Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Welcome Back from the 3 Day Weekend!

Today is Salt Dough Maps Day! Yay! 

(students created salt dough maps that showed the physical geography of the United States)

Friday, January 27th

Mr. M is back from Mentor Training! Today we:

• Slowed it down a little bit...just finished our whirlwind tour of the United States.
• Got Organized - updated binders, entered grades, checked for completion of maps and notes!
• did a Fun Geo Competition!

Thursday, January 26th

Mr. M out for mentor training. Mr. (TK) Keily was in the house. Today's agenda was:

• Finish the maps! Region #5 - the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeastern states
• Finish the video tour (Region #5)
• Geo Games with Mr. Keily
• Final Map Quiz #5

Wednesday, January 25th

Today was a shorter day due to the assembly speaker. The agenda was simply:
1. Continue our video tour - The States of the South and Southeast!
2. Map quiz on this region...

Tuesday, January 24th

Today we:

• Reviewed Map Quiz #2 - the Rocky Mountain states
• Had our PLAY DOH Geography activity - students used play doh to recreate most of the physical geography they have learned so far.
• Continued our video tour - region #3 (Midwest and Great Plains)
• Took Map Quiz #4

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Our Road Trip continues:

• Got organized first! Handed back quizzes and homework
• Using smartboard students came up and identified different features of the Rocky Mountain region
• video tour continues for the Rocky Mountain region
• Map Quiz #2 = the Rocky Mountain Region

Friday, January 20th

Continuing our whirlwind tour of the United States!

Our agenda today:

• Continue our video tour of Hawaii and the other Pacific States (CA, OR, and WA)
• Using the Smartboard students located physical features of this region
• Map Quiz #1 - the Pacific States

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Get out there and see your country!

Here was our plan today:

• Students entered and began to write down at least one of the stories they learned about their family history from the night before. Mr. M collected these and then read them. Students guessed who they were.
• We reviewed the History Pre-Test.
• Mr. M handed out the maps to students to use for the Geography unit. We also began our whirlwind tour of the United States - Alaska and the Pacific states first!

Wednesday, January 18th

Today's agenda:

• Began with students presenting their responses to the question, "Was Dr. King's work and sacrifice all done in vain?"
• Transitioned into what this class is all about - stories! Stories like Dr. MLK Jr.'s story.
• Discussion about primary and secondary sources.
• Mr. M shared an example of a story from each category - Mermaids in Newfoundland and my Grandpa
• Students took the way-too-easy American History Pre-Test!



Perhaps this is what "attacked" those men in Newfoundland?



Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

Today our agenda was pretty simple:

 

• EXAM REVIEW!
• Got organized for the 2nd Semester
• Discussed a little about the MLK assignment but will do more tomorrow!

Monday, January 16th, 2012

WELCOME BACK! Mr. M's American History Blog is back in action!

MLK Jr. Day - A look at his sacrifice. Here are the video clips:

KKK: Then and Now


MLK Jr. "I Have a Dream" speech


MLK Jr. "I Have Been to the Mountain Top" speech


Special News Report - April 4th, 1968


What Would You Do? Racism in America.