Week of 5/4/08- 5/8/08

Monday
Benchmark test #4 for a classwork grade.  Use your book and any notes to help answer the questions.  The last half of class we will start the video "Freedom Summer".

Tuesday
Finish Video and then discuss the questions.  What was the result of their murders?

Wednesday
Lil Book, students will create a foldable book all about the Civil Rights Movement.  Download Little Book about Civil Rights Movement
Finish this for homework and add illustrations and color.

Thursday
Venn Diagram, compare and contrast Malcolm X and MLK.  Then review and answer the textbook questions on page 462, "Understanding the Facts", 1-10 but not #3.  Finish for homework.

Friday
Study guide for next Tuesday's test on Chapter 12.  Notebook check on Monday.

Week of 4/27/09-5/1/09

Monday
Last Day of CRCT!
We will finish the video about the Children's March and our letters from jail.

Tuesday
AC- Read Chapter 12, sections 1,2, and 3.  While you read complete/write notes on post-its, then after discussing your notes with your table partner, transfer the most important notes to a note card and save it for the test.
OL- will do the same as AC but only for sections 1 and 2.

Wednesday
Students will analyze 8 primary source document form the Civil Rights Movement.  Working with a partner or a group of three discuss the type, date and effect each document had on the movement.

Thursday
AC- Student will again work with a partner or group to analyze using guiding questions the MLK speech, "Where do we go from here?".
OL- Students will finish the doc. analysis from Wednesday and continue with post-it notes on section 3 of chapter 12.  Also, finish transferring notes to note cards.

Friday
Computer Lab activity researching U.S. Civil Rights; where they come from and how are they protected.  Finish the guided reading questions from Chapter 12.

Week of 4/20/09-4/24/09

Starting Tuesday we will have a shortened schedule for each class so our workload will be light all week.


Monday

OL- Practice CRCT test.  Homework will be to bring your notebook Tuesday, ready for a notebook check.

AC-WWII projects due.  Museum walk all the projects and write about what you learned.  Homework will be to bring your notebook Tuesday, ready for a notebook check.


Tuesday

Notebook check.

OL- Students will review their CRCT results.  No homework.

AC- Civil rights movement time-lines,  we will work on these for two days due to the short class period.


Wednesday

OL- Civil rights movement time-lines,  finish looking up the dates of each event.

AC- finish your time-lines and write 3 paragraphs.


Thursday

OL- finish your time-lines and write 3 paragraphs.

AC- Review the time-line dates and collect them along with the paragraphs.  Start the video about the Children's March, in Birmingham in 1963.


Friday

OL- Review the time line dates and collect them along with the paragraphs.  Start the video about the Children's March, in Birmingham in 1963.

AC- Finish video and discuss writing a fictional letter from jail.

Week 4/13/09-4/17/09

Welcome back, I hope everyone had a nice break! 

Monday
Wm- Page 401, questions 1-4.  Review and discuss answers.

Class Activity- Open Compare and Contrast the New Deal programs with the Current Stimulus Programs.
Students will read articles about the currents programs and compare them to the programs we discuss on Friday the 3rd.  Using the New Deal graphic organizer should help with this comparison.

AC HW- work on WWII projects that are due Friday the 17th.

Tuesday
Wm- review Monday's compare and contrast, discuss all the issues.

Class activity- Fact Finding Mission about WWII.  Complete the mission side 1 which deals mainly with Georgia issues using your textbook pages 402-414. 

Homework- AC- read section 4, ch 11 and complete the guided reading for the whole chapter, also continue to work on your projects.  OL- Read and complete section 4 of the guided reading.

Wednesdayy
Wm- Finish side 2 of Fact finding mission, Socratic review and discuss.

Class activity- Video clip of the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, and review and discuss the Study Guide for ch 11.  If time work with partners and discuss projects.

Homework- OL-Study for test.  AC work on projects.

Thursday
OL- Test
AC- Discuss and review WWII.  Video on Civil Rights, A Time for Justice.

Homework- AC projects due!!!

Friday

AC- Project sharing.  Self-evaluate and explain.  Students will complete a list of "10 Things I Learned", either from their own projects or from others they have observed.

OL-Video- A Time for Justice, about the Civil Rights movements and key people involved.  Complete analysis questions while watching the video. 

Week of 3/30/09-4/3/09

Monday
Wm- pretest for chapter 11.

Class Activity-Read page 383 about the Destruction  of King Cotton.  Graph the information on bar graphs.  Power point about the Roaring Twenty's, student notes on selected slides.

Homework- Read section , chp 11 and complete the questions on p 386, 1-4.

Tuesday
Wm- review HW questions
Class activity- Anticipation Guide guide for Chapter 11, section 2, Great Depression.
Homework- read section 3 of chp 11.

Wednesday
AC wm- Pass out and discuss WWII projects.  Download WWII Museum project Bily version
Class activity- Work in the lab on projects.

OL wm- Review Anticipation guide from Tuesday.  Download Anticipation Guide New Deal
Class activity- Complete Anticipation for New Deal.  Finish for homework.

Thursday
AC- Work on projects in the lab.

OL- Review New Deal Anticipation Guides.  Computer activity on Chapter 11.  Image search the Great Depression.

Friday
AC and OL- Review sections 2 and 3 and create a web of the causes of the Great Depression.
Research New Deal programs in text and compare their function.

3/23/09-3/27/09

Monday
Wm- Lesson #17 in CRCT Coach book. (read and take bullet notes for each section)

Class Activity- Analyze the two points of view in the great debate between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois.

Homework- Read p351-355 and define the bold words in your own words.

Tuesday
Wm- InspirEd handout about the Temperance Movement.  Complete and discuss.

Class activity- Research and compare the Political and Social Reform movements of the New South period.
Finish this for homework.  Download Political reformers   The Quiz on Thursday will include some of these terms and people.

Wednesday
Wm- InspirEd handout on Cost of War,(WWI)

Class Activity-Video clip about WWI and the home-front, which includes "The Great Migration" movement of African-Americans north for better jobs.  Guided note questions and a matching quiz will accompany this video clip.

Homework- Read 361-373, questions from "Understanding the Facts"  on p 374, 1-8 and 10-12.  This will help you study for the quiz on Thursday.  Also review the key vocabulary and influential people of this time period.

Thursday
Wm- Review homework questions.

Class activity- Quiz, then review CRCT pretests from last week.

Friday-
New South Performance task.

Week 3/16/09 - 3/20/09

Monday

Review Study Guides and explain essay choices.  Conclude with video clips about Reconstruction issues.


Tuesday

Test on Civil War and Reconstruction.  Anchor activity with pre-tests from the CRCT coach book.


Wednesday

Start New South unit.  Wm- lesson 15 in CRCT coach book, read and write bullet notes for each section.

Class activity- using notes and the textbook research the influential people and groups of this period.  Download Reconstruction to WWI key people

OL- finish the research on the influential people.

AC- Check on your stocks.  Buy a Georgia based company stock.


Thursday

Video clips on Alonzo Herndon, Leo Frank and the Atlanta Race riots of 1906, followed with a power point quiz game. 


Friday

Wm- Lesson 16 in CRCT coach book, read and write bullet notes on each section.

Class activity- Compare and Contrast Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.  Read the articles, take outline notes on the information and the Venn diagram the comparisons.  Finish for homework.

Week 3/9/09- 3/13/09

New Table of Contents (TOC)Download Table Of Contents new version

Monday
OL- Wm - questions 1 and 2 on page 301.  Share project with class.  Homework- read section 2 of Chapter 9 and continue the two column notes that you started with section 1.

AC- Wm- Reconstruction article for InspirEd, answer question on the front and summarize each plan from the back.  In small groups create posters for each plan.  Homework- read section 2 of Chapter 9 and continue the two column notes that you started with section 1.

Tuesday
Wm- define in your own words: Black Codes, provisional, sharecropping, and tenant farming.

OL- Notes and discussion on the 3 main reconstruction plans.  No homework.

AC-Share posters that the groups created on Monday, and take notes on the plans.  Compare sharecropping and tenant farming, discuss and take notes.

Wednesday
Wm up- add to your list of terms, scalawags, carpetbaggers, 14th Amendment, and 15th Amendment.

OL- discussion and notes on sharecropping and Tenant Farming.  Start the time-line of Reconstrucion events which we will finish on Thursday. (Working with your table partner to complete these on your own paper.)  Download Reconstr Timeline

AC- In groups of two complete a time-line of Reconstruction event in Georgia. Turn in and work on the Guided reading for Chapter 9.1 and 9.2. 

Thursday
OL Wm- finish time-lines. 
Class Activity- with small group students will create dialogs using the terms for this unit. (capsule vocabulary).  Finish the class period working on the CRCT Coach book pre-tests.

AC- Wm - finish guided reading.
class activity- Reconstruction centers work which we will finish Friday.  Rotate every 20 min. to a new center.  Must finish 3 stations.

Friday-
Pass out and discuss study guides for Civil War/Reconstruction Test which is Tuesday.  Homework is to complete the study guide.
All class will work in reconstruction centers.  OL classes  will only need to do 2 centers.

3/2/09-3/6/09

Monday

Wm up- Finish Friday's class activity "Figure it Out".  Turn in for a grade.  Introduce project for OL classes.
Class Activity- Video on Antietam.  Complete guided questions while watching this History Channel special presentation.
AC HW- Guided reading from Chp 8.
OL HW- work on project which is due 3/9/09

Tuesday, Early Release

Finish video and discussion the Emancipation Proclamation.
OL HW- work on project each night all week

Wednesday

Wm up-Questions p 276, #3,4, and 5. Discuss responses.
Class Activity-Soaps-Tone analysis and Comparison of the Gettysburg Address and Bush's 9-11 Address to the Nation.
Homework- Study for quiz on Chp 8.

Thursday

Quiz Chapter 8, then, finish and turn in the comparisons from Wednesday.  If time students can start the homework which is to read Chapter 9 section 1 and write two column notes for each sub-heading.

Friday

Wm up- define these new terms in your own words:  freedman, Freedman's Bureau, Reconstruction, disenfranchise, nullify.
Class activity- to understand the challenges facing the nation during Reconstruction, students will brainstorm challenges face by the follow groups:  freed slaves, southern landowners, southern businesses, northern citizens, bankers, former soldiers, soldier's families, and government officials.
Next, a puzzles game with notes about the differences between Antebellum and Postbellum South.  How they differed with respect to economic, land, labor, $ capital, agricultural production.
OL homework- Projects due Monday.

Week of 2/23/09-2/27/09

Make up test for Antebellum South, Tuesday, 2/24/08.  Also anyone who wants to make up the map or if they are in the red class and want to finish their DBQ.

Monday

AC  wmup- lesson 13 CRCT review

Class activity- power point overview of the Civil War.Download Civil_war08

complete note sheet that follows the ppt.

Homework- Read Chapter 8 section 1 and 2 and complete one sentence summaries for each subsection heading.

OL wmup- questions p. 284, 1-5

Class activity-Review Guided Reading answers and discuss Chapter 8. 

Homework- Open compare and contrast the North and South during the Civil War.

Tuesday

AC and OL classes

wmup-"Ain't I a Woman" by Sojourner Truth, read together.

Class activity-Civil War Firsts power point with a handout and questions for HW.

Open Compare and Contrast the North and South during the war. 

 

Wednesday

Wmup- List and explain some of the advantages of the North and the South during the Civil War.

Class activity- (During class activity I will check notebooks.)  Complete a map of the Civil War battles, finish for homework.

 

Thursday

Computer technology lesson in the Library- Civil War research using PBS website.  Complete the web and notes.  All stock market teams must have bought 3 stocks by the end of class.

AC classes Homework- Finish reading Chapter 8 and complete the Guided reading.

 

Friday

Statistics of War

Georgia Stories Video clips, Battle of Jonesboro, Andersonville, Payday, and Mass. 54th and the Black Soldier. 

Next, we will review war data to determine losses on both sides.  This activity is called "Figure it Out".

 

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