Have a great Thanksgiving Break... See you next week!!!

Next week we will be working on the British Colonies playing card factory project.

We will learn some games and in the course understand key elements of colonial history.

We will also start to write our Colonial Raps and practice our group performances.

Week of 112414

Due Date - Detail
112514

There is no homework this week:

1. In class on Monday, read articles in groups. Summarize and present in class.

2. In class on Tuesday - Start working on playing cards for content - people, events, trends - about your colony groups. We will use these cards to:

• learn event sequence of important colonial events
• understand the relationships between key events, people, and trends
• write poetry and lyrics about our colonial groups

Due Friday - Notes for three days of in class work and homework...

Show evidence of trying and completion of the following from the post below:

HW this week (LINK) - Colony Project research activies

We will finish off this activity in class.

Every person in each group must have unique topics and people for each category.

Granted, finding important women from this time period is difficult and will be discussed further in class on Friday.

As the trimester is coming to a close... grades are being posted...

Problem:
I recently updated all old missing assignments in Power School from Missing to a grade a zero. This undoubtedly lowered some students grades who did not turn in work. Currently all late work and no-name work has been identified and processed.

Solution:
If you have work that is marked as zero, or missing, or the combination of zero-missing, then you need to
1. print out any assignments that are in gdoc format
2. print out a grade sheet for SS8 - you must do this at this point.
3. Attach all assignments in question to the grade sheet
4. highlight the assignments on the grade sheet
5. write the numbers 1, 2, 3, etc next to each assignment in question on the grade sheet
6. lastly, number each piece of paper that is attached with the same number from the grade sheet.
7. turn it in ASAP.
8. I will update any turned in missing or late assignments this weekend.

Week of 111714 - Colony Project

What is the assignment and groups
Assignment due dates and colony group members

Research and Note Requirements explained

Save into a gdoc - shared with Mr. Rodgers, editable, in a new folder - Colony Project

DUE - DETAIL:
111714 -
Notes on:

• Male and Female Person that did historically important things in your colony. 
• Died before 1750.
• For each person - Link, Name, Years, two important details per person

111814 - 

Notes on:

• One Event during the 1600s that had a major impact on your colonial region
• One Event during the 1700s, before 1750, that had a major impact on your colonial region
• For each event - Links, Name of event, years (and dates if available), three details about the event, outcome of event, groups involved

112114 - 

Notes on:

• One important technology, tool, or scientific process used in the colony
• One important trade good from the colony
• For each technology or take good - Links, Name of event, years (and dates if available), three details about the event, outcome of event, groups involved

How well are students reading their homework - an activity to answer this question.

Today, Friday, students were given a time reading comprehension activity (quiz) that tested their comprehension of piece of reading that we had to summarize in writing and was discussed in class on Thursday. Combined with the summary activity and the actual reading of the article, the only homework in class all week, most students spent between 45 to 60 minutes this week that they READ and summarized the article. There was no other homework from this class that could have interfered with this assignment - divided over three days, this activity took students an average of 15 to 20 minutes a night.

Students were given the actual text as well as their notes that they took from the reading (due Thursday). The Friday timed activity required students to write short answers to 10 questions that followed the body of the text. Two questions required some inferences to be made from the text, and the other 8 questions asked students to find information in the body of the reading. 3 - 4 questions offered key terms or details that originated in one sentence in the reading that offered clear clues where the answer was to be found.

This activity was given to verify which students actually read articles thoroughly all the way through before they do homework assignments, such as summarizing a passage. From the discussion on Thursday, it was clear that several students, despite having summary notes could not discuss basic details found in the article.

Several students were very upset on Friday when I announced that I would actually verify that they read for comprehension for reading assignments.

This assignment follows from a review of the reading scores from our first trimester reading assessment given school wide. It is clear that several students have difficulty reading grade level texts and demonstrating understanding through various types of comprehension and writing activities that are vital to the study of history.

The average score out of 10 points possible was a 6.5 correct. Out of 24 students that took the test, 9 students earned an 8 or higher; 4 earned a 7; 3 earned a 6; 8 students earned scores below a 6. This quiz was not a intended to measure whether the text was thoroughly supported in a number of multi modal methods of delivery - it was a check to see if students are reading for thorough understanding when they have reading assignments. The piece corresponded very well to a three day class simulation about early colonial settlement and warfare between various alliance of Europeans and Native American.

The grade will be posted in Powerschool. If parents have any questions about reading performance scores or this or any other assignment in SS8, please email me.

Fort Caroline Short Answer Quiz - you may use the text and your notes in class to answer these questions.

Take the QUIZ here

Schedule for Nov. 17 - 21. Print this and keep it for the week.

Homeroom: go to the first scheduled period for that day

North America - The battle for colonies

North America, Fall 1583

Open text quiz on Friday - based on the Ft. Christina reading - see previous post

There will be a quiz based on the Fort Christina reading assigned this week. Follow this link to that assignment and the reading.

Students may use a teacher supplied copy of the text in class.

Students will be grouped on an in-class followup activity based on their success on the quiz.

Students who miss this quiz will take it next Monday, and complete the follow up activity for homework at the beginning of next week.

Homework due Thursday - Readings and questions

Due Thursday, Nov. 13 -
This assignment is the equivalent of two nights of HW (Monday and Wednesday) divide it in half:

Here is a reading comparing the Spanish and the French versions of a Spanish attack on the French colony in modern Florida, known as Fort Caroline.

READING HERE:
page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4, page 5

(you can print these out, but you can also read them on your computer screen - zoom in to view)

1. Read the entire reading - read the left column on each page first all the way through, then the right column.
2. Notice that the left column on each page is the Spanish version of events, while the right column is the French version.
3. Make a T table  (a comparison table) that covers an entire side of notebook paper vertically in order to compare what each nation said about the event.

Take Notes and write:
4. Use the T table to compare the Spanish vs. French text details for five different parts of the story about the Spanish attack.
5. Be prepared to answer questions about the two different versions when you walk into class on Thursday.

Spring 1582 - to move

Unit Placement spreadsheet

Photo of 1582 Spring Map

Map of territories - 1582 Spring

End of Spring, 1581 - Settlement of North America Simulation

Current unit placement at end of Spring, 1581 here

photograph of the board

Territory map

HW for Thursday Night, 11/06/14 - as discussed in class - find your information for our North American Simulation

Due Friday.

The following homework was discussed in class thoroughly, and is quite simple.

Based on your assigned country or Native America tribe or region - assined nations list is here:

Save a gdoc titled: NASim info Last        (North American Simulation)

If you are playing a European Nation:
1. find a flag used sometime during 1580 - 1640 - copy and paste the image into your doc
2. find the name a prominent ruler from that time period. copy a picture into your document.
3. find three important facts about this ruler.
4. find an important symbol of that nation from that time period, not used in the flag.

If you are playing a Native American tribal nation:
1. find a symbol used by this tribal nation or a tribal group from the region (in the case of Ohio or Kentucky)
2. find a famous person or leader from that time period, or during a time period when they fought to protect their land later in history.
3. find and copy three important facts about this person.
4. find and copy the year that this tribe first fought a European nation, or the time period that this tribe  fought against the United States.

Reading and quiz on Thursday

Read the following two pages - make sure you understand, and can explain, the 8 (numbered) different interactions between Europeans and the America, from Exploration to Imperial Colony.

You must be signed into your school google account to access the readings:

Reading - Page 1 and page 2

Also, examine the two pages of charts and be able to explain which interactions each of these charts illustrate.

Charts - page 1 and page 2

You will be quizzed on these sheets. We discussed these in class on Tuesday.

You will have to match 4 terms to diagrams, and answer four multiple choice questions about the other four terms.

Settlements and European Realities form

Take this survey here

Week of 11/3/14

Due - Date

11-4:

A. Placard:
Research element:
1. Find an appropriate picture on the internet to use for your  research topic (due 10/31)
2. Write a 15 - 25 word summary of the event

Production:
1. 8-1/2 x 11 vertical format placard:

• Top - Title of event at top in larger letters
• Top or bottom - the date or range of years
• picture (hand drawn or internet source) that covers 1/2 of the center of the page
• below the picture - 15 - 25 words that summarizes the key idea and importance of the event
• fill the page, ink and color
• optional to add to quality - border

2. 3x5 illustrated index card

• front: hand drawn picture, and name of event
• back: name of event and date
• ink and color

Daylight Saving - set your clocks back one hour tonight

Daylight Saving - set your clocks back one hour tonight