Monday Content A.Continue: Absolutism Powerpoint notes: cont. Spain France England Austria Prussia Russia Procedures Continue with powerpoint notes Time at end of period to prepare for role play activity: Absolute rulers Objectives The students will: 1). Continue note sheet for Absolutism from powerpoint presentation. 2). Explain the situation which led to absolutism in Europe. 3). Describe the unrest in each of the main countries which resulted in the development of absolutism. 4). Identify the absolute rulers in each country and describe their policies. 5). Describe the types of unrest in each country and how this led to conflict between the monarch and the nobility. 5). Practice their role play presentation as a monarch by: preparing props, biography, and a speech on accomplishments. Materials: powerpoint: absolutism, ppt notes, group assigments by nation, and team leader. Read pages:NA Homework: Continue Absolutism unit. Remember to write a journal entry

Tuesday Content Reading activity A.Continue: Absolutism Powerpoint notes: cont. Spain France England Austria Prussia Russia Procedures Continue with powerpoint notes Time at end of period to prepare for role play activity: Absolute rulers Objectives The students will: 1). Continue note sheet for Absolutism from powerpoint presentation. 2). Explain the situation which led to absolutism in Europe. 3). Describe the unrest in each of the main countries which resulted in the development of absolutism. 4). Identify the absolute rulers in each country and describe their policies. 5). Describe the types of unrest in each country and how this led to conflict between the monarch and the nobility. 5). Practice their role play presentation as a monarch by: preparing props, biography, and a speech on accomplishments. Materials: powerpoint: absolutism, ppt notes, group assigments by nation, and team leader. Materials: PPT notes, PPT: Absolutism, team assignments. Read pages:44-57 Homework: Chap 4. Remember to write a journal entry

Wednesday Content Continue with Absolutism from last week A.Spain B.France C.England D.Prussia and Austria E.Russia Objectives The students will: 1). continue with powerpoint and notes on Absolutism , by filling in the terms on the notes handout. 2). listen quietly, take notes on the main ideas. 3). last 10 minutes, meet with their assigned groups to prepare reports. on their country and its monarchs. 4). define terms from powerpoint, such as: absolutism, divine right of kings, etc. Procedures: Continue with powerpoint on Absolutism from last week. With last 10 minutes, in assigned groups (ranked) to work on project for their country and monarchs. Materials: reports/ visuals/ bibliographies/ notebooks, handout for Renaissance history. Read pages:NA Homework: read Absolutism. Remember to write a journal entry

Thursday CONTENT Reading activity Continue with powerpoint on Absolutism. Any groups ready for presentations may go today. Monday will be last day to preasent. Objectives The students will: (same as Wednesday) Procedures: continue from yesterday. Materials: same as yesterday. Read pages:Absolutism . Homework:study guide. 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.) introduce a current event for discusion. 2). ask, or answer a question, or add to a recent event. 3). read articles of their chosing silently in class from the newspaper. )4. if time permits, write a brief summary of a current event which appeared in this weeks' newspaper. Procedures Discuss events from the past week which students volunteer. Then hand out newspapers and do SSR. 3 minutes before the class ends, fold papers neatly, pick up and stack at back of room. Materials Tribune Review Read pages:NA Homework:NA Remember to write a journal entry

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PA READING STANDARDS: R11.A.2: .1.2; .2.2; .3.1; .3.2; .4.1; .5.1; .6.1; .6.2. R11.B.1.1: .1.1. R11.B.3: .1.1; .2.1; .2.2

Tests All tests will be given on dates assigned 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: First AND Last WI-(your class period) Date Failure to use the complete heading, as indicated here, will result in loss of points.