Monday, September 30, 2013

3.2 B

Notebook Check (#18-29...Unit II Only)

  • Make sure to leave this with Mr. McDonald if you were absent.  Otherwise it WILL REMAIN A ZERO in the gradebook. 

Finish: 3.2 B: Clued Recall Gov't Control (34)

  • We completed the Clued Recall competition.  
  • IF you were not here you offically lost.
  • Make sure to read the packet and complete the reading.





Practice: Vocab terms & symbols

  • We began this activity on the bottom of the Clued Recall sheet.  
  • We will finish tomorrow.

Friday, September 27, 2013

3.2 A

Today I (finally) returned the exams

  • See Mr. McDonald OUTSIDE OF CLASS if you'd like to see yours
  • Revisions are Monday, Tuesday & Wed. of next week.  730-825AM or as scheduled with Mr. McDonald

3.2 Learning A: Gov't Control Clued Recall (34)
  • We are competing.  We created two different teams in the class and are quizzing each other on our reading comprehension. 
  • We got through the first round.  You'll need to read page 304-305 in the 3.2 Learning A Packet to catch up

We also reviewed the Big List quite a bit today.  Make sure to spend some time doing this as well. 

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Big List/ Catch up Day

The entire block is dedicated to completing these activities...in this order:


  1. Finish 3.1 Learning B: Narratives Venn Diagram
  2. Finish 3.1 Homework (due tomorrow)
  3. Big List worksheet (K.I.M. Sheet)
  4. Big List study on iPad (quizlet!!!)

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

3.1 B & C

3.1 B: Narratives (31)

  • Answer 3 Questions for Howard Zinn (read yesterday) on your Triple Venn Diagram
    1. Why does this author say WWI began?
    2. Why does this author say the US got into WWI?
    3. What does this author think is the most important part of the Home Front (Domestic stuff during WWI)

3.1 Learning C: US Goes to War Notes (32)



3.1 B: Narratives (finish) (31)

  • Answer the following questions on your Venn Diagram based on the set of notes from Mr McDonald
  • Answer 3 Questions for Howard Zinn (read yesterday)

    1. Why does this author say WWI began?
    2. Why does this author say the US got into WWI?
  • Skim pages 582-604 in your textbook with your island.  Answer the following questions on your Venn Diagram
    • Answer 3 Questions for Howard Zinn (read yesterday)
      1. Why does this author say WWI began?
      2. Why does this author say the US got into WWI?
      3. What does this author think is the most important part of the Home Front (Domestic stuff during WWI)
  • Complete the Venn Diagram by comparing the three narratives
3.1 Homework (33)

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

3.1 A and Beginning of B

New Unit = New seating chart  See Mr McDonald or your classmates for you new spot

3.1 A: Beginning of WWI (30)

  • Add three pieces of information to your printed out 3.1 A: Beginning of WWI Notes
  • Video yet to be made

3.1 B: Narratives (31)

  • Read pages 219-231 in the classroom set of Howard Zinn's a Young Peoples History of the United States
  • Answer the three questions on your 3.1 B: Narratives Triple Venn Diagram
  • We will complete this tomorrow. 

Monday, September 23, 2013

Unit II Exam

We turned in 2.2 Homework
We took Unit II Exam
Notebooks will be graded tomorrow

Meet with Mr. McDonald and discuss a time to take the exam

Friday, September 20, 2013

Finish 2.2 D, 2.2 Homework & Review

Finish: 2.2 D: Progressive Presidents' Foreign Policy (27)

  • Complete 2.2 D definitions from the 2.2 D Reading
  • Complete the triple Venn Diagram including at least one piece of information in each section.  Each circle should represent one of the following: 
    • Roosevelt Corollary
    • Dollar Diplomacy
    • Moral Diplomacy

2.2 Homework (28)

  • 2.2 Homework is due Monday.  We got a pretty good start on it in class today. 
  • PLEASE RENAME it to 2.2.  I accidentally labeled it 2.1 before I sent it away to the print shop.

Unit II Review (29)

  • For the review I suggest you do two things:
    • Complete the TURN OF THE CENTURY ESSAY PREP sheet. 
      • Remember, the essay is 40% of your exam grade....
    • Review the Big List terms 1-44.  
      • Remember, the Big List is 30% of your exam grade....
      • Use quizlet.com and search for user name: cmcdonald135 to find the terms.

Thursday, September 19, 2013

2.2 C & 2.2 D

Finish: 2.2 C Panama Canal Markup (26)

  • Mark up activity...Remember: 
    • Circle content vocab on reading
    • underline key information
    • one margin summary for each paragraph (1-4 words total)

2.2 D: Progressive President's Foreign Policy (27)

  • Two sheets, one is white and one is yellow
  • We only worked on the white sheet.
    • On the back of the White sheet please write this: 



Anti-Imperialists
  • Andrew Carnegie
    • Offered the Philippines $20 million dollars to attempt to help them buy their freedom from the US after the Spanish-American War
    • Believed that Imperialism was "Anti-Democratic" or against the principals of democracy where people control their government
  • Mark Twain
    • One of the Founding members of the Anti-Imperialist Leauge (see 2.2 A for info about them)
    • Believed that Imperialism was racist; based on the US thinking Filipinos could not run their own government


Wednesday, September 18, 2013

2.2 B & C

2.2 B: Spanish-American War (25)

  • Watch THIS VIDEO (8 mins long) for review
  • Use pages 558-564 in your textbook to complete a COMIC ACTIVITY
    • Remember to complete the Comic Activity using these steps...IN ORDER
      • Add all 10 labels (titles)
      • Complete all 10 Captions
      • ONLY THEN complete the pictures

2.2 C: Panama Canal Mark-up (26)

  • While reading 2.2 C: Panama Canal Mark-up, do the following on the sheet
    • Circle vocab terms specific to the Panama Canal
    • underline short, important information
    • Write a 1-4 word margin summary that summarizes each paragraph
    • On the KIM sheet, find 5 words that you don't know and look them up, defining them with your own words and a quick symbol (memory cue)
    • Level 4 on the notebook would need more than 5....

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

2.2



Turned in 2.1 Homework & Learning Activities

Finish: Progressive Presidents (20)

  • Watched Woodrow Wilson's Presidency Video
  • Discussed Election of 1912 & Federal Reserve Act
    • YOU MUST KNOW THESE!! They are on the BIG LIST! 


Review: Women's Suffrage

  • We went through the questions found on the REVIEW presentation


2.2 Learning A: Foreign Policy Notes (24)

  • Completed 2.2 Learning A
  • Add three notes.   Use THIS VIDEO if you were absent

Monday, September 16, 2013

Finish 2.1

Practice: Progressive Movement (2.1 B & C)

  • "Speed Dating" Activity (you cannot do this activity if you missed class....review each of these on your own!) about the following people:
    • Ida Tarbell
    • Upton  Sinclair
    • Lewis Hine
    • Jane Addams
    • Tom Johnson
    • Robert La Follette Sr.
    • John Muir
    • Booker T Washington
    • W.E.B. DuBois
    • James Garfield
    • Chester Arthur
    • William McKinley
    • Teddy Roosevelt
    • William Taft
    • Woodrow Wilson

Finish: 2.1 C: Prohibition Movement

  • Watch last segment of video in class
2.1 D: Women's Movement
  • Complete this worksheet with your island

2.1 Homework due tomorrow with ALL 2.1 completed (including 2.1 B, which you should share with Mr. McDonald via google docs!)

Friday, September 13, 2013

2.1 Learning E

2.1 Learning E: Prohibition Movement (22) 

  • Watched Prohibition video....check out the video in the library if you missed it.  
  • Try Amazon.com or netflix.com and look for Ken Burns "Prohibition".  1st Episode: A Nation of Drunkards"
  • 2.2 Homework Due Tuesday

Finish 2.1 B: Reforming Society, the Workplace and Government

Finish 2.1 B: Reforming Society, the Workplace and Government

  • We went to the library for the entire hour and a half to complete this.  We began this Tuesday.  
  • IF you did not complete this today you must by the time you turn in your homework next Tuesday
  • YOU MUST SHARE THIS WITH ME....NO need to print it out for your notebook--that would just waste lots of paper.
Today was also the revision day for your notebook.  If you did not turn it in you can no longer revise it.  If you were absent you may revise it the day you come back.

Handed out the following papers or organized what you had into this order: 

2.1 C: Presidents notes (20)--you should already have this
2.1 D: Women's Movement (21)
  • You must re number this paper--my copies have the wrong number on them.
2.1 E: Prohibition Movement (22)

  • You must re number this paper--my copies have the wrong number on them.

2.1 Homework (23)

  • You must re number this paper--my copies have the wrong number on them.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Here is the link for CEDAR RAPIDS FIRE
To rotate the view, you need to download it as a pdf.  here are the instructions:

Click "file" and "download"
On the bottom of your screen a question will pop up...press "keep"
The file will eventually open as a .pdf
Click "view" and "rotate" until you can see it upright.
I also emailed you the .pdf if you need it.

NEW TERMS:
John Muir
16th Amendment
17th Amendment

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

2.1

Finished: 2.1 Learning C: Presidents

  • Continue using your blank notes sheet from yesterday
  • use this YOUTUBE link to complete each president.  Remember: 
    • Name of President
    • Years he was president
    • Political party
    • WHAT he did that was progressive or WHAT he did that was NOT progressive

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

2.1

2.1 Learning B: Reforming Society, Gov't & the Workplace (19)

  • Continue 2.1 Learning B activity from yesterday.
  • You should at LEAST be done with the People
  • We will go to the Library one more time (Thursday) to work on this.

2.1 Learning C: Presidents (20)

  • Use the Blank Six Panel Student Notes sheet 
  • Watch THIS VIDEO from 21: 16 to the end
  • Each box (only 3 today) should have the presidents on them.  Include for each on your notes:
    • Name
    • Political Party
    • Years as President
    • What they did that was Progressive (hint: they all had a role in "breaking up" the Spoils System, which was a corrupt federal government action in the Gilded Age)
Photo of James GarfieldPhoto of Chester A. Arthur

Monday, September 9, 2013

Begin Unit II: Turn of the Century

Big List Review

UNIT II: TURN OF THE CENTURY

2.1 Learning A: Progressive Movement Notes (18)


2.1 Learning B: Reforming Society, Gov't & the Workplace (19)

  • Go to the library and complete 2.1 Learning B
  • You will be using the internet to search for your answers.  Here are some suggestions:
    • Don't use complete sentences in your searches
    • Once you find out more about the subject, use new important words in your search
    • click on images for your image and find the most appropriate picture that represents what you learned about (make sure you change your search for "medium" size pictures)

Friday, September 6, 2013

Gilded Age Exam

Today:

  • We took the Gilded Age Exam
    • You need to schedule a make up day with Mr. McDonald IMMEDIATELY to make up the exam if you missed it
    • Remediation of the exam up to 90% will be discussed Monday
    • Notebooks will be taken Monday as well
    • Check your student email account for you Employability grades.  Use the scale on #1 in your notebook to interpret the grade. 

Thursday, September 5, 2013

1.4 & Review

Complete 1.4 Learning C: Gilded Age Life (16)

  • We worked for 45 minutes on this....many did not get this done.
  • DON"T WORRY...you will only be held responsible for YOUR portion of the notes.  DO NOT JIGSAW even though the instructions tell you to do so....


Gilded Age Review (17)

  • Exam is tomorrow.  Here is the break down:
    • "Big List" terms (5 of them) 30 pts
    • Application 30pts
      • Comparison of terms 
      • Political cartoon evaluation
    • Essay 40 pts

  • The Gilded Age Review presentation helps you with each of these portions
    • Cross out #20 & 25 on Big List, we learn about these in the next unit
    • We completed the first political cartoon on the review as a class and the second one as an island
    • Definitely check out the essay...its the EXACT SAME ONE as you will be asked to write about tomorrow. 

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

1.4 C

Complete 1.4 Learning B: Local Politics (15)

1.4 Learning A & B Review
  • We used the Big List Work sheet
  • Pick 4 of the 5 terms below to use and complete the Big List Work sheet.  Follow the directions.  See Mr. McDonald with questions
    • Angel Island
    • New Immigrants
    • Chinese Exclusion Act
    • Political Machine 
    • Thomas Nast

1.4 Learning C: Gilded Age Life (16)

  • Use the textbook and the internet as stated on the 1.4 Learning C sheet
  • You and your island split up the terms, but EVERYBODY needs the notes
  • You MUST indent the notes
  • DO NOT plagerize!!
  • We will finish this tomorrow (Thursday)

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

1.4

1.3 Homework (13) Due

  • 1.3 Homework Due today.
  • Along with the Homework you must turn in:
    • 1.3 Learning A/ 1.3 Learning B/ 1.3 Learning C

Videos


1.4 Learning A: New Immigration Notes (14)



1.4 Learning B: Local Politics (15)

  • We began 1.4 Learning B in class.  
  • Our goal was to complete the first side of the sheet