Saturday, December 6, 2014

Week 15 12/9- 12/13

Monday- Open Note Quiz/Section Three Notes
               HW:  Women's Suffrage worksheet

Tuesday - Finish section Three Notes/Start Reading Like a Historian:  Booker T. Washington and
                                                  W.E.B. DuBois
              

Wednesday- Reading Like a Historian:  Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois
                     Finish as HW as needed

Thursday- Progressive Era video and questions

Friday- Section Four Notes/CNN Student News
             HW: Complete all notes



Monday, December 1, 2014

Week 14 12/2-12/6

Monday - Chapter 21  Progressive Era Overview and Vocabulary
                  Section One Guided Notes done individually


Tuesday-  Complete section one notes (HW as needed)

Wednesday- Section Two Notes: Reform in the Workplace
                     Immigration Tests returned:  Corrections optional
                     HW:   Reform Literature  pages  668-669   Respond to three questions
                                due by Friday

Thursday-     Triangle Factory Fire
                     Classes vote for three BEST political cartoons


                 Extra Credit:  Summarize this event by writing short article "I was there reporting" 
                                          covering the 5Ws.

Friday- Review section two notes/CNN Student News

Quiz on Monday 
                

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Week 13 11/24-11/28

Monday - Red Work Books in class: Review Chapter 20

Tuesday-Open Note Test:  Immigration
               (Political cartoon due)

Holiday Break

Friday, November 14, 2014

Week 12 11/17-11/21

Monday- Complete timeline of immigration laws: computer lab
due by Thursday

Tuesday- Political cartoons overview/discussion
               (Ellis/Angel Island worksheet questions due today)

Wednesday -Issues Today in Immigration

Thursday- Scaffolding Questions Practice /CNN Student News

Friday- Students will create an original  political cartoon- due by Tuesday, November 22.
                   (Timeline due by today)


Friday, November 7, 2014

Week 11 11/10 - 11/14/14

Monday-   Immigration Overview Notes


Tuesday- Veterans Day - no school


Wednesday- Video:  Immigrants and Urban Growth

                           DBQ Essay (from last week) due by today-test grade

Thursday - Computer Lab- Ellis and Angel Island research
                               due  by end of next Tuesday if not finished in class

Friday: Overview notes continued/CNN Student News

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Week 10 11/3 - 11/7

Monday-   Notes-finish packet - info on city life

                 HW:   Matching vocabulary worksheet Ch 19

Tuesday-  Red Work Book  Chapter 19 class work

Wednesday- DBQ Industrial Age  scaffolding questions  (this will be a second quarter grade)

Thursday- DBQ Essay  in class


Friday   "Interesting Inventions", CNN Student News
               *Students needing to finish essay may complete during class time.

Friday, October 24, 2014

Week 9 10/27- 10/31

Monday- Quiz/ 
                HW:  Complete Changing Economy packet-reading and questions (from Thursday)

Tuesday- Inventions Research using Chrome Books in classroom
                            

Wednesday-Power Point presentation/notes packet
                    HW:  Strikes - Cloze reading practice

Thursday- Reading Like a Historian:  How did Chicago papers cover the Pullman Strike?
                

Friday- Finish Reading Like a Historian -Pullman Strikes
            CNN Student News

Saturday, October 18, 2014

Week 8 10/20 - 10/24


Monday-     Chapter 18 tests returned- option to do test corrections within a week.
                     Intro new chapter:  Industrialization/Immigration
                    CW/HW:Section One pages 614-618  Students read text, fill out chart.
                     Morse Code challenge with partners

Tuesday   Power Point Notes: Ch 19 
                  Grade sheet summaries passed out to students today
                  Short info clip on Newport Mansions of the Gilded Age

Wednesday:   Video: Second Industrial Revolution/Guided Questions
                        HW: Edison:  Greatest Inventor?  Reading and Graphic Organizer

Thursday- Our American Economy- service vs. manufacturing jobs in U. S. workplace 
                  Urban and rural population changes
               
Friday   
                Power point notes continued/CNN Student News

                Open Note Quiz on Monday
               

Sunday, October 12, 2014

Week 7 10/13 - 10/17/14

Monday -  Columbus Day

Tuesday - finish guided notes: Americans Move West

WednesdayReading Like a Historian:  Why did the Populist Party attract millions of supporters?
                      Whole class reading/discussion/questions of two primary sources- Mary E. Lease and
                      William Jennings Bryan)

Thursday - Review:  Red Work Book Pages 25-33

Friday - Test: Open Note / CNN Student News

Prezi projects(Reconstruction: A Success or a Failure?) are due by Friday (from previous chapter)

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Week 5 9/29-10/3

Monday- Introduction and instruction by Mr. Gelder on creating a Prezi in computer lab
                
                 HW (if applicable)- students may retake the states test by next Monday during SH or   
                 after school.


Tuesday-Computer Lab:  Using a Prezi presentation template, "Closing the Deal", students must answer the following question:  Was Reconstruction a success or a failure?   They will have the opportunity to choose one of four people who will answer that question from their point of view.


Wednesday-Computer Lab:   Work on Prezi presentation
HW:  Finish your prezi and download project to my account by next Thursday.


Thursday- Start Guided notes on new chapter 18:  Americans Move West


Friday- Guided notes on the West continued/CNN Student News