Welcome!
** Civil War final essay test take place in class on Wednesday. Students will be preparing quotes and an outline in class on Monday and Tuesday.
** 8th Grade students will be visiting the JHHS on Friday. Schedule and details will be given during team time on Tuesday.
Agenda:
Monday:
1. Appomatox: The formal end of our Nation's worst crisis. Students will be examining a primary source journal entry by General Grant. What was resolved and what problems persisted with the end to military hostilities?
2. Students will get hard copies of the final essay questions and will preview the grading rubric. They will begin to collect appropriate quotes from their lit. circle novels and other sources we have used in class.
Tuesday:
1. A review of in-text citation MLA rules. Student examples will be shown.
2. Students will be finding and pulling quotes and references for their essays and writing them on 3*5 notecards.
3. Review of expository writing connector vocabulary. Students will get a guide of this vocab as well as an in-text citation reference sheet.
Wednesday:
In class essay test! We will be in the mac lab. Students may bring a 3*5 notecard with an outline and quotes, their lit. circle novel, and their citation reference guide.
Thursday:
1. Unresolved issues from the War: The KKK, Jim Crow laws and the Civil War Amendments: This will lead us into a Civil Rights Unit next week. We will be examining primary images and documents.
Friday:
1. 2nd Current Event of the 4th Quarter: Shared reading and student news.
(Students will also be visiting JHHS today to meet teachers and students involved in clubs and specials courses)