Daily Lessons
Fall 2023
Embedded Files
Monday, January 22nd
Monday, January 22nd
Learning Target(s): 1. Identify the causes of imperialism in the Spanish-American War and Filipino-American War.
Discuss Documents
Presentation: Wars for Empire
Homework: Study for the Unit 6 Exam
Friday, January 19th
Friday, January 19th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the cause for the adoption of the 19th amendment. 2. Explain the causes for US Imperialism at the turn of the 20th century.
Finish Presentation: New Feminism
Concept Check
Presentation: The Questions of Empire
Document Analysis
Homework: Complete Document Analysis
Thursday, January 18th
Thursday, January 18th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the cause for the adoption of the 19th amendment.
Progressive Cartoon Analysis
Presentation: New Feminism
Wednesday, January 17th
Wednesday, January 17th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the impact of progressivism on a state and federal level.
Presentation: The Politics of Progressivism
Tuesday, January 16th
Tuesday, January 16th
Learning Target(s): 1. Compare and contrast the solutions to the struggles of workers during the progressive era.
What are the issues progressive reformers want addressed?
Video
Presentation: The Labor Question
Friday, January 12th
Friday, January 12th
Learning Target(s): 1. Identify the diversity of issues progressive reformers wanted to address. 2. Explain the working conditions that drove social reformers during the progressive era.
Progressive Reformer Documents Cafe Discussion
Video Clip on Workers
Presentation: The Labor Question
Thursday, January 11th
Thursday, January 11th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain what event brings an end the Plains Wars. 2. Explain what the progressive era is.
Finish Presentation: Transformation of the West
Learning Goal Review
Unit 6 Goal 2 Learning Goals
Presentation: The Causes of the Progressive Era
Progressive Document Analysis
Wednesday, January 10th
Wednesday, January 10th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the role of Federal policy in the expansion of settlers in the Western United States in the latter half of the 19th century. 2. Explain the ways in which Indigenous People resisted federal policy.
Review SAQ
Podcast: Little War on the Prairie
Tuesday, January 9th
Tuesday, January 9th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the role of Federal policy in the expansion of settlers in the Western United States in the latter half of the 19th century. 2. Explain the ways in which Indigenous People resisted federal policy
Unit 6 Learning Goal 1 Quiz
Presentation/Videos
Monday, January 8th
Monday, January 8th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the impact of industrialization on Farmers and the West.
Review Short-Answer Question
Diversity of the West
Video: The Farmers Revolt
Homework: Review for Quiz (Learning Goal 1 / Can Do Statement 1)
Friday, January 5th
Friday, January 5th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the causes and effects for the rist of industry and big business and unregulated capitalism.
Discussion
Presentation
Video/Discussion
Short-Answer Practice
Thursday, January 4th
Thursday, January 4th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the causes and effects for the rise of industry and big business and unregulated capitalism.
Image Analysis
Document Analysis
Finish Presentation
Review Concepts
Video and Questions
Wednesday, January 3rd
Wednesday, January 3rd
Learning Target(s): 1. The causes and effects for the rise of industry and big business and unregulated capitalism.
SAQ Tracking
Unit 6 Learning Goals
Document Analysis
Presentation
Tuesday, January 2nd
Tuesday, January 2nd
Learning Target(s): 1. Identify areas for relearning on the Unit 5 Part 2 Exam. 2. Identify the areas of study for Unit 6.
Discuss Unit 5 Part 2 Exam
Discussion
Reading
Unit 6 Learning Goals
Thursday, December 21st
Thursday, December 21st
Learning Target(s): 1. Illustrate your understanding of the Era of Reconstruction and the impact of the US Civil War.
Unit 5 Goal 2 Short-Answer Question
Unit 5 Goal 2 Multiple-Choice Exam
Wednesday, December 20th
Wednesday, December 20th
Learning Target(s): 1. The ways racial discrimination was reinforced by the federal government's actions and policies following the US Civil War.
Presentation: Solidifying the Social Order of Segregation
SAQ Brainwriting Practice
Homework: Review/Study Learning Goal 2 Concepts
Tuesday, December 19th
Tuesday, December 19th
Learning Target(s): 1. The ways racial discrimination was reinforced by the federal government's actions and policies following the US Civil War.
Cartoon Debrief
Presentation: The Segregated South
Monday, December 18th
Monday, December 18th
Learning Target(s): 1. The ways racial discrimination was reinforced by the federal government's actions and policies following the US Civil War
Presentation: Redrawing the Boundaries
Cartoon Analysis
Friday, December 15th
Friday, December 15th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the causes for the end of reconstruction.
Presentation: The End of Reconstruction
Review Reconstruction Concepts
Thursday, December 14th
Thursday, December 14th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the impact of the US Civil War upon Black Americans in the United States during Reconstruction.
Finish Presentation
Short Answer Video Activity
Wednesday, December 13th
Wednesday, December 13th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the response of Radical Republicans to resistance to reconstruction.
Image Analysis
Video
Presentation: The Rise of Radical Reconstruction
Tuesday, December 12th
Tuesday, December 12th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the ways in which southerners resisted reconstruction changing Southern society and laws. 2. Explain how congress responded to Southern resistance to Reconstruction.
Image Analysis
Handout: Learning Goal 2 Concepts
Finish Presentation
Monday, December 11th
Monday, December 11th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the immediate impacts of the US Civil War upon Black Americans in the United States.
Questions following the US Civil War
Video Clip
Presentation: What Will the New South Be?
Unit 5 Learning Goal 2 Analysis
Friday, December 8th
Friday, December 8th
Learning Target(s): 1. Illustrate your understanding of the causes for the US Civil War. 2. Illustrate your understanding of the impacts of the US Civil War.
Review Game: Poetry for Neanderthals
Quiz on Learning Goal 1
Thursday, December 7th
Thursday, December 7th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the impact or changes the Civil War brings to the United States
Finish Presentation from Thursday
Document Analysis
Presentation: The Impacts of the War
Homework: Review the Concepts Of Learning Goal 1 (Quiz on Friday)
Wednesday, December 6th
Wednesday, December 6th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the immediate causes for the US Civil War. 2. Explain the causes for the US Civil War being a long bloody conflict.
Document Analysis: What You Notice/What You Wonder
Presentation: The Beginning of the War
Tuesdays, December 5th
Tuesdays, December 5th
Learning Target(s): 1. Identify the steps taken towards disunion before the Civil War.
Road to Disunion Activity (due at the end of the class period)
Monday, December 4th
Monday, December 4th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the final steps that led to secession of the Southern United States.
Presentation: The Eve of War
Road to Disunion Activity
Friday, December 1st
Friday, December 1st
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain how the changes in the abolitionist movement lead to disunion.
Reading: What to the Slave is the 4th of July?
Presentation: The Crusade Against Slavery
Road to Disunion
Thursday, November 30th
Thursday, November 30th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain how failed compromises lead to disunion.
Finish Presentation
Road to Disunion Activity
Wednesday, November 29th
Wednesday, November 29th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain how failed compromises lead to disunion.
Road to Disunion Activity
Presentation: Failed Compromises
Tuesday, November 28th
Tuesday, November 28th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain how westward expansion contributed to the start of the Civil War.
Continue Presentation: Westward Expansion in Antebellum America
Road to Disunion Activity
Monday, November 27th
Monday, November 27th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain how westward expansion contributed to the start of the Civil War.
What do you know about Unit 5 Material?
Unit 5 Learning Target 1 Evaluation
Road to Disunion Activity
Presentation: Westward Expansion in Antebellum America
Friday, November 17th
Friday, November 17th
Learning Target(s): 1. Complete Mind-Map. 2. Complete Individual and Group Rubric Reflection.
Complete Mind-Map
Complete Rubric and Group Evaluation
Thursday, November 16th
Thursday, November 16th
Learning Target(s): 1. Complete the document analysis.
Complete the document analysis
Wednesday, November 15th
Wednesday, November 15th
Learning Target(s): 1. Complete the Historical Context, Events, and people of the mind map.
Complete the Historical Context, Events, and People on the Mind Map
Homework: Complete the Close Reading of the documents (heart, !, ? / Events, People / CAPP- Context, Audience, Purpose, Point of View)
Tuesday, November 14th
Tuesday, November 14th
Learning Target(s): 1. Begin assembling the Historical Context, events, and people of the mind map.
Work on assembling the concept map
Monday, November 13th
Monday, November 13th
Learning Target(s): 1. Identify areas of research. 2. Research a topic during the Market Revolution. 3. Refine research.
Reminders:
1. you should make a plan for the day and add those plans to your Group Daily Reflection (at the end of the day you will identify if you met those goals)
2. While you have a main role, all group members should work together to achieve the goals of the group.
3. Make sure you follow instructions and lead into working with group members to understand directions.
4. You must complete the daily reflection and submit it each day.
5. Your daily participation changes every day in response to any changes.
Friday, November 10th
Friday, November 10th
Learning Target(s): 1. Identify the strengths of yourself and other group members. 2. Explain the expectations for the Unit 4 Mind Map.
Strengths Manifesto
Group Roles
Introduction of Unit 4 Minp Mapping Activity
Thursday, November 9th
Thursday, November 9th
Learning Target(s): 1. Identify areas for relearning on the Unit 3 Exam.
Discuss Unit 3 Short-Answer Responses
Discuss Unit 3 Exam
Wednesday, November 8th ReFLECT
Wednesday, November 8th ReFLECT
Learning Target(s): 1. Do well on the Unit 3 Exam.
Short-Answer Question
Multiple Choice
Tuesday, November 7th
Tuesday, November 7th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain how the point of view of the framers of the US Constitution will shape the document.
Podcast: The Excess of Democracy
Presentation: The New Constitution
SWBS Activity
Homework: Review Unit 3 Learning Goals and Key Concepts
Monday, November 6th
Monday, November 6th
Learning Target(s): 1. Identify areas for review of Unit 3 Learning Goal 1 Material. 2. Predict how the point of view of the framers of the US Constitution will shape the document.
Review Unit 3 Learning Goal 1 Material
Unit 3 Learning Goal 2 Key Concepts
Presentation: Failures of the Articles of Confederation
Homework: Review Unit 3 Learning Goal 1 Material for Wednesday's Exam
Friday, November 3rd
Friday, November 3rd
No Class- PDay
Thursday, November 2nd
Thursday, November 2nd
Learning Target(s): 1. Evaluate how revolutionary the American Revolution was.
Document Check
Discussion
Review Unit 3 Learning Goal 1
Unit 3 Learning Goal 2
Wednesday, November 1st
Wednesday, November 1st
Learning Target(s): 1. Evaluate how revolutionary the American Revolution was.
Presentation: How Revolutionary will the Revolution Be
Close Reading: Revolutionary are Conservative Documents
Tuesday, October 31st
Tuesday, October 31st
Learning Target(s): 1. Predict the ways different groups were affected by the American Revolution.
Turn in Timelines
Predicting what makes something Revolutionary
Monday, October 30th
Monday, October 30th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the causes for a Patriot victory in the American Revolution.
Presentation: A World Turned Upside Down
Timeline Completion/Check
Homework: Timeline Due at Start of Class Tomorrow
Friday, October 27th
Friday, October 27th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the political changes that led to Declaring Independence.
Presentation: The Approaching of Independence
Timeline Work (Due Monday, October 30th)
Homework: Work on Revolution Timeline
Thursday, October 26th
Thursday, October 26th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain how social class impacted the goals of those who supported revolution or independence from Great Britain.
Finish/Review Presentation
Timeline additions
Presentation: Social Class and Revolution
Podcast: Rich Man's Revolt
Wednesday, October 25th
Wednesday, October 25th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the impact of the Stamp Act. 2. Explain the causes for and impacts of social unrest in Boston during the American Revolution.
SAQs with Primary Sources
Presentation: The Road to Revolution
Tuesday, October 24th
Tuesday, October 24th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the intellectual, social, and economic causes for the American Revolution.
Review SAQ
7 Years War Documents
Presentation: The Crises Begins
Monday, October 23rd
Monday, October 23rd
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the intellectual causes for the American Revolution.
Return SAQ
SAQ Tracking
Unit 3 Learning Goal 1 Evaluation
Presentation: Setting the Stage of the Revolution
Timeline: Document Analysis
Friday, October 20th
Friday, October 20th
No Class-MEA
Thursday, October 19th
Thursday, October 19th
No Class-MEA
Wednesday, October 18th
Wednesday, October 18th
Learning Target(s): 1. Identify what it means for a revolution to occur in a society. 2. Identify the social order prior to the American Revolution.
Question/Discussion
Unit 3 Timeline Instructions
Document Analysis
Tuesday, October 17th
Tuesday, October 17th
Learning Target(s): 1. Demonstrate understanding in an SAQ.
Unit 2 Short Answer Question
M/C Quiz
Unit 3 Learning Goal 1 Evaluation
Monday, October 16th
Monday, October 16th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the ways in which African Americans resisted European colonial practices.
Discussion Debrief
Question on Resistance
Presentation: Resistance to Slavery
SAQ Practice
Concept / Learning Goal Evaluation
Homework: Review/Prepare for Short Answer Assessment and Quiz on Unit 2 Concepts
Friday, October 13th 😱
Friday, October 13th 😱
Learning Target(s): 1. Process the development of chattel slavery through an inclusive, in depth, and thought provoking conversation.
Discussion Set Up
Fishbowl Discussion
Thursday, October 12th
Thursday, October 12th
Learning Target(s):
PACT Registration
Homework: Complete Document Analysis for Friday's Class
Wednesday, October 11th
Wednesday, October 11th
Learning Target(s): 1. Identify components of a proficient discussion and mastery group discussion. 2. Explain the components of CAPP for document analysis.
Handout: Rubric for Discussion
Handout: CAPP Introduction
Practice CAPP
Document Analysis
Homework: Complete Document Analysis for Friday's Class
Tuesday, October 10th
Tuesday, October 10th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain how Bacon's Rebellion resulted in the rise of Chattel Slavery in the American colonies. 2. Explain the role of the slave codes in constructing race and the institution of chattel slavery in the American colonies.
Finish Reading on Bacon's Rebellion
Development of Chattel Slavery Brainwrite
Video: Crash Course Black History #4- Slave Codes
Monday, October 9th
Monday, October 9th
No Class - Indigenous People's Day
Friday, October 6th
Friday, October 6th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the legal steps taken to solidify chattel slavery into the social order.
Complete Podcast: Chattel Slavery Made in America
Development of Chattel Slavery Brainwrite
Reading: Bacon's Rebellion
Thursday, October 5th
Thursday, October 5th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the difference between historical forms of slavery and chattel slavery of the American colonies. 2. Explain the legal steps taken to solidify chattel slavery into the social order.
SAQ Review of Wednesdays Material
Podcast: Chattel Slavery Made in America
Wednesday, October 4th
Wednesday, October 4th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the difference between slavery and chattel slavery. 2. Explain the causes of and impacts of the middle passage on African people.
Notice/Wondering
Video: The Transatlantic Slave Trade
Presentation: Defining Chattel Slavery
Tuesday, October 3rd
Tuesday, October 3rd
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the concept of social order and the components of the social order. 2. Using historical documents define the social order of the American colonies prior to the American Revolutionary War (1776-1783)?
SAQ Tracking Form
Complete Concept Map
Document Analysis: The Social Order of the American Colonies
Monday, October 2nd
Monday, October 2nd
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the concept of social order and the components of the social order.
SAQ Unit 1 Debrief
Unit 2 Learning Goals
Concept Map: Introduction to the Social Order
Friday, September 29th
Friday, September 29th
Learning Target(s): 1. Identify areas for relearning and reassessment on the Unit 1 Exam. 2. Identify goals for Unit 2.
Reflection on Unit 1
Exam Analysis & Tracking Learning
Thursday, September 28th
Thursday, September 28th
Learning Target(s): 1. Illustrate understanding on a M/C assessment and a short-answer response.
Short-Answer Question
M/C Exam
Wednesday, September 27th
Wednesday, September 27th
Learning Target(s): 1. Identify material that needs to be reviews for the Unit 1 Exam.
Unit 1 Learning Goal 2 Understanding Check
Review Short-Answer Writing
Review Concepts
Tuesday, September 26th
Tuesday, September 26th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the interactions / conflict between Indigenous and English people.
Notice Wonderings: Map of Salam, Mass.
Presentation: The English and Native People
Unit 1 Learning Goal 2 Self-Evaluation
Homework: Study for Unit 1 Learning Goal 2 Understanding Check
Monday, September 25th
Monday, September 25th
No Class
Friday, September 22nd
Friday, September 22nd
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the long-term impact of foundational principles on British colonies.
Presentation: Beginnings of the English Colonies
Comparing Accounts of Early Colonies
Thursday, September 21st
Thursday, September 21st
Learning Target(s): 1. Compare and contrast the British Colonies.
Notice/Wondering
Reading: Letter of an Indentured Servant
Review Colonial Regions
Mystery Document Activity
Wednesday, September 20th
Wednesday, September 20th
Learning Target(s): 1. Compare and contrast the British Colonies.
Activity: Introduction to the Regions of the British Colonies
Tuesday, September 19th
Tuesday, September 19th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the causes and impacts of European colonization on the Americas.
Finish Short Answer Practice
Notice Wonderings: Motivations for English Colonization
Monday, September 18th
Monday, September 18th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the interactions and conflict between Indigenous and European people. 2. Explain the impact of religious beliefs on early European colonization.
Review Friday- Chart Analysis
Presentation: The Spanish Empire
Short Answer Practice (Start)
Friday, September 15th
Friday, September 15th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the causes for European colonization of the Americas. 2. Explain the Interactions / Conflict between Indigenous and European people as a result of European colonization.
Unit 1 Learning Goal 1 Quiz
Unit 1 Learning Goal 2 Handout
Image Analysis
Document Analysis
Presentation: The Spanish and the Demographic Disaster
Thursday, September 14th
Thursday, September 14th
Learning Target(s): 1. Compare and contrast European societies with that of Indigenous societies.
Comparison Activity
Introduce Short Answer Questions
Practice Short Answer Question
Evaluate Level of understanding of Learning Goal 1
Homework: Review Learning Goal 1 for Assessment on Friday (you will need your chromebook tomorrow)
Wednesday, September 13th
Wednesday, September 13th
Learning Target(s): 1. Identify the key characteristics of many European societies on the eve of contact with the Americas (prior to 1491). 2. Compare and contrast European societies with that of Indigenous societies.
Image Analysis (Notice/Wonder)
Reading: European Societies on the Eve of Contact
Handout: Comparison of Two Worlds
Tuesday, September 12th
Tuesday, September 12th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain the Indigenous worldview of land and property. 2. Contrast the indigenous view of land and property with that of Europeans.
Unit 1 Learning Goals
Discussion Question
Podcast: Scene on Radio
Reading: European Society
Monday, September 11th
Monday, September 11th
Learning Target(s): 1. Identify the key characteristics of Indigenous groups in the Americas prior to 1491.
Housekeeping (Morning HERD, Cellphone Reminders)
Review The Danger of a Single Story
Presentation: The First Americans
Unit 1 Learning Goal & Can Do Statements
Friday, September 8th
Friday, September 8th
Learning Target(s): 1. Explain why historians emphasize point of view or standpoint.
Housekeeping Stuff (Binders & Reminders)
Quotation Analysis
Video: The Danger of a Single Story
Presentation: Point of View/Standpoint
Handout: Unit 0 Can Do Statements
Thursday, September 7th
Thursday, September 7th
Learning Target(s): 1. Construct classroom norms that build and support our classroom community.
Questions in Google Classroom
Activity: Looks Like, Sounds Like, Feels Like HERD
Handout: Unit 0 Learning Goals and Can Do Statements
Wednesday, September 6th
Wednesday, September 6th
Learning Target(s): 1. Get to know more about your classmates, teacher, and classroom.
Welcome and Attendance: Name Tents
Activity: Blobs and Lines
Binders Discussion
Homework: 3-Ring Binder Due Friday
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