T3 Grade Distribution - SS8

The end of the year project, that had a built in extra credit option, as well as most students doing exceedingly well on the the student created tests for each group project (students had to take three of these tests), gave students an opportunity to do very well this trimester.

Here is the grade breakdown for the Third Trimester - 24 students
A - 11
B - 8
C - 2
D - 1
F - 2

Students demonstrating their learning through a variety of differentiated, and self selected assignments that combined demonstrated their abilities and mastery of the standards for this project. Students managed and tracked each other's progress.  Mr. R tracked and counseled students that fell behind. Students were given a print out page of their Powerschool breakdown on the last full work week in class, the week before the picnic week, to make sure that students were dually notified of late or missing assignments that needed immediate attention.

I hope you all have a great summer, and enjoy your entry into high school!

- Mr. Rodgers

View Exemplary Project Assignments that set the standards

Exemplary Graphics, Fine Arts, and Games - view here

HW week of 0608

This week for homework and in class -
1. Turn in all project assignments

• print all assignments that are not performances and computer category assignments.

2. Turn in any late work based on Powerschool.

• graded work for the past two weeks of assignments will be passed out on Tuesday in order to verify any No Name assignments.
• all graded work including late or makeup work is due on Friday, June 12.

3. Group presentations and Project performance assignments

4. Thursday - Take your group test 15 out of 15 questions. Take two other group project quizzes - earn 10 points by answering 10 of 15 questions correctly.

5. Study for quizzes and tests from group slideshows - STUDY SLIDESHOWS HERE.

• if you do not see your slideshow displayed on the study page, then SEND a link of your slide show to Mr. Rodgers via email.

6. Turn in all textbooks.

In class activities - 06/04

All short written responses:
1. Journal (200 wd min) - If I could change one thing about history - what would it be and why?
2. EQ - What makes a great president great? Use important examples and details.
3. Movie notes.

Textbooks due next Monday or before hand

Please Bring your Social Studies Textbook to class by Monday or next week.

Week of 060115

Due - Detail
0601 -
3 project assignments checked off
emails sent home for students that are behind

0602 -
4 project assignments checked off

0604 -
All project assignments
Group Board complete
Groups ready to make presentations

0605 -
Group continue making presentations

0609 -
Group tests taken - Each student must take
1. your group test (15 questions correct)
2. two other group tests (10 questions correct per other group tests)

Students must complete the Group Project survey - it is worth 5 points

Go HERE and scroll down to GROUP PROJECT SURVEY

Updated President's Project overview

President's Project overview HERE

Zoe raised the issue that the 2 video that each group member must find, was confusing, since it was transferred from the 7th grade MediNations assignment...

Here is the updated video requirement:

Two Video clips about your president or an issue or event that happened during his presidency or a parallel issue that happened during Obama or GW Bush’s presidencies.

Each group member - 5 points

Share on a group document with each link and a 1 sentence description of each video that you found.

In class work today

1. Computer usage REMINDERS -

• Unplug all computers taking group computers
• last five minutes - return AND plug in computers at end of core. 
• (reward for two volunteers that plug in all - rewarded by Mr. R on Friday)

2. Computer survey - 

• interview 4 people from different groups about their group project and their progress
• Group Progress survey HERE

3. Group Project work with computers:

• Complete THIS SURVEY HERE for all of your individual group project work.
• If you have completed all of your project work, then do one EXTRA CREDIT assignment for the project (due no later than next Tuesday)
• Plan out your project board on paper. In order to work on project boards on Friday, you must have a sketched plan.

Week of May 26 - Presidents Project schedule

This week we will have computers in class on Tuesday and Thursday to work on projects

Homework - divide your homework to meet these deadlines for - T, W, Th night
Due - Detail
0526 - One item completed
0528 - Two items completed at the beginning of class
0529 - Three items completed at the beginning of class

Refer back to this link about the project HERE - each group has their own assignment sheets shared with the group

Due 051915 - In class assignment - complete as HW

Due - Detail:

051915 -
As discussed in class on Monday here is the work started in class on Monday, due Tuesday:
HERE
Now that we have completed some basic research on our three Presidents for each group, now is the time to start the actual Project.
- The project timeline for assignments and activities will be covered on Tuesday and posted then.

052115 -
In class, we started the following:

1. Look up your assigned President in your group.
2. Use Wikipedia or other general History site.
3. Create a gdoc and save it in the group shared folder for your group.
4. List and explain the following in 1 -2 sentences each
• Three issues that were important during this presidency
• Three actions or events that occurred during this presidency
5. Save the link in the gdoc of the site you found each piece of information.

052215 - 

In class we started to divide up the project checklist for each group - Complete a rough draft or sketch of your first assignment....

Week of 051115 UPDATED

1. Friday Advisory - If you need to turn in missing assignments, verify grades, or meet if you are receiving a progress report (most grades were posted over two weeks ago), then arrange to see me in Advisory.

Due Date:
051415 - based on in class handouts and directions given in class -
1. Read the Best President article given to your group (you may notate and highlight the article)
2. Summarize the article on Notebook paper by answering these questions:

• Title - The name of person and years as President
• 3 character traits that made this President successful
• 3 actions that this President made as that made a difference DURING his presidency
• 3 events that occurred during his Presidency that he handled either effectively, or not, or that he took credit (or was blamed) for because it happened during his term in office

Groups - 1 - Lincoln; 2 - Jackson; 3 - Jefferson; 4 - Washington; 5 - T Roosevelt

NOTE - In class on Thursday, 0514, we had sufficient time to complete the WORST President reading and summary activity.
WORST President by Groups - 1 - Buchanan; 2 - Garfield; 3 - Tyler; 4 - A Johnson; 5 - Hayes

051515 - 

1. Read the MIDDLE President article given to your group (you may notate and highlight the article)

2. Summarize the article on Notebook paper by answering these questions:

• Title - The name of person and years as President
• 3 character traits that made this President successful
• 3 actions that this President made as that made a difference DURING his presidency
• 3 events that occurred during his Presidency that he handled either effectively, or not, or that he took credit (or was blamed) for because it happened during his term in office

Middle Presidents by Groups - 1 - Monroe; 2 - Cleveland; 3 - Grant; 4 - Polk; 5 - Madison

Week of 050415 - Testing Week Schedule and HW

Testing Schedule:
This week we have a unique testing schedule found HERE. Students must be on time every day to class. 

The starting periods for each day this week are as follows:

M - 1st, T - 2nd, W - 5th, Th - 3rd, F - 6th

ELA testing this week, Math testing next week - 

• Test activities will occur in all Mr. McMullen's Language Arts and Mr. Rodgers's Social Studies classes until the three steps of the testing are complete:
• In Mr. McMullen's class - Period 5 Wednesday (day starts) - ELA test part one
• In Mr. Rodgers's class - Period 3 Wednesday - ELA test part two
• In Mr. Rodgers's class - Period 3 Thursday (day starts) - ELA test part three

HOMEWORK:

Due Friday, May 8 - 

1. Last week we read SS8 Ch 11. Refer back to the book to complete this survey.
2. Complete the President Washington Ch 11 - part 1 - Survey HERE for homework...

Due Wed., May 13 - 

1. last Tuesday HW was assigned in class that did not make it to the blog - bring it to class if you didn't finish it:
• Ch 11 - Write 3 EQ and 3 bullet point detailed answers elements per question.

Small Test on Thursday - study notes for Amendments 8 - 10

Due on Thursday - HW and study for Test
1. Summarize Amendments 9 and 10 in five summary points each amendment
2. Use this handout to review and complete the homework for Amendments 8 - 10 HERE

3. Study for the test on Amendments 1 - 10, the Bill of Rights using these RESOURCES HERE in the activities section of the page

4. The Test will be about:

• Bill of Rights
• Some well known examples
• You will be asked to create two different scenarios that illustrate a problem in the Bill of Rights

Week of 042715

Monday - in class:

1. Take out your Amendments Explained handout
2. Get Chromebook - one person per table gets Chromebooks for each person at table
3. Get a textbook and turn to the Amendments text (p 487) - or you can use an online CONSTITUTION HERE
4. Today you will be working with all of the Amendments in the Bill of Rights 
5. Since we have not worked with Amendments 7 - 10 that much yet, read the Text and Explained parts before you begin today's activities.

Activities:

1. Warm up with this game (10 minutes max) Help Restore the Bill of Rights

2. Watch this review of the Amendments HERE

3. Review the Bill of Rights with these games:

• Bill of Rights- US Courts HERE
• Factmonster
• Matching Quiz - this game uses the standard short hand explanations for each Amendment
• A High School Bill of Rights Quiz - a bit more difficult - can you pass?

Homework - due Tuesday

1. Study for a simple Bill of Rights quiz on Tuesday

2. Use these online flashcards HERE - click the LEARN button to begin

Week of 042015 - UPDATED

Due - Date

0420 -
Class Notes - Most Amendments are powers denied Congress

0421 - ASN: Amendment student scenarios (collected 0423)
1. Resources:
Use a text of the Bill of Rights Amendments
Use this handout - Bill of Rights... Explained to understand each Amendment clearly

2. Read your Assigned Amendment text and the explained handout from the list below.
Using the Bill of Rights (1791) Plus Due Process Explained handout:

3. READ the Following Amendment and the Explained NUMBERED Point under that Amendment

Find your name on this LIST HERE

4. WRITE: Create THREE short written scenarios that illustrate your assigned point for your assigned Amendment


UPDATE:
0423 - 
1. Find a summary of a Supreme Court case related to your assigned Amendment Summary point.
2. In Google, type in various key words related to your summary point.
3. Summarize the case as follows on notebook paper (3 - 5 points per question below):

• basics of case
• the Constitutional Rights question raised
• the findings of the court

4. In Class - Scavenger hunt of examples

0424 - 

1. Find a 1 - 3 minute video that clearly illustrates the issues raised by your summary point.

2. Share the link and a brief summary on THIS SURVEY HERE

Week of 040615

HW Due - Date:
(See below for in class activities)

040715 - each person works on the slide show this week for HW
040915 -
1. Read two of the following articles

• http://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2015/03/04/senate-fails-override-obamas-veto-keystone-xl-pipeline-bill/24391437/ the recent veto of the Keystone Pipeline Bill:
• http://news.yahoo.com/barack-obama-loretta-lynch-u-s--attorney-general-congress-senate-131109200.html pace of Senate confirmation of a nominee for Attorney General

2. Then read the Constitution with the link above at us constitution.net - focus on Article 2, Section 2, second paragraph.

2. Write a summary of the article as follows:
Using these cases, answer these 3 questions. Include information from each article and the two passages from the Constitution to explain your answers in 3 - 4 sentences.

• 1. Do you think that the President should have vetoed the Keystone Pipeline bill. Do you think he should have this power? Why did the Republicans try to overturn his veto in Congress?
• 2. Why do you think the Senate is failing to confirm this nominee for Attorney General? Do they have to move swiftly to confirm her? What do some Republicans think about the nominee.
• 3. Do you think that the Constitution works the way it was intended to work given these two examples? What are the positives about our system, and the negative to our system of getting governmbusiness done?

041015 - Constitutional Article presentations due

In class
040615 -
Students were assigned Articles and sections of the Constitution text in groups.
See Student the list here

• Student groups read the text of the assigned articles and sections.
• Student groups must create a slide show in shared Google Presentation with the following parameters:
• SLIDE SHOW suggested outline HERE
• each slide needs a picture and text (no more than 50 words)
• 5 or more main points, each presented in one or more sides
• two examples or events that illustrate a main point from the Article or Section
• include the URL and title of the event on the ending Notes slide
• find a video that illustrates a key point or example (total of 6 minutes of video)
• Due by end of class on Thursday (We have computers 
• Present in class on Friday.

Sub Plans Thursday.

Hi folks...
1. Work assigned in class will be collected on Friday.
2. All work assigned this week is due on Friday.
3. Quiz on Powers denied Congress on Friday.

Week of 033015 - Article One and Two

Due - Date
0331 -
Watch Crash Course Constitution - enjoy.
Be ready to discuss elements of this video.
On notebook paper - review the video in order to get three complete ideas from the video about the Constitution

• Write three ideas raised in the video
• Write 3 details raised in the video, or in the One Minute Constitution packet overall that are examples of the the different ideas you recorded from the video.

In class: 

Watch Crash Course - How a Bill becomes a law
Use your How a bill becomes a law handout (both sides) to help follow the video.

Review Ten Minute Constitution -

• Special bills and privileges

0402 - 

Read the following Article: Why Spending is Back in Season in Washington

On notebook paper: 

• Write 3 EQ questions based on this article.
• Write 3 bullet point information items that help answer each EQ question.

0403 - Two activities:
1. Quiz on Powers Denied Congress - focus:

• Civil Rights protected by the Constitution - Habeas Corpus, Attainder, Ex Post etc.
• Gifts and titles of nobility
• No taxing goods traded between states
• No direct taxes (16th Amendment repealed this)

You should read the text for Article 1 Section 9 Powers denied Congress here

2. Homework: 

Goal: Find information from the internet about your See below based on the THIS handout HERE:

passed out in class. As demonstrated in class, it will take about 5 - 10 minutes to find the topic using different search phrases in Google related to your topic.

Written evidence:

a. define the term or concept.

b. explain a real life example that illustrates the concept in a minimum of three to four points.

0327 Homework and handouts

Resources -
Handouts (from class) -

• How does a bill becomes a law
• How a bill becomes a law in the House
• Link - How a bill becomes a law - text explanation
• Video - How a Bill becomes a Law (School House Rock)

Class Notes - Article One

Activity - 

Using the two How a bill becomes a law (and in the House) handouts and/or the Link above

Answer the following questions HERE