This week students should have two goals:

Students will be completing their Research and PowerPoint presentation and then starting on their bottle representation of their character.

This week students will begin their Biography Bottle Projects. After looking at the causes of the Civil War and the differences in the economy and society of the North and South, we will take time to learn about important people of the Civil War through this unique biography project.

I will provide all materials except 2 liter bottles. This includes the head, paint, fabric, glue, buttons, eyes, yarn for hair, etc.  We will be working on the over the next two weeks. With the 4-day weekend, students can get work done at home as well.

This week students will learn about comparative and absolute advantage as they track the life of t-shirt. They will start with the cotton in the United States and watch as it travels around the world to come back on a container ship as a t-shirt. Along the way they will see the people, machines, factories and tariffs that are involved. 

 

Topics like specialization, cheep labor, and tariffs will be discussed.

Students will be learning about the events that increased tensions between the North and the South that led to the Civil War.

We will take this time to discuss tariffs and how they effected the economy and country in 1828 and how they effect us today.

 

Students will also learn about the economic concept of Comparative Advantage. Why did the South focus only on cotton and why did the North and England focus only on manufacturing. We will look at how comparative advantage with cotton the textile industry still works today by following the life of t-shirt.

This week, students will focus on the events that heightened the tensions between the North and South that ultimately led to the Civil War. 

 

The will also focus on slavery and how within all of these events it was present front and center.

Welcome back to social studies and I hope your past three weeks have been historical. This quarter we will look at the effects of a nation expanding west and the two very different political philosophies that were competing for the future of the United States. Two questions we will start with are:

From there we will look at the Causes of the Civil War and begin our Biography Bottle Project

We will be holding regular classes Monday through Thursday and will be completing important assignments, projects and assessments. 

 

This week students will be completing their Westward Expansion Research Projects. Students need to have these completed by Wednesday. This is a big test on their ability to work independently, follow the requirements of their chosen project and be responsible for turning in a quality project on time.

This week students will continue working on their final research project. 

 

 

Hi, and welcome back! I hope you had a restful and fun break! As we start the week, we will reflect on the Thanksgiving holiday and its relationship to Native American Heritage Month which is also in November. We will look at this time of year from multiple perspectives.

In addition, this week students will finish up their exploration of Westward Expansion and how the United States grew and developed. We will look at the events that led to the Mexican-American war and the effects on all people involved. 

This week students will complete their studies of the Oregon Territory by completing a Webquest on what it was like to prepare for and travel the Oregon Trail. Student will then learn about the Mexican Cession and how a border dispute led to the Mexican-American war. Students will get a role from someone involved int he war and mingle as if they were at a tea party to learn about how this war effected a wide range of people.

This week in social studies, students will continue to look at how the United States grew from 13 Colonies to 50 States. This week, students will learn about the history of Texas Independence and the Lone Star Republic. In addition, they will also learn about Mexican-American War by taking on roles and participating in a social gathering where they all share their story and learn about the other.

This week students will learn about the Indian Removal Act and the events that surrounded the forced removal of the Indigenous Peoples of the Southeast United States. Students will watch three short videos to get an overview of these events and use them to answer questions for their Westward Expansion Map project. After, I will divide the class into five groups and assign each group a newsela.com article around the Cherokee, Andrew Jackson, Indian Removal and the Trail of Tears. These groups will read, write and present what is in their article to the class.

This week, students will complete their assignment on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Students will analyze a painting, read and respond to various diary entries from Lewis and Clark and we will track their journey through Google Earth. Students will then watch a video and complete their Westward Expansion map describing how Florida became part of the United States.

Hi, and welcome back! I'm exited to start Quarter 2! This quarter we will focus on how the United States grew from 13 to 50 states in a period known as Westward Expansion. Students will begin by analyzing the painting American Progress by John Gast. Students will then get their map project and begin researching the Louisiana Purchase and including that research on their maps.