6/8/15-6/15/15

Monday- Civil Rights: A Time for Justice

Tuesday- Civil Rights:  A Time for Justice

Wednesday- John Hancock Day

Thursday/Friday/Monday    Final exams

Students have study guides including information about essays and may bring a 3x5 note card to assist with exam.

Week 6/1 - 6/5/15

Monday- NYS  Science Test  periods 1-3
                Computer Lab activity - P8

Tuesday-  Civil Rights Movement Overview
                 Red Work Books in class:  pages 127- 135
                 Essay choices info distributed (final exam) for preparation

Wednesday-Review info presented by students on assigned eras

Thursday- Review info presented by students on assigned eras

Friday -Benchmark Exam
            CNN Student News

Students are invited to stay after school with me on Wednesday or Thursday to review for the
final exam.
             
       

Week 5/25- 5/29

Monday- Memorial Day

Tuesday- Vocabulary of Vietnam War / complete packet info
                Watergate scandal
                 Take-Home Quiz due Thursday

Wednesday- Science practical test will be given all day so remaining students in class will be in computer lab researching the British government attempt to assassinate Hitler (linked on blog) with the primary sources provided.

Thursday -  Review packet for final exam-students given essay topic choices for final exam

Friday-  Review packet
             CNN Student News

HW on-going- review for final exam and prepare note card for essay

Week 5/18- 5/22

Monday - JFK as president, Bay of Pigs
HW:  Vietnam packet reading and questions 1-10  due Wednesday

Tuesday- Cuban Missile Crisis and Dallas

Wednesday- Vietnam vocabulary
                      Memorial Day tribute:  Top 50 Military Photographs - honoring those who serve

Thursday/Friday - Memorial Day break

Week 5/11 - 5/15

Monday- Early Cold War Notes- Section Two Korean War

Tuesday - Early Cold War Notes Packet - Section Three   American Culture
complete cartoon, Nuremberg Trials cloze activity, remaining primary sources by Thursday as needed

Wednesday- Reading Like a Historian: Who was more responsible for the Cold War?


Thursday- Finish answering question as needed, review Early Cold War packet (graded)


Friday- Foreign Aid Debate in groups, CNN Student News

Optional:  Test corrections due by Friday on WWII

Week 5/4- 5/8

Monday -   Continuing with the packet/question from Friday:  Should we have dropped the bombs
                   on  Japan?  Students will work with partners, looking at primary sources to help them
                  answer that  question.    
                 After completing the graphic organizer, students will respond with a written 
                 paragraph response.   Due tomorrow

Tuesday-  Powerpoint notes/discussion on aftermath of war including Nuremberg Trials

Wednesday- Red Work Books review of WWII/ HW:  Study and organize notes

Thursday- Chapter test- open note

Friday- Begin Early Cold War Years - Chapter    Textbook, section one  

Week 4/27- 4/31

Monday - Hitler's Final Solution
ABC Booklets

Tuesday-  Holocaust continued


WednesdayThursday -V-E Day,  War in the Pacific. Answer guided questions using textbook

ABC Booklets

Friday- Should we have used the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?  Using primary sources



Next Thursday- WWII test

Extra credit:  Story of SS St Louis

Week 4/20- 4/24

Monday -D Day   Eisenhower's speech (s)
HW:  Textbook reading: section three war in Europe- due Monday   guided questions
Extra Credit:   Students can complete the map questions about the landing beaches- Operation Overlord

Tuesday    Holocaust Day 1
                 Overview


Wednesday - Friday 
P1 and P2  Math state testing

P8    Band of Brothers  Speilberg's and Hanks NR film about Easy Company- 101st Airborne- during WWII    Episodes: Currahee and Day of Days

Week 4/6 -4/11

Monday - Introduction to World War II- notes packet #1
           HW:     Appeasement reading and questions - due by Thursday 

Tuesday- Notes continued, when completed Germany's Aggression and WWII Timeline (text) - finish as needed.

Wednesday- Entering the War: America's role and bombing of Pearl Harbor/FDR's speech analysis


Thursday-  Notes Packet 2-  War's Impact on America:  The Home Front
Great Depression tests returned.

Appeasement and timeline HW due

Friday-  Japanese Internment- day 1

Extra Credit Option:  Biography and questions of Hitler's early years

Anyone not finishing Great Depression test needs to do so by Wednesday.

End of the 3rd marking period
                                      

Week 4/13- 4/17

Monday - Why were Japanese Americans interned during WWII ? continued.
HW:   Paragraph response to question and completed packet - due by Friday.
Anti-Japanese propaganda- Disney cartoons

Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday

ELA testing for periods 1 and 2
Period 8- computer lab- WWII scavenger hunt

Friday-  Quiz, WWII ABC Booklets started  in class

Week 3/23 - 3/27

Monday- Notes packet:  Alphabet soup agencies, political cartoons, "packing the court",
                critics of the New Deal

Tuesday- Computer Lab Activity-  Life During the Great Depression: Dust Bowl
                Links on blog
               Complete activity as needed and hand in by Friday

Wednesday -Great Depression video and questions

Thursday- Legacy of New Deal/Review

Friday    Test: The Great Depression

Week 3/16- 3/20

Monday-  The Twenties review - Red Work Books in class - pages 85-93

Tuesday -   Roaring Twenties Test   Open Note    Multiple choice and written response


HW:   FDR - How About This?   the early years article from the History of US- due Thursday

Wednesday   Great Depression:  Herbert Hoover's presidency
                                                    Bonus Army fiasco
         
Thursday- FDR presidency notes                                                                 
                    
Friday - Fireside Chat  #1- Fiscal Emergency Solution
              Students will listen to the audio of this famous appeal to the American public
              CNN Student News

             

Week 3/9 -3/13

Monday - Video and guided questions:  Roaring Twenties
                 Fads assigned for tomorrow's group work
             
Tuesday/Wednesday  - Group work on fads- Presentations on Friday

Wednesday  Review/discuss packet-guided textbook notes (assigned last Monday -counts 3xHW)

HW:   Prohibition worksheet questions-due Friday

Thursday - Comparing the 20s to Today:  Graphic Organizer

Friday- Group fad presentations

Due this week:   "Interviews" of famous twenties personality

Next Monday- Open Note test on Roaring Twenties-Review notes

DBQ essays not received need to be turned in to me ASAP-test grade!

Week 3/2 3/6

Monday/Tuesday  - Introduction to the Roaring Twenties  -  Powerpoint presentation (copies            
                                of  presentation provided to students)
                                Project on personalities of the time period passed out/explained

HW:  Due by next Wednesday-  Textbook guided notes from the three sections of  chapter 24  starts on page 748   (Counts 3x)  
   

Wednesday-Friday   Computer Lab research on some of the famous celebrities as well as an "interview" with one of them-student choice.  

2/23 - 2/27/15

Monday - Whole class:  Section 3 notes- America at war and the armistice

                Work on ABC booklets- due by Friday             

Tuesday-  Section four notes: Versailles Treaty, influenza outbreak, and long term impacts of war
                  Pass back quizzes from sections one and two- corrections are an option-due by
                  next Tuesday

Wednesday- Looking at primary sources:  Why did the Sentate reject the Versailles Treaty?

Thursday/Friday  - DBQ Essay World War One (chapter test)
                             


Due Friday- ABC booklets and notes packet                  


Extra credit option:  creative writing piece due by end of week
                  
               

Week 22 2/9- 2/13

  

Monday-  

Snow Day 

Tuesday     Review notes sections one and two/ Mid point Review
                   Listen to song "Over There" which shows American patriotism
                  As time permits begin Reading Like a Historian: Central Question- Were critics of
                  the war anti-American?
                  HW:  Crossword   Woodrow Wilson

Wednesday -Finish Reading Like a Historian sources
                   HW:   Answering the central question -paragraph response using primary sources for
                               supporting details
                 
Thursday-  Open Note Quiz:  sections one and two
                   

Friday-        Section three notes- whole class (Americans at war, Armistice)
                   Work on ABC Booklet (should be finished by next week-after break)



Extra credit option:   Students write a series of journal entries as a soldier in the war or a poem depicting some aspect of the war - due by Feb. 27

Winter Break starts 

 

Week 21 2/2-2/6

The Great War continued.....

Monday -  Continue with section one notes (finish by tomorrow)
                 ABC booklets are on-going
                  Map of Europe is due by tomorrow (from last week)

Tuesday-  Review section one notes- why Europe erupts into war
                 Section Two:  America Enters the War guided notes-
                            finish these notes byThursday
                           

Wednesday-Packet in class including  Zimmerman Telegram, excerpt from Wilson speech
                    due tomorrow                 
                  
Thursday-    Go over the notes for sections one and two
                     Over There song by Berlin

Friday    Video:  The Foot Soldier
             
 Open Note Quiz - sections one and two on Monday

*******Changes due to snow day on Monday****

Week 20 1/26- 1/30

Monday-Tuesday    Midterm exam on Monday for social studies

Wednesday-Thursday    no school for grades 7 and 8

Friday - Guided Notes Packet:  Section One in class
              ABC booklet is on-going and should be completed by end of unit.
               Return/review  midterm exams including essays 

map of 1914 Europe due by Monday (from previous week)

Week 19 1/1/19- 1/23/15

Monday- Martin Luther King Day

    No school

Tuesday- Open Note Test- Imperialism

Wednesday- Review for Midterm.  Study Guide provided as well as choices for the essay on the midterm.  Students can bring in a 3x5 note card to the exam.

Thursday- Video:  The Great War (aka WWI)

                             

Friday- Locating and labeling the countries in Europe in 1914 map activity
                     Tests returned- corrections optional - due by 1/30

History Channel

Three night special starting at 9 pm  The Sons of Liberty

Week 18 1/12- 1/16

Monday-Computer Lab/ In class writing assignment: Yellow journalism article:  Spanish American War - due by end of week.  May be written or typed/should include yellow journalism type headlines and content covering the 5Ws

Tuesday- Video and guided questions:  Panama Canal/CNN Student News

Wednesday- Scaffolding questions on imperialism

Thursday- Complete notes packet/Review vocabulary

Friday- Red Work Book- imperialism

Open Note Test next Tuesday

Due by end of week: Web Quest from last week - minimum 15 questions to be answered 
                                    Yellow journalism article