Dec 14-18
Days of the Week
Classroom Activities
Homework
MONDAY
Constitution Test
Work on Mid term review
HMK: Midterm review (extra copies can be found in handouts folder)
TUESDAY
Mid term review
HMK: Midterm review
WEDNESDAY
1st and 8th period exams
HMK: Mid term reivew
THURSDAY
2nd and 7th period exams
HMK: Mid term review
FRIDAY
3rd, 4th, and 5th period exams
Happy Holidays!
Dec 7 - 11
Popular Soveriegnty
Republicanism
Create movie poster to represent ideas of republicanism
HMK: Finish movie poster - instructions in handouts folder
Bill of Rights summaries
Test Review in handouts
folder
Federalism Venn Diagram
We the People reading
Matching powers - is it a power of the Federal government or power of the state
HMK: Make sure spiral is updated. - Bill or Rights webquest summaries due tomorrow - remember to under links - Ms. Sphar on the webquest.
Spiral Test
Limited Government and Rule of law Political Cartoon
HMK: Finish cartoon if not completed in class, work on
Review
Separation of Powers
Checks and Balances game
HMK: Test Review
Test Review
HMK: Review and Study for test Monday
Nov 30 - Dec 4
Frame for Bill of Rights project
See links
HMK: Finish Frame
Skit for Bill or Rights project
HMK: Finish Skit
USH benchmark
reward movie
pep rally
HMK: Skit and props due tomorrow!
Record for Bill of Rights project
HMK: Bill of Rights project presenations tomorrow!
Presenation of projects
HMK: finish BOR chart on presentations.
Introduce Bill of Rights project
Assign groups and amendment
Begin research
HMK: Research on project
8TH GRADE DAY!!!
The Great GOBBLER Games
No homework
No school
Week of Nov 16-20
Preamble Scramble
Constitution Matrix questions
Branches of Government
Finish Constitution Matrix
HMK: finish matrix if not done in class
Branches of Government notes and foldable
HMK: foldable
Checks and Balances
7 principle mobile group classwork
no homework
Bill of Rights
HMK: finish Bill of Righs chart
Week of Nov 9-13
Ch 8 vocab quiz
Finish A of C
New Jersey plan, Virginia plan, and the Great Compromise
HMK: Foldable
The Constitutional Convention
HMK: Have parent/adult complete the Then and Now - You work on Review
Federalist and Anti Federalist
Matching and Bumper Stickers
HMK: Review
HMK: Review / Study
Ch 8 Test
Week of Nov 2-6
DBQ outline due.
Working on Essay
HMK: ESSAY due Friday Nov 6th!!!! slides/rubric in handout folder
Establishing a Government
cover page
Ch 8 vocabulary -due Monday - quiz over words Monday
HMK: DBQ Essay due Friday
Princeton Review with Mrs. Leverette in computer lab
Spiral test tomorrow make sure spiral updated
Powers and
Weakenesses of Articles of Confederation
HMK: Essay
DBQ Essay due!!!!!
Guided Reading ch 8
Northwest Ordinance birds eye view
Finish Vocab due Monday - Vocab quiz on Monday.
Week of Oct 26-30
Reading novel pp 96-121 Fighting Ground
storyboard and mind map
TAG
Ch 6-8 of Johnny Tremain for
HMK: Hessian and American bubbles for Fighting Ground
TAG - work in packet for ch 6-8
Finish Fighting Ground
Quiz and Packet due tomorrow for JT and FG
HMK: PACKETS!!!!!!
Packets due
Novel Quiz
Intro to DBQ
What causes the American Revolution? ESSAY DUE FRIDAY NOV 6th!!!!
Document Based Question
What causes the American Revolution?
Work on Essay plan
Week of Oct 19-23
Author visit - schedule is short.
Spiral check
Alpha Blocks
Intro to novel
USH - FIGHTING GROUND
TAG - JOHNNY TREMAIN
EARLY RELEASE
Novel vocabulary
HMK: Finish Vocab
Reading Novel
Storyboard summaries
Mind Map in packet
HMK: Listen to parents worksheet in packet
Mind Map
HMK: finish storyboard
Week of Oct 12-16
Staff Development
The American Crisis
Valley Forge campfire stories presentations DUE!!! instructions in handouts folder
HMK: keywords and REVIEW
TUG of WAR
Treaty of Paris
REVIEW -
"USH TAG students independent studies due"
HMK: Review and Test
American Revolution TEST
HMK: 24 hour journal
Week of Oct 5-9
Colonial Unrest Meters
Road to the Revolution
HMK: COMIC project
Road ot the Revolution
HMK: COMIC project due tomorrow!!!!
COMIC DUE!!!!
Second Conitential Congress
Declaration of Independence
Advantages/Disadvantages during the Revolution.
Battle Chart and Map
HMK: Battle Map
Military death during the Revolution
Winter at Valley Forge
Campfire stories
HMK: Campfire stories instructions in handouts folder
Week of Sept 28 - Oct 2
Ben Franklin
Word Whispers
Keywords
HMK: keywords
Ms. Leverette coming to class to talk about
French and Indian War
Intro to Comic project
Comic due WED.Oct 7th
HMK: Comic
Civic Virtue
Revolutionary War figures
Crossword
HMK: FINISH crossword and Comic
1st Continental Congress
American Revolution timeline
Week of Sept 21-25
Colonization Test Review
HMK: Review and Study for Test tomorrow
COLONIZATION TEST!!!!
Instructions on Test corrections
Revolutionary War intro
Guided Reading Ch 5 section 1
HMK: make sure spiral updates for Spiral test tomorrow
SPIRAL TEST
Great Awakening
American Identity
HMK: Finish Metaphor
John Locke and Natural Rights
Magnet Boxes and Paragraphs
HMK: Finish paragraph
Week of Sept 14-18
Triaguluar trade simulation
Causes of slavery
Slavery/Indentured servants
Slavery poem
HMK: finish poem and test review
Plantation system
Pilgrims/Puritans/Quakers
HMK: test review
CONSTITUTION DAY!!!
Seeds to Democracy
HMK: finish seed packets and test review
Salutary neglect
Document relay
HMK: test review - TEST ON TUESDAY!
Week of Sept 7-11
School Holiday
HMK: 3GY
Finish- colonist to Virginia
History alive - colonial matrix
HMK: 3GY project due tomorrow!!!!
3GY DUE!!!
Colony founders
Types of Colonies
Colonial Economy readings and map
HMK: Finish Map
Colonial Investment game
HMK: Spiral check on Monday - make sure it is up to date.
Week of Aug 31-Sept 4
School Expectations
Finish setting up spirals
50 nifty United States crossword
HMK: Finish crossword due tomorrow
Unit Organizer
Colonization simulation
KEYWORDS
HMK: Finish Keywords
Why colonize document based question.
DBQ in handouts folder
Why colonize reading and concept chart
Instruction for 3 GY
HMK: 3GY due on Wed Sept 9th
Who goes??
Jamestown Tchart and simulation
Week of Aug 24-28
Staff Development day
Who am I?
Go over 1st day handout
HMK: Must have spiral notebook by FRIDAY!!!!
Textbook Scavanger Hunt
HMK: Scavanger Hunt due on Friday
Pre-Assessment
HMK: Scavanger Hunt due tomorrow and MUST HAVE SPIRAL BY TOMMORROW!
Set up spiral
HMK: finish setting up spiral