Week of Oct 1^st  - 5^th

Current Events

Classroom Activity

Assignment / Homework

Due This Day

Monday

·       Virtual Tour of Ellis Island

·       Discuss common experiences migrants experienced

·       Weekly News Story #2

·       Weekly News Story #1

Tuesday

·       Begin to develop a historical fiction immigration story

Wednesday

·       Introduction to VoiceThread program (student accounts provided – Login information is shared on google classroom)

·       Continue Development of a historical fiction story

Thursday

No School

Friday

No School

Week of Oct 8^th   - 12^th

Current Events

Classroom Activity

Assignment / Homework

Due This Day

Monday

No School

Tuesday

·       Introduction to Class / Teacher

·       Syllabus – Signed and returned by Friday

Wednesday

·       Icebreaker Activity / Register for Google Classroom / Voicethread

Thursday

·       Introduction to KWL Sheet / Begin Weekly News Story #1

Friday

·       Danger of a Single Story

·       Danger of a Single-Story Notes

Week of Oct 1^st  - 5^th

Current Events

Classroom Activity

Assignment / Homework

Due This Day

Monday

·       Work on Final Paper – Civil Liberties 500 Word Essay

·       Finish Final Paper Civil Liberties

Tuesday

·       Introduction to Human Rights

·       Finish answering questions related to videos /discussion

Wednesday

·       Human Rights Activity – Socratic Seminar

Thursday

·       Finish Human Rights Activity – Final Day of Class

Friday

·       No School

Week of Sept 24^th    – 28^th  

Current Events

Classroom Activity

Assignment / Homework

Due This Day

Monday

·       Finish Terrorism Pamphlet Presentations

·       Introduce New Topic – Civil Liberties

·       Introduce Thesis statements

·       Weekly News Story #7

·       Thesis statement for paper

·       Weekly News Story #6

Tuesday

·       Review Thesis statements and begin working on 500-word essay

·       Five-hundred-word essay on – “How school does or does not violate my civil liberties.”

·       Thesis Statement due by end of class

Wednesday

·       Work on Outline format for five-hundred-word essay

·       Rough Draft for paper

·       Outline due by end of class

Thursday

·       Rough Draft for Paper / Peer Editing

·       Final Draft for paper

·       Rough Draft / Peer Editing due by end of class

Friday

·       Work on Final Draft for paper

·       Final Draft for paper

·       Final Paper due Monday

Week of Sept 17^th    – 21st   

Current Events

Classroom Activity

Assignment / Homework

Due This Day

Monday

·       Finish Terrorism Scenarios

·       Discuss Findings

·       Weekly News Story #6

·       Weekly News Story #5

Tuesday

·       Introduce Terrorism Pamphlet – Select Event

·       Begin Research on Event

Wednesday

·       Take Research and begin applying it to pamphlet template that was provided

·       Focus on areas such as – The Attack, Attacker, Victims

Thursday

·       Final day to work on pamphlet

·       Focus should be on Conclusion and work cited – tie back into classroom definition of terrorism

Friday

·       Present Findings – Whether or not event chosen for Pamphlet is terrorism or not

·       Terrorism Pamphlet

Current Events

Week of Sept 10^th    – 15^th  

Classroom Activity

Assignment / Homework

Due This Day

Monday

• Finish Presentations – Solving Poverty

·       Weekly News Story #5

• Weekly News Story #4

Tuesday

• 9/11 Video – Discussion of Events that occurred

Wednesday

·       Socratic Seminar – Terrorism

Thursday

·       Present Terrorism Scenarios

·       Work with a partner to determine who is the terrorist from the scenarios provided

Friday

·       Work with a partner to determine who is the terrorist from the scenarios provided

Current Events

Week of Sept 3^rd   – 7^th

Classroom Activity

Assignment / Homework

Due This Day

Monday

• No School

·       Weekly News Story #4

• Weekly News Story #3

Tuesday

• Project – Work on Solving Poverty (Research)

·       Project – Solving Poverty

·       Weekly News Story #4

Wednesday

·       Project – Work on Solving Poverty

·       Project – Have other students attempt to discredit findings

·       Project – Solving Poverty

·       Weekly News Story #4

Thursday

·       Project – Finish Work on Solving Poverty (Create Slide Presentation)

·       Project – Solving Poverty

·       Weekly News Story #4

Friday

·       Project – Present Work on Solving Poverty

Current Events

Week of August 27th – 31st

Classroom Activity

Assignment / Homework

Due This Day

Monday

• Discussion on Immigration and Poverty

• Weekly News Story #3

• Weekly News Story #2

Tuesday

• Begin home budget project in small groups (2-4 people) based on income of poverty level.

• Investigate different costs that could be found in a normal home budget

Wednesday

• Finish working on home budget in small groups.
• Present random acts that could impact everyday budgets.

Thursday

• Discuss difficulty of budgeting and investigate ways in which to solve poverty in same groups.

• Continue to work on method of solving poverty

Friday

NO SCHOOL

Current Events

Week of August 20th - 24th

Classroom Activity

Assignment / Homework

Due This Day

Monday

• VIrtual Tour of Ellis Island

• Weekly News Story #2

• KWL Notes

• Weekly News Story #1

Tuesday

• Introduction to Voicethread / Immigration story

• Watch example immigration stories

• Begin writing own immigration story

• Weekly News Story #2

• KWL Notes: Virtual Tour for Ellis Island

Wednesday

• Creative Writing: Work on immigration story

• Develop immigration story - character, location, destination, voyage, etc.

• Weekly News Story #2

• Nothing

Thursday

• Instructions on proper Powerpoint / Google Slides formatting

• Transfer creative writing story to Powerpoint

• Create Powerpoint

• Develop script

• Weekly News Story #2

• Creative writing story rough draft

Friday

• Transfer Powerpoint to voicethread and begin recording

• Work on voicethread

• Weekly News Story #2

• Powerpoint and script final version