Monday, April 28, 2008

syllabus april 28

syllabus - week of April 28
social studies

Monday: Class review for Tuesday test
Prepare essay questions - quiz game

homework: study for test !!!

+ 8:15 study session on Tuesday +

Tuesday: Test today !!!

Wednesday: Current Events

Thursday: Field Trip
If time allows - introduction to film: SWING KIDS - A LOOK AT PRE-WORLD WAR II EFFECTS OF NAZI INFLUENCE ON YOUNG PEOPLE

Friday: Try to complete the film and film study work sheet

+ Remember Crop Walk on Sunday +

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

CHANGE

!!! TEST ON TUESDAY NOT MONDAY !!!

Monday, April 21, 2008

syllabus April 21

Syllabus for April 21

Monday: Complete film Cinderella Man and accompanying worksheet due tomorrow
Try to complete our kites

Assign: Sources in history sheets [worksheets]

Tuesday: Kite Flying - depression style [weather permitting]
John Steinbeck reading on Migrant Camps

Assign: answer questions from Steinbeck stories

Wednesday: Review all for acts, add more Steinbeck share slave narratives
Go over text section 4

Assign: analyzing sources parts 1 and 2

Thursday: Institute Day
Begin to study for Depression Test

+ Practice for test by doing review and assessment on your own on pages 796-797 in text +

Friday: Test review for Monday - use whole period to do so

+ Monday extra review session 8:15 C405 +

Monday, April 7, 2008

syllabus april 7

Social Studies - Week of April 07

Monday: End of the Roaring 20s
Complete quiz game and study guides

Assign: Text - pages 752 - 756
On 755, do all of #1 and 2 and 7
On 756 do Practice # 3 and 4

Tuesday: Discuss, Analyze Stock Market Crash
Use information from readings, charts, and graphs

Assign: Depression vocabulary and Primary Source sheet

Wednesday: Film on the Crash - notes, compare and contrast

Assign: Read text 776 - 781
Do Comprehension and Critical Thinking 1 and 2
Analyze artifacts

Thursday: Background - Grapes of Wrath
Present to Class
Steinbeck quotes, etc.
Photo Analysis

Friday: Film - Surviving the Dust Bowl
Questions to follow along with film

Ask your families if there is anyone who lived through the Great Depression that would like to come to lunch. Tell Ms. Walsh Farmar.