A quick look at what we did in the classroom each day - Start here if you are absent, but most importantly check your Google Classroom - not just assignments, but the material posted each day. I will post the classroom presentation from each day in the afternoon so you can see what you missed. For interested parents, here is where to find a better answer than the "Nothing" my kids told me when I asked the question, "What did you do today?" The day's presentation is also linked under the date.
10/22 - Liberty's Kids and the Intolerable Acts explain the increasing tensions between the colonists and Britain.
10/21 - Phillis Wheatley and a timline from the Seven Years War to the Declaration of Independance are today's focus.
10/20 - After Study Check 5 we learn more about the Boston Tea Party with Liberty's Kids.
10/19 - Some background that led to the Boston Tea Party.
10/15 - Some vocabulary relating to resisting British control with a preview of the Boston Tea Party
10/14 - A bit of pre-reading before students jump into the "Colonial Influences" in Actively Learn
10/13 - What was "taxing" the colonists? A look at some of the issues that pointed to a break with Britain.
10/9 - A wrap-up of "For Crown or Colony"
10/8 - The final day playing "For Crown or Colony" and you are called to testify what you witnessed at the Boston Massacre.
10/7 - A tragedy strikes - a fellow apprentice is shot. Tensions rise in "For Crown or Colony", a Mission US simulation game.
10/6 - It's 1770 and you are a new apprentice in Boston. Where will your loyalties lie? "For Crown or Colony", a Mission US simulation game, starts today.
10/5 - Some background before we enter the colonial world of 1770
10/2 - The Mayflower Compact, the first self-governing document created by Europeans for the New World.
10/1 - More on the Rights of Englishmen as colonists settle the east coast of North America
9/30 - Magna Carta and what makes a good leader versus a bad leader with some help from Disney's Robin Hood.
9/29 - New study guide and rewards card passed out and then off to learn some
9/28 - Media Monday today's topic was viewpoint.
9/25 - Unit 1 Test
9/24 - We reviewed the short answer for tomorrow's test and cover more on limiting government power with checks and balances.
9/23 - Students read excerpts from both of our political philosophers, Locke and Montesquieu, to find the source of our government.
9/22 - A closer look at the three branches of government after Study Check 5.
9/21 - We reviewed the short answer practice before heading on to our other political philosopher, Baron de Montesquieu.
918 - We reviewed how to give a complete answer to a short answer question and then practiced it.
9/17 - Happy Constitution Day! We looked at the purpose of a constitution and how its constructed.
9/16 - We pre-read Lesson 4 from We the People before students read on their own about constitutions.
9/15 - Looking back further to Athens and the "demos"
9/14 - We started to look at the Founders use of the Roman Republic as a model for a new government.
9/11 - After Study Check 2 we all met in the pod to talk about where history tells us we might be in another 25 years from September 11th.
9/10 - More on John Locke and our Natural Rights and this was our Open House presentation
9/9 - Our first study check then we pre-read about John Locke before going into Lesson 2 about him in We the People, our text.
9/8 - A "ketchup" day - a chance to get caught uo on missing assignments after we prepared for tomorrow's study check.
9/4 - A look at the differences in the colonies.
9/3 - How the colonies began to develop to be different from their mother countries was the topic of the day.
9/2 - We introduced lots today! We signed into Actively Learn and gave it a test run, we made a map of the 13 colonies, and (hopefully) got into EdPuzzle and learned a bit about those colonies.
9/1 - Primary Election - PD Day - No school for students
8/31 - With the Primary Election tomorrow we discussed what political parties are and what a primary is.
8/27 - We gathered in the pod to answer questions from the U.S. Citizenship Test. By the end of the year they will all score 100% (but you only need a 60% to pass).
8/26 - Welcome to 8th Grade Civics! Today we went over classroom expectations, setup our Daily Question sheet, and logged into our Google Classroom to complete a form. We were busy!