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Friday 4/26
1) Japanese Balloon Bombs; Hiroo Onoda
2) Beginning of the Cold War
3) Work time on the Picture Cruise
Thursday 4/25
World War II Test is now open. Students have until Weds. May 1st @ 11:59pm to complete it.
1) Look at Tinian and Hiroshima on Google Earth
2) USS Missouri (where the war ended)
3) What they did with the USS Arizona after the war
4) Begin the Picture Cruise of Modern History
Wednesday 4/24
2) Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
4) Work time on yesterday's assignment
Tuesday 4/23
2) FDR passes away
3) Last days of the war in Europe
Monday 4/22
1) Battle of Iwo Jima
2) Battle of The Bulge
3) Audie Murphy
4) Assignment in Schoology - Major Events of WWII
Friday 4/19
1) Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant
2) Battle of Midway
3) The Holocaust
Thursday 4/18
1) D-Day wrap up
3) The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
4) WWII Vocab Assignment - in Schoology
Wednesday 4/17
1) The Allies plan to invade Europe
2) Hedy LaMarr and her contributions to the war
3) The build up to D-Day
Monday 4/15 and Tuesday 4/16
1) Because of MCA testing we will not have an assignment or a lesson on these two days.
Friday 4/12
Viewing "The Wave."
Thursday 4/11
1) Video - the bombing of Pearl Harbor
2) Hiding the Lockheed Plant during WWII
3) Finish WWII Study Guide
4) Assignment: Early WWII - in Schoology
Tuesday and Wednesday 4/9 and 4/10
1) Because of MCA testing we will not have an assignment or a lesson on these two days.
Monday 4/8
1) Hitler's major mistake - attacking the Soviet Union
2) The Homefront in WWII
3) Continue filling in our study guide
Friday 4/5
1) Watch: America: The Story of US - WWII As you watch, write down 10 things you didn't know.
Thursday 4/4
1) Discussion of the battleship Bismarck
2) Recap of Pearl Harbor video from yesterday
3) Assignment: "The Nation Mobilizes for War." It's in Schoology.
Wednesday 4/3
1) The Battle of Britain
2) Japan attacks Pearl Harbor - Edpuzzle assignment in Schoology.
Tuesday 4/2
1) Hitler consolidates his power
2) Blitzkrieg
3) Get WWII Study Guide and start filling it in together.
Monday 4/1
1) The Rise of Hitler in Germany
2) WWII Mapwork
Friday 3/22
1) PBIS Celebration Day. No assignment today.
Thursday 3/21
1) Look at the 16th St. Baptist Church on Google Earth
2) View the last part of 1923's "Safety Last."
Wednesday 3/20
1) Great Depression Test
Tuesday 3/19 Great Depression test is tomorrow
1) Hitler ends the Depression in Germany, by getting ready for war.
2) Review time for the test tomorrow. There will not be review time tomorrow (late start day)
Monday 3/18 Great Depression Test is Weds.
1) Opposition to FDR
2) FDR tries to change the Supreme Court
3) The Depression is over in Germany.
Friday 3/15
1) Newsreels at the movies in the 1930s
2) View the last part of 1933's King Kong
Thursday 3/14
1) Dust Bowl Map
2) Artwork and Photos in the Great Depression
3) Fireside Chats and The Hundred Days
4) Assignment: Amelia Earhart - in Schoology.
Wednesday 3/13
1) The New Deal
Tuesday 3/12
Mr. Hooper is absent
1) Students are watching America - The Story of Us: Bust, and answering these questions as the video rolls.
Monday 3/11
1) Pictures of Hoovervilles - you can see many online
2) FDR takes over and declares a bank holiday
3) Assignment in Schoology - FDR
Friday 3/8
1) Hoover Reacts to the Great Depression
3) Photos of the Great Depression
4) Work time
Thursday 3/7
1) Review of the Stock Market Crash
2) Great Depression assignment - in Schoology
Wednesday 3/6
1) Charles Lindbergh back in the news in the 30s. Read about it here.
2) More about the Stock Market Crash Work your way through the slides.
Tuesday 3/5
1) Hyperinflation in Germany after WWI
2) Assignment: "Mrs. McCarthy Buys Some Stock"
Friday 3/1
1) Finish Ruby Bridges
Thursday 2/29
1) Why Leap Day?
2) Watching Ruby Bridges
Wednesday 2/28
1) Roaring Twenties Test
2) Great Depression Pretest
Tuesday 2/27
2) American Indian Citizenship
3) Babe Ruth saves baseball
4) Review time for test. Test is tomorrow.
Monday 2/26 Roaring Twenties Test is Wednesday
1) Prohibition, Speakeasies, and Al Capone
Friday 2/23
1) Famous actresses of the silent movie era.
2) The Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance
3) Review for Roaring 20s Test - test is Wednesday There is a review in the Review folder in Schoology also.
Thursday 2/22
1) Wrap up of Charles Lindbergh
2) Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald
3) Roaring Twenties assignment - in Schoology
Wednesday 2/21
1) Discussion of Charles Lindbergh
2) Lindbergh! assignment in Schoology.
Tuesday 2/20
1) The automobile industry in the 1920s
2) Sacco and Vanzetti and the Red Scare
3) The Charleston and Steamboat Willie
Friday 2/16
1) Finish America's Century video from yesterday.
Thursday 2/15
1) Calvin Coolidge becomes president
2) What is the economy?
3) Video: "America's Century: Boom to Bust" and video questions
Wednesday 2/14
1) Video "The Highest Quality of Life" in the world.
3) Movies in the 1920s - Buster Keaton in "One Week"
Tuesday 2/13
Promethean Board was not cooperating, so we are working on a 1920s Crossword Puzzle today.
Monday 2/12
1) WWI PACED problem - we will do this together
2) Video: The Highest Standard of Living
4) Assignment in Schoology - Hang On! - The 1920s
Friday 2/9
1) Take the Imperialism/WWI Test
Thursday 2/8
1) Register for 8th grade classes.
2) Study for the test tomorrow.
Wednesday 2/7
1) The end of WWI and its effects. Test is Friday.
Tuesday 2/6
1) Finish WWI Study Guide - Test is Friday
2) Alvin York - America's reluctant hero.
3) Video clip from Sargent York
Monday 2/5 Imperialism/WWI Test will be on Friday. You have notes to study.
1) Posters of WWI
2) Women at work during WWI
3) The Red Baron
Friday 2/2 Mr. Hooper was absent students worked on:
1) "The US Enters WWI" assignment - in Schoology
2) WWI Mapwork
Thursday 2/1
1) The Homefront in WWI
2) Finish WWI Tech video
Wednesday 1/31
1) The Cavalry becomes obsolete in WWI
2) Adolf Hitler in WWI
3) The Last Czar
4) Video - WWI Tech
Tuesday 1/30
1) WWI begins and quickly moves into Trench Warfare
2) The design of trenches
3) The Christmas Truce of 1914
4) The road to war for the USA.
Monday 1/29
1) The assassination of President McKinley
2) How and Why WWI Began
3) Get WWI Study Guide if time allows.
Friday 1/26
1) Field Trip Day - No assignment
Thursday 1/25
1) What is diplomacy?
2) The Panama Canal
3) WWI Pretest
Wednesday 1/24
1) The Spanish American War ends
2) Assignment: The Spanish American War - in Schoology
Tuesday 1/23
1) The Spanish American War Begins
2) Yellow Journalism
Monday 1/22
1) PACED problem practice - together in class
2) Intro to Imperialism
Friday 1/19
1) Who are the "Progressive Presidents?"
2) Take the Immigration/Progressivism Test
Thursday 1/18 Immigration/Progressivism Test is tomorrow.
1) Political Machines
2) Progressive Amendments
3) Changes to politics.
4) Study Time - Test is tomorrow
Wednesday 1/17 Immigration/Progressivism Test will be this Friday
1) Ida Tarbell and Carry Nation
2) Work time on yesterday's assignments
Tuesday 1/16
Mr. Hooper was out today.
The kids had two assignment to work on. They are both is Schoology.
1) Progressives - What Did They Do?
2) Progressivism - Chapter Review
Friday 1/12
1) Nellie Bly.
2) Women work for the right to vote.
3) Assignment in Schoology - Women's Voting Rights
Thursday 1/11
1) The assassination of President Garfield. Read about it here.
2) Progressives who tried to help African-Americans during the Gilded Age.
Wednesday 1/10
1) Upton Sinclair writes "The Jungle."
2) Age of Reform assignment - in Schoology.
Tuesday 1/9
1) What is the Gilded Age?
2) Jacob Riis
3) Jane Addams
Monday 1/8
1) Some pictures of a tenement in NYC in the later 1800s
2) Opposition to Immigration
3) Angel Island
4) Intro to Progressivism
5) Assignment "Progressivism Section 1 & 3" in Schoology
Friday 1/5
1) What became of Ellis Island when it closed?
2) The Lower East Side in Manhattan
3) Tenement pictures
4) We will fill in the notes for this unit together.
Thursday 1/4/23
1) Getting through Ellis Island
2) Passenger search of Ellis Island records
3) Growth of Cities assignment in Schoology
Wednesday 1/3/24
1) Intro to our Immigration Chapter
3) Assignment in Schoology - Immigration p.636-637
Tuesday 1/2/24
1) Watch The Story of Us: Cities
Friday 12/22 Winter Wonderland Activity 8 - 9am
1) Finish up Google Slides Project
Thursday 12/21
1) Work time on Google Slides Project
Wednesday 12/20 Late Start Day
1) Work time on Google Slides Project
Tuesday 12/19
1) Industrialization Test
2) Finish up work from Fri. and Mon.
3) Begin Google Slides Project. Directions are in Schoology, at the top of the page.
Monday 12/18
1) Mr. Hooper was out today. The Kids did a map coloring exercise called "A Touch of Color."
Friday 12/15
1) Mr. Hooper was out today. The kids worked on a sheet called "States I've Been To." You can make a copy of it if need be.
Thursday 12/14
1) Jacob Coxey's Army.
2) Review for test. Industrialization Test is on Monday. The review is also in the review folder in Schoology.
Wednesday 12/13
1) Take quiz on timeline and vocabulary words
2) Review for Industrialization test, which will be on Monday.
Tuesday 12/12
1) Working conditions in the Industrial Revolution, and the attempt to form unions
2) Assignment - Industrialization, Section 1. It's in Schoology.
3) Review for quiz tomorrow over timeline and vocabulary words.
Monday 12/11
1) Discuss how the rich business leaders of the late 1800s became very powerful.
2) Vertical and Horizontal Integration. Presentation is here.
Friday 12/8
2) Make a timeline of the Indiustrial Age. We will have a quiz next week using the timeline and the vocabulary words we did last week.
Thursday 12/7
1) 4th hour will do yesterdays lesson
2) 1,2 &3 will watch a video about Thomas Edison
3) 5th hour won't meet due to PBIS reward time.
Wednesday 12/6
1) The Edison National Historical Park - on Google Earth
2) Assignment - How Inventions Changed America. In Schoology.
Tuesday 12/5
1) Finish the Boom video started yesterday
2) Thomas Edison
Monday 12/4
1) Kitty Hawk, NC on Google Earth
2) Iron vs. Steel
3) Boom video, and questions. We will watch through the part about urban sprawl.
Thursday 11/30
1) The Wright Brothers
2) Inventions Gimkit
Wednesday 11/29
1) Intro to the Industrial Age
2) Inventions of the Industrial age
3) Add to the vocabulary from yesterday.
Tuesday 11/28
1) Oklahoma Land Rush
2) Industrialization pretest
3) Industrialization vocabulary words
Monday 11/27
1) Assimilation of Native American children
2) Industrial Expansion video and questions - in Schoology
3) PACED - Westward Expansion problem. In Schoology
Tuesday 11/21
1) Annie Oakley
2) Crazy Horse Monument
3) Review Gimkit (no test on this chapter)
Monday 11/20
1) Cattle Ranchers on the Great Plains
2) The Battle of the Little Bighorn video
3) Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
No assignment today
Friday 11/17
1) Reasons people moved west
2) Problems farmers faced
3) Assignment: Wars For The West - in Schoology.
Thursday 11/16
1) The Pony Express
2) Billy the Kid
3) The Transcontinental Railroad. Assignment is in Schoology. The video to watch for the assignment is here.
Wednesday 11/15
1) Time to work on Boomtown Graph
2) 5th period will look at sod houses and do the Sodbusters assignment.
Tuesday 11/14
1) Ghost towns of the west.
2) Was the West as violent as it seems on TV and in movies?
3) Assignment: Sodbusters Invade the Great Plains - in Schoology
Monday 11/13
1) Mr. Hooper was absent. Students watched The Story of Us: Heartland
Friday 11/10
1) Boomtowns in the Old West
2) Boomtown Graph project. Directions are here.
Thursday 11/9
1) The Oregon Trail today video.
2) The Gold Rush
3) Play Oregon Trail. Link is in Schoology.
Wednesday 11/8
1) Work time on map from yesterday.
2) The Oregon Trail
3) Oregon Trail video
Tuesday 11/7
1) Reconstrution Test
2) American West mapwork
Monday 11/6. Reconstruction Test is tomorrow
1) Jim Crow Laws
2) The end of Reconstruction
3) Review Time
Friday 11/3
1) The Impeachment of President Johnson
2) Reconstruction video
Thursday 11/2 Reconstruction Test will be on Tuesday. Review is in Schoology.
1) Black Codes after the Civil War
2) President Johnson and Congress fight over Reconstruction
3) Assignment - Chapter 17, Section 2 - in Schoology.
Wednesday 11/1
1) Finish video: Booker
Tuesday 10/31
1) 40 Acres and A Mule
2) Sharecropping
3) Who was Booker T. Washington?
4) Begin video: Booker
Monday 10/30
1) Whatever Happened To... people from the Civil War
2) Reconstruction Plans - Lincoln and Wade-Davis
3) Assignment - In Schoology, Reconstruction Begins
Friday 10/27
1) The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
2) The search for John Wilkes Booth
Thursday 10/26
1) Civil War Test
Wednesday 10/25
1) Lee surrenders at Appomattox Video is here.
2) Review for Civil War Test. Test is tomorrow.
Tuesday 10/24
1) Sherman's March to the Sea
2) The Union captures Richmond
3) Review for test. Civil War test is Thursday.
Monday 10/23
1) Arlington House and it's history
2) Arlington National Cemetery
3) The Battle of the Crater
4) Assignment - End of the Civil War. In Schoology.
Wednesday 10/18
1) Park Day. No assignment given today.
Tuesday 10/17
1) Current Events
2) Finish up review sheet from yesterday
3) Prisoner of war camps during the Civil War
Monday
1) Day 3 at Gettysburg - Pickett's Charge
2) The Gettysburg Address
3) Begin review sheet for Civil War Test. Test will be later next week.
Friday 10/13
1) Day 2 at Gettysburg - the 20th Maine
2) Video: Gettysburg - Little Round Top
Thursday 10/12
1) The Battle of Gettysburg. Listen to this if you are absent.
2) Gettysburg assignment in Schoology.
Wednesday 10/11
1) The Battle of Antietam. Click the textbook links above and read p. 519 to stay caught up
2) Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation. Textbook links above, p. 529 - 530.
3) Clara Barton assignment. It's in Schoology.
Tuesday 10/10
1) Finish video from yesterday
2) See a Minie Ball from the Civil War
3) Monitor vs. Merrimac - The battle of the Ironclads
4) Monitor/Merrimack worksheet - in Schoology Assignment Folder
Monday 10/9
1) Northern Nights, Starry Skies vidvidvideoeovidvidvideoeovideoeovideoeo. Part of Indigenous People's Day.
Friday 10/6
1) Many kids will miss some class today because of band rehearsal at the high school. We will look at some
facts about Abraham Lincoln, as well as look at his house in Illinois.
Thursday 10/5
1) Finish History Channel video
2) Advantages in the Civil War
Wednesday 10/4
1) What the sides were called in the Civil War
2) The Battle of Bull Run
3) History Channel video - The Civil War pt.1
Tuesday 10/3
1) The Civil War Begins at Fort Sumter
2) Assignment, p.510 - 515 It is in Schoology.
Monday 10/2
1) Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
2) Steps to the Civil War
Friday 9/29
1) Finish up Brother Future
Thursday 9/28
1) The Compromise of 1850 (didn't do it yesterday)
2) Part 1 of video: Brother Future
Wednesday 9/27
1) The Compromise of 1850
2) The Underground Railroad
3) Underground Railroad assignment - In Schoology, in the Assignment folder.
Tuesday 9/26
1) Discuss how the North and the South grew differently
2) Assignment - America Before the Civil War. It's in Schoology, in the Assignment folder.
Monday 9/25
1) Review for Unit 1 Test
2) Unit 1 Test
Friday 9/22
1) A look at the Bill of Rights.
2) Review for Unit 1 Test. Test is on Monday.
Thursday 9/21
1) Whatever happened to Lewis and Clark? Click here.
2) Picture Day
Wednesday 9/20 - Late Start Day
1) Finish Lewis and Clark Edpuzzle
2) Do the Review in the Review folder of Schoology. Our Unit 1 Test will be on Monday.
Tuesday 9/19
1) Begin Edpuzzle of Lewis and Clark. It's in Schoology.
Monday 9/18
1) Take notes on the Constitution
2) The Bill of Rights
Friday 9/15
1) The USA under the Articles of Confederation
2) Work time on State Silhouette
Thursday 9/14
1) State Silhouette Activity. You can print it here if needed.
Wednesday 9/13
1) Primary and Secondary sources of information. Click here.
2) States review.
3) Website - New Hartford, MN
Tuesday 9/12
1) Practice the States at https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/geography/usa/learn-the-states-tutorial/
2) Get Chromebook #'s for the year
3) Visit and bookmark this website
4) Get to Know Me activity - in Schoology
5) EdPuzzle assignment - in Schoology
Monday 9/11
1) Go over student handbook - some pages will be gone over in each period today
2) 9/11 remembrance
3) Take notes on the CRAP Test
Friday 9/8
1) PACED decision making - The Hoodie
2) Take notes on the parts of a map
3) PACED activity - the apartment
4) Current Events
Thursday 9/7
1) Take notes on PACED decision making model
2) Do a PACED scenario together
3) The home of George Washington
Wednesday 9/6
1) Introductions and attendance
2) SFMS Slideshow - some slides will be shown in every period today.
3) This website
Tuesday Sep. 5th
1) No school today for 7th and 8th graders. See you tomorrow!