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U.S. History - Course Outline & Info
U.S. History - Course Outline & Info
U.S. History - Assignments
U.S. History - Assignments
For 9/2023 - 5/2024
Check the Schoology course: U.S. History for most up to date information.
U.S. History Past Assignments
U.S. History Past Assignments
For 2/4/21
If you did not complete the assignment from yesterday, please do so today.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LjtOqWnKH55J0TKlwTD2yqxmwPTDpOvx2WcPOskww7w/edit?usp=sharing
If you did complete it, please start this activity:
Go to Newsela in classlink and read the article about corruption during the Gilded Age. Complete the quiz activity and the social studies writing prompt. You do not need to do the ELA writing prompt.
For the week of 1/11/21
Monday: Start Manifest Destiny, Homestead Act
Tuesday: Finish Homestead Act, Start Transcontinental Railroad/Pacific Railway Act/ The West
Wednesday: Finish any Homestead Act questions (shared Google Doc - check your gmail)
Thursday: Pacific Railway Act/The West
Friday: Dawes Act
For the week of 12/14
Monday: Speech on Confederate Monument removal
Tuesday: Write monument proposal paragraph (summative activity), start Manifest Destiny (video)
Thursday: Homestead Act
Friday: Start Transcontinental Railroad/Pacific Railway Act/ The West
For the week of 10/26 (repeated because everyone was absent last week):
Monday: We continued to work on the activity for Plans for Reconstruction.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CVChbhMKjFZCTn5uxn8v6TbmPcRyCY2T4m4KDdsver0/edit?usp=sharing
Wednesday: Please finish through question 4 on page 2 for the excerpt from Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address.
Friday: Please complete the simple Reconstruction quiz in your US History section on Schoology.
For the week of 10/19:
Monday: We continued to work on the activity for Plans for Reconstruction.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CVChbhMKjFZCTn5uxn8v6TbmPcRyCY2T4m4KDdsver0/edit?usp=sharing
Wednesday: Please finish through question 4 on page 2 for the excerpt from Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address.
Friday: Please complete the simple Reconstruction quiz in your US History section on Schoology.
For the week of 10/12:
Here is the slide deck for this week.
Monday: Finish your section of the Defining Freedom jigsaw to share you part with the class.
Wednesday: Watch the video about the Freedmen's Bureau and complete the questions related to it on your slide in the slide deck.
Friday: We will work on the beginning part of the Plans for Reconstruction documents and then take a brief quiz in schoology.
For the week of 10/5:
Monday: Open and work on this document New Names: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TRHDQ4u1mgq7SovWVHQvyuBIg6ruJOZGH9f5W6Z0KB4/edit
Wednesday: Finish the New Names document
Friday: We will watch the video Defining Freedom and start the jigsaw activity. Slides 18-20 in the slide deck already shared with you.
For the week of 9/29:
Monday - No school
We will continue to talk about Reconstruction. These are the slides we will be working on for Wed and Fri with links to videos and documents in the slides.
For the week of 9/21:
We are starting our unit of Reconstruction. Here is the link to the slides we will be working on this week. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oCTgaNWPczhLWX3oPNIRV0SL0suJQ3wnDi6ejn4e_A0/edit?usp=sharing
Monday 9/21: watch the two videos (slides 5 & 7)and answer the questions on slides 6 & 8 in your journal.
Wednesday 9/23: slides 9-15, changing names
Friday 9/25: starting the google doc photo analysis sheet linked in the doc and shared with you on Thursday (9/24) night.
Geography Past Assignments
Geography Past Assignments
For 2/4/21
Read the CNN article and watch the video at the top of the article about Europe's migrant crisis. Complete the questions that follow. This is below and was shared with you in google docs.
Google Doc - Europe's Migrant Crisis article
For week of 1/11/21
Monday: Finishing Latin America Maps
Tuesday: Start the movie Waste Land
Wednesday: Favelas article that was shared with you. Also finish maps, Venn diagram and any outstanding assignments
Thursday: Waste Land movie
Friday: Waste Land movie questions and review
For the week of 1/4/21
Monday: Ancient Latin American Cultures - Maya
Tuesday: Ancient Latin American Cultures - Aztec
Wednesday: Work on physical and political maps of Latin America sent to you
Thursday: Ancient Latin American Cultures - Inca
Friday: Ancient Latin American Cultures - Inca movie
For the week of 12/14/20
Monday - quiz on N. America (USA and Canada)
Tuesday - Discovery Ed video: Discovery Atlas: Short Stories: Brazil Revealed and related questions
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10dS0O2tqtNtVKvo8QQKUb7XRJz0bfuMJMV7VY3CpG-k/edit?usp=sharing
Thursday - Discuss video questions, start Intro to Latin America Physical Geography
Friday - Finish Intro to LA Physical Geography
Week of 12/7 -
We finished you video and questions, ppt slide on N. America and had a quiz review for Monday.
On Friday 12/4 (Marta's birthday!) we went over the North American slide show that was covered in class this week. We will finish it on Monday for the first half of class and then watch a video and answer related questions during the second half of class. The video has been assigned to you on Discovery Education via Classlink and the questions were shared via google docs. If you know you will not be able to attend class or complete the video and questions during the time allotted for class, please make sure to finish the notes sheet for the slide show and the questions before Tuesday. As always, text, call or email with questions.
For the week of 10/26
Monday: We will continue our discussion on population and start our 5 Themes of Geography Country Project
Tuesday: Work on your project
Wednesday: Work on your project
Thursday: Make sure the first section of your project is completed. Continue to work on the next section.
Friday: Work on your project. (When I see you on Monday, I am expecting some work in the next section (Regions) completed.
For the week of 10/12:
Monday: Culture video and questions
Tuesday: start Culture
Wednesday: Culture
Thursday: Complete your culture slides - asynchronous (on your own)
Friday: Cultural appropriation - video, article and questions
For the week of 9/29
Monday - No school
Tuesday - Quiz on intro material. Check your course in schoology. We will discuss at the start of class and then you will have time to work during class on the quiz.
Wed - Seasons, Climate, Weather
Thurs - Seasons, Climate and Weather
Friday - Climographs
For the week of 9/21: We are starting our introduction to geography.
Monday: Intro to Geo general activities
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MeK0n47pGVBcHjPPCrAgPVVRI0I_X-ulTVpk5f_Bujo/edit?usp=sharing
Tuesday: Review of types of maps, vocab and practicing location (relative and absolute), Dancing Matt video and related activity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwe-pA6TaZk
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eEVsfUBiuuSRPHfPlF9Sr7iY-LBqApfAsxULx4Nq8JY/edit?usp=sharing
Wednesday: video and questions
Thursday: Quiz, Earth's Forces: what shapes the land
Friday: More Earth's Forces: what shapes the land
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