about rationing on pg. 21...and answer the questions 1-5 on pg. 23
2.  "Gallery Walk" to admire one another's work on the WWI project
3.  Review sheet 5 (Expansion)

HW - Review sheet 5 (see previous posts to download/print the review packet).

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  How did President Wilson react after Congress voted to declare war?  Why do you think he reacted that way?  View Movie Clip.
2.  Homefront Movie Clip ... What happened to freedom in America during WWI?

• Government Involvement (Notes pg. 19)

3.  Rationing Primary Source Activity (Read pg. 21, and do Q's 1-5 on pg. 23)

HW - WWI Project due tomorrow!
- Do review sheets pgs. 3-4 (click here for the entire review packet)

Class Agenda

WORLD WAR I PROJECT:  Work Day

1.  Review/discuss direction sheet (click here for a copy of the direction sheet).
2.  Pick a format for your project and get started!  If you need photos from World War I for your project, click here for a link to a photo achive.

HW - Get project done...it's due TUESDAY, but you'll have midterm review homework for Monday night.

Class Agenda

Mr. Law was home with a sick child today...here was the agenda for class:

1.  Bellringer:  Move to the station where you were working when class ended yesterday.  Complete questions at this station (if need be).
2.  WWI Stations - Day 2.  We are completing our in-class station research (pgs. 24-29).  If you were absent Wednesday or Thursday...you MUST arrange time to come in and complete the work (homebase, study hall, lunch).

HW - Complete pg. 2 of review packet (Immigration).  See Wednesday's post for the review sheet.
- bring a thumb/jump drive (if you have one) to class with you tomorrow.

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Movie Clip - How did Wilson react after Congress voted for war?  Why do you think he reacted that way?
2.  In-Class Project:  WWI Stations.  Over the next 2 days of class, you will be traveling with your learning group for some in-depth coverage of WWI topics (pgs. 23-29).  If you miss today or tomorrow, you will have to arrange to come in during study hall to make up for this in-class project.

HW - Midterm on Friday 1/13:  Do Reconstruction Review Sheet (pg. 1 of Review Packet)

Class Agenda: Welcome to 2012!

1.  Bellringer:  Watch brain-pop...REVIEW:  What were the causes of World War I?
2.  Group Activity (pg. 12A-12B):  Complete "Questions for Review" on pg. 12B.  Discuss Zimmerman Note.
3.  Declaration of War (pg. 20).  How does this document support/parallel the title on pg. 12A?

HW - NIE due tomorrow!  Be sure to follow directions on the entry form
- MIDTERM on Friday, January 13th!