Weeks of November 14- 23

This week and next students will be taking the information they learned from Chapter 2 (see the previous post), and will be creating a mini lesson to teach their fellow classmates, students will be presenting on Wednesday and Thursday, Friday and possibly Monday.

Monday- Tuesday (21-22) students will be finishing up projects, reviewing paleolithic, Neolithic with ppt,  and watching a video over the first peoples rise to civilization.

PPT

Power Point chart

Review

Wednesday 23rd- Be The Good Day and Turkey Trot


No homework

Happy Thanksgiving!

Week of November 7, 2016

Monday, November 7, 2016

CNN

Lesson Plans (Reading guide/ Migration Map)

Link to clickable maps and migrations answer key

Migration Map:

Countdown Activity

Exit Note Questions:

1. What geographical features affected the migration patterns?
2. List the continents in the order they were settled.
3. According to the migration map did geography determine the destiny of early peoples?

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

CNN

Review Vocab

Reading guide chapter 2, section 1

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

CNN

Reading Guide chapter 2, section 2 and 3

Thursday, November 10, 2016

CNN

Finding a home base

Reading Guide for Section

Reading guide for Unit 2, section 4-5

Friday, November 11, 2016

Reading Guide Unit 2, Section 6-7

PPT

Power Point chart

Pastoralism Chart

October 31- November 5, 2016

Monday, October 31, 2016

PD Day

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

CNN

Finish Hammurabi

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

CNN

Finish Hammurabi- Due Friday/ No more Class Time

Begin Unit 2

Thursday/Friday  November 3/4, 2016

CNN

KWL/Pretest?

Unit 2- Vocab (slide show)

Links

Slideshow

Lessons

Week of October 24, 2016

Monday, October 24, 2016

Hand Back Tests and Reflect PTC REFLECTION

Work on Hammurabi

Documents, Debate (spider-web), outline, write

Tuesday-Thursday October 25-27

Work on Hammurabi

Documents, Debate (spider-web), outline, write

Friday, October 28, 2016

½ Day, Career Day and Be The Good Day

Week of October 17, 2016

Monday, October 17

Test

Tuesday, October 18-
CNN, Finish Tests, Finish Presenting Documentaries

Wednesday, October 19

Analyze Hammurabi Documents

DBQ packet

Thursday, October 20- 

Analyze Hammurabi Documents

DBQ packet

Friday, October 21

Write Arguments in class

New Targets:

I can collect, evaluate and analyze evidence like an historian?

I can generate arguments from evidence to construct theories, perspectives and hypotheses (claims), and accounts about the past?

October 10-14, 2016

Monday, October 3- Monday, October 10 Documentary Directions,

Documentary slideshow Template, Example, Topics

Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday, Friday October 11- 12 - 13-14

Present documentaries

Rubric

Review Sheet for test

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Test being moved to Monday!!!

Test

October 3, 2016

Monday, October 3- Thursday, October 6

Students will be creating a slideshow about one of the topics we will be studying this year. They will also be presenting them on Friday.

Documentary Directions,

Documentary slideshow Template,

Example,

Friday, October 5- Present documentaries



Targets for this week:

I can use the Temporal Device called a GeoHistogram

I can read and comprehend a historical passage to identify basic factual knowledge and the literal meaning by indicating who was involved, what happened, where it happened, what events led to the development, and what consequences or outcomes followed.

I can use steps and tools to research an historical topic?

I can collect, evaluate and analyze evidence like an historian?

I can generate arguments from evidence to construct theories, perspectives and hypotheses (claims), and accounts about the past?

I can evaluate why historical claims are controversial?

I can create a historical documentary.