Lesson Plans for Feb 25 - Feb 29 '08


AMERICAN HISTORY

Monday

Content

I. Chapt 8: Age of Reform (in text)

Work in comp lab on research and tech skills on web pages

Report topics on "Chicago"

Objectives

The students will: 1). Research their topics on Chicago. 2). locate at least 3 sources for their reports

Procedures

Research on individual topics
Materials: Comp lab, report topics.

Homework:Read begin pp. 246.


Remember to write a journal entry

Tuesday

Content

Same as Monday..Research-Chicago Reports.

Objectives
Same as Monday.

Procedures: same as Monday.

Materals: same as Monday.

Read pages:246-265.

Homework:

Remember to write a journal entry

Wednesday

Content

In comp lab, continue with Research.

Besure to have web page complete.

Continue working on reports

Objectives
The students will: 1). same as Monday.

Procedures:continue working on reports.

Materials: same as Monday.

Read pages:231-237

Homework:Read assignment

Remember to write a journal entry

Thursday

Content: Siclair Lewis, Muckraking and The Jungle.

Power point over above.

Objectives

The students will: 1). have slide show ready with slides, and all required features.

Procedures: students will take notes and ask questions as appropriate.

Materials: Powerpoint "Sinclair Lewis".

Read pages: Chicago reports begin Monday.

Homework:

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Remember to write a journal entry

Friday

Content:

CURRENT EVENTS

Discuss current events for the past week in class. All students should participate, by introducing an event, or contributing to one already presented for discussion. Events may involve international, national, state, local, or school news. Events should be "current"..ie. have happened recently.

Objectives:

The students will: 1). discuss current events in class 2). read a newspaper in class to gain information about local, state, national, and international occurrances.

Procedures:

Materials:Tribune Review

Read pages:NA

Homework: NA

Remember to write a journal entry

Project:

Tests

Test are given on the dates decreed by the administration. Tests are usually scantron type tests. That is, Multiple Choice, True/False, Matching, and/or Short Answer.
All "make up" tests are essay type. Make up day is, in class on Friday, unless other arrangements are made. All tests MUST be made up NO LATER than 2 weeks prior to the end of the grading period.

Notebooks

Notebooks are required for this class and must be brought to class every day. A grade is given each 9 weeks for the notebook. Be sure yours is up-to-date and all work is in it. Notebook checks are unannounced, so be sure you have yours with you EACH day for class. No locker visits are permitted to go get it.

Homework

LATE HOMEWORK IS NOT ACCEPTED. If you are legally absent from school, for each day of school that you miss, you will have that same number of days to make up homework. For example, if you are absent from school for 3 days, homework must be turned in NO LATER than 3 days AFTER the due date.

All homework MUST have a heading: your first name and your last name, the name of the class, and period, and the date.

This is the heading:

YOUR NAME

PA-4 (your class period)

Date

PENNSYLVANIA STANDARDS FOR UNITED STATES HISTORY


Standards which correspond to lesson plans are indicated by a *

8.1 Historical Analysis and Skills Development


8.1.12

12th Grade


A. Evaluate Chronological Thinking


*1. Sequential order of historical narrative
*2. Continuity and change
*3. Context for events

B. Synthesize and Evaluate Historical Sources


*1. Literal meaning of historical passages
*2. Data in historical and contemporary maps, graphs, and tables
*3. Different historical perspectives
4. Data presented in maps, graphs, and tables
*5. Visual data presented in historical evidence

C. Evaluate Historical Interpretation of Events


*1. Impact of opinions on the perception of facts
*2. Issues and problems in the past
*3. Multiple points of view
*4. Illustrations in historical stories and sources
*5. Connections between causes and results
*6. Author or source of historical narratives' points of view
7. Central issue

D. Synthesize Historical Research


*1. Historical event (time and place)
*2. Facts, folklore, and fiction
*3. Historical questions
*4. Primary sources
5. Secondary sources
6. Conclusions
(e.g.,History Day projects, mock trials, speeches)

*7. Credibility of evidence
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8.3 UNITED STATES HISTORY


8.3.12

12th Grade


A. Identify and evaluate the political and cultural contributions of individuals and goups to United States history from 1890 to present


*1. Political leaders
(e.g., Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt)

*2. Military leaders
(e.g., John Persing, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight D. Eisenhower)

3. Cultural and commercial leaders
(e.g., Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Langston Hughes, Alan Greenspan)

4. Innovators and Reformers
(e.g., Wilbur and Orville Wright, John L. Lewis, Dr. Martin Luther King)

B. Identify and Evaluate Primary Documents, Material Artifacts, and Historic Sites Important in United States History from 1890 to present


*1. Documents
2. 20th Century Writings and Communications
(e.g.,Coolidge's "The Business of America is Business," King's, "I Have a Dream," Armstrong's, "One Small Step for Man")

3. Historic Places
(e.g., Ellis Island, Pearl Harbor, Los Alamos)

C. Evaluate How Continuity and Change have Influenced United States History from 1890 to present


*1. Belief systems and religions
(e.g., 20th Century Movements, religions of recent immigrants)

*2. Commerce and industry
(e.g., corporations, conglomerates, multinational corporations)

*3. Innovations
(e.g., the Tin Lizzie, radio, WWW)

*4. Politics
(e.g., New Deal legislation, Brown vs Topeka, isolationist/non isolationist debate)

5. Settlement patterns
(e.g., suburbs, large urban centers, decline of city population)

*6. Social organization
(e.g., compulsory school laws, court decisions expanding individual rights, technological impact)

*7. Transportation and Trade
(e.g., expansion and decline of railroads, increased mobility, Internet)

8. Women's Movement
(e.g., right to vote, women in the war effort, Women's Peace Party)

D. Identify and Evaluate Conflict and Cooperation Among Social Groups and organizatiuons in United States History from 1890 to present


*1. Domestic instability
(e.g., Great Depression, assassination of political and social leaders, terrorist threats)

*2. Ethnic and racial relations
(e.g., internment camps for Japanese-Americans, Montgomery Alabama Bus Boycott, land tensions with Native Americans)

3. Labor relations
(e.g., rise and decline of industrial unions, free trade agreements, imports impact on domestic employment)

4. Immigration and Migration
(e.g., anti-immigrant attitudes, quota laws, westward and southward migration)

*5. Military conflicts (e.g., World War I, World War II, War on Terrorism)

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