Colonial America Here We Come!!!

Finally we are moving into a quick review of Colonial America.  Many of us have already learned about the 13 British colonies so we will only spend 2 weeks reviewing the content needed to understand the American Revolution. Here is this week's calendar: Calendar Nov 28th and tonight's homework:Readworks: Background to the Colonies

Important Important Important...

Label the 50 States Test & Colonial America Quiz DECEMBER 8th!!!

Study your states using Sheppard Software and Colonial America using your notes and Colonial America Quizlet Vocabulary

today in class we discussed these questions:Colony pre-assessment and watched these videos:

Ocean’s 8 Binder Clean-out

English: keep anything grammar or vocabulary in your binder

Science:keep everything in binder for now-some will go in science folder later

Math: keep anything with a solved problem on it in your math folder

In your history folder please keep:

1.classroom procedures & expectations

2. President Essay & Rubric

Everything else can go!

The Thanksgiving Story and Point-of-View

This week we started by brainstorming what we knew about the First Thanksgiving.  Next we watched the "This is America Charlie Brown: The Mayflower Voyagers" and compared it to what they already knew.  Next, we watched 500 Nations "Thanksgiving 1621 and King Phillips War" Finally we read "Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message" and discussed the Native American traditions of thanksgiving.

Today's Directions
1. Both partners open the Where's the Evidence Doc from yesterday and continue working on it. Please make sure you have shared it with me so you can earn credit!
2. When you finish individually you have a choice:
              -go to https://www.icivics.org/games and play one of the games.  I recommend Bill of Rights                         Edition or Do I have a Right? Since that is what we are currently working on.  You can continue to                 play these games and the others on the site at home for extra credit if you want.  To get the credit                   just write up how the game went for you and list 5 things you learned and 3 questions you have
       OR
            Practice the 3 Branches and Vocabulary on Quizlet BisbeeHistory

Directions:
1. One partner should make a copy of the doc Bill of Rights: Where's the Evidence? and share it with Ms. Bisbee and your partner. Partner # 2 should look in their drive in their shared folder and open the doc.
2. Open the link to the Bill of Rights Institute for a copy of the Bill of Rights  This is where you will search for the exact text that matches the story.  Copy and paste only the section of the amendment that applies to the story and then put it in your own words.

Brief Summary:

Election WEEK!

This week's calendar Calendar WEEK of Nov 7

Today we discussed the electoral college.  Here is the Electoral College Google Slides which includes many of the videos from below.

Tonight's Homework: Readworks" History and Process of Voting Homework

Today in class we will finish Bill of Rights: What Does it Mean?
and watch a video clip:

Today in class we worked in partners to read, answer and discuss the basics of the Bill of Rights using Readworks Bill of Rights Part I & II

We started putting the amendments into simple language and illustrating their meanings on the Bill of Rights- What Does it Mean? Doc  We will finish this in class on Friday

My hope is to have Aspen up-to-date and print outs for everyone on Monday in class. However if you turned in your essay late I will be late grading it!!!

Tuesday, November 1st

Period 6 & 7 Please follow the directions from Friday Oct 28th PRINTED FINAL COPY DUE TOMORROW! WITH BIBLIOGRAPHY AND DRAFTS AND EDITS!!!

Periods 2-3-5
1. Watch Crash Course Election Basics (below)
2. Work on your Election Packets for 20 minutes (Due Friday! This is your only class time!)Election Packet PDF
3. Watch Crash Course How Voters Decide