September 30th, 2016

Students,

Today was....interesting to say the least...I ended up calling an audible and we flopped the schedule to place America the Story of Us: Revolution today. Please finish up the video if you were only here half of the class thanks to college fair. Your Cornell Notes over it will be due on Monday.

REMINDERS:

Blog post homework is due 10/3

Test will be October 11th

September 29th, 2016

Students,

Today we trudged through the first conflicts of the civil war. Establishing major characters, events, and attitudes held by the primary participants of the American Revolutionary War. Tomorrow we will be examining several different declarations of independence in an attempt to establish constants within each document. See link below for a link to the PPT.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Br2RBwz0R7eS1BWUxIMFZYQzA/view?usp=sharing

Reminders:

Plan on your test being October 11th! (Review will go up on Tuesday)

Do not forget to submit your video response homework by midnight on 10/3 if you are sending it on the blog.

September 28th, 2016

Students,

Today we followed up on information regarding the policies that Britain implemented in an attempt to bring the colonies to heel. The Acts! If you were absent see the link below for a blank G.O.

Graphic Organizer Link

REMINDERS:

End of the six weeks is Friday make sure retests are done by then

Your Reluctant Revolutionary Homework is due on Monday 10/3

September 27th, 2016

Students,

Today we mostly finished walking the road to revolution within the colonies. Please see below to finish up what we were un-able to get to, or catch up if you were absent.

LINK TO PPT

We should be working with this for approximately three days.

September 26th, 2016

Students,

Today we took a breather from PPT and enjoyed the PBS documentary Liberty: Reluctant Revolutionaries. This documentary exposes both sides of the lead up to the revolution showing us that both sides American and British share the blame for the distrust and resentment held between the two.  For Homework tonight please review your notes and respond to one of the prompts below.

Instructions: please type your reply and keep the length between 150-250 words. You may post your response on the blog or you may print it out. If you print, do not forget to include a full heading (name, class / period, date) on the left hand margin. The assignment number will be 3. This will be due on Monday October 3rd!

Prompt 1:

During the decade before the outbreak of war, what were the two major attitudes of the colonists toward Parliament and the British Empire?

Prompt 2: 

What could have prevented the colonists' declaring independence and going to war?


If you completely zoned out during the video here is a link for you to refresh your memory:

September 22nd and 23rd, 2016

Students,

Today we began walking the road to revolution within the colonies. If you were absent please see below for the PPT presentation.

LINK TO PPT

We should be working with this for approximately three days.

September 21st, 2016

Students,


Today we are going to zoom in on a writing skill that gives a large portion of you an inordinate amount of trouble, the thesis. I have provided you with a formula:

 Y; a, b, c therefore X

Hopefully this helps, for more information please see the attached power point

LINK TO PPT

REMINDERS

The last day for your make-up assignments (excepting the retest) is Friday the 23rd!

September 20th, 2016

Students,

Today you either finished your DBQ portions that I requested or peer reviewed each others papers. Just a friendly reminder to do your homework!

September 19th, 2016

Students,

Today we continued to work on our DBQ from 1993, and we worked together to HIPP several of the documents. Tomorrow we will be peer reviewing your finished products so come with your red pens or pencils in hand!

LINK TO DBQ

September 16th, 2016

Students,

Sorry this blog post is late. Today we had our binder check, please make sure these are ready to go for me ASAP if you were absent.

We also began to work on a DBQ from 1993 which revolves around the differences between the Northern and Southern colonies. please see link below:

LINK TO DBQ 


Requirements:

HIPP all 8 documents
Introductory paragraph
one body paragraph

September 15th, 2016

Students,

Tests were bad, make up tests are available before and after school through September 29th.

Today we talked about DBQ's feel free to peruse the ppt we went over in class below.

Link to PPT

REMINDER:

Note Book Check tomorrow

September 14th, 2016

Students,

Today we tested...lets all cross our fingers and hope they are fantastic.

REMINDERS:

Binder Check is on Friday the 16th.

September 13th, 2016

Students,

Today we finished up our colonial conflicts activity with a gallery walk. Hopefully you were able to discern the needed information from you peers write-ups. The posters as a whole were fantastic, and I hope you enjoyed this alternative to power point. If you were absent you will need to find a friend to complete the Graphic Organizer you began on Thursday and Friday last week

REMINDERS

Your homework was due on Monday the 12th: Link to the blog post

Bindercheck will be Friday the 16th.

Test tomorrow Wednesday the 14th. Link to Review

September 12th, 2016

Students,

Today we look at the second half of life in the colonies 1700-1775; generalizations on economies, population, religion, and we dipped our toes into the great awakening. If you were absent please see below for a copy of the power point.

LINK TO POWER POINT

REMINDERS

Your homework is due on Monday the 12th: Link to the blog post

Bindercheck will be Friday the 16th.

Test Wednesday the 14th. Link to Review

september 8th and 9th, 2016

Students,

Today we took a different approach to group work and got our creative juices flowing. We are creating propaganda posters for different conflicts that had a major impact on colonial development. Including; King PHillips War, the English Civil War, Bacon's Rebellion, and the Glorious Revolution.

We came together as groups did our due research and created fantastical posters that delight all who gaze upon them. We will continue this activity tomorrow.

just a reminder you have homework that is due on Wednesday September 16th click the link below for details.

REMINDERS

Your homework is due on Monday the 12th: Link to the blog post

Bindercheck will be Friday the 16th.

Test Wednesday the 14th. Link to Review

September 7th, 2016

Students,

Today we finished up our "growing groups" activity and put a nice little bow on our colonies information. If for some reason you do not have yours filled out or at all please click the link below for another copy.

Graphic Organizer

REMINDERS

Your homework is due on Monday the 12th: Link to the blog post

September 6th, 2016

Today we finished up the notes on colonial life that we began on Friday last week.

PPT for colonial Life

In addition we began to examine the founding of the original colonies. Who started them? Why did they bother to do so? How did they make their money? these were just a few of the questions we took  a look at. We implemented a 1- 3 - 6 protocol to make sure the vast amount of information was shared with everyone. Below is the graphic organizer we used. If you were absent, you can fill in the chart from the web, or you should feel free to drop by my tutorials (3:30 - 4:00) to get time with the books.

Graphic Organizer

Important things to remember and bring to discussion tomorrow morning;
Not all colonies were founded by the kindest of people (Georgia) was initially a debtors colony.
Religion played a large role in the motivations of colonists.




Homework Assignment - Due September 12th

You will need to complete the following readings and reply on the blog (Post September 6th) to the following question. In addition you are asked to reply to one of your classmates to further the discussion. 

Link To Brinkley - read border lands and middle grounds 42-47
Web Article

Respond : To what extent did the development of slavery contribute to the economic, social, and political organization of the southern colonies.

Address the following in your response; (prior knowledge and reading)

• Theory of mercantilism
• Reasons for settlement of the Chesapeake region
• Relationship with Native Americans
• Why elites came from Europe to the Americas? became what sort of land owner?

Dont forget comment on one classmates response to the question. Please keep it civil, to keep the discussion flowing.

September 2nd, 2016

Students,

Today we took at look at colonial life between 1607 and 1770 this broad time period is full of developments that play into large historical events further down the road (i.e. The American Revolution and the Civil War)

Geography and culture played a big part in the formation of the character of these colonies and it was those aspects that we took a closer look at today. Power point below

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Br2RBwz0R7RTAxaW5JaWFGZUk/edit?usp=sharing


For those that still need the information for the Round Robin reading on Thursday:

Link to Handout

Brinkley pages for each section: for those absent

French / Dutch     - page 22
Spanish                - page 10 and 12
English                 - page 19 and 23
Relevant sections - pages 7, 12, and 20