My History Homework

Objectives:

Students will interpret photographs.
Students will discuss the Great Depression.
Students will analyze primary sources.

Today, students took a short amount of time to discuss the photographs they looked at yesterday.
Students then went over the quizzes together.
Students took notes over a PowerPoint about the depression.
Finally, students read memoirs about the Great Depression and answered questions about it.
What would […]

Objectives:

Students will demonstrate knowledge of the 1920s.
Students will analyze photographs of the Great Depression.

Today, students were given a short amount of time to study.
Students then took the quiz over the Roaring 20s.
Finally, students analyzed Great Depression photography from the following websites:
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Instructions:
Questions:  Analyze each photograph.  Describe what you see.  How does it relate to the Great […]

Objectives:

Students will review countries of Africa.
Students will discuss imperialism.

Today, students were given back last Friday’s quiz.
Students then corrected the remainder of the countries of Africa.
Finally, students began taking notes over imperialism.
Homework:  Read pg. 609 (The Berlin Conference) and write a paragraph summary of it

Objectives:

Students will assess the treatment of Latin Americans by King Charles.
Students will discuss the Latin American Revolutions.
Students will demonstrate knowledge of Latin American history.
Students will demonstrate knowledge of African countries.

Today, students were given ~5 minutes to wrap up their letters to King Charles.
Students then took short notes over the Latin American Revolutions.
Students were given a […]

Objectives:

Students will discuss the Roaring Twenties.
Students will analyze songs/poems of the Harlem Renaissance.
Students will interpret the ways in which the 1920s led to great change in America.

Today, students continued taking notes over the 1920s. They learned about the Harlem Renaissance and listened to a few songs from the era.
Finally, students created a chart […]

Objectives:

Students will examine The Roaring Twenties.
Students will analyze the Scopes Monkey Trial.
Students will assess issues related to the era.

Today, students began class by refreshing their memories about the Russian Revolution. Students then turned in homework.
Students took notes over a PowerPoint about the Roaring Twenties and watched a movie trailer that discussed the era.

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Finally, students […]

Objectives:

Students will discuss geography.
Students will assess the beginnings of Latin American Revolutions.
Students will analyze life as a person of color during the colonization of Latin America.

Today, students went over the geography assessment they took before break.
Students then took notes over a PowerPoint about life in Latin American under colonization of Spain and Portugal.
Finally, students got […]

Objectives:
Students will review WWI.
Students will analyze the Russian Revolution and its effects.
Today, students will review the who, what, when, where and why of WWI.
Students looked over the test they took prior to the end of Quarter 3.
Students watched a video to introduce them to the Russian Revolution and then answered questions with a partner about […]

Objectives:

Students will discuss the state assessment.
Students will review the last test.
Students will demonstrate knowledge of world history.

Today, students discussed the purpose of the state assessment.
Students went over the test they took prior to the end of Quarter 3.
Students took the formative assessment as an indicator for how well they will do on the summative assessment.
Homework:  […]

Objectives:

Students will demonstrate general knowledge of history.
Students will examine the Christmas Truce.

Today, students took a formative test which is an indicator for how students will do on the state assessments taking place on April 16th and 17th.

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Students viewed a BBC film- The Christmas Truce- detailing events taking place during WWI on Christmas Day, 1914 in […]