Industrialism YouTube URL’s

Bessemer process steel making – now antique

from a mill in Wales

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ3aTpKMmfQ

Coal mining – 1925 promotional film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89yEQ-HsEFM

Making the Ford Model T

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vScsMF6GJBU

Life expectancy graph – Center for Disease Control

http://primaldocs.com/opinion/the-rise-and-fall-of-american-health/

Mr. LaGreide & Mr. Lamson, Welcome!

TODAY: NO NAMETAGS TODAY - SIT WHERE YOU WANT

Quickwrite:  "Was the rise of industry good for the United States?"

• Roses & onions
• Interrogate the text: Ch. 13, due in class today
• Industrialism: steel, coal, automobiles HOMEWORK #1: SIGN YOUR ONLINE PROJECTS SO YOU CAN GET A GRADE! 
• HOMEWORK #2: Interrogate the text: Ch. 15 -- 15.1, 2, 3 due in class Tues  ONLY 8 paragraphs!

Finished?
Turn to Ch. 13 p. 163
"Interrogate the Text"
- start with headings, and sub-headings;
read the paragraphs immediately following;
make notes, turning the paragraph topics into questions, then in the note answer the question.
Only the first ppg. after the heading or sub-heading.
Due Monday in class.

Mr. LaGreide & Mr. Lamson, Welcome!

TODAY:  

• Roses & onions
• POST online project by 11:59:59 tonight!
• POST Essay #1 by 11:59:59 tonight! NEW BLOG RESOURCE FOR WRITERS
• Quiz today
• Small group I - Intro Era 2 in text, p. 146-147 -->Inventions: Discussion, ranking http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/IKY0A6ql1mMOcLj
• Reading homework for the weekend: due Monday in your notebook
• Back to School Night - hoping to meet your parents tonight! 6:00 - 8:45 History will be the 1st two 10:00 minute "periods" http://www.pps.k12.or.us/schools/lincoln/files/school-lincoln/BTSN_2013_Letterhead_Parents.pdf

Small Group II - Ideals - use ideals notebook guide, and Text  pg. 16- 21
1. each group member read to thenselves, Sec. subheads and following ppgs.  2.2 -2.6, pgs.16-20

2. each group member note their choicer for the MOST IMPORTANT ideal - if you had to pick only ONE
which one would you pick?  Over argument and evidence;

3. Next:  facilitator surveys group members in turn for their choices
- asks for discussion to find the group's consensus or majority opinion

4. recorder makes appropriate note

5. facilitator prepares to present groups findings
- dissenting viewpoints should be prepared to share out

SHORT WHOLE CLASS DISCUSSION

Small Group I - Historiography - use notebook guide, Text  pg. 12
1. each group member read Sec. 1.4, p.12-13

2. each group member note the reason for studying history they think is most interesting or important or has the best argument;

3. Next:  facilitator surveys group members in turn for their choices
- asks for discussion to find the group's consensus or majority opinion

4. recorder makes appropriate note

5. facilitator prepares to present groups findings
- dissenting viewpoints should be prepared to share out

SHORT WHOLE CLASS DISCUSSION

Small Groups I & II:
1.  rock paper scissors for all jobs; choose
- facilitator:  keeps order, moves things along, makes sure everyone gets to speak
- time keeper
- encourager:  checks in with all team members to make sure they've spoken all their thought
- recorder: notes group findings

Mr. LaGreide & Mr. Lamson, Welcome!

TODAY:  

• sit with your team
• Roses & onions
• Small group I
• Tea Party!
• Small Group II
• Quiz Thurs., Essay due online by 11:59:59 PST, final edit due for online project

Mr. LaGreide & Mr. Lamson, Welcome!

TODAY:  

• sit with your team
• connect you with your work (duh! my bad...) fill in form
  
• review online project
• workshop collaboration
• in-class write / collaboration
• rubric
• Quiz Thurs.

DO NOW:

• cell phones completely away, or they go to the office
• Be seated with your team-mate, pass name tags around

The myth of the west seems to be contradicted by some of the info you've been researching.

Please write 100 words or so about the contribution your research subject made to the settlement of the West.

Per 1:  http://goo.gl/q6ebhB

Per 2:  http://goo.gl/LOkyow

The Westward Expansion - Myth v. Fact:  Research Project

1. you have been assigned to teams of two based on performance data from our first on-line exercise (the barbwire flag writings)
- starting closest to the door and moving around the room, you are sitting next to your partner; introduce yourselves (if you haven't yet) and shake hands; you'll be working together until at least mid-term.  (Adjustments are possible and may be necessary but not for a few weeks.)

2. teams are numbered; VERY IMPORTANT to get your Team Number and remember it (write it down)
--- before we leave, choose who will be Researcher A and who will be Researcher B

3. 8:20 we leave for the computer lab across from the library - don't get lost!

4. Sit side by side with your partner; both have computers

5. log in and open an internet browser - I'll give you this period's URL

6. Both partners on their own computers open the numbered team folder;

7. Read the instructions, begin the exeercise.
NOTE:  EACH TEAM IS RESEARCHIING FROM A DIFFERENT DOCUMENT.
SUGGESTION:  each student should open your G-docs worksheet template on one tab -- open your research doc on another tab - you'll need to go back and forth

8. we'll get as far as we can today.  Finish this as homework from home or library computer.  We'll ck in monday briefly for progress reports.  Completed project due at beginning of class Thurs. 9/26.

Graphic Organizer:  new due date Thurs. 9/19:  late submissions automatically lose 1/2 value

Essay #1:  due date Thurs. 9/26 - same late policy

Buffalo Soldiers / Westward Expansion online project due 9/26 - same late policy

Mr. LaGreide is working on his house todayMr. Lamson welcomes you!TODAY:  1st Essay / 

• GOrganizer, notebook reviews con't conferences con't
• interrogating the text / note-taking Ch. 12 /con't
• didn't finish my homework: new teams tomorrow a.m.
• background / context for Westward Expansion collaborative project starts Thursday

DO NOW:

• cell phones completely away, or they go to the office
• Quickwrite question:   in a sentence or two, name and describe one myth of the Westward Expansion compared with the true fact(s) of the same matter to the best of your knowledge.

Mr. LaGreide & Mr. Lamson, Welcome!

TODAY:  

• in-class reading / note-taking Ch. 12
• 1st Essay / GOrganizer conferences
• notebook reviews
• heads up, assigned teams and partners tomorrow,
• big collaborative project starts Thursday

DO NOW:

• cell phones completely away, or they go to the office

Quickwrite question:   in a sentence or two, name and describe one myth of the Westward Expansion compared with the true fact(s) of the same matter to the best of your knowledge.

TODAY:  Digging into the Founders’ ideals

WORKSHOP AND RESEARCH FOR ESSAY Prt. 3

DO NOW:  be seated quietly

- cell phone away or it goes to the office

Quickwrite:

Proposition:   "To study America’s history is to study

the “Owner’s Manual” for citizenship.”  

Question:  Is this True or False, why or why not?

- ROSES & ONIONS

Mr. LaGreide & Mr. Lamson – Welcome!
TODAY:  Digging into the Founders’ ideals

Group workshop:  RESEARCH FOR ESSAY #1

DO NOW:  be seated quietly 

- cell phone away or it goes to the office
Quickwrite:

"What's the difference - in your opinion - between

an ideal and an idea?

- ROSES & ONIONS

Mr. LaGreide & Mr. Lamson – Welcome!
TODAY:  Digging into the Founders’ ideals in

the Declaration of Independence; student access to online text; how to make a google folder and use it,

DO NOW:  be seated quietly 

- cell phone away or it goes to the office
- use the glue stick to tack down the “Survey” handout on a left-hand notebook page, do the survey
- hang on to your glue stick, we’ll use it later

September 5th and 6th

Today we explored the questions "What is history and Why study it?"
Be sure you are very familiar with, and can use the vocabulary terms in Chapter one of the textbook.

First U.S. History Homework

Go to http://pia1314.blogspot.com/

There are two parts to this assignment. Due Friday, September 13th.

1. Make a comment on this post answering the following question in at least two or three sentences.
Look at the image used on the background of this blog. What do you think the artist is trying to communicate with this drawing?

2. You must also comment on another student's  comment.

CLASSROOM GUIDELINES AND EXPECTATIONS:

S.L.A.N.T. – Sit up, Listen, Ask and answer questions, Nod yes or no, Track the speaker.

• Do assignments and homework; come to class ready to participate. 
• No cussing, no put-downs of other students or the teacher. 
• Hands to yourself, feet under your desk. 
• Pick up after yourselves before the class leaves. 
• Hand raising for recognition, no calling out, unless the teacher directs differently. 
• No cell phones out, no headphones, gaming, tablets or laptops unless directed to use them for class activity; if they’re out they will be confiscated.
• No students leaving their seats or leaving the classroom without requesting permission. 
• Use the restroom on your break, in between classes, or on your lunch. 
• No pencil sharpening during class-time; sharpened pencils are kept on the teacher’s desk; raise your hand if you need one, return it when class is over.

Mr. LaGreide & Mr. Lamson – Welcome!
TODAY:  goals, expectations, group work, homework

DO NOW:  be seated quietly 

- cell phone away or it goes to the office
- get out a piece of paper, write your name and today’s date at the top, 

- finish this statement (about 75-100 words please)

     "The most important reason to study History is..."  (5 minutes)