Covers Early Presidents and the Manifest Destiny EARLY

Covers Early Presidents and the Manifest Destiny EARLY AMERICA- THE STORY OF HOW AMERICA GREW

WED, 1/20 ✕ New Seats ✕ Achieve ✕ Intro to Project- Students will be teaching their classmates about one of the 15 topics available. Students will sign up based on topic, and will not know if they have a partner or not until after.

THURSDAY, 1/21 ✕ Review where links are and what we are doing. ✕ Students work independently and silently until the last 20 mins of class. At that time they can meet with their partners to collaborate. ✕ Remind students this is a 96 pt project so time is of the essence. They will get all of Friday to complete research too.

FRIDAY, 1/22 ✕ Students were to complete research, but we had a snow day.

WEDNESDAY, 1/27 ✕ Write down your homework (see back board) ✕ Answer the following on your own paper: + What does Manifest Destiny mean?

STEP 1 OF CLASS ✕ Introduce the discussion session by showing a short video clip introduction: "Gone West Manifest Destiny". Then play the atlas animation "Growth of a Nation" Briefly review the map animation by asking students to name the major events that occurred during the period 1820 - 1860.

STEP 2 ✕ Ask students to imagine how they might have felt if they were a white settler, a slave, an abolitionist, a Native American, a Mexican. Provide a couple of minutes of wait time to let this "sink in. ✕ Have students share with their new elbow buddy when asked by teacher to do so

STEP 3 ✕ Remind students that today is the last day of the research of the project. ✕ Remind them that they really want to focus on why their event happened and how it affected the nation politically, economically, and socially.

THURSDAY, 1/28 ✕ Write down your homework (see back board) ✕ Warm-up: + + + What people supported or believed in Manifest Destiny? Who benefitted most from westward expansion? Who suffered the most as a result of westward expansion? ✕ Think about yesterdays warm-up and your research.

HOW TO USE PIKTOCHART ✕ Before letting the kids loose to work with their partners on the piktochart, you will pull it up on the front board and show they how to use it. Show examples from the past which are based on Presidents FDR and Lincoln. ✕ http: //piktochart. com/ will have students start up for free.

AS YOU ARE WORKING ON YOUR PIKTOCHART… ✕ I will be coming around to check and make sure that your project outline is completed. This must be completed in order to move forward. ✕ Presentations begin Friday.

FRIDAY, 1/29 ✕ Warm-up: Log-on to Achieve 3000 and complete the following+ + + Story of the States Big Troubles Lead to Big Changes Missing Achieves or next week’s Achieves ✕ Write down homework on the back board ✕ I will meet with students who have tested out of Achieve to talk about the Conspiracy Theory Paper.

AFTER ACHIEVE TIME… ✕ Students will work on their piktochart project. ✕ I will be walking around helping groups that raise their hand ask for help. ✕ While waiting for me to come over to help you, see if you and your partner can figure it out without me. ✕ Reminder- Presentations begin Friday; it’s worth 96 pts

MONDAY, 2/1 ✕ Warm-up: Put the following events in order + + + Declaration of Independence Civil War Gold Rush John Quincey Adams’ Presidency American Revolution Andrew Jackson’s Presidency ✕ New Song Time!!!- Show they the Westward Expansion parodies. This is to help all with understanding how all the projects will fit with each other. ✕ Write down homework (back Board)

PIKTOCHART TIME!!! ✕ Today we will continue with presentations. Thank you to everyone who shared their project with me. It has made it easier to grade the product portion of the grade. ✕ Please get out 3 sheets of your own paper and divide it into 8 ths. The 1 st column is for causes and the 2 nd column is for effects. ✕ Review audience expectations

TUESDAY, 2/2 ✕ Warm-up: Everyone who did not present, pull up your project on one of the computers. + + Answer- Which project have you liked the best? Share with elbow buddy what you learned. ✕ Write down homework (see back wall)

PIKTOCHART TIME!!! ✕ Today we will continue with presentations. Thank you to everyone who shared their project with me. It has made it easier to grade the product portion of the grade. ✕ Please get out 3 sheets of your own paper and divide it into 8 ths. The 1 st column is for causes and the 2 nd column is for effects. ✕ Review audience expectations

WEDNESDAY, 2/3 ✕ Warm-up: + How does this picture embody the idea of Manifest Destiny? How do you know? List 3 examples/references to the painting. ✕ Write down your homework: + + Achieves Take home test

FINISH PRESENTATIONS ✕ Get out your notes sheets. These will be collected tomorrow when you turn in your take home test.

THURSDAY, 2/4 ✕ Warm-up: + What events from the presentations will lead to the Civil War? ✕ Get out your take home test. No test? Show me your agenda! You will be back at Silent Lunch. ✕ Homework: Achieves and Progress Reports due Friday. Finish Vocabulary Notes.

ACHIEVE TIME (40 MINS) ✕ We will work on the following articles: + + + New States, New Troubles Remembering Dred Scott Next Week’s Articles or Ones of your choice afterwards ✕ Those of you doing the Conspiracy Theory Paper, I will need a minimum of 4 source cards by next Friday

UNIT 7 - CIVIL WAR VOCAB ON QUIZLET ✕ Go to quizlet. com ✕ Search Quizlet- Farley 2 this will be under the classes tab ✕ Click on Unit 7 - Sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction. ✕ Fill in the missing definitions ✕ Whatever you don’t finish in class is homework.

FRIDAY, 2/5 ✕ Turn in Warm-up sheets. ✕ Get out vocab ✕ Log-on to Achieve 3000 - we will be on Achieve for 40 mins + If you get done this week’s achieves, select ones you want to do.

CLEAR YOUR DESK OF EVERYTHING BUT A PEN/PENCIL ✕ Review Audience Etiquette. ✕ Students will watch America The Story of Us: Division to show the Manifest Destiny does impact and lead into the Civil War.

REDO ✕ There is no talking!!! ✕ Talking = a 4 x 4 ✕ Stay on Task.

MONDAY, 2/8 WARM- UP: THE CIVIL WAR 1. 2. 3. Define Nationalism Define Sectionalism Use your textbook to assist you. Homework: Achieve articles and Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Math

WARM- UP: THE CIVIL WAR NUMBER YOU PAPER 1 -6 AND ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS. 1. 2. Define Nationalism- loyalty to the nation Define sectionalism – loyalty to a region instead of the nation. Example: North or South

THIS WEEK WE WILL…. ✕ Review key vocabulary terms ✕ Reexamine slavery in the US ✕ Identify the major issues in society that were reasons start of the Civil War ✕ Essential Questions for the week: + + What were the reasons that the North and South entered this conflict? By 1860, why were the nation’s leaders unable to keep the Union together?

GET OUT YOUR MOVIE GUIDE ✕ We are going to finish the Division section of America the Story of Us in order to make the connection that the events we covered with our Westward Expansion projects blend into the causes of the Civil War. ✕ Turn in your movie guide afterwards so we can get credit.

TUESDAY, 2/9 ✕ Warm-up: + + Turn to pg 500 in the textbook. Answer questions a and b under Map Masters: Election of 1860. Page 503, #2 - What was the South’s reaction to Lincoln’s election? How did Lincoln try to reassure the South? ✕ Write down your homework: Achieves due Friday, Brianpop if not completed in class.

GET OUT LAST NIGHT’S HOMEWORK ✕ Do trade and Grade. ✕ No homework: Show me your agenda. If charts/answers are incorrect just mark an x. leave it alone if it is correct. ✕ Total is out of 31 points ✕

SLAVERY AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD ✕ How did the slave trade change over from the Colonial Era to the 1860 s? ✕ When did the abolitionist movement begin? ✕ What is the Underground Railroad? ✕ All of these we will answer using brain-pop. + Login and password are leecs ✕ This is homework if it is not finished in class. ✕ Q 2 Benchmark Review on Study Island if you get done early

WEDNESDAY, 2/10 ✕ Warm-up: Use your textbook to answer the 1. 2. 3. 4. following. Name the two sides that fought during the Civil War. Who was the general for the North? Who was the general for the South? Who was the President during the Civil War?

WARM-UP ANSWERS 1. 2. 3. 4. Name the two sides that fought during the Civil War. North (Union) & South (Confederacy) Who was the general for the North? U. S. Grant Who was the general for the South? Robert E. Lee Who was the President during the Civil War? President Lincoln

CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR ✕ http: //www. slideshare. net/msdean 28/causes- of-the-civil-war-sectionalism-states-rights ✕ We will be doing Cornell Notes on the Causes of the Civil War. ✕ Essential Questions: + + 1. What were the reasons that the North and South entered this conflict? 2. By 1860, why were the nation’s leaders unable to keep the Union together?

THURSDAY, 2/11 AND FRIDAY, 2/12 ✕ Today is Benchmark day! ✕ Please write down benchmark for your warm-up ✕ Log-on to quia. com ✕ Test to take- (8 th grade) Social Studies Benchmark + Secret word is rockets ✕ Achieve 3000, or missing work when done. All articles for the quarter are unlocked. ✕ Talking = a 4 x 4, and misadministration for the entire class

TUESDAY, 2/16 - WARM-UPS 1. Transportation: ______ as Slaves : South 2. Which set of graphics correctly lists the political and military leaders of the Civil War? A Union President: Abraham Lincoln Major General: Ulysses S. Grant Confederate President: John C. Calhoun Major General: Zachary Calhoun B Union President: Abraham Lincoln Major General: Ulysses S. Grant Confederate President: Jefferson Davis Major General: Robert E. Lee Write down your homework: See back wall

SWITCH TO SUMMARY OF THE CIVIL WAR ✕ I have a separate power-point on the Summary of the Civil War which students will take Cornell Notes from. ✕ Essential Questions: + + + What were the strengths and weaknesses of the North and South during this conflict? What were its political, social, and economic ramifications of the Civil War? What events led to a Union victory?

WEDNESDAY, 2/17 ✕ Warm-up: + Name any Civil War Battle you have ever heard of and explain why that battle was important. ✕ Homework: Create questions, highlight key terms, and do summary section. Achieves and Progress Reports due Friday ✕ Today we will finish our notes on the Civil War. This time we will be focusing on the Battles of the war. ✕ Switch to Summary of the Civil War pwpt.

THURSDAY, 2/18 ✕ Warm-up: Get out homework and then do Weekly 5 on quia. Timed at 10 mins + + + Weekly 5: Civil War Review the Weekly 5 when all students have completed the task. Achieve when done.

AFTER WE REVIEW THE WEEKLY 5 Log-on to Achieve 3000. ✕ Please open ✕ + Westward Expansion: A Ship that Changed History ✕ What vocabulary do you think will be in this article? ✕ Predict what will the article be about. ✕ After we’ve review these questions, + + ✕ Finish the article on your own, then complete Words by Wire The Rush for Riches Missing Achieves, Future Achieves, or Your Pick when done Make sure to record your 1 st try score, and to tell me how the articles has related to past or present units

THE WAR ENDS ✕ Show a video on the surrender at Appomattox Court House. + ✕ After the video, have the students look at 2 pictures of the surrender and have them fill in speech bubbles for what some of the people might be saying. Finally, show a video of Lincoln’s assassination and discuss how this might have changed the course of history and how this would affect the US going forward.

FRIDAY, 2/18 ✕ Warm-up: 1. What does the tree symbolize? 2. Who is the man in the tree? 3. How does this cartoon relate to the Emancipation Proclamation?

ACHIEVE 3000 ✕ Achieve 3000 - 20 mins + + + Westward Expansion: A Ship that Changed History Words by Wire The Rush for Riches Missing Achieves, Future Achieves, or Your Pick when done Make sure to record your 1 st try score, and to tell me how the articles has related to past or present units.

AMERICA THE STORY OF US- CIVIL WAR ✕ Review SLANT ✕ Preview movie guide.

MONDAY, 2/22/16 ✕ Warm-up: +Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the King’s horses and King’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again ✕ Explain how the nursery rhyme, Humpty Dumpty, symbolizes the South after the Civil War. ✕ Finish Civil War episode of America the Story of Us- we have about 4 questions left ✕ Homework: Class notes if not finished in class, Study Guide due Thursday, Achieves due Friday

AFTER FINISHING AMERICA THE STORY OF US ✕ Turn in your movie guides ✕ Log-on to Study Island + + LCS Lunch Number ✕ We need to click on the “Lesson” for Reconstruction ✕ You see after Lincoln’s death and the Surrender of General Lee, we have to rebuild the Union.

RECONSTRUCTION ✕ We will be taking Cornell notes on the Reconstruction Era (1865 -1877). ✕ This will be page 11 of your notebook. ✕ Essential Questions of the week: + + 1. How did the Union rebuild a cohesive nation following the end of the US Civil War? 2. What social, economic, and political problems did African Americans face during Reconstruction? 3. What were the successes and failures of Reconstruction? 4. How did the Civil War and Reconstruction affect the lives of future generations of America?

TUESDAY, 2/23/16 ✕ Warm-up: Following the Civil War, Southern states passed laws severely restricting the rights of African. Americans. These laws varied from state to state and included the prohibiting of interracial marriages and restrictions on land ownership. These laws served as a way for white Southerners to control the recently freed African Americans. These laws were known as _____. ✕ Hint this is a vocab term and was in yesterday’s notes. ✕ Homework: DBQ Part B due Wednesday if not finished in class, Study Guide due Thursday, Achieves due Friday

CLASS DISCUSSION- HOW DID THE DECADES CHANGE DECADES AFTER THE CIVIL WAR ✕ Answer the Essential Questions in your Summary before we have a class discussion on yesterday’s notes. ✕ Let us read the DBQ aloud and verbally go through the first section of the DBQ packet together before letting class work with a partner to complete the rest of the packet.

HOW DID THE US CHANGE IN THE DECADES AFTER THE CIVIL WAR ✕ Students will have until the last 15 minutes of class to complete the DBQ packet with a partner and will answer the DBQs in quia. com ✕ The last 15 minutes of class, we will go over the answers to see how comprehending the DBQs went and to see if we need more practice. ✕ Homework: DBQs Part B and Achieves Due Friday

WEDNESDAY, 2/24/16 ✕ Warm-up: Write Reconstruction Era in the middle of your warm-up sheet. Write or draw all the terms, events, and people/groups involved in the Reconstruction Era around this. You should have at least 12 items surrounding “Reconstruction Era” in the middle of your page. This is like the Graffiti Blocks that we’ve done for Vocabulary. : ) ✕ If you did not submit your DBQs on quia, or do not have them on paper, show me your agenda. ✕ Homework: + + Study Guide due tomorrow. Achieves due Friday

ACHIEVE 3000 - 40 MINS ✕ Complete the articles for the week: + + April 1861: The First Shots are Fired May 1861: War Begins ✕ Make sure to complete your “How does this relate to class” column with 3 -5 sentences. + Those doing the Conspiracy Theory Essay, make sure that your outline is turned in to me either on paper or in an email by Friday ✕ Make up missing Achieves, or complete the future Achieves.

PULL OUT YOUR STUDY GUIDE ✕ We are going to work on our study guide. You may choose to work with your elbow buddy, or alone. You may not get up to move. Textbooks are beneath your seats if you need them, the pages have also been place on my webpage at the bottom of “Units this year. ” You should also use your notes. ✕ If you get this done before the end of class, complete Civil War Study Guide on Study Island, you will need 20 questions total (10 from each section) at a 70% or higher without the use of notes.

THURSDAY, 2/25/16 ✕ Warm-up: Weekly 6 -Civil War and Reconstruction- timed 10 mins ✕ When done with your Weekly 5, we will log-on to Achieve 3000. ✕ We will review the Weekly 5 when I see everyone is on Achieve 3000

ACHIEVE 3000 - 40 MINS ✕ We will complete the following: + + + April 1861: The First Shots are Fired May 1861: War Begins Catching Runaway Slaves- this will help you with your Study Guide ✕ Make sure to complete your “How does this relate to class” column with 3 -5 sentences. + Those doing the Conspiracy Theory Essay, make sure that your outline is turned in to me either on paper or in an email by Friday.

PULL OUT YOUR STUDY GUIDE ✕ We are going to work on our study guide. You may choose to work with your elbow buddy, or alone. You may not get up to move. Textbooks are beneath your seats if you need them, the pages have also been place on my webpage at the bottom of “Units this year. ” You should also use your notes. ✕ If you get this done before the end of class, complete Civil War Study Guide on Study Island, you will need 20 questions total (10 from each section) at a 70% or higher without the use of notes.

Friday, 2. 26. 16 1. Write down: Review Study Guide and pass your sheet to the front of the room. Make sure your name is on it. Also pass to the front your Achieve Sheet. 2. Get out your Study Guide. If you did not complete it, please show me your agenda.

Study Guide Check- 15 mins 1. When I say go, we will get into groups of 3 to compare answers. If everyone has a different answer, you need to determine which answer is correct aka refer back to your notes or the textbook. Today is the last day to ask questions. 2. Do not bug others not at your group 3. Stay on topic, you shouldn’t be talking about your weekend plans 4. If I say Volume, turn it down

Option 1 ✕We will use http: //www. readwritethink. o rg/files/resources/interactive s/timeline_2/ to create an annotated timeline on the Civil War Era. ✕Rubric is online as well as prompt. Option 2 ✕ Write a CHildren’s Book ✕ Rubric and Prompt can be shared with you via Google Drive. Please let me know if you wish to do this option instead of the timeline Civil War Era Project- due Wednesday 3/2/16 *students will get time in class on Friday for sure. They may get time on Monday depending on Mrs Brown’s presentation, and maybe on Tuesday after the test.

MONDAY, 2/28/16 ✕ Warm-up: Write down 2 questions that you have about scheduling that you would like to ask Mrs Brown. ✕ Mrs. Brown will be here shortly to talk to you about High School Courses. You will be able to work on your project until she shows, and after she’s done(if there is time). ✕Write down your homework- Project due Wednesday, test on Tuesday

Annotated TImeline ✕We will use http: //www. readwritethink. o rg/files/resources/interactive s/timeline_2/ to create an annotated timeline on the Civil War Era. ✕This will include all information on the prompt that was given to you on Friday. Children’s Book ✕ Write a Children’s Book for a 3 rd or 4 th grader. ✕ Rubric and Prompt are shared with you via Google Drive. Civil War Era Project- due Wednesday 3/2/16 *students will get time in class on Friday for sure. They may get time on Monday depending on Mrs Brown’s presentation, and maybe on Tuesday after the test.

TUESDAY, 3/1/16 1. Warm-up: Write down none 2. Log On to Quia. com 3. Click Unit 6 - Civil War/Reconstruction 4. The Secret word is……there is none 5. Talking is an automatic ZERO plus a 4 x 4. THis is no talking during and after the test. 6. Work on your project when you are done. This is due tomorrow. You can also work on Achieve.

WEDNESDAY, 3/2/16 1. Warm-up: What does the term Progressive mean to you? If we call something the Progressive Era what do you think we mean? 1. Get out your project to turn it in. If you did not bring your project, or it isn’t shared with me via Google, then get out your agenda. 2. Homework: Vocabulary Notes if not finished in class, Achieves and Progress Reports due Friday.

Achieve 3000 - 40 mins. 1. Articles owed this week: July 1861 b. Catching Runaway Slaves c. Remember to complete your achieve sheets as you finish each article. d. If you get done these articles and you have no missing articles, start next week’s articles a. 2. Essayers- we are going to use our outlines to complete out rough draft. This should be a fairly simple task since we already have our thoughts in order. Rough Draft is due next Wednesday

Progressive Era to WWI Vocabulary 1. Go to quizlet. com 2. Search “Farley (insert core #)” 3. Click on Classes to find this. 4. Once you’ve selected your core, you need to complete the missing terms for the Progressive Era to WWI Vocabulary. 5. Do Achieve or Missing Work when you are done

Thursday, 3/3/16 1. Warm-up: What kind of reforms do YOU THINK we will have between 1890 -1930? Why? Must be at least 2 complete sentences. 2. Write down your homework: a. Achieves and Progress Reports are due Friday!!!! b. Pink Scheduling SHeets are due 3/22 c. Permission Slips and Money for our April Field Trip are due 4/4/16. Don’t get 2 days ISS/OSS!!!!

Achieve 3000 - First Half 1. It says June 1861, it should be July 1861 2. Catching Runaway Slaves 3. Next week’s articles are: a. August 1861: War SPreads b. November 1861: A Second War? c. January 1862: The Union Tries to Make Gains 4. Essayers- work on your rough draft. THe rough draft is due Wednesday

Progressive Era Notes Switch to Progressive Era powerpoint.

Friday, 3/4/15 1. Warm-up: Write down Weekly 5 2. Log-on to quia. com, take Weekly 5 - Progressive Era Vocab. It is timed. 3. When done, log-on to Achieve 3000 4. When Everyone is done the weekly 5, we will switch to our notes

Progressive Era Notes Switch to Progressive Era powerpoint. COntinue with yesterday’s notes