World History

The independent (to be scored) work pages for the "Empires Overview Reading" was distributed and begun.  At this point, collaboration is not permitted; I wish to assess where you are, individually, on this skill.  If at any point you get stuck, please do, however, ask me for help! : )  We'll continue this work in class tomorrow.

U.S. History

We will finish and discuss the film tomorrow when we are all together (no PARCC testing).  Today the Unit-Closure Work Page was distributed and time provided to work on it (doubles as a portion of the final exam study guide).  If time permitted, students were invited to use their phones to research some of their "Lincoln" film questions.

Sociology

We finished the analyses of the three articles as detailed Friday and/or Monday.  Please finish for homework.  If you have any specific questions, please ask at the start of class before the work is collected.

World History

We continued our collaboration time as detailed yesterday -- to be completed for homework as needed (in a very few cases).  Get in touch with classmates or email me as needed, and if any specific help is still needed, please just ask me at the start of class.  The independent work on the a Context/Lens work page will begin in class tomorrow (for a score).

U.S. History

"Lincoln..."

Sociology

We continued with the work from Friday and will finish in class tomorrow.

World History

We finished discussing the questions from Friday.  Students then began the group reading work as detailed on the bottom half of that same work page -- to be continued in class tomorrow. 

U.S. History

"Lincoln..."  (And PARCC testing)

Sociology

We continued our analytical work with the articles -- to be continued in class on Monday.

World History

We discussed our Mental Map Timeline for context of our journey from August through to May, where the current unit fits, how the previous units were important baselines for contextual understanding of our springtime studies, and how we'll approach what's ahead.  We set up our Empires E.Q. page with the current question "Are empires advanced forms of civilization?" and set up two columns:  "Yes" and "No."  Any reasonable answer will be complex and contain positives and negatives about empires; so, we are ready to log in our evidence in the near future.  Finally, for today, we began our first analytical assignment that deals with historiography -- reading and discussion about how we have studied history in the past and trends of continuity and change of such study today.  Complete questions #1-3 on the "Empires Overview Readings" work page.  We will finish discussing together (and editing our answers) from that page in class on Monday.  See a reliable classmate to check your answers that were already discussed today (5th hour #1 & 2; 7th hr #1; 8th hr #1 & 2).

U.S. History

"Lincoln" continued...

Sociology

We began work on our analyses of the three very different articles about "polygamy."  This work will be continued in class tomorrow.

World History

"Unit-Closure Work Page" -- class time given for continued collaboration; finish for homework as needed.  Tomorrow we'll begin the new unit!

U.S. History

"Lincoln" continued...

Sociology

A handout of comic strips and one of an editorial cartoon were distributed and discussed as some points for conversation with regard to socialization -- they may be useful for the end-of-unit writing.  Students finished the evidence/claim work page for the Oprah article, and we discussed in detail both for the information and to self-check how well each student performed on the skill.  A packet of 3 claim/evidence work pages were distributed in preparation for three, very different, in-depth articles we will analyze on the topic of polygamy...which will be collected for a score.

World History

Paragraphs are officially due to day.  Students began collaborative work on our Unit-Closure Work Page -- to be finished in class tomorrow.

U.S. History

We are viewing Spielberg's "Lincoln" as a capstone to our unit, recording curiosity items while viewing.  (We saw until the 30-minute mark today.)

Sociology

We discussed (and edited our notes) from the "30 Days" episode -- see a reliable classmate.  We then began analysis work of a simple article from Oprah.com about different cultural ideas about marriage -- to be completed in class tomorrow.

World History

8th hour -- CQ research is due today with the score sheet.  All hours -- the 2nd and final writing day.  Paragraphs are due at the start of class tomorrow; have them already printed and ready to hand in before class starts.  (Finish for homework as needed.)

U.S. History

2nd and final writing day -- see details posted Friday.  The written paragraphs are due at the very start of class on Wednesday (if not already submitted).  (ACT is tomorrow.)