SIT WITH YOUR GROUP
BIOGRAPHY HOMEWORK COMPLETE INFO
http://goo.gl/HoVvoY
DUE MONDAY 11/4 ON PAPER

TODAY: 
"A DAY IN YOUR LIFE: 1890" GROUP EXERCISE
FAMILY STORIES
FINISH CHECKING CH 14

QUICKWRITE:
How did your family get here?  Where did they come from?
What brought them to Portland?

SIT IN EVEN NUMBERED GROUPS - 2s AND 4s
PAIR WORK TODAY
EVERYONE GET A TEXTBOOK
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TODAY: 1. pairwork - Interrogate The Text, 
Ch. 17 "The Progressives Respond."
2. pairwork - Peer review, Ideals Essay

HOMEWORK CHECK:  Did Mr. Lamson see your Ch. 14 ITT?

NEW HOMEWORK:  due Mon. Nov. 4th, in your notebook:
History Project / Your sub-topic / bring biography notes to class
(see detail on BLOG)

DO NOW:  Quick write:  When your parents were kids, "landlines"
were the only phones.  Give an example of how your cell phone effects
the way you use your time compared to your parents.

History Project Biography homework / due in class Mon. 11/4

Who made the BIG CHANGES in America beween 1865-1914?
How did their change-making live up to (or deny) Americans founding ideals?

1. go to your project page in your shared document

2. are there people who were changemakers for your topic?
(invented, commercialized, mass-produced, set fashions, passed laws,
wrote, spoke, protested).

3. Answer questions about them:
Who?  ______________________________
What did they do? __________________________________
Where did they go?  __________________________________
Why were they changemakers?

SIT WITH YOUR GROUP
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TODAY: Check Ch. 14, Interrogate the text,
NOTES ON ESSAY - MISSING, NOT SHARED 
GROUP PROCESS
WIKIPEDIA RESEARCH NOTE
JOURNALISM EXERCISES
PRIZES

DO NOW:  Quick write:  People make history?  History makes people?
Which proposition is more true?  Why?

HOMEWORK:  Biographic worksheet on changemaker for your topic

DOING JOURNALISM:
1. by yourself:  recall and jot down notes about something
important that happened to you or that you experienced
last year;

2. (with your same partner) play rock-paper-scissors
to figure out who chooses first:  "journalist" and
"person interviewed;"

3. use the same newpaper article worksheet as a guide:
- ask the questions
- note the answers
- get a relevant short quote.

4. Switch roles and repeat the exercise.

5. By yourself:  write the story up.  Ask yourself:  what's the most
important part?  Write that up first - that's your lead.
Write the story as if it was going to be published in your
student paper.

SIT ANYWHERE
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TODAY:  JOURNALISM EXERCISES, notes on Thursday computer lab if time permits

• Revised complete Essay on American Ideals Due Thursday 10/31
• Quiz 2: "American Dream" can be completed or taken ALL WEEK,
  lunch or flex, this room
• Library of Congress handout and question extension:  Monday,
  10/28

DO NOW:  Quick write:  How is history like journalism?  How is it different?

HOMEWORK REMINDERS:  #1 COMMENT ON SEMESTER HISTORY PROJECT ONLINE NOTES, 
(EXTENSION): DUE THURS. ONLINE; #2 INTERROGATE THE TEXT, Ch. 14, "Labor's Response to Industrialism," due iin your notebook Thurs. at beginning of class.

LATE POLICY TESTING:

DEPENDING ON YOUR CONCERN AND AT MY DISCRETION

IF YOU MISS A TEST DATE

YOU CAN RE-CHEDULE FOR UP TO A WEEK LATER

EXCEPTIONS FOR MEDICAL OR FAMILY REASONS ONLY

REMINDER:  ESSAY #1 DUE ONLINE THURS 10/31 NEXT WEEK
(Mr. LaGreide and Mr. Lamson are working on comments -
- don't let us slow you down!  Make sure you get it in!)

NO Roses and thorns today, QUIZ TODAY - Sit anywhere
resume R & T Tues.
THIS WEEK:  Tues. using questions to construct history
                        Thurs. research / computer lab
TODAY:  Quiz - open notebook
HOMEWORK:  Ch. 14, Interrogate the Text, due in-class Thurs.
                          Online comment on multimedia semester project
                          (extension, due Thurs. night)

Sit with your group
Quick write:  what did you notice about accent in Born Yesterday?

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homework review
test reminder
small group multimedia and topic exercises

Test monday:  best prep study Interrogate the Text notes for Ch.s 13, 15, 16

NO NAME TAGS - (I THINK I'VE GOT NAMES, HOW ABOUT YOU!) - SIT WITH YOUR GROUP

NO Roses and thorns today, resume R & T Thurs

• REMINDER:  NEXT QUIZ Monday 10/21 - ONE week - test will be on "The American Dream" Ch. 13, 15, 16

TODAY:  
- Quiz - helps for lesson
- In-class thinking and writing assignment

DO NOW:  pass quiz back.  Quiet activity.  

HOMEWORK REMINDER:   #1 Interrogate the Text, Ch. 16,
#2 review one new multimedia presentation format,
#3 watch movie:  "Born Yesterday" with Broderick Crawford:  what do the peoples' accents
tell you about them?  What is the film's comments on American ideals?
Take a few notes for Thursday discussion.  Watch Born Yesterday HERE

Thursday 10/16 homework detail - in your notebook
at beginning of class.  You'll use this in groupwork Thurs:

1. go to internet browser

2. type in "High School Multi-media projects"

3. review/study/take notes on one presentation media
that is new to you, or that you have not used

4. your notes should answer these questions:
- what is it?
- how could it work for my group project?
- pros and cons:  how hard to learn or use
how much time

Watch Born Yesterday HERE

FIND YOUR NAME TAG ON THE HEATER - SIT WITH YOUR GROUP
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TODAY:

• NEXT QUIZ Monday 10/21 - ONE week - test will be on "The American Dream" Ch. 1`3, 15, 16
• homework out from last week if you didn't get it checked-off:  Interrogate the Text Ch. 15; and number of kinds of uses of electricity in your house;
  --> online comment on Semester Multimedia History Project - do this if you have not done it yet - great comments, I'm still reviewing and commenting on your posts
• "THINGS"T-Party
• T-party Q & A
• project discussions:  electricity model on board
• multimedia: presentation andstudent workshops

DO NOW:  Quick write:  Write something from the movie you watched over the weekend that commented on one of our five American ideals.  What do you think the comment was?  On what ideal?  What part of the movie supports your idea.hat is the American Dream?  List your top three factors in order.
DON'T LET MR. LAMSON FORGET TO ASSIGN THE HOMEWORK! #1 ITT Ch. 16,
#2review one new multimedia presentation format  - BOTH DUE IN CLASS THURS

Group Project

10/9 members
____________________________
____________________________
___________________________
____________________________
____________________________
_____________________________

What our project is about:
_____________________________
_____________________________

How we think we'll present it?
___________________________
_____________________________

FIND YOUR NAME TAG ON THE HEATER - SIT WITH YOUR GROUP
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TODAY:

• tests back - quick test notes - IF YOU DID NOT TAKE QUIZ #1 SEE ME AFTER CLASS
• NEXT QUIZ Monday 10/21 - two weeks - test will be on "The American Dream"
• homework check-off:  Interrogate the Text Ch. 15; number of kinds of uses of electricity
  in your house; online comment on Semester Multimedia History Project
• discussions:  who should be let into America today?  Who kept out? Why or why not?
• what is the ideal of opportunity?  In the late 19th and early 20th centuries
  how did Americans -new and old- pursue their American Dream?
• electricity
• project discussions

DO NOW:  Quick write:  What is the American Dream?  List your top three factors in order.
DON'T LET MR. LAMSON FORGET TO ASSIGN THE HOMEWORK!  (one of three movies)

FIND YOUR NAME TAG ON THE HEATER - SIT WITH YOUR GROUP
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TODAY:

• test notes  -->  included in grade reports to parents Tuesday, your tests back Wednesday
• studying immigration
• class discussion:
  end of semester prizes for best Multi-media group presentation

DO NOW:  Quick write:

About 13 million immigrants passed through Ellis Island in NY city.  Many were illiterate and very poor. Most spoke no English.  In your opinion was this good for America or not?  Why?

DON'T LET MR. LAMSON FORGET TO ASSIGN THE HOMEWORK!

WEDNESDAY HOMEWORK:  1.  finish Ch. 15 Interrogate the text, due in class Weds.; 2. make a list and bring it Wednesday of everything in your house that's electric; 3. read Multimedia Projects slideshow - see blog sidebar right - briefly comment with a like, dislike, or hot idea or suggestion on a seperate Google document and share your comment with Mr. Lamson and Mr. LaGreide at lagreider@gmail.com .

MONDAY TEST WORKSHOP 

2 points possible per each response written as error-free complete sentence.      

Define or describe the ideal of equality:  __________________________________________________

everyone treated equal

everyone the same

equality is where all people are treated the same

The ideal of equality is the belief that all people have value and should be treated the same.

MONDAY TEST WORKSHOP
II.  America’s Founding Ideals. (6 points possible per each ideal/ 30 total possible.)

Six possible points for each of the five ideals:  2 points possible for accurate definitions, 2 points possible for one appropriate example per each ideal, 2 points possible per each response written as error-free complete sentence.      

In no more than two sentences per each, describe or define each of the five American ideals we’ve studied including an example of each.   (Be careful not to use the word to define the word, i.e., don’t tell me that equality is the condition of being equal – use other words to describe it.) 

Define or describe the ideal of equality:  __________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

Give an example of equality_______________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

1st and 2nd per. American History homework, due in your notebook in class Wednesday 10/9:

• Interrogate the text:  Ch. 15, all

• Remember:  "all" means only the paragraph immediately following each heading and sub-head.

Mr. LaGreide & Mr. Lamson, Welcome!

TODAY 

FIND NAMETAG - SIT ANYWHERE FOR NOW 

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Test update, grading progress

Homework update/review - Interrogate the Text - Next assignment - due dates and structure

Period overview from text: 1865 - 1914

Multimedia Semester Project overview

Project lab

DO NOW:

Quick write

Think back and remember a successful group project you contributed to:

• a party
• a vacation
• big family meal
• maybe even a school project

What part did you play to make it a success? What did others do?  

How did you feel about it?

Mr. LaGreide & Mr. Lamson, Welcome!

TODAY: NO SEATING CHART - SIT WHERE YOU WANT

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Special term project introduction

Do now: Quickwrite:  rank the following list in order of historical importance:

• lipstick
• service animals
• cruise missiles
• Starbucks coffee shops in America
• legality of Right to Dream Too