General Announcements:
1. Student pictures on Tuesday morning. Please bring in money/forms. Students hand forms personally to photographers. Photos to be taken in 1st 2 periods for 8th grade.
2. Field trip to Colter Bay Indian Arts Museum on Friday as part of American Indian unit. Students: Please bring a lunch and warm clothes for eating outside.If you can't get a lunch, please tell your History teacher before Friday:)
Class This Week:
Monday: Finish Presidential Candidate Website Critique in class. Review Paleo-Indian vocab for quiz tomorrow.
Tuesday: Quiz: Students use unit vocab to write 1-2 paragraphs describing how and when 1st Americans migrated here. Advanced work will compare various competing theories.
Then - Compare/Contrast - Maya/Aztec cultures. Slides from Mesoamerica. Students read supplemental texts.
Wednesday: Identify major geographic regions of the US, and begin to link modern American Indian groups with the regions. We begin locally with Plains Indians.
HW: Read and develop 5 questions: "The Sioux Today - Life on the Pine Ridge Reservation"
Thursday: Continue to identify tribal groups with their geographic regions. How did their geography influence their way of life? Students choose 2 regions (besides Great Plains Indians) and jigsaw with the whole class.
Friday: Field Trip: Colter Bay Indian Museum.