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Samoset Homework Calendar / Planbook September / October 201

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Aim all Classes: Welcome to 8th Grade Social Studies.

Go over the Honors Summer Project

Getting to Know You Bingo

How to share your Google Drive documents with me.

Google Presentation: Classroom Rules and Expectations.

Classroom Expectations, goals and rules

Class Syllabus

Class Procedures

All Classes Homework: Create a 911 Cinquain. Due Friday 9/9

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Aim all classes: How can we use Technology in Education to be more productive.

All classes report to the Computer Lab

Class Period	Code
Period 1	wmbdceb
Period 4	5gs5ed
Period 6	h8hdoj
Period 7	cb45r8p
Period 8	1baong6

8
Aim all Classes: Baseline tests for the 2015 school year.

Honors Classes: Watch the YouTube Video on Reconstruction. You will have a short quiz on the video. Due Friday 9/9

Regents Classes Homework: Complete the Reconstruction HW#1 Packet Due Friday 9/9

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Aim Honors Classes: How do you outline for understanding and recall? The Reconstruction summer project.

How to outline.
What problems did the U.S. Face following the end of the Civil War?

Aim Regents Classes: What were the main challenges faced during Reconstruction in reunifying the nation?

Google Presentation: The Reconstruction Period

Reconstruction Common Core Curriculum reading and essential questions.

Regents Classes Homework: Complete the Reconstruction HW#2 Packet Due Monday 9/12

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Aim all Classes: Presentation and commemoration of the events of September 11, 2001.

All Classes Report to the Little Theater

Regents Classes Homework: Complete the Reconstruction HW#3 Packet Due Tuesday 9/13

13
Aim all Classes: What were the differences between Lincoln's plan, Johnson's and Radical Reconstruction?

Reconstruction Video Questions

Google Presentation: Reconstruction Part 1

Google Presentation: Reconstruction Part I alternative.

Google Presentation: The End of Reonstruction

Lincoln's 10% Plan
Johnson's Plan
The Radical Reconstruction Plan of Congress

Regents Classes Homework: Complete the Reconstruction HW#4 Packet Due Thurssday 9/15

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Aim all Classes: How did Constitutional amendments and the federal legislation expand the rights and protect the citizenship of African Americans?

Students will examine the Reconstruction Amendments (13th, 14th and 15th amendments)
Students will examine the Freedmen's Bureau's purpose, successes and the extent of its success.
Students will examine the effects of the sharecropping system on African Americans.
Students will examine the reasons for the migration of African Americans to the North.

Readings on Jim Crow, Voting Restrictions, Plessy and the Ku Klux Klan

15
Aim all Classes: How were the Federal initiatives begun during Reconstruction were challenged on many levels, leading to negative impacts on the lives of African Americans?

Students will explore methods used by Southern state governments to affect the lives of African Americans, including the passage of Black Codes, poll taxes, and Jim Crow laws.
Students will explore the responses of some Southerners to the increased rights of African Americans, noting the development of organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan and White Leagues.
Students will examine the ways in which the federal government failed to follow up on its promises to freed African Americans.
Students will examine the effects of the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling.

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Aim all classes : How do you write a persuasive essay on Reconstruction?

Students will identify what a persuasive essay is.
Students will practice writing a thesis statement.
Students will learn how to write body paragraphs and conclusions.
Students will start to write their own persuasive essays about the Reconstruction era.?

All Classes Homework: Finish your Reconstruction essay due Friday September 23.

All Classes Homework: The Western Frontier Homework: Section 1 The Mining Boom
Due Tuesday 9/20

19
Aim all Classes: Presentation and commemoration for Constitution Day

All Classes Report to the Little Theater

All Classes Homework: Western Frontier Homework: Section 2 Ranchers and Farmers
Due Wednesday 9/21

20
Aim all Classes: What were the effects of Manifest Destiny on mining, railroads and cattle?

Topics:
California Gold Rush, The Transcontinental Railroad, Manifest Destiny, Barbed Wired, Sod Busters

Links:
Google Presentation: Mining and the Gold Rush in the West

Google Presentation: Into the West

Google Presentation Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion

Google Presentation Mining, Railroads and Cattle

All Classes Homework: The Western Frontier Homework: Section 3 Native American Struggles Due Thursday 9/22

21
Aim all Classes: Farmers Stuggle as they expand West?

Topics:
The Homestead Act The Transcontinental Railroad
Manifest Destiny
Barbed Wired
Sod Busters
Climate and New Farming Methods

Links:
Google Presentation: Farmers struggle as they expand West.

All Classes Homework: The Western Frontier Homework: Section 4 Farming in Protest Due Friday 9/23

22
Aim all Classes: Why did Native Americans struggle as settlers expand the nation west?

Topics:
The Railroads and the Buffalo, Reservation Life, The end of the Indian Wars, A Changing Culture and the Dawes Act. Native American Boarding Schools

Links:
Google Presentation: Westward Expansion and the Changing Lives of Native Americans

Google Presentation: Manifest Destiny Change the Lives of Native Americans

Google Presentations Native American Struggles

Native American Struggles Handout

23
Aim all Classes: How did William Jennings Bryan and the Populist Party work to help the plight of farmers in America?

Topics:
Populist Reforms (Government control of RR's and telegraph, currency and free silver, direct election of Senators, the secret ballot, short work hours, progressive income tax, ?The Homestead Act, Sodbusters, Dry farming Barbed Wire

Links:
Google Presentation Farmers Unite the Populists and Free Silver

Song: The Farmer is the Man

The People's Party Political Cartoon

All Classes Homework: Complete the test review sheet due Tuesday 9/27

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Aim all Classes: How did the Populist Party work to help the plight of farmers in America?

Links:
Google Presentation Farmers Unite the Populists and Free Silver

Song: The Farmer is the Man

The People's Party Political Cartoon

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All Classes Test Review Today on Reconstruction and Westward Expansion

Jeopardy Review

Regents Classes Homework:Read the Industrialization Homework #1: Inventions in Google Classroom. and complete the essential questions. Due Thursday 9/29

Honors Classes Homework: Outline Industrialization Homework #1: Inventions in Google Classroom. Due Thursday 9/29

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Test Today All Class: District Unit Test on Reconstruction and Westward Expansion

29
Aim: Inventions, Henry Ford, the Assembly Line and Mass Production.

Google Presentation: Railroads Lead the Way (for 2017 could be the lesson prior to this.)

Google Presentation on Edison, Ford and Jobs

Worksheet for Edison, Ford, Jobs and the economy.

Google Presentation on Inventions

Inventions Graphic Organizer

Thomas Edison and the Electric Light bulb Video

Frankenstein Movie 1910 Edison

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Aim: Inventions, Henry Ford, the Assembly Line and Mass Production. Core Curriculum Lesson. Essay writing in class today.

Video: Henry Ford and the Assembly Line

Henry Ford and the Assembly Line Handout and Essay Assignment.

Honors Classes Homework:
Outline Industrialization Homework 2: Age of Big Business in Google Classroom. Due Wednesday 10/5

Regents Classes Homework:
Industrialization Homework #2: Read Age of Big Business in Google Classroom . and complete the essential questions. Due Wednesday 10/5