HW for Thursday, 5/29

1) Labor packet

and

2) Gallery Card, draft 1.

IRP due Thursday, 6/5!

HW for Tuesday, 5/27

1) IRP 6

and

2) Jane Addams/Settlement Houses Packet

HW for Thursday, 5/22

Suffragettes packet.

HW for Tuesday, 5/20

1) Complete the Hayes/Jackson Yellow Journalism and Muckraking packet.
2) IRP 5
3) Be prepared for a brief quiz on Thursday on Noah/Makia's Immigration material.

HW for Monday, 5/19

Today is your last day in class to finish your project/presentation.
Refer to the checklist (see Thursday's HW blog) and make sure you have completed all of the assignments.
ALL GROUPS must be ready to go by tomorrow, even if your group is not yet presenting.

HW for Thursday, 515

Final project checklist

Classwork and HW for Tuesday, 5/13

1. IRP 4


2. Thursday will be your last day to work on this project in class.

By then, you will need . . .
1) 2 articles (3 for the Suffragettes group) with accompanying worksheets to assign for hw.
2) A PowerPoint with at least 10 slides and a worksheet.
3) About 20 minutes of video with a viewing guide.
4) 5 discussion questions for the class.
5) A final quiz.

You and your partner should delegate responsibilities today.  Figure out what still needs to be done and make a plan for doing it.

HW for Monday, 5/12

Noah, Yazmin, Monica, Kevin -- re-take quiz 5.1

EVERYONE:

By tomorrow, your group must have . . .

1) 2 (or 3, for the Suffragettes group) articles with accompanying worksheets that you will assign as hw to the class.
2) Your video/video clips chosen and viewing guide completed.
3) At least 5 slides for your PowerPoint.

In class and for hw this week, you will finish your PowerPoints, create your discussion questions, and create the quiz.  Thursday we will randomly pick the order for the presentations.  Monday, 5/19, we will have our quiz, and Tuesday, 5/20, we will start the presentations.

Daily Warm Up for Thursday, 5/8

Please read the following tips before starting your presentation.

9 Presentation Tips for Students

Create Classroom Presentations Worthy of an 'A'

By Wendy Russell

1. Know Your Topic

Students usually want to charge right in and start using the presentation softwareimmediately. Do the research first and know your material. Think through what you will present before beginning the project on the computer. Creating the slide show is the easy part. The best classroom presentations are created by people who are comfortable with what they are going to talk about.

2. Use Key Phrases About Your Topic

Good presenters use key phrases and include only the most important information. Your topic may be vast, but choose only the top three or four points and make them several times throughout the presentation in the classroom.

3. Avoid Using Too Much Text on the Slide

One of the biggest mistakes students make in classroom presentations, is in writing their whole speech on the slides. The slide show is meant to accompany your oral presentation. Write in the form of jot notes, called bullet points, on slides. Use simple language and limit the number of bullets to three or four per slide. The surrounding space will make it easier to read.

4. Limit the Number of Slides -- for this project, 10 is a good number to shoot for.

Too many slides in a presentation will cause you to be rushing to get through them, and youraudience might end up paying more attention to the changing slide than to what you are saying. On average, one slide per minute is about right in a classroom presentation.

5. Layout of Your Slide is Important

Make your slides easy to follow. Put the title at the top where your audience expects to find it. Phrases should read left to right and top to bottom. Keep important information near the top of the slide. Often the bottom portions of slides cannot be seen from the back rows because heads are in the way.

6. Avoid Fancy Fonts

Choose a font that is simple and easy to read such as Arial, Times New Roman or Verdana. You may have a really cool font on your computer, but save it for other uses. Don't use more than two different fonts – one for headings and another for content. Keep all fonts large enough (at least 18 pt and preferably 24 pt) so that people at the back of the room will be able to read them easily.

7. Use Contrasting Colors For Text and Background

• Dark text on a light background is best. This combination offers the most visibility. Sometimes though, you may want a dark background for effect, to dazzle the crowd. In that case, be sure to make text a light color for easy reading in a classroom presentation.
• Text is often difficult to read on patterned or textured backgrounds.
• Keep your color scheme consistent throughout your classroom presentation.

8. Try a Slide Design Theme to Keep the Look Consistent

When you use a design theme, choose one that will not detract from your classroom presentation. Test it ahead of time to make sure that the text will be readable and the graphics won’t get lost in the background.

9. Use Animations and Transitions Sparingly in Classroom Presentations

Let's face it. Students love to apply animations and transitions every place they can. This will certainly be entertaining, but rarely will the audience be paying attention to the message of the presentation. Always remember that The slide show is a visual aid and not the objective of the classroom presentation.

HW for Thursday, 5/8

1) Noah, Yazmin, Kevin, Monica: Study for Re-take of Quiz 5.1 on Monday.  You will re-take it until you pass.
Makia: Be prepared for your first go at the quiz.


2) Make-up work.
You won't get this chance again.  Complete everything on your AA form this weekend, and make sure to also spend some time reading your IRP book.
We're halfway through the session, and interims go out Monday.

HW for Tuesday, 5/6

1) IRP 3 (see the folder under Resources to the right).

2) Quiz corrections (Doniece, Hayes) OR Study for test (re-take or first time) on Thursday (Miles, Makia, Yazmin, Kevin, Noah, Monica).

HW for Monday, 5/5

You must find 20 minutes (plus or minus a few minutes) of video on your topic to show to the class.  You and your partner(s) should discuss how you want to divide up the work.  I suggest you each choose a sub-topic (if you're doing women's suffrage, for instance, one of you can focus on finding a general overview, another can find clips about Susan B. Anthony, and another can find clips on the 19th Amendment).

You will show these video clips to me in class tomorrow, and you will, as a group, create the viewing guide that goes with them.

HW for Thursday, 5/1

1) Study for Monday's Quiz -- review the vocab, the transcontinental railroad, and present-perfect and past-perfect tenses.  Here are some links to help you review for the grammar section:

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfect.html
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastperfect.html


2) By Monday, your group should have chosen the 2 articles that you're going to assign to the class, and you'll need a worksheet of some sort for each article.  I suggest that you and your partner discuss which 2 articles you want to assign and discuss what sort of worksheet you want to do, then each of you take responsibility for one of them.

HW for Tuesday, 4/29

You must print out and read 3 articles or documents on your topic and take notes (8 bullet point notes for each article/document).  You and your partner do not have to read the same documents.  Your notes must be yours and yours alone.

On Thursday, you will show me the 3 articles and turn in the notes.

HW for Monday, 4/28

IRP 2 -- Please see the question under "Resources" on the right.

HW for Thursday, 4/24

For HW, you will watch 2 videos and read a bit about the transcontinental railroad.

PLEASE TAKE NOTES ON THE READING AND THE VIDEOS.  You will need at least 15 bullet points/notes and 5 QUIZ QUESTIONS (with answers).  We will have a brief quiz on the material on Monday.

1) Please click on this link, read the text, and watch the video:
http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/transcontinental-railroad

2) Then watch this video:
http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=19400

HW for Tuesday, 4/22

IRP 1 -- please see me before Thursday if you need/want help choosing a book.
For directions, see the Independent Reading Project Questions and Guidelines link on the right.

HW for Monday, 4/21

Finish your 6 Lewis and Clark slides.  These are due tomorrow!

Daily Warm up for Thursday, 4/10

If you have completed reading the book, please spend 20 minutes responding AS A COMMENT TO THIS POST to one of the following questions. Be sure to indicate which numbered question you're responding to and support your answer with evidence from the book.  If you have not finished the book, please spend the warm up time reading it.

1. How would this story have been different if the author had narrated it from another character’s point of view?

2. How do native women act differently when they are alone, as compared to when they are around men?

3. What is the difference between the “inner” voice of Sacagawea and the “outer” voice of Sacagawea?

4. How does the author use word choice to “paint” one picture of  Charbonneau and a very different picture of Captain Clark?

5.Sacagawea is portrayed as noble and showing integrity. Other characters are portrayed as less noble than she. Choose a character and explain how

6. One of the themes of this novel is man’s struggle against nature. How is this theme developed in the book?

HW for Tuesday, 4/8

STTR 23-27 and worksheet.

HW for Thursday, 4/3

1) Study for Monday's vocab/grammar/STTR quiz.
2) IRP due Tuesday.

HW for Monday, 3/31

IRP 6.
IRPs are due Tuesday, 4/8!

HW for Thursday, 3/27

STTR Chapters 15-18 and questions.

HW for Tuesday, 3/25

STTR Chapters 9-14.

HW for Monday, 3/24

IRP 5.

HW for Thursday, 3/20

Chapters 6-8 and questions.

HW for Tuesday, 3/18

1) Chapters 1-5 of "Streams to the River, River to the Sea" and questions.

2) IRP 4 (see question under "Resources").

HW for Thursday, 3/13

1) Study for Monday's quiz -- vocabulary, recognizing verb tenses, questions about Gettysburg, and about the Lewis and Clarke video we've seen so far.

2) Finish the Sacagawea worksheet.

HW for Tuesday, 3/11

Lewis and Clark wksht, sections 3-4

HW for Monday, 3/10

1) IRP 3 (see question under "Resources")

2) Lewis and Clark worksheet, section 2

HW for Thursday, 3/6

Complete the Westward Expansion Vocabulary.

HW for Tuesday, 3/4

1) Packet 3
and
2) IRP 2 (see the questions under "Respurces" on the right).

Daily Warm Up for Thursday, 2/27

Please create a timeline slip (like the ones that start above the door) for your assigned event below.  The slip should have the date and event in large print, a picture, and a brief description of what the event was.

Emancipation Proclamation -- Nicole

Bull Run/Manassas -- Hayes

Gettysburg Address -- Yazmin

John Brown/Harper's Ferry Armory -- Jackson

Missouri Compromise -- Miles

Fugitive Slave Act -- Makia

Nat Turner Rebellion -- Kevin

Lincoln elected president -- Noah

South Carolina secedes from the Union -- Andrew

Lincoln assassinated -- Miles

HW for Thursday, 2/27

Packet 2

HW for Tuesday, 2/25

IRP 1 -- click on "IRP Questions and Guidelines" under "Resources" for the week 1 question.  Your response should be typed, double-spaced, and labeled.

Warm Up for Tuesday, 2/25

Oregon Trail:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/mindrevelation/oregon-trail

HW for Monday, 2/24

1) If you did not have your IRP ready today, it is due tomorrow and, in addition, you must do write a 4-5 paragraph summary of the book.

2) Packet 1

HW for Tuesday, 2/11

1) Draft 1 of your Gallery Card
2) Soldier's Heart -- Chapter 10 and Author's Note questions (see folder on right).

HW for Thursday, 2/6

Soldier's Heart 8-9 and questions (see folder under resources).

HW for Tuesday, 2/4

IRPs 5 and 6 -- see the questions on the right.  And make sure you're reading!  You should finish your book this week!

AND

If you didn't finish the in-class essay, do that, too.

HW for Thursday, 1/30

1) Study for Monday's quiz -- vocab, grammar (direct and indirect objects -- see the links below to review), and questions about the Civil War and "Soldier's Heart".

2) IRP 4 (see the question on the right, under "Resources")

Direct/Indirect objects practice:
http://www.quia.com/quiz/424608.html
http://flang1.kendall.mdc.edu/3/342/6_L342act3lect3/L3_42act3lec3.htm
https://jeopardylabs.com/play/direct-and-indirect-objects3
http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/indirect_objects/quiz548.html

HW for Tuesday, 1/28

1) Soldier's Heart -- 4-5 and questions.

2) IRP 3 -- see IRP Questions and Guidelines under "Resources" on the right.

HW for Monday, 1/27

"Soldier's Heart" Chapters 2-3 and questions -- see the questions in the "Soldier's Heart" folder on the right, under "Resources".

HW for Thursday, 1/23

1) Read the foreword and Chapter 1 of "Soldier's Heart" and complete the questions (see the folder on the right to access the worksheet).

2) IRP 2 (see the link on the right to access the IRP questions)

HW for Thursday, 1/16

Click here to watch Slavery and the Making of America, episode 4, and complete the notes.

HW for Tuesday, 1/14

Packet 5.

HW for Monday, 1/13

Packet 4.

HW for Thursday, 1/9

1) Click the link below to finish watching "Slavery and the Making of America", episode 3 -- you should start at minute 22:00, which is close to where we left off in class.  Complete the notes (click here if you need a copy of the notes sheet) as you go along.  I will check the notes for a grade on Monday.

2) Study for Monday's quiz -- this will include the vocabulary words and information we've reviewed in class (PowerPoints, videos, worksheets), as well as what you've read in your packets.  The non-vocabulary part of the quiz will be open book (meaning you can use your handouts and reference any work you've done).

For Doniece and Yazmin

1) Complete the classwork for Tuesday, 1/7 (see below)
2) See me on Wednesday to get packet 3.

For Makia

1) Watch this, complete this.
2) Complete classwork for Tuesday, 1/7 (see below).
3) See me on Wednesday to get the packets that you missed.

HW for Tuesday, 1/7

1) Packet 3 -- complete the circled questions on pages 520 and 525.

2) Finish the "Gathering Storm Exhibit" and "Causes of the American Civil War" worksheets if you did not do so in class.

Classwork for Tuesday, 1/7

Click on this link and follow the directions:
The Gathering Storm Exhibit

Once you've completed that activity, get the "Causes of the American Civil War" worksheet from me.  What you don't finish in class will be homework.

HW for Monday, 1/6

Packet 2 and the circled questions on page 515.

HW for Thursday, 1/2

1) Packet 1 and the circled questions on page 478.

2) IRP 1: Pick an independent reading book and answer question #1 (see below).  Make sure to follow the formatting guidelines.
Week 1 Question: Why did you choose this book? If someone chose it for you, why did
you agree to it? (100 Words)

Daily Warm Up for Thursday, 1/2

Explore this website:
http://www.history.com/interactives/civil-war-150#/home