The Meacham claim/evidence work pages were returned (with scores), and students edited their papers via my key on the SMARTboard and with much discussion. Then, they added to their E.Q. and C.Q. pages from it.
We began some work on the social history (daily life) of the Revolutionary Era by way of a series of short articles and video clips...You will want your CQ page handy throughout all of this, and also, set up our core work page for it -- write the heading "Socratic Discussion -- Revolutionary Era Daily Life." (Once we're done doing our individual note-taking on paper, we will have a SCORED, whole-class, formal Socratic discussion.) On the page just set up, draw a line down the center to create two columns, labeling the left with the subheading "E.Q.," and the right "Interesting Facts." To get us started, we are recording some information about the sources we are using. On the FRONT side of the page, record info about Williamsburg from the handout "The History of Colonial Williamsburg," and on just for reference, on the BACK of your paper record the names and credentials for the authors of our other source "A Patriot's History" (see 1-page handout).
To proceed with the content...go to www.history.org, and select the "multimedia" link/tab and then select "video." Scroll down below the main video screen to see the series of videos from which to choose, and use the arrows to the right to scroll through them to the right until you come to "Dirty Life Out Back." View this while adding to the "E.Q." column, "Interesting Facts" column, and to your C.Q. page. In 1st hour we also read and recorded notes for the article "Everyday Life In America." In hours 5 and 6, we will read that article later, and today we viewed, instead, a second video "Historic Farming."
We began some work on the social history (daily life) of the Revolutionary Era by way of a series of short articles and video clips...You will want your CQ page handy throughout all of this, and also, set up our core work page for it -- write the heading "Socratic Discussion -- Revolutionary Era Daily Life." (Once we're done doing our individual note-taking on paper, we will have a SCORED, whole-class, formal Socratic discussion.) On the page just set up, draw a line down the center to create two columns, labeling the left with the subheading "E.Q.," and the right "Interesting Facts." To get us started, we are recording some information about the sources we are using. On the FRONT side of the page, record info about Williamsburg from the handout "The History of Colonial Williamsburg," and on just for reference, on the BACK of your paper record the names and credentials for the authors of our other source "A Patriot's History" (see 1-page handout).
To proceed with the content...go to www.history.org, and select the "multimedia" link/tab and then select "video." Scroll down below the main video screen to see the series of videos from which to choose, and use the arrows to the right to scroll through them to the right until you come to "Dirty Life Out Back." View this while adding to the "E.Q." column, "Interesting Facts" column, and to your C.Q. page. In 1st hour we also read and recorded notes for the article "Everyday Life In America." In hours 5 and 6, we will read that article later, and today we viewed, instead, a second video "Historic Farming."
