1st 9 Weeks Test is Wednesday covering Units 1,2,3.

Monday:   Students will review information covered this 9 weeks:  Unit 1:  Thinking like a Historian and Unit 2:  Colonial America.

Tuesday:   Students will review information covered this 9 weeks:  Unit 3:  American Independence

Wednesday:   1st 9 Weeks Exam

Thursday:   Students will complete their Reporting Categories chart.  (Examine and discuss 1st 9 Weeks Test.  Students will take ownership in their learning by examining the questions and analyzing students’ strenghts and areas of concern on  each test. The following categories are tested on each unit exam as well as on the STAAR test in April. 

Reporting Category 1 (Demonstrate an understanding of issues and events in U.S. History)

Reporting Category  2 (Demonstrate an understanding of geographic and cultural influences on historical issues and events)

Reporting Category 3   (Demonstrate an understanding of the role of government and the civic process on historical issues and events)

Reporting Category 4 (Demonstrate an understanding of economic and technological influences on  historical issues and events)

Friday:  Introduce Unit 4:  Address the creation and the adoption of the United States Constitution including a study of ideas and compromise.

Monday:   Compare the physical geography in the American colonies and how it affected settlement and economic patterns in the region.  (13English Colony Quiz on Wednesday)

Assign “Letter Home” writing assignment.  Due Friday by 7:30 AM. (Test grade)

Tuesday:   Analyze the effects of physical and human geographic factors such as weather, landforms, waterways, transportation, and communication.  (similarities and differences).

Wednesday:   Explain the importance of documents and colonial legislative bodies to the growth of representative government.  How does religion contribute to this as well?  (Compare the impact of Thomas Hooker, Charles de Montesquieu, and John Locke in the development of self-government in colonial America as well as Eliza Lucas Pinckney, Anne Hutchinson, and Pocahontas and the role of women in American society during Colonial times.). 13 English Colony Quiz

Thursday:   Analyze the importance of the Mayflower Compact, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, and the Virginia House of Burgesses to the growth of representative government.

Friday:  Explain reasons for the development of the plantation system, the transatlantic slave trade, and the spread of slavery.  Letter Home assignment due by 7:30 AM.

 

Monday:   Identify reasons for English, Spanish, and French exploration and colonization of North America. (Assign vocabulary terms.  Due Wednesday, quiz on Wednesday)

Tuesday:   Examine places of settlements  in Colonial America..   Explore the physical geography in the American colonies affected settlement and economic patterns in the region.

Wednesday:   Compare political, economic, religious, and social reasons for the establishment of the 13 English colonies. Vocabu lary terms due.  Quiz.

Thursday:   Analyze and compare places and regions of Colonial America in terms of physical and human characteristics.(Similarities and differences)

Friday:   Explain the reasons for the growth of representative government and institutions during the colonial period.