1. Do Now: Submit your copy of Who Represents Us Today Doc through Schoology
2. Open your Executive Branch Research Doc from yesterday and continue your research. If you were not here yesterday please make your own copy of: Executive Branch Research

Things to remember:

1. You can only use the Library Databases. US History in Context is the best!
2. By the end of class today you should have 10-15 facts from 2-3 resources

PARENTS: students are coming home today with updated grade reports.  If they have missing work I have highlighted it on the list and stapled a new copy to the grade report.  

Open and make your own copy of  Executive Branch Research Assignment
Research using only the JFK Middle School Databases

BY THE END OF CLASS TODAY YOU SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST 15 FACTS FROM 2 RESOURCES

Tuesday's Directions:
1. If you have not already taken the google form for your movie choice for Friday please do:Movie Choice Google Form
2. If you have any work to turn in please submit it through schoology or the period folder
3. Watch the Executive branch video below and use We the People to answer the questions on Executive Branch Notes
4. After completing the notes please go to:https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/timeline-guide-us-presidents/ and browse through the list of presidents.  Make a list of the top 5 presidents you are interested in studying
5. For extra credit watch the other videos below and take notes

Monday Directions:
Use your chromebook to research and record your findings in the doc below.  When you finish submit through Schoology.
Who Represents You Today? (If you do not finish in class it should be finished at home and turned in by Thursday)

To answer the questions in What's the Legislative Branch Handout watch the video below & use WTP 

PLEASE TAKE THIS GOOGLE FORM TO PICK A MOVIE! https://goo.gl/forms/EF6NTcE7UsjJkAoz1

For more credit take notes on these video clips:

Today is a catch-up day from me being out sick for 2 days!
-Students will get updated grade reports today with their current averages.  Any work they want included before progress reports go home is due Monday!
-Binder organization of history section
-Review the rubric feedback in schoology for the Boston Massacre Outline
-Review the NJ & VA Plans & hand in work from yesterday
-Students will work in groups to complete How did the Great Compromise solve the problem of representation?
-Students can use class time to continue working on their Founder Social Media Page which is due tomorrow or start tonight's homework: WTP: Lesson 14: Conflict between the Northern and Southern states

Today in class students will use We The People: Lesson 13 How did the founders solve the conflict over representation and complete the worksheet:Conflict over representation handout

1. Read together as a class pg 114
1. Copy definitions on to the WTP Lesson 13: Representation in Congress conflicts handout (see Google Slides: Conflict over Representation in Congress Lessons)
2. With a partner students should work together to complete the Solve the Problem page 115
3. In small groups or individually students work to complete the Comparing the Va and NJ plans chart Comparing Virginia & New Jersey Plan Chart using pages 116 & 117.  If they finish they should turn it into the period folder or if they complete it digitally through Schoology. If they don’t finish it is homework due tomorrow

This week's CALENDAR

Today:
1. watch video below and turn in homework (WTP lesson 12: The Philadelphia Convention)
2. Create a social media page or baseball card for one of the founders at the Philadelphia Convention.  Directions & samples HERE!
3. If completing the assignment digitally submit through northamptonschools.schoology.com

Here are some helpful sites:
http://law2.umkc.edu/Faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/marryff.html
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/convention/delegates/
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/founding-fathers

Connecticut
Ellsworth (Elsworth), Oliver*
Johnson, William S.
Sherman, Roger

Delaware
Bassett (Basset), Richard
Bedford, Gunning, Jr.
Broom, Jacob
Dickinson, John
Read, George

Georgia
Baldwin, Abraham
Few, William
Houstoun, William*
Pierce, William L.*

 Maryland
Carroll, Daniel
Jenifer, Daniel of St. Thomas
Martin, Luther*
McHenry, James
Mercer, John F.*

 Massachusetts
Gerry, Elbridge*
Gorham, Nathaniel
King, Rufus
Strong, Caleb*

 New Hampshire
Gilman, Nicholas
Langdon, John

New Jersey
Brearly (Brearley), David
Dayton, Jonathan
Houston, William C.*
Livingston, William
Paterson (Patterson), William

New York
Hamilton, Alexander
Lansing, John, Jr.*
Yates, Robert *

 North Carolina
Blount, William
Davie, William R.*
Martin, Alexander *
Spaight, Richard D.
Williamson, Hugh

Pennsylvania
Clymer, George
Fitzsimons, Thomas
Franklin, Benjamin
Ingersoll, Jared
Mifflin, Thomas
Morris, Gouverneur
Morris, Robert
Wilson, James

South Carolina
Butler, Pierce
Pinckney, Charles
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth
Rutledge, John

Rhode Island
Rhode Island did not send any delegates to the Constitutional Convention.

 Virginia
Blair, John
Madison, James
Mason, George *
McClurg, James*
Randolph, Edmund J.*
Washington, George
Wythe, George*

Today in class we learned about Shays Rebellion from a student enrichment group presentation. Next we played a Kahoot that reviewed the American Revolution, Articles of Confederation, and State Constitutions.

Today in class students will visit the book fair (which is also open tonight in conjunction with the JFK Mall craft fair from 6-8)

We will also brainstorm solutions to the problems with the Articles of Confederation (see yesterdays slides)

Students now have a copy of the HW due Monday (instead of Friday) WTP Lesson 12: The Philadelphia Convention HW

Today in class students worked on the basics of the Articles of Confederation.  WTP Articles of Confederation Chapter They answered the following questions:
1. What are the Articles of Confederation?
2. What problems did the Founders face in writing the Articles of Confederation?
3. How did the Articles of Confederation organize the national government?

We watched the first 5 minutes of this video:

Here are the google slides that include the notes from today: AOC notes

CALENDAR week of December 3rd
Today students will watch the American Revolution Crash Course and then jigsaw partner read WTP: LESSON 9: What Happened during the American Revolution?? Here are the google slides from class:What is Revolution?
For homework tonight students will read, highlight and answer the lesson review questions from WTP lesson 10 MONDAY HW (WTP lesson 10)