Week of January 15-19, 2024

Monday:   School Holiday (MLK Day)

                                                                    MLK Day of Service | Community Outreach

Tuesday:   Explain the causes and effects of the U.S.-Mexican War and their impact on the United States.

Wednesday:  Analyze how physical characteristics of the environment influenced population distribution, settlement patterns, and economic activities in the United States.

                                                                    Manifest Destiny | Summary, Examples, Westward Expansion, & Significance | Britannica

Thursday:   Students will review westward expansion for their test on Friday.  

Friday:   Unit 7:  Westward Expansion test.  Students are always welcome to come by on test day at 7:30 (our classroom) for a last minute review. 

 

 

Week of October 9-13, 2023

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.

Week of September 4-8, 2023

Monday:   Labor Day Holiday.  Labor Day  pays tribute to the contributions and achievements of American workers and is traditionally observed on the first Monday in September. It was created by the labor movement in the late 19th century and became a federal holiday in 1894.Happy Labor Day - Delegate Luke Torian

Tuesday:   Sourcing (who, what, when, where, why) of various individuals that believed governments should be self governing/have a representative goverenment.

Wednesday:  Examine the reasons for the development of the plantation system and the transatlantic slave trade.

Thursday:   Review Unit 2:  Colonial America for the test on Friday.

Friday:   Unit 2:  Colonial America Test

 

August 28-September 1, 2023

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.

 

August 21-25, 2023

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

Developing the Americas:Exploration & Competition - Home

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

Mapping Homework - European Exploration and Colonization

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.