Day 61 (Monday, November 19)
- Activities
- Secondary Source Challenge: Completely analyze a source and turn it in on Tuesday (Mandatory for all students)
- Resource to prepare for mastery on social studies skills
- Additional Resources
Day 62 (Tuesday, November 20)
- Activities
- Fourth Secondary Source Due
- American Revolution: Primary Source
- Vocabulary Test Retake, must get a 65% or higher
- Additional Resources
Day 63 (Wednesday, November 21)
- Activities
- 8:00-10:30 Movie at the high school
- Additional Resources
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Day 64 (Monday, November 26)
- Activities
- Semester Test Discussion
- Finish Sourcing Skill Analysis
- Choose a book
- Additional Resources
Day 65 (Tuesday, November 27)
- Activities
- Practice Test: Common Assessment (All period)
- The Essay question will be graded for real
- Choose a book
- Practice Test: Common Assessment (All period)
- Additional Resources
Day 66 (Wednesday, November 28)
- Activities
- Introduce the outlining material for the projects (20-25 minutes)
- Something students something intriguing that can be applied to research
- Missing, Incomplete, and Not Passing assignments
- Common Assessment Essay
- 4th Secondary Source Analysis
- Skills Analysis: Primary Sources
- Vocabulary
- Review questions generated from secondary source analysis (10-15 minutes)
- Introduce the outlining material for the projects (20-25 minutes)
- Additional Resources
Day 67 (Thursday, November 29)
- Activities
- Social Studies Skills Discussion (10-15 minutes)
- Review the assessed analysis
- Developing Research Questions (15-20 minutes)
- Creating a Good Research Question (Start at 3:25)
- Developing a Research Question (Start at 3:05)
- Social Studies skills: Intervention videos
- Social Studies Skills Discussion (10-15 minutes)
- Additional Resources
Day 68 (Friday, November 30)
- Activities
- Vocabulary Test Retake, must get a 65% or higher
- Review NHD categories and reflect on which one is best for the group.
- History Video Quiz
- Choose a book
- Additional Resources
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Day 69 (Monday, December 3)
- Activities
- Study Tips with Mr. Boender and Mr. Hamblin (8-10 minutes)
- Go over skills and data collection results (10-35 minutes)
- Creating a Research Question (10-35 minutes)
- Choose and read history book (Remainder of class time)
- Additional Resources
Day 70 (Tuesday, December 4)
- Activities
- Primary Source Analysis video explanation
- Primary Source Analysis: Loyalists During the Revolution
- Read history book
- Additional Resources
Day 71 (Wednesday, December 5)
- Activities
- Creating a Research Question Video (15 minutes)
- Creating a Research Question (10-20 minutes)
- Extra Assignment for Social Studies Skills
- Additional Resources
Day 72 (Thursday, December 6)
- Activities
- Learning More About Your Category (20-30 minutes)
- Primary/Secondary Source quiz and discussion (10-15 minutes)
- Develop Research question
- Book Reading
- Additional Resources
Day 73 (Friday, December 7)
- Activities
- Vocabulary Test Retake, must get a 65% or higher
- Last Day for Lincoln to retake Chapter 5
- Video Lecture 12: How did Britain lose the American Revolution
- Social Studies Skills Study Guide
- Book Reading
- Vocabulary Test Retake, must get a 65% or higher
- Additional Resources
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Day 74 (Monday, December 10)
- Activities
- Geography Bee Quiz (5-10 minutes)
- Social Studies Skills Discussion (5-10 minutes)
- Read Primary vs Secondary Source Article (10 minutes)
- Finish Part I of Yearlong Project Due
- Book Reading
- Additional Resources
Day 75 (Tuesday, December 11)
- Activities
- Review research questions (5-10 minutes)
- Searching for primary sources
- Analysis of yearlong project primary sources
- Part I of Yearlong Project Due
- Book Reading
- Additional Resources
Day 76 (Wednesday, December 12)
- Activities
- Social Studies Skills: Multiple Choice
- Supplemental videos
- Searching for primary sources in books
- Begin Part II of Yearlong Project Design
- Book reading
- Social Studies Skills: Multiple Choice
- Additional Resources
Day 77 (Thursday, December 13)
- Activities
- Vocabulary Test Retake, must get a 65% or higher
- Work on Part II Design (15-20 minutes)
- Project Primary Source Analysis Time
- Book Reading
- Additional Resources
Day 78 (Friday, December 14)
- Activities
- Substitute Teacher
- Video Lecture 13: A Birth of a Nation
- Project Primary Source Analysis Due
- Extra assignment due
- Book Reading
- Additional Resources
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Day 79 (Monday, December 17)
- Activities
- Semester Test
- Social Studies Skills Study Guide
- Race Videos
- Additional Resources
Day 80 (Tuesday, December 18)
- Activities
- Work on Step II of Yearlong Project Design
- Yearlong Project Primary Source Analysis
- Vocabulary Test Retake, must get a 65% or higher
- Last Day for Lincoln to retake Chapter 6
- Additional Resources
Day 81 (Wednesday, December 19)
- Activities
- Semester Test
- Additional Resources
Day 82 (Thursday, December 20)
- Activities
- Work on Step II of Yearlong Project Design
- Yearlong Project Primary Source Analysis
- Vocabulary Test Retake, must get a 65% or higher
- Last Day for Lincoln to retake Chapter 6
- Additional Resources
Day 83 (Friday, December 21)
- Activities
- Half Day Intervention
- Additional Resources
Teacher Resources
- Before and After Activity
Additional Ideas
- Primary Source online tests throughout this unit
- Books being used throughout the weeks
- Student mentors
- Challenges for extrinsic student motivation
- Introduce the shark tank idea (5-10 minutes)
- How will parents be interactive with their students
- Teach students that when they find primary source names that do not work on the website, to take them into google and paste the source’s name.
- Create a video lesson to show how to use a primary source notes. The example below would be fine or use one of the primary source sheets
- Primary Source Sets: Toolkit
Standards