Day 84 (Thursday, January 3)
- Activities
- Review Semester Tests
- Part II of Research Project Designs
- Find your notes on the interesting designs you want to do
- Need to show me progress into next week
- Yearlong Project Primary Source Analysis
- Additional Resources
Day 85 (Friday, January 4)
- Activities
- Yearlong Project calendar (9 weeks)
- Yearlong Project Primary Source Analysis (4 more)
- Build project binders
- Continue project designs
- Additional Resources
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Day 86 (Monday, January 7)
- Activities
- Review project calendar (10 minutes)
- Social Studies Skills Video (20-25 minutes)
- Introduce Migration and Immigration Topic
- Additional Resources
Day 87 (Tuesday, January 8)
- Activities
- Historical question (10 minutes)
- Context reading (10 minutes)
- Practice the social studies skill (25-30 minutes)
- Additional Resources
Day 87 (Wednesday, January 9)
- Activities
- Finish social studies skill practice (10-15 minutes)
- Video Lecture 14: Louisiana Purchase (20 minutes)
- Primary Source Analysis work time (15 minutes)
- Additional Resources
Day 88 (Thursday, January 10)
- Activities
- Primary Source Analysis work time (25 minutes)
- Project Designs (15 minutes)
- Additional Resources
Day 89 (Friday, January 11)
- Activities
- Develop thesis and organize main ideas video (10-15 minutes)
- Primary Source Analysis work time (25 minutes)
- Project Designs (25 minutes)
- Four primary source analysis sheets are due
- Additional Resources
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Day 90 (Monday, January 14)
- Activities
- Review project calendar (10 minutes)
- Video Lecture 15: Lewis and Clark (15-20 minutes)
- Thesis Compression (10-15 minutes)
- Students write their thesis into two to three sentences
- Primary Source Analysis work time (Any students that need to finish)
- Additional Resources
Day 91 (Tuesday, January 15)
- Activities
- Reflect over primary sources: video (10-15 minutes)
- Context Reading (5 minutes)
- Read a Trail of Tears passage from classroom book
- Primary Source Analysis for Migration and Immigration (15-20 minutes)
- Skill (5.4) Inferred something about a person, place, or thing based on how the author described it.
- Write thesis and create main ideas (20-25 minutes)
- Take time to explain the process of creating main ideas
- Additional Resources
Day 92 (Wednesday, January 16)
- Activities
- Primary Source Analysis (5.4) Inferring Texas Independence (20-25 minutes)
- Have students compare these notes to their answer they created yesterday
- Design and writing work time (25-30 minutes)
- Primary Source Analysis (5.4) Inferring Texas Independence (20-25 minutes)
- Additional Resources
Day 93 (Thursday, January 17)
- Activities
- Design and writing time (50 minutes)
- Additional Resources
Day 94 (Friday, January 18)
- Activities
- Project Designs due
- Thesis Development
- Answer research question in 3 sentences before moving on
- Connection of thesis to theme: how does your thesis fit into the keywords of the theme (5-7 minutes) Triumph and Tragedy
- Value of thesis: What was the impact (changed, cause/effect) or historical significance (lessons we can learn from it, why should it matter for modern day people) of your thesis? (5-10 minutes) Why does your thesis matter? Who should care?
- Reason 1
- Reason 2
- How can you prove your thesis is true (defend)? Explain. (7-10 minutes)
- Compare thesis statements
- Additional Resources
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Day 95 (Tuesday, January 22)
- Activities
- Thesis Development
- Introduction to immigration reflection and writing assignment
- Prompt about immigration is on Google Classroom
- Students need to select articles
- Additional Resources
Day 96 (Wednesday, January 23)
- Activities
- Half Day
- Read immigration articles and begin to build argument
- Additional Resources
Day 97 (Thursday, January 24)
- Activities
- Thesis Development: Good, Bad, and The Ugly
- Read immigration articles and prepare for discussion
- Read history articles
- Additional Resources
Day 98 (Friday, January 25)
- Activities
- Thesis Development Reflection due
- Read history articles over Migration
- Migration and Immigration Discussion (20-25 minutes)
- Additional Resources
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Day 99 (Monday, January 28)
- Activities
- History Projects
- Project Designs
- Students review thesis development and section writing (15 minutes)
- Read second immigration article (20 minutes)
- Video Lecture 16: Gold Rush (remainder of class)
- Additional Resources
Day 100 (Tuesday, January 29)
- Activities
- Video Description of skill
- Form an opinion about immigration
- History articles about immigration
- Additional Resources
Day 101 (Wednesday, January 30)
- Activities
- Form an opinion about immigration
- Finish history articles about immigration
- Additional Resources
Day 102 (Thursday, January 31)
- Activities
- Design and writing work day (45 minutes)
- Additional Resources
Day 103 (Friday, February 1)
- Activities
- Migration and Immigration Discussion
- Second Designs and Writing Due
- Additional Resources
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Day 104 (Monday, February 4)
- Activities
- Project writing explanation
- Video lecture 17: Immigration
- Additional Resources
Day 105 (Tuesday, February 5)
- Activities
- Additional Resources
Day 106 (Wednesday, February 6)
- Activities
- Finish immigration discussion
- Vocabulary practice (20 minutes)
- Work on year long projects
- Additional Resources
Day 107 (Thursday, February 7)
- Activities
- Writing and project work day
- Additional Resources
Day 108 (Friday, February 8)
- Activities
- Primary Source Analysis (2.3) Corroborating Racism of Immigrants
- All project must be set-up and ready for review
- Additional Resources
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Day 109 (Monday, February 11)
- Activities
- Write a work outline on the board for all projects
Introduce annotated bibliography
Essays are excluded from process paper
Essays: footnotes and endnotes
Process Paper Basics and Outline
- SLC night-parents can review projects
- Projects need to be ready for review
- Additional Resources
Day 110 (Tuesday, February 12)
- Activities
- Peer review of big project writing
- Submit one thing you learned from someone else’s project
- What is one thing you can borrow from that project?
- Project writing
- High School Students Review projects
- Peer review of big project writing
- Additional Resources
Day 111 (Wednesday, February 13)
- Activities
- Peer review of big project writing
- Submit one thing you learned from someone else’s project
- What is one thing you can borrow from that project?
- SLC night-parents can review projects
- Projects need to be ready for review
- Project writing
- Video Lecture: War of 1812
- Peer review of big project writing
- Additional Resources
Day 112 (Thursday, February 14)
- Activities
- Show a 2-3 week plan to Mr. Hamblin on how projects will be improved based on critical feedback.
- Annotated bibliography and process paper check
- SLC night-parents can review projects
- Additional Resources
Teacher Resources
- Rules of Argument
- The Development Process of a Thesis Statement
- Tips for Developing A Strong Thesis Statement
- Youtube Video: What’s Your Point?
- Thesis Development Worksheet
- Thesis Development Worksheet (2)
- Thesis Comparison Worksheet
- More Thesis Comparison: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Thesis Peer Review Sheet
- Thesis Infographic
Additional Ideas
Standards