Students will finish watching the "Independence" episode from the John Adams Series and then have 20 minutes to continue working on their Declaration of Independence mini project

Students will have time in class today to work on their Declaration of Independence Choice Mini Project  this will be the only class time and the assignment is due Friday.

Need help making a political cartoon? read this article...scroll down and a watch a video from a cartoonist and follow his steps! https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/drawing-for-change-analyzing-and-making-political-cartoons/

Use We The People pages 60-65 and 68-71

 

Monday students continued to watch clips from the HBO John Adams mini series and discussed the transition from petitioning for change to the revolution of independence.

CALENDAR WEEK OF NOVEMBER 26th

Today students will learn about the Declaration of Independence. Here is the slide show that guides our discussion: DOI SlidesThey will put sections of it into their own words Reading for Understanding the DOI and start their DOI-mini choice project

                                                                Reading of the Declaration of Independence

 

Today and tomorrow students will work on editing, revising, and submitting their Building a Case Evidence Outline.  It must be submitted through Schoology before noon tomorrow!

Today students will continue working on their Building a Case.. Boston Massacre Evidence Outline. By the end of class today their outline should be complete and ready for editing.

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Once the outline is complete you should share it with a friend who is also done to edit and double check.  Pay attention to fonts, type size, placement of quotation marks and punctuation. Also make sure the sentences use strong, specific vocabulary and work to prove the thesis statement (topic sentence)

Once you have completed the outline please do the following:

1. Make sure your entire outline is the same font and size

1. Make sure your entire outline is the same color and not bold, italics, or underlined

1. Make sure you start each sentence with a capital letter

1. make sure each proper noun (Name & Location) are capital

1. Make sure each sentence ends in a period

1. Make sure the quotes have starting and ending quotation marks.  The period should come before the end quotation mark

Remember that specific writing is powerful writing... so make sure every word is the strongest, most specific word choice possible!!!When you are done reviewing your own work please swap with a peer to review!

Today students will watch the 2 videos below and complete the Boston Tea Party Video Quiz and the Intolerable Act Examples Chart and turn them in to the period folder at the end of class.

Boston tea Party Video

Intolerable Acts Video

If there is time...

Today in class students began to create their outline using primary source evidence about the Boston Massacre.  This outline is due Tuesday, November 20th and will be submitted through northamptonschools.schoology.com  They will have another full period to work on it either Friday or Monday
Building a Case Outline