Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

18

New MS student orientation 9-11 A.M.

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Classes begin

In class:

1. pick PIN numbers

2. think-pair-share on Native Americans

3. fill in chart on Native American cultures

Homework:

1. Read textbook pp. 27-31 "Crossing to the Americas" and answer questions 3.a,b,c on p.31 - complete sentences.

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In class:

1. headlines

2. discuss homework reading questions

3. finish chart on Native American cultures

Homework:  

1. Fill out Native-European questionnaire and write a paragraph agreeing or disagreeing with one statement

2. for practice, do the matching activities at quia.com.

21

School picnic 6 P.M. 

In class:

In computer lab:

1. turn in paragraphs

2. Iroquois Webquest 

Homework:

none

22

Convocation 8:15 A.M.

In class:

1. analyze ancient maps and mark the "known world"

2. compass mapping activity – chart the school in teams

Homework:

none

25

In class:  

1. headlines

2. Fill in chart on explorers

3. go over guidelines for a dialectic journal

Homework:

1. Read "Power of the Press" handout and make a dialectic journal entry

2. For practice on explorers, do the matching activities at quia.com.

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In class:  

1. Headlines / discuss homework reading

2. Finish chart on explorers, if needed

Homework:

1. Read textbook "Early European Explorers" pp. 49-53 OR pp. 61-66 "Spain claims an empire" and make a journal entry

27

In class:  

1. Headlines/

discuss homework

2.hallway murder activity

3. PROP – evaluating sources packet

4. class time to start summer reading project -

Homework:

Work on summer reading project

28

In class:  

 1. summer reading project

Homework:

Work on summer reading project

29

In class:  

1. summer reading project

2. give out study guide for exploration test

*by this day, all summer reading projects should be completed*

Homework:

none

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

1

LABOR DAY

2

In class:  

1. headlines/

discuss homework

2. Read handout “France in America” and practice selective underlining

Homework:

study for Exploration test 

3

In class:  

1. read and discuss “New France” handout and prepare a journal entry

3. team competition on Native cultures and explorers

Homework:

study for Exploration test 

4

In class:  

1. headlines

2. Take notes on Elizabethan England

4. Practice Elizabethan English

Homework:

study for Exploration test 

5

In class:

1.headlines

2. Finish Elizabethan notes

Homework:

none

8

In class:  

1.headlines

2. Critical thinking activity: “What Happened to Roanoke?”

2. Survival survey – "People Make a Difference"

Homework:

1. read textbook pp. 85-89 “Early Colonies have mixed success” and do journal entry

9

In class:  

1. headlines

2. discuss homework

3. Compare your roster to the Jamestown settlers, discuss

4. Read “The First Virginia Charter" and answer questions

Homework:

1. Do activity on "Rights of Englishmen"

10

In class:  

1. On the shores of the James River -- Rights of Englishmen

2. compare & paraphrase key documents Magna Carta, Petition of Right, English Bill of Rights 

Homework:

study for Exploration test

11

Middle school parents' night 7 P.M.

In class:  

1. headlines

2.  Take notes on tobacco &

indentured servants (read Gottleib's account of the passage - yuck!)

3. make quills & fill out indenture contracts

Homework:

study for Exploration test

12

In class:

1. Exploration test

Homework:

none

15

In class:  

1. Headlines

2.  Who was Nathaniel Bacon?

3. Read background essay on Bacon’s Rebellion

Homework: 

1. read primary document: "Thomas Matthews narrative 1705" and answer questions

16

In class

1. discuss Bacon's Rebellion

2. present skits based on "Thomas Matthews narrative 1705"

3. Cause and effect -- Bacon's Rebellion and slave labor

Homework:

1. Read primary document on slave trade: The account of Olaudah Equiano

17

In class:

1.  African music activity

2. Discuss Olaudah Equiano

3. Team competition on Virginia colony

Homework:

Read textbook "New England Colonies" pp. 92-97 & do 2-column notes

18

In class:  

1. Headlines

2.  Model QAR questions & discuss 

"New England Colonies" pp. 92-97

Homework:

1. Read "Of Towns, Schools, and Sermons" & write QAR questions

19

In class:

1. journal review/ discuss readings

2.  journal: will the separatists stay together

3. Read & discuss primary document: Mayflower Compact

Homework:

1. none

22

In class:

1. Critical thinking activity: "What caused the Salem witch hysteria?"

2. Watch clip from The Crucible

Homework:

1. finish activity on Salem witch trials

23

In class:

1. Prepare for Puritan Trial

2. Team competition

Homework:

prepare for trial

24

In class:

 Puritan Trial

Homework:

none

25

In class:

1. headlines 

2. Fill in chart on 13 colonies

3 . read “Roots of Representative Govt.” pp. 141-145 & underline

Homework:

finish “Roots of Representative Govt.” pp. 141-145 & underline

26

 In class:

1. headlines

2. finish chart on 13 colonies

3. Go over study guide for Early Colonization test

homework:

none

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

9/29

In class:

In computer lab:

1. Read guidelines for Colonial Faire

2. begin researching colony with partner

Homework:

work on Colonial Faire

9/30

In class:

In computer lab:

work on Colonial Faire

Homework:

work on Colonial Faire

1

In class: 

In computer lab:

work on Colonial Faire

Homework:

review for Early Colonization test

2

In class:

In computer lab:

work on Colonial Faire

Homework:

review for Early Colonization test

3

Founders Day

In class:

1. Early Colonization test

6

Yom Kippur

 Student Holiday Teacher Inservice 

7

In class:

1. Headlines

2. Colonial Economy Game

3. work on Faire project

homework:

work on Faire project

8

In class:

1. headlines

2. Colonial Economy Game

3. work on Faire project

homework:  

work on Faire project

9

In class:

1. headlines

2. work on Colonial Faire -- all materials must be ready

homework:  

last night to work on Faire!

10

END FIRST QUARTER

COLONIZATION FAIRE TODAY!