Welcome Back from the Holiday Weekend!
** This is the final week to make up missing work. Please check power school.
Weekly Agenda:
We will be studying and making connections with Civil Rights in the United States as an extension of the US Constitution and the Civil War units!
Monday: No School
Tuesday:
1. Segregation of Public Facilities: Students will analyze photos and documents from the era of segregation, beginning with the Jim Crow era up until the 1960s. Students will be asked to define the who, what, where and why of segregation after the Civil War based on these images and documents.
Wednesday:
1. Quick Review of Brown V. Board of Education (from the Constitution Unit): A legal end to Jim Crow.
2. School Integration: Students will be examining primary sources from the archives of Ole' Miss and the National Civil Rights Center at Little Rock High School.
3. Read-aloud: A Mighty Long Way: The Carlotta Walls Story
**What was the divide between the federal order to integrate and local and state responses.
**What types of civil action and personal risks were taken to begin integration?
Thursday:
Today students will be reading brief descriptions of Americans taking personal risks to achieve equality promised in so many of America's founding documents and court rulings. Each pair will create a quick teaching tool with which to brief their peers. Topics include: Women's Suffrage; Indian Citizenship Act; Little Rock Nine; Rosa Parks; Sit-in Protests; Freedom Rides; March on Washington; Civil Rights Act and Affirmative Action.
Friday:
Student pairs will present their findings from yesterday's readings.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
Week of May 23rd
Welcome!
** Civil War final essay test take place in class on Wednesday. Students will be preparing quotes and an outline in class on Monday and Tuesday.
** 8th Grade students will be visiting the JHHS on Friday. Schedule and details will be given during team time on Tuesday.
Agenda:
Monday:
1. Appomatox: The formal end of our Nation's worst crisis. Students will be examining a primary source journal entry by General Grant. What was resolved and what problems persisted with the end to military hostilities?
2. Students will get hard copies of the final essay questions and will preview the grading rubric. They will begin to collect appropriate quotes from their lit. circle novels and other sources we have used in class.
Tuesday:
1. A review of in-text citation MLA rules. Student examples will be shown.
2. Students will be finding and pulling quotes and references for their essays and writing them on 3*5 notecards.
3. Review of expository writing connector vocabulary. Students will get a guide of this vocab as well as an in-text citation reference sheet.
Wednesday:
In class essay test! We will be in the mac lab. Students may bring a 3*5 notecard with an outline and quotes, their lit. circle novel, and their citation reference guide.
Thursday:
1. Unresolved issues from the War: The KKK, Jim Crow laws and the Civil War Amendments: This will lead us into a Civil Rights Unit next week. We will be examining primary images and documents.
Friday:
1. 2nd Current Event of the 4th Quarter: Shared reading and student news.
(Students will also be visiting JHHS today to meet teachers and students involved in clubs and specials courses)
** Civil War final essay test take place in class on Wednesday. Students will be preparing quotes and an outline in class on Monday and Tuesday.
** 8th Grade students will be visiting the JHHS on Friday. Schedule and details will be given during team time on Tuesday.
Agenda:
Monday:
1. Appomatox: The formal end of our Nation's worst crisis. Students will be examining a primary source journal entry by General Grant. What was resolved and what problems persisted with the end to military hostilities?
2. Students will get hard copies of the final essay questions and will preview the grading rubric. They will begin to collect appropriate quotes from their lit. circle novels and other sources we have used in class.
Tuesday:
1. A review of in-text citation MLA rules. Student examples will be shown.
2. Students will be finding and pulling quotes and references for their essays and writing them on 3*5 notecards.
3. Review of expository writing connector vocabulary. Students will get a guide of this vocab as well as an in-text citation reference sheet.
Wednesday:
In class essay test! We will be in the mac lab. Students may bring a 3*5 notecard with an outline and quotes, their lit. circle novel, and their citation reference guide.
Thursday:
1. Unresolved issues from the War: The KKK, Jim Crow laws and the Civil War Amendments: This will lead us into a Civil Rights Unit next week. We will be examining primary images and documents.
Friday:
1. 2nd Current Event of the 4th Quarter: Shared reading and student news.
(Students will also be visiting JHHS today to meet teachers and students involved in clubs and specials courses)
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