Wednesday, March 20

⚡️ Westward Expansion

🎯 Review the Standard: 8a Territorial Expansion

Please add methods of acquisition to your map.

📚 Read the Textbook:

📓 Journal: Create and label a color-coded map illustrating the territories and methods of acquisition

💻 PowerPoint: Create a PowerPoint describing how each of the five territories were acquired. If you wish to use Book Creator or Canva instead of PowerPoint, you may, otherwise, use the PowerPoint assigned in Canvas.

Friday, March 15

⚡️ A New Nation

✅ Review: A New Nation Practice Test

💯 A New Nation Unit Test:

Thursday, March 14

⚡️ A New Nation

📚 Standards of Learning:

📝 Practice Test: A New Nation

🅰️ Practice Games:

🏡 Homework: Study for A New Nation Unit Test Friday

Wednesday, March 13

⚡️ A New Nation

📚 Sources of Information:

📓 Journal Check: Five Presidents plus One

🅰️ Practice Games:

🎯 Open Note Quiz: 7c First Five Presidents

💯 Unit Review:

🌠 Retakes: 7a, 7b, & 7c Open Note Quizzes

😃 Project Choice: Analog or Digital; Alone, Partner, Group (7a, 7b, 7c)

🏡 Homework: Study for A New Nation Unit Test Friday

Tuesday, March 12

⚡️ A New Nation

📚 Sources of Information:

📓 Journal Five Presidents +1:

  1. George Washington

  2. John Adams

  3. Thomas Jefferson

  4. James Madison

  5. James Monroe

  6. Benjamin Banneker *

🎯 Retakes: 7a & 7b Open Note Quizzes

😃 Project Choice: Analog or Digital; Alone, Partner, Group (7a, 7b, 7c)

🏡 Homework: Study for A New Nation Unit Test Friday (7a Articles of Confederation, 7b U.S. Constitution, 7c First Five Presidents)

Monday, March 11

⚡️ A New Nation

🎯 Standard: Read 7b U.S. Constitution

✅ Journal Check 7b U.S. Constitution:

  • Constitutional Convention

  • Great Compromise

  • Three-Fifths Compromise

  • Three Branches

  • Ratification

  • Bill of Rights

  • New Nation Project Choice

🎮 Practice Games:

📓 Open Note Quiz: 7b U.S. Constitution & Retakes

😃 Project Choice: Analog or Digital; Alone, Partner, Group (7a, 7b, 7c)

🏡 Homework: Study for A New Nation Unit Test Friday (7a Articles of Confederation, 7b U.S. Constitution, 7c First Five Presidents)

Friday, March 8

⚡️ A New Nation

🎯 Standard: Read 7b U.S. Constitution

🎬 BrainPop: Bill of Rights Movie, Review, & Graded Quiz

📚 Textbook:

📓 Journal: Bill of Rights (choose five amendments)

🏡 Homework: Prepare for 7b Open Note Quiz Monday; Retake opportunity Monday

Thursday, March 7

⚡️ A New Nation

🎯 Standard: Read 7b U.S. Constitution

🎬 BrainPop: Branches of Government

  • Movie, Review, & Graded Quiz

  • Two Activities & Journal Notes

📚 Textbook: “Three Branches,” pages 112-113

📓 Journal:

  • Executive Branch

  • Judicial Branch

  • Legislative Branch

🎮 Practice Games:

Wednesday, March 6

⚡️ A New Nation

🎯 Standard: Read 7b U.S. Constitution

📚 Textbook: “A Better Way: The Federal System,” pages 110-111

📓 Journal:

  • Constitutional Convention

  • Great Compromise

  • Three-Fifths Compromise

  • Ratification

🎬 BrainPop: U.S. Constitution

  • Movie, Review, & Graded Quiz

  • Two Activities & Journal Notes

🎮 Practice Games:

Monday, March 4

⚡️ A New Nation

🎯 Standard: Read 7b U.S. Constitution

🥅 Learning Goal: Describe the development of the U.S. Constitution

🎬 Brainpop: U.S. Constitution Activities

  • Watch the movie

  • Do the review

  • Take the quiz

  • Choose two activities

📓 Journal: What did I learn?

  • From the movie

  • From one activity

  • From a second activity

Thursday, February 29

⚡️ A New Nation

🎯 Standard: 7a Articles of Confederation

🦉 Local Alternative Assessment: How does Shays’ Rebellion exemplify (show) the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?

📚 Shay’s Rebellion: Review information from the following sources:

✍🏽 Final Copy: Use the RACES model to explain how Shay’s Rebellion showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation. Cite the two letters to support your answer.

📚 Shay’s Rebellion: Canvas Submission

🏡 Homework: Study for Retakes tomorrow (Friday)

Wednesday, February 28

⚡️ A New Nation

🎯 Standard: 7a Articles of Confederation

📚 Shay’s Rebellion: Review information from the following sources:

🤔 Local Alternative Assessment: How does Shays’ Rebellion exemplify (show) the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?

✍🏽 Final Copy: Use the RACES model to explain how Shay’s Rebellion showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation. Cite the two letters to support your answer.

Tuesday, February 27

⚡️ A New Nation

🎯 Standard: 7a Articles of Confederation

📚 Shay’s Rebellion: Review information from the following sources:

🤔 Local Alternative Assessment: How does Shays’ Rebellion exemplify (show) the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?

✍🏽 Rough Draft: Use the RACES model to explain how Shay’s Rebellion showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation. Cite the two letters to support your answer.

Monday, February 26

⚡️ A New Nation

🎯 Standard: 7a Articles of Confederation

📚 Shay’s Rebellion: Review information from the following sources:

💬 Role Play: How were the Articles of Confederation a problem for people during Shays’ Rebellion?

Friday, February 23

⚡️ A New Nation

🎯 Standard: 7a Articles of Confederation

📚 Shay’s Rebellion: Gather information from the following sources & take notes:

🤔 Question for Discussion: Which weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation relate to Shay’s Rebellion?

Thursday, February 22

⚡️ A New Nation

🎯 Standard: 7a Articles of Confederation

🧩 Jigsaw Part 2: Problems, examples, & solutions

  1. Weak national government

  2. No power to tax states

  3. No common currency

  4. One state one vote

  5. No executive or judicial branches

📓 Journal Check: Five weaknesses

🎯 Retakes: 7a Open Note Quiz

🟢 Articles of Confederation Project: Poster, Canva, PowerPoint, Book Creator, Flip Book