Welcome back from the
long weekend!
**National History Day building judging this week on Monday
and Tuesday, then regionals on Thursday in Dubois! Good luck to these stellar
historians! Above all, we recognize you for choosing the more challenging path.
** FLASH fiction award ceremony at JH Historical Society
Museum this Wednesday at 5:30! All students and parents are welcome to attend.
Monday:
1. Quiz prep for tomorrow: Students will need to study:
a. Westward Expansion Vocab; b. Lewis and Clark notes; JH
Historical Society visit info (Just think about some of the artifacts you
examined).
2. Video: Westward
Expansion: The Story of US – Students will be working with partners to
decide how Manifest Destiny plays out in each section of this video.
Tuesday:
1. SIGH Activity: American
Progress, historical painting. Students will be interpreting this symbolic
and famous painting using the SIGH process.
2. Quiz! See Monday
3. Begin Lewis and
Clark field observations, for which students sketch and make notes on
flora, fauna or Indian groups encountered by Lewis and Clark– We didn’t get to
start this last week. Students will see plenty of historical and student work
examples.
HW: Finish Field
Observations by Friday!
Wednesday:
1. Shared
Reading: Done in small groups – A Young
People’s History of the United States – Topic: The Mexican-American War and Manifest Destiny. Student groups will be reading and annotating
for varied theme strands in preparation for a whole group discussion tomorrow.
Thursday:
1. Complete reading and annotations.
2. Whole-group guided discussion based on
questions and annotations that students developed yesterday and in the first
part of class today.
Friday:
1. HW: Field
Observations are due today! We’ll be sharing these.
2. Ken Thomasma
will be visiting and speaking about the Lewis & Clark Expedition as well as
clearing up some mistruths about the legendary Sacajawea!