Extra Credit (NOT required) and Enrichment (IS REQUIRED) are part of this class. Below are the two categories...
Enrichment (required) due dates are on the board. Enrichment folder for all assignments
Quarter 1: Living Memorials and Memories: 9/11
Photos of Memorials (9/11 Memorials)
Assignment: Memorials in American Memory
Extra Credit for Backstory (18th-century topic)
Quarter 2: Editorial Cartoons of the 19th Century
Resource: Thomas Nast Cartoons
Assignment: Political Cartoon
Extra Credit for Backstory (19th-century topic)
Quarter 3: Editorial Cartoons of the 20th Century
Resources: Herblock, Ding Darling, Dr. Seuss Goes to War
Assignment: Political Cartoon
Extra Credit for a second one from a different cartoonist OR
a Backstory (1900-1945 timeframe)
Quarter 4: Physical Memorials of Individuals: Cemeteries and Graveyards
Resource: Cedar Hill Cemetery
Assignment: Cedar Hill Cemetery
Extra Credit for Connecticut Museum visit
Extra Credit: year-long option, 1 per quarter. Sample
Stop at a roadside historical markers (be careful to follow all road signs).
Take a picture of you at the site, and summarize, in a single paragraph, what the site or monument, etc. is about: who, what, where, when, why, and how.
Memorization: separate quotes for separate quarters. Link to folder.
Also, other options are posted on the homework board.
Materials will be provided in class at the beginning of the quarter.
Quarter 1: States
Quarter 2: Capitals
Quarter 3: Physical Geography of US
Quarter 4: CT geography
Click the link above for the unit options.
See me after class, during free periods, or after school to recite them, once per day
Quarter 1: Preamble to the Constitution
Quarter 2: Gettysburg Address
Quarter 3: Excerpts from FDR speeches
Quarter 4: Ronald Reagan quotes
Materials will be provided for research, write-ups will be in the Google Classroom.
Quarter 1: Vampires
Quarter 2: Thanksgiving
Quarter 3: St. Valentine's
Quarter 4: Memorial Day vs. Veterans' Day